We own a 13yo female kooiker. She is a great dog. Intelligent, but sensitive, especially to loud noises. When any of us work outside she is on self appointed guard duty. Once a black bear came into our yard when my wife was gardening. She charged the bear and sent it over the stone wall back into the woods. Everyone who meets her is impressed with how calm she is. Friendly but also aloof. Sheds a lot. We went to Holland to get her which was a great family experience.
My new favorite informative Kooikerhondje video! I live in Philadelphia, PA with my Tibetan Spaniel and Kooikerhondje(who I added last month!) but it took me over 2 years to research the perfect breed for my 2nd dog and everything kept coming back to Kooikers. It was very difficult to find a responsible breeder that checked on the boxes(participants in conformation, dog sports, health tests, involved with the Dutch parent club, and mentors new owners in the breed) but after networking with 3 or 4 dozen people, I was finally able to narrow down my options of excellent breeders. Now I have my dream dog! He perfectly compliments my Tibetan Spaniel, which is so wonderful.
@@gopinaths5159 Madcap Dogs, search them on Facebook. If you don’t have Facebook then go to Golden Gate Kooikerhondje or Waterbound Kooikerhondje or Danube Kooikerhondje . All good resources where I learned a lot of valuable information.
Thank you for pronouncing it correctly, so many people (especially English-speaking) tend to confidently mispronounce so many dog breed names! I appreciate the effort. xD
1:55 our Kooikerhondje is the best breed of dog we found. She was about 6 weeks when we rescued her. Extremely loyal, she learns quickly. Sadly she pick me as her human as I travel a lot for work. When I get home she is always with me. She is an excellent companion and mindful of anything I’m doing. 3:44
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I love this breed but if you are in the USA be very very cautious of who you get a puppy from. I would network heavily in the breed and even connect with the Dutch Parent club breeders to provide reviews and experiences with breeders. Many in the USA breed for profit and glory and not for the betterment of the breed.
We are always home so my Ollie is always really calm and sweet. I think he would have made a good service dog. When I have dropped things he would pick them up and hand them to me. He was always very gentle with me. I noticed that he does not respond to yelling. But to gentle teaching. We do not have a fenced in backyard but he has never run away. He always stays close to our family. One time my mom was out in the garden and she accidentally came inside without him and when she remembered 15 minutes later, he was just standing in front of the door. He hadn’t moved at all. On walks he is a good listener. And does not approach other dogs unless we say it’s ok. Also if we put food on a low table that is eye level with him and leave the room. He does not eat it. He only eats things that we give him. Unless he finds them on a walk then we have to tell him no. Lol We picked him because he was so adorable. I loved his ears. He’s 12 years old now. He’s the best dog ever,
@@Rocadog I'm not Dutch either but I was watching the 2018 Akc dog show this morning and saw this dog. I've never seen it before and I love this little cutie.
My sis had a kooiker/Italian greyhound mix. Super mischievous and intelligent and fast as hell. Used to be a stray so he’s tough too but also a bit of a brat lol
We have 2 Kooikerhondjes. Had 2 litters and kept the youngest from the 1st litter, the youngest from the 2nd litter lives with our daughter but stays often with us. For us the dogs are like kids ;)
I ADORE my Angel-Bebe' Kooikerhondje! I discovered her in a rescue, having been badly abused and neglected. S he is in top form now after I have been her human for over two and one/half years. It took me a bit of time to figure our what breed she was. My brother is a Veterinarian and we take great care of her. My little girl is so sweet, yet she can be a fierce watch and protective dog as well, even though she weighs less than 20 lbs. Everywhere I take her she attracts groups of people as she is so distinctive and beautiful. Due to her past trauma, she does NOT like it when I may have to leave her at home. When she became my doggy to love, she was afraid that I would get upset with her for being on my bed.. I love her to be there and of course, NOW she loves it too Every night when we go to sleep she wishes to lay ABOVE my heard on our pillows so she can keep watch and can fly over the top of me if she hears anything amiss. She can become scared easily and of course, she is GREAT at influencing people to speak more quietly, otherwise she runs and hides under or behind my bed. When she first came to be my companion, I wondered how in the world I was going to get this terrified little dog-being into my shower to bathe her. The very next minute, she was IN the shower with me, begging for me to pick her up and give her a bath, she WANTED me to bathe her. She usually is outside the shower curtains peaking in to lick my leg or is sitting inside the back of the shower to be near me. She LOVES chasing her laser-light around our home, and everyone laughs SO HARD< when they watch