{"id":110,"date":"2007-10-13T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:18:18","slug":"karl-karelian-bear-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/10\/karl-karelian-bear-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl &#8211; Karelian Bear Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard of the Karelian Bear Dog before coming to Montana.\u00a0 My first dog in Montana was a pound puppy &#8211; labeled a Lab cross.\u00a0 I grew up with Labs and knew this dog was not Lab &#8211; labeled that way only because of his mostly black coat I assume.\u00a0 My vet told me he, Zack, was part Karelian Bear Dog.\u00a0 I looked up the breed information and was a bit daunted but as it turned out, Zack was an excellent companion, easily trained and very sociable.\u00a0 He was with me nearly 24\/7 for 6 years.\u00a0 I put him to sleep after a 6 week ordeal with lymphoma.\u00a0 By now I had read about Karelians and met several others &#8211; short story, I found Karl in a litter in Choteau (Sho-toe) Montana and he became part of my family in May of 2001, joining me and my 5 year old tuxedo cat, Gus.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct07\/Karl1stDaySit.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Karl sit\" height=\"372\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 372px\" title=\"Karl sit\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct07\/GusKarlFence250298.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Gus and Karl\" height=\"298\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 298px\" title=\"Gus and Karl\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The baby pictures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct07\/KarlFlowers320304.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Karl yard\" height=\"304\" style=\"width: 320px; height: 304px\" title=\"Karl yard\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct07\/KarlBed300209.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Karl Bed\" height=\"209\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 209px\" title=\"Karl Bed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct07\/KarlLake300307.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Karl Lake\" height=\"307\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 307px\" title=\"Karl Lake\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grown up Karl<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct07\/KarlGusChair300322.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Karl and Gus in Chair\" height=\"322\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 322px\" title=\"Karl and Gus in Chair\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct07\/KarWhosTheBoss400223.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Who's the Boss\" height=\"223\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 223px\" title=\"Who's the Boss\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karl &#8211; Karelian Bear Dog<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct07\/KarlBearDog350341.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Karl\" height=\"341\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 341px\" title=\"Karl\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karelian Bear Dog History<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct07\/KarelianBearDog432432.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"History\" height=\"432\" style=\"width: 432px; height: 432px\" title=\"History\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard of the Karelian Bear Dog before coming to Montana.\u00a0 My first dog in Montana was a pound puppy &#8211; labeled a Lab cross.\u00a0 I grew up with Labs and knew this dog was not Lab &#8211; labeled that way only because of his mostly black coat I assume.\u00a0 My vet told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22488,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/22488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}