German Spitz

In Europe, Spitz-type dogs were associated with the hunter gatherers of the first stone age, going back some 6000 years, but if we want to look for the origin specifically of the German Spitz, we turn to it's immediate forebear, the Turfspitz . people living from Bodensee, in Germany, to L.Ladoga (east of Leningrad) kept these dogs and, because house-dogs and herders were of the greatest use to non-nomadic people, it is believed that they set out to deliberately breed out the hunting instinct that characterizes dogs of nomads.