Hungry Dogs Home

Check out the blog page to catch up on Stella’s and Jussi’s latest thoughts on food, eating, finding food, and a few other things that are sometimes important.

Stella, Jussi, and their people like to travel around to see new places and have adventures and they will share stories about those adventures in this blog.

You can contact Stella at stellatheelkhound@gmail.com

All About Elkhounds

This site is mostly about the habits of Norwegian Elkhounds, a very hungry sort of dog.

Besides always being very hungry, Elkhounds have some other identifying characteristics:

  • Origin: Norway, a very long time ago. Norwegians call them either “Norsk elghund”, referring to their favourite food, the northern European elk  (called moose in other places), or simply “Gråhund”, in reference to their usual colour. There is also an all-black variety, (“Elghund sort”) but Stella hasn’t met anyone from that side of the family.
  • Character: Friendly, expressive, talkative, adventurous, boisterous, curious, scheming. They like meeting new dogs and people, although they will question them at length about who they are. Humans think this questioning is just mindless barking, not realizing how important it is to introduce oneself and establish proper relations.
  • Things they like (in order): Eating, barking, shedding, digging, rolling in snow or grass, exploring (humans call this ‘running away’), hunting for tasty animals, going to coffee shops, car rides (especially when they go past a food window), camping adventures (which usually combine all of the above)
  • Things they don’t like: hunger, vacuum cleaners, car washes, being locked up, being left alone

Dogs Who Are No Longer Hungry

Some of the dogs who used to be hungry are in another place now. We hope that wherever they are, they get to eat whatever and whenever they want. (Although this doesn’t seem nearly as good a deal for all the elk, turkeys, cows, and other tasty animals that have also gone to another place).

Disa (2004-2018)

Bera (2004-2017)

Ellie (1996-2006)

Frida (1994-2005)

“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” – Agnes Sligh Turnbull