her springing around the place, with her tail up and furled with her ears at a piquant angel chasing the light down and barking at it. My cat who is a small Russian blue female always thinks that everything is about HER, and she commences to fling herself into the air leaping over and around the dog. Hilarious! Angel-Bebe' is very gentle with the kitty, GraySEE there is NO chasing. HOWEVER< when Miss Kitty teases Angel, Angel has permission to teach her a little lesson with a bit of a snarl and a nip if needed. ( Miss Kitty can be a little stinker. ) She is still trying to figure out how and why I brought this smaller dog into our home without her permission. LOL Kitty is very bereft when I and pup are gone and wants us back. I wish so much that my complex had a fully fenced back yard. However, we do not and dogs must be leashed. I am trying to find some kind of lead or something that I can attach to a tree in the back yard in order for her to be able to play and leap outside and to tech her to play FRISBEE. My Angel has such a lovely build and conformation and such long soft hair ( now that she has been fed and treated with love, it has grown in again.) She does not have the perfect white strip up the center of her face, however, in every other way she fits and matches other photos of Kookerhondje's and the breed behavior personality profile fits her perfectly. I am still working on some of her behaviors ( such as barking etc.) that she must have had to do in her former places of living. She IS a great little wathdog, a loving companion ( she is LOYAL to me in spades.) Yet, for those people she deems trustworthy she opens up her little heart. I would appreciate being given information for her retraining away from behaviors that are counter-productive as well as the best recommendations for buying grooming tools that will not hurt her ahs she is super sensitive to those cares. Thanks so much, Bonny from the USA.
I’m not trying to burst your bubble and without an Embark DNA test your dog is likely not a Kooiker. 1, they are rare and aren’t produced frequently enough and breeders carefully vet who their buyers are that they have a pretty high accuracy for their puppies to go to good homes that won’t surrender or abandon their dogs and have legally binding contracts requiring them to return the puppy(for their entire life time) back to them if any reason they can’t keep them. Also, most are on spay/neuter contracts as well, to reduce accidental litters or backyard breeders from exploiting one they get from a breeder. Another aspect, so many dogs look like Kooikers by phenotype that are actually other breeds. Usually Beagles mixed with Sheltie or Border Collie or Daschund. These breeds can sometimes have similar traits to Kooikers when you roll them all together.
@@henrybroger this is a rare breed that isn’t being masses produced. There are some shady breeders out there all throughout the world but the most place puppies in good homes so they don’t need to end up in rescue. This is the benefit of rare breeds and small gene pools, we all often know of each other and can keep track in our database of litters and dogs and the growth of the breed, as well as the ones that pass away. I highly encourage going to a responsible breeder that OFA health tests their dogs, provides the corresponding Chic# to their registration name, photos of both parents, and tells you about the reason they chose that specific pair and their breeding goals. Some breed because they say they are Dutch and know the breed very well, some say because they have a male and a female that is why, no, they should be able to articulate how the pairing compliment each other and what they are trying to retain in their breeding program and what they are trying to breed away from. Hope this helps!
domestic ducks or lure ducks that attracted wild ducks into a pond, then the little dog emerged from behind bushes or fences that had been placed around the pond. and only the wild ducks are afraid of it and fled to the other side of the pond right into a funnel net. where the net became the narrowest was a corner / bend and ended in a crate or cage. in dutch they have a phrase "going out of the pipe" is also derived from that, if you go out the pipe/funnel and then round the corner you definitely die.
Only thing I wish this mentioned was how this isn’t a good dog breed for young couples, babies or small children, busy career types, or people with very unpredictable or erratic changing lives. They are extremely sensitive in nature and this often gets very over looked, unfortunately.
@@kaiwoolner-pratt9196 so, that’s where it gets tricky. You will be home a lot but what about when your life changes and you go back to work? The dog could develop separation anxiety because you went from always being around to now too busy and not home AND in a new environment. Traveling abroad can be extremely risky and challenging. A lot of people I have spoken to that are interested in this breed really seem to want a pretty dog that is very easy going and go with the flow. This I encourage them to meet more sound breeds like English Springer Spaniel, Field Spaniel, or English Cocker Spaniel, if you fancy the sporting breeds/spaniels. They are much more forgiving of changes and environmental factors.
