Spitz Loup

A good swimmer, the keeshond was used for years as the Dutch 'jack of all trades' dog. It loves family life, adapts easily to the city and is in fact very sought after today as a companion dog. It is also used as a guard dog. Of a natural barking nature, it is an excellent guardian... However, be careful if you lived in an apartment to work on this aspect from the start in a positive way. Allergic to authority, the spitz-loup trains very well, provided that its owner is comfortable with methods based on positive reinforcement. The Spitz Wolf is predisposed to Fallot's tetralogy.

All German Spitz have a double coat: topcoat of long, stiff and erect hair, and undercoat of a sort of thick and short wadding. This double coat does not cover the head, ears or front faces of the limbs and feet, covered with short and dense hair resembling velvet. The spitz-loup admits only one color, gray-wolf. The hair is silvery gray charcoaled, that is to say the tip of the hair is black. The muzzle and ears are dark. The mane and shoulder region is lighter. Below the elbows and knees, the limbs are silvery gray without black patches except for 'pencilling', small elongated patches pencil marks on the fingers. The tip of the tail is black. The underside of the tail and culottes are light silvery gray. The spitz-loup must have a characteristic 'eyeglass marking', the absence of this pattern being a serious fault in shows: a black line going diagonally from the outer angle of the eye to the lower insertion point of the ear, associated with sharp hatching and shaded gradations forming short and expressive eyebrows.