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“ “ Year of the Dog - Kooikerhondje
“ The Kooikerhondje was developed in the Netherlands sometime prior to the sixteenth century as a breed whose purpose was to lure ducks into traps - a technique also called tolling. They were used as a...
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Year of the Dog - Kooikerhondje
“ The Kooikerhondje was developed in the Netherlands sometime prior to the sixteenth century as a breed whose purpose was to lure ducks into traps - a technique also called tolling. They were used as a lure with ‘kooien’ (cages in the form of canals with traps at the ends), where the hunter (the so-called Kooiker) could easily catch the fowl. The dogs that were used by the Kooiker for this kind of hunting technique, were referred to as the ‘Kooiker’s hondjes’ (literally: Kooiker’s dogs). Eventually this led to this dog being called Kooikerhondje.

The breed almost became extinct during World War II until Baroness Van Hardenbroek van Ammerstol began to recreate the Kooikerhondje. She gave a picture of the type of dog she was looking for to a pedlar and asked him to look out for such dogs. At a farm in the province of Friesland he found the bitch now well known as Tommy. She became the founding bitch of the Kooikerhondje. 

The Kooikerhondje was and still is used in duck decoys. Its task is still to lure the ducks into the decoy with its gaily waving tail; it does not hunt the ducks. It calmly moves between the decoyscreens in order to provoke the ducks curiosity and lure them further down the decoy pipe where the ducks are captured in a trap.”

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