I have a dog from the animal shelter. She seems to fit every category you mentioned. And love the Levy in the back and there are ducks, she loves it. Going to have a DNA test done to see exactly what breed. If she is K.H. I am going to get another one, I love it so much. She needs a high energy friend, LOL.
It’s unlikely she’s a Kooiker, since they are extremely rare and not mass produced. So it’s not common to have one just randomly pop up in rescue, even mixes. But Kooikers share similar traits with other breeds in both appearance and characteristics, that they can almost blend together. Do the Embark if you do the test, it has the biggest Kooiker Data base than the other companies.
My 2 year old kooikerhondje is best friends with my 2 cats. They even cuddle and play together. He is very gentle with the cats, and the cats let him know when they’ve had enough of it.
They are profusely shedding twice a year for 6-12 weeks, but they seasonally shed, too. It seems to slow down a little in winter months but spring through fall, lots of vacuuming.
kooiker hondje is on my list of good candidate i love to have 1 the only thing i wish was different is somthing every video forgets to point out about them. they are not faunt of strangers and are either scittisch or growling if a stranger tries to aproach or pet them. you need to socialize them more then other dogs to make sure its managable otherwise you gonna have a tough time with guests and somtimes even other dogs. thats the only down side alot of people fall over so ive heard/read. and its 1 treat that makes me think double of making it my first dog. other then that i love their personality and look from what i read.
Yes, they aren’t all friendly and the breed historically was meant to be alert and suspicious. More friendly breeds are Field Spaniels and Welsh Springer Spaniels!
You can try to change the diet and do the oral hygiene with the dog. In the past i had a dog (not a Kooiker, but the problem was similar) with a very bad teeth and breath (he was a rescue and no one cares about him before), but a veterinarian cleaned his teethed and it was much much better.
Honestly, i tried to pronounce it how Dutch people do, but their language and pronunciation is pretty hard so i definitely did not do it completely correct :-D But i think it is much more accurate than what you can hear on other english speaking channels, where they most often say something like "Cooykerhond" without the ending.
@@Rocadog she's a fighter though She's still here and finally in 3 days had a poop and she's breathing a little better, I'm totally changing her diet, Tuna fish and whatever helps her digestive system, No more hard regular dog food and if I can afford it I'll chew up the chicken meat for her and then hand feed her, My Babyyyyyy😁😁😁😁😁😁😁Lady And her daughter Waggs
All depends on the cat and the puppy. Some love cats and are gentle and get along and some want to chase and rough play and even hurt the cat. This is a high prey drive breed.
I am not native Dutch speaker, but it should be close enough to proper dutch pronunciation. If you would like to hear Dutch person pronouncing "Kooikerhondje", you can hear it here: forvo.com/search/Kooikerhondje/
Some can actually vary from 20-35lbs! Some even 40 or 45lbs. They are out of breed standard and are not encouraged to be bred to avoid breeding too big of dogs. The “Je” means small in their name “Hondje”, Small Dog, so they are supposed to be a small dog.
Unfortunately we fattened our kooiker to 34 lbs. She is always hungry. But up until she was about 11 years old she would go with my wife on 7 mile runs.
@@jlseigel1219 most dogs think they are hungry all the time. Usually what this breed wants is interaction and engagement. Their historic working skills required human engagement and focus. Today we can do agility, obedience, and trick training. Things you can practice 2-5minutes here and there a day or 30-60min once or twice a week. Definitely helps to fulfill their needs.
My Angel-Bebe' actually LIKES small children that are gentle and have been taught how to behave with dogs. She does NOT like most men however, as she was abused badly by one or more and escaped or was dumped on a large freeway interchange. They could hardly catch her as she was running for her life. She is an older dog and had no microchip that could be found. With her gentle nature, she is a positive barometer for people to modulate their voices She waits for permission to eat her food and for nearly everything else as well. She has not exhibited the prey drive towards my kitty or towards other animals. Larger dogs scare her. She loves chihuahuas and I figure that she had a best friend who was one in the past as she tries to coax the others one that live across the fence from me to be her friends. As I mentioned in my first post I need guidance into training for her rehab from trauma I have been working with her to become my Service Dog. She can bark too much and want to get up on people. She has been hit on her head so people cannot reach their hands down at her. I always instruct people that visit my home, to sit down and let her look at them from my lap first, more eye-to eye on the same level. Share your thoughts with me, I would appreciate them.
