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SHETLAND SHEEPDOGS
A small shepherd dog, of great beauty, whose nature is still of a working dog, for his intelligence, self determination, agility and strenght.
It comes from the Shetland Islands, an inhospitable wind swept land, laying off the North coast of Scotland, with very little natural resources.
Today's shetland sheepdog is the result of the natural evolution of the dogs the Norse people left on the islands more than one thousand years ago, with the later introduction of a Scottish shepherd dog that arrived on the islands with the flocks of sheep. On the Shetlands, natural environment has brought all animals, not only dogs, but also sheep, cows and ponies, to have a small size.
In the ancient local language, ther's an evocative name: "peerie dog", from"peerie" meaning "fairy", a truly appropriate name for a little dog, that makes happy every day's life of his fortunate owner.
maremma sheepdogs and shetland sheepdogs
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