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This video probably has the most accurate information on this breed in an english speaking video i have seen so far on youtube. Great job!
Thank you!
I agree!!
We own a 13yo female kooiker. She is a great dog. Intelligent, but sensitive, especially to loud noises. When any of us work outside she is on self appointed guard duty. Once a black bear came into our yard when my wife was gardening. She charged the bear and sent it over the stone wall back into the woods. Everyone who meets her is impressed with how calm she is. Friendly but also aloof. Sheds a lot. We went to Holland to get her which was a great family experience.
Awesome! 👍
I have a 10 month old puppy she’s the most well behaved quiet puppy ever. No chewing, no messes, hardly barks, all cuddles
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My new favorite informative Kooikerhondje video! I live in Philadelphia, PA with my Tibetan Spaniel and Kooikerhondje(who I added last month!) but it took me over 2 years to research the perfect breed for my 2nd dog and everything kept coming back to Kooikers. It was very difficult to find a responsible breeder that checked on the boxes(participants in conformation, dog sports, health tests, involved with the Dutch parent club, and mentors new owners in the breed) but after networking with 3 or 4 dozen people, I was finally able to narrow down my options of excellent breeders. Now I have my dream dog! He perfectly compliments my Tibetan Spaniel, which is so wonderful.
Thanks a lot! Its good to hear that you are happy with your new Kooiker :)
Could you please share the breeders?
@@gopinaths5159 which country are you located in? I’m in the USA and know of some breeders in other countries but mostly know about the ones here.
@@awalkingsong Thanks yes I live in US too (Midwest)
@@gopinaths5159 Madcap Dogs, search them on Facebook. If you don’t have Facebook then go to Golden Gate Kooikerhondje or Waterbound Kooikerhondje or Danube Kooikerhondje . All good resources where I learned a lot of valuable information.
Thank you for pronouncing it correctly, so many people (especially English-speaking) tend to confidently mispronounce so many dog breed names! I appreciate the effort. xD
Thanks! I am sure its still not a perfect dutch pronunciation :D
I have a kooikerhondje myself and they are lovely!
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We are on our second Kooiker and love every minute with her. Thanks for your video 👍👍🐶🐶
Brownie and Quinci
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1:55 our Kooikerhondje is the best breed of dog we found. She was about 6 weeks when we rescued her. Extremely loyal, she learns quickly. Sadly she pick me as her human as I travel a lot for work. When I get home she is always with me. She is an excellent companion and mindful of anything I’m doing. 3:44
Is the Kooikerhondje your favourite dog breed?
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Beautiful breed
@@lanzik93 👍👍
i love kooikerhondje because they are so cutee :)
@@skooikremmebavisvet7579 They totally are 👍
@@Rocadog yeah :D
Thanks for this my dude. I'm researching dog breeds for when i buy a pup. This was super helpful
I am glad the video was helpful :)
I love this breed but if you are in the USA be very very cautious of who you get a puppy from. I would network heavily in the breed and even connect with the Dutch Parent club breeders to provide reviews and experiences with breeders. Many in the USA breed for profit and glory and not for the betterment of the breed.
They do prefer a lot of exercise, but they are so affectionate!
We are always home so my Ollie is always really calm and sweet. I think he would have made a good service dog. When I have dropped things he would pick them up and hand them to me. He was always very gentle with me. I noticed that he does not respond to yelling. But to gentle teaching. We do not have a fenced in backyard but he has never run away. He always stays close to our family. One time my mom was out in the garden and she accidentally came inside without him and when she remembered 15 minutes later, he was just standing in front of the door. He hadn’t moved at all. On walks he is a good listener. And does not approach other dogs unless we say it’s ok.
Also if we put food on a low table that is eye level with him and leave the room. He does not eat it. He only eats things that we give him. Unless he finds them on a walk then we have to tell him no. Lol
We picked him because he was so adorable. I loved his ears. He’s 12 years old now. He’s the best dog ever,
Thanks for a great comment and insight! 👍
Sounds like a great dog but very unusual for the breed. They are prone to running off, high prey drive, and being food motivated, haha.
This is Japanese kooikerhondje☺️☺️☺️I study about overseas kooikerhondje😎it’s so nice video 🐶☺️
Our Kookier is now 2 years old and brings a smile to our faces every morning.
Awesome!
Very friendly, soft tempered and sensitive little dogs.
Needs even tempered, quiet and calm owners
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I love Kooikerhondje ❤️
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I wish I knew what that dog at 3:18 is crossed with. Doesn't look like a pedigree, looks exactly like my dog.
My Dutch pronunciation of this dogs name is on fleek now lol! The Kooikerhondje... Got it👍🏽
I am not Dutch, but i heard other Dutch person say it like this :-D
@@Rocadog I'm not Dutch either but I was watching the 2018 Akc dog show this morning and saw this dog. I've never seen it before and I love this little cutie.
My sis had a kooiker/Italian greyhound mix. Super mischievous and intelligent and fast as hell. Used to be a stray so he’s tough too but also a bit of a brat lol
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We have 2 Kooikerhondjes. Had 2 litters and kept the youngest from the 1st litter, the youngest from the 2nd litter lives with our daughter but stays often with us. For us the dogs are like kids ;)
Awesome 👍
Never heard of this Breed of Dog,thanks for the info.👍👍👍
they are quite popular in Netherlands, but not so much in other countries 👍👍
I see many of you have done your research. Without going to Holland, who is the most respected breeder you used? What is the price range? Thank you 😊
I ADORE my Angel-Bebe' Kooikerhondje! I discovered her in a rescue, having been badly abused and neglected. S
he is in top form now after I have been her human for over two and one/half years. It took me a bit of time to figure our what breed she was. My brother is a Veterinarian and we take great care of her. My little girl is so sweet, yet she can be a fierce watch and protective dog as well, even though she weighs less than 20 lbs.
Everywhere I take her she attracts groups of people as she is so distinctive and beautiful. Due to her past trauma, she does NOT like it when I may have to leave her at home. When she became my doggy to love, she was afraid that I would get upset with her for being on my bed..
I love her to be there and of course, NOW she loves it too Every night when we go to sleep she wishes to lay ABOVE my heard on our pillows so she can keep watch and can fly over the top of me if she hears anything amiss.
She can become scared easily and of course, she is GREAT at influencing people to speak more quietly, otherwise she runs and hides under or behind my bed.
When she first came to be my companion, I wondered how in the world I was going to get this terrified little dog-being into my shower to bathe her.
The very next minute, she was IN the shower with me, begging for me to pick her up and give her a bath, she WANTED me to bathe her.
She usually is outside the shower curtains peaking in to lick my leg or is sitting inside the back of the shower to be near me.
She LOVES chasing her laser-light around our home, and everyone laughs SO HARD< when they watch her springing around the place, with her tail up and furled with her ears at a piquant angel chasing the light down and barking at it.
My cat who is a small Russian blue female always thinks that everything is about HER, and she commences to fling herself into the air leaping over and around the dog. Hilarious!
Angel-Bebe' is very gentle with the kitty, GraySEE there is NO chasing. HOWEVER< when Miss Kitty teases Angel, Angel has permission to teach her a little lesson with a bit of a snarl and a nip if needed. ( Miss Kitty can be a little stinker. ) She is still trying to figure out how and why I brought this smaller dog into our home without her permission. LOL
Kitty is very bereft when I and pup are gone and wants us back.
I wish so much that my complex had a fully fenced back yard. However, we do not and dogs must be leashed. I am trying to find some kind of lead or something that I can attach to a tree in the back yard in order for her to be able to play and leap outside and to tech her to play FRISBEE.
My Angel has such a lovely build and conformation and such long soft hair ( now that she has been fed and treated with love, it has grown in again.)
She does not have the perfect white strip up the center of her face, however, in every other way she fits and matches other photos of Kookerhondje's and the breed behavior personality profile fits her perfectly.
I am still working on some of her behaviors ( such as barking etc.) that she must have had to do in her former places of living.
She IS a great little wathdog, a loving companion ( she is LOYAL to me in spades.) Yet, for those people she deems trustworthy she opens up her little heart.
I would appreciate being given information for her retraining away from behaviors that are counter-productive as well as the best recommendations for buying grooming tools that will not hurt her ahs she is super sensitive to those cares. Thanks so much, Bonny from the USA.
You are great for rescuing her!
What rescue did you get her? I would love to find a girl pup, even a mix and have been looking for rescues that might have Kooikerhondjes.
I’m not trying to burst your bubble and without an Embark DNA test your dog is likely not a Kooiker.
1, they are rare and aren’t produced frequently enough and breeders carefully vet who their buyers are that they have a pretty high accuracy for their puppies to go to good homes that won’t surrender or abandon their dogs and have legally binding contracts requiring them to return the puppy(for their entire life time) back to them if any reason they can’t keep them. Also, most are on spay/neuter contracts as well, to reduce accidental litters or backyard breeders from exploiting one they get from a breeder.
Another aspect, so many dogs look like Kooikers by phenotype that are actually other breeds. Usually Beagles mixed with Sheltie or Border Collie or Daschund. These breeds can sometimes have similar traits to Kooikers when you roll them all together.
@@henrybroger this is a rare breed that isn’t being masses produced. There are some shady breeders out there all throughout the world but the most place puppies in good homes so they don’t need to end up in rescue. This is the benefit of rare breeds and small gene pools, we all often know of each other and can keep track in our database of litters and dogs and the growth of the breed, as well as the ones that pass away.
I highly encourage going to a responsible breeder that OFA health tests their dogs, provides the corresponding Chic# to their registration name, photos of both parents, and tells you about the reason they chose that specific pair and their breeding goals. Some breed because they say they are Dutch and know the breed very well, some say because they have a male and a female that is why, no, they should be able to articulate how the pairing compliment each other and what they are trying to retain in their breeding program and what they are trying to breed away from. Hope this helps!
Beautiful breed! 🐾
They are lovely, i love their unique hunting style
domestic ducks or lure ducks that attracted wild ducks into a pond,
then the little dog emerged from behind bushes or fences that had been placed around the pond.
and only the wild ducks are afraid of it and fled to the other side of the pond right into a funnel net.
where the net became the narrowest was a corner / bend and ended in a crate or cage.
in dutch they have a phrase "going out of the pipe" is also derived from that,
if you go out the pipe/funnel and then round the corner you definitely die.
I have a full breed kooikerhondje and his son which is half kooiker half Australian shepherd they're amazing dogs
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Interesting mix! Where are you located?
Only thing I wish this mentioned was how this isn’t a good dog breed for young couples, babies or small children, busy career types, or people with very unpredictable or erratic changing lives. They are extremely sensitive in nature and this often gets very over looked, unfortunately.
@@kaiwoolner-pratt9196 so, that’s where it gets tricky. You will be home a lot but what about when your life changes and you go back to work? The dog could develop separation anxiety because you went from always being around to now too busy and not home AND in a new environment. Traveling abroad can be extremely risky and challenging. A lot of people I have spoken to that are interested in this breed really seem to want a pretty dog that is very easy going and go with the flow. This I encourage them to meet more sound breeds like English Springer Spaniel, Field Spaniel, or English Cocker Spaniel, if you fancy the sporting breeds/spaniels. They are much more forgiving of changes and environmental factors.
I have a dog from the animal shelter. She seems to fit every category you mentioned. And love the Levy in the back and there are ducks, she loves it. Going to have a DNA test done to see exactly what breed. If she is K.H. I am going to get another one, I love it so much. She needs a high energy friend, LOL.
You are great for adopting Juanny!
It’s unlikely she’s a Kooiker, since they are extremely rare and not mass produced. So it’s not common to have one just randomly pop up in rescue, even mixes. But Kooikers share similar traits with other breeds in both appearance and characteristics, that they can almost blend together. Do the Embark if you do the test, it has the biggest Kooiker Data base than the other companies.
Beautifyulje dog!
👍👍 i like them a lot
I have a kooikerhondje puppy she is 1month old and so playful
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Exercising a dog a lot right before you leave them alone is not a good idea. A good walk yes, but a tired dog has more issues dealing with stress.
Not good with small pets. What about cats? Does anyone have any experience with this? (My cats are quite big though...)
Some get along, some try to chase and rough play and can hurt cats. This is a high prey drive breed.
My 2 year old kooikerhondje is best friends with my 2 cats. They even cuddle and play together. He is very gentle with the cats, and the cats let him know when they’ve had enough of it.
Do they shed?
Yes they do shed..
@@Rocadog how much
Yes alot but you can ,make pillow with ther hair
@@artandsoundsociety5419 BHAHAHAH
They are profusely shedding twice a year for 6-12 weeks, but they seasonally shed, too. It seems to slow down a little in winter months but spring through fall, lots of vacuuming.
kooiker hondje is on my list of good candidate i love to have 1 the only thing i wish was different is somthing every video forgets to point out about them. they are not faunt of strangers and are either scittisch or growling if a stranger tries to aproach or pet them. you need to socialize them more then other dogs to make sure its managable otherwise you gonna have a tough time with guests and somtimes even other dogs. thats the only down side alot of people fall over so ive heard/read. and its 1 treat that makes me think double of making it my first dog. other then that i love their personality and look from what i read.
Yes, they aren’t all friendly and the breed historically was meant to be alert and suspicious. More friendly breeds are Field Spaniels and Welsh Springer Spaniels!
I found a stray a few months ago and I am 99 percent sure he is this breed
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Where are you located? They aren’t common around the world, let alone free roaming as strays or in shelters or rescues.
Is it common for the kooikerhondje to have terrible breath? Mine does.
I do love him very much though
You can try to change the diet and do the oral hygiene with the dog. In the past i had a dog (not a Kooiker, but the problem was similar) with a very bad teeth and breath (he was a rescue and no one cares about him before), but a veterinarian cleaned his teethed and it was much much better.
Consult with your vet. No animal should have bad breathe. Usually sign of oral decay.
Thanks for the advice. Our older Kooiker has bad breath. I will investigate further.
I would break my tongue pronouncing it :-D
Honestly, i tried to pronounce it how Dutch people do, but their language and pronunciation is pretty hard so i definitely did not do it completely correct :-D But i think it is much more accurate than what you can hear on other english speaking channels, where they most often say something like "Cooykerhond" without the ending.
Rocadog you did a well job for a non dutch person, the ‘hondje’ part is pronounced pretty short, not hoondje but hOndtje. But still well done!
Mine seems to be passing away
Sorry to hear that...
@@Rocadog she's a fighter though
She's still here and finally in 3 days had a poop and she's breathing a little better, I'm totally changing her diet, Tuna fish and whatever helps her digestive system, No more hard regular dog food and if I can afford it
I'll chew up the chicken meat for her and then hand feed her, My Babyyyyyy😁😁😁😁😁😁😁Lady
And her daughter Waggs
Van He live with a cat, when He Comes as a Puppy?
All depends on the cat and the puppy. Some love cats and are gentle and get along and some want to chase and rough play and even hurt the cat. This is a high prey drive breed.
Who else watched this to figure out pronunciation?? 😂
I am not native Dutch speaker, but it should be close enough to proper dutch pronunciation. If you would like to hear Dutch person pronouncing "Kooikerhondje", you can hear it here: forvo.com/search/Kooikerhondje/
My kooiker hondje is 14 kg but is not overweight?
Some can actually vary from 20-35lbs! Some even 40 or 45lbs. They are out of breed standard and are not encouraged to be bred to avoid breeding too big of dogs. The “Je” means small in their name “Hondje”, Small Dog, so they are supposed to be a small dog.
Unfortunately we fattened our kooiker to 34 lbs. She is always hungry. But up until she was about 11 years old she would go with my wife on 7 mile runs.
@@jlseigel1219 most dogs think they are hungry all the time. Usually what this breed wants is interaction and engagement. Their historic working skills required human engagement and focus. Today we can do agility, obedience, and trick training. Things you can practice 2-5minutes here and there a day or 30-60min once or twice a week. Definitely helps to fulfill their needs.
Can he get fat?
Every dog can get fat. You must exercise them and feed them properly
They can be prone to obesity if owners are not active enough or over treat or feed. It is becoming a problem in the breed due to owner’s negligence.
My Angel-Bebe' actually LIKES small children that are gentle and have been taught how to behave with dogs.
She does NOT like most men however, as she was abused badly by one or more and escaped or was dumped on a large freeway interchange.
They could hardly catch her as she was running for her life. She is an older dog and had no microchip that could be found. With her gentle nature, she is a positive barometer for people to modulate their voices
She waits for permission to eat her food and for nearly everything else as well.
She has not exhibited the prey drive towards my kitty or towards other animals.
Larger dogs scare her. She loves chihuahuas and I figure that she had a best friend who was one in the past as she tries to coax the others one that live across the fence from me to be her friends.
As I mentioned in my first post I need guidance into training for her rehab from trauma I have been working with her to become my Service Dog.
She can bark too much and want to get up on people.
She has been hit on her head so people cannot reach their hands down at her.
I always instruct people that visit my home, to sit down and let her look at them from my lap first, more eye-to eye on the same level.
Share your thoughts with me, I would appreciate them.
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