- Brief Description
The Toller is a medium-sized, powerful, compact, balanced, well-muscled dog; medium to heavy in bone, with a high degree of agility, alertness and determination. The Toller is highly intelligent, easy to train and has great endurance. A strong and able swimmer, he is a natural and tenacious retriever on land and from water setting himself for springy action the moment the slightest indication is given that retrieving is required.
Source: http://www.fci.be/en/nomenclature/NOVA-SCOTIA-DUCK-TOLLING-RETRIEVER-312.html
- Links to Breed Descriptions
Sweden: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrieverklubben: Breed Compendium: Judges Education:
The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club - USA: Breed Brochure:
One old treasure to have as a tollerlover!!
Alisong Strange seminar - disussion about the breed standard in 4 parts.Internal: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.pdf
An older Illustrated Breed Standard PPT presentation by the NSDTRC's Judges Education Committee
- Source: Judges-L - AKC - NSDTR PPT slideshow
- Internal: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.pdf
- Other Names for Breed
- Retriever de la Nouvelle-Ecosse
- Perro cobrador de la Nueva Escocia
- Nova Scotia Retriever
- Little River Duck Dog
- Country of Origin and Parent Breed Club
Country of origin: Canada
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club of Canada -- http://www.toller.ca/
- Health and Well-Being
Some sources of health information include:
- National kennel clubs and breed clubs (see, e.g. Breeding/Health Strategy Documents, below)
- Population-level statistics (see, e.g., Swedish Insurance Data, below)
- Research articles
- Breed club surveys
- Breed-Specific Articles
A possible systemic rheumatic disorder in the Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever
Helene Hansson-Hamlin and Inger Lilliehöök
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica200951:16
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-51-16
© Hansson-Hamlin and Lilliehöök; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2009
Received: 28 October 2008 Accepted: 30 March 2009 Published: 30 March 2009
Article: Enticing Prospect - Saltscapes Magazine - Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retiever.pdf
Written by Gail MacMillan. Photography: Jim Gourlay. This article was published in the January/February 2002 issue of Saltscapes.
Excerpt... "Apparently, for more than 200 years, dog fanciers in Yarmouth County, NS, the recognized ancestral home of the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, had known they had a good thing in what they chose to call Little River Duck Dogs. They had been in no hurry to share their secret."
- Breed Standards
There are numerous breed standards.
The basis of breed/conformation shows is the judging of pedigree dogs against the 'Breed Standard', which is a picture in words that describes the range of features that are deemed appropriate for the breed.
Three of the major international standards are:
FCI (Federation Cynologique Internationale)
Country of Origin: Canada: CKC Breed Standard
- Breed-Specific Statistics
1. Swedish Insurance Data
- Breed-specific information on rates of disease and death from Agria Pet Insurance (Agria Djurförsäkring) is available for many breeds.
This breed has information on Veterinary Care and Life Insurance.2. Finland: FKC Database: http://jalostus.kennelliitto.fi/frmEtusivu.aspx?R=3123. Canada: Database Report 2010 (PDF) (The link to the PDF file is no longer available: see https://toller.ca/health/ for current NSDTR DB info - K9Data [formerly: TollerData].)
4. The NOVA SCOTIA DUCK TOLLING RETRIEVER CLUB of UK: Database:
- Breeding/Health Strategy Documents
- The Kennel Club, UK: Breed Watch (Category 1)
- Sweden: Breed-specific Breeding Strategies: (in Swedish) and/ or English summary
- Finland: JTO: Breeding Strategy: (in Finnish)
- Canada: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club of Canada: Health Section -- https://toller.ca/health/
5. OFA: CHIC: NSDTR - CHIC
Health Surveys
UK: NOVA SCOTIA DUCK TOLLING RETRIEVER CLUB OF UK HEALTH SURVEY 2014
- Breed-Specific DNA Tests
The Kennel Club list of DNA and health screening tests available for each breed - see: Breed-specific requirements and recommendations including health screening: https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/dog-breeding/the-kennel-club-assured-breeders/breed-specific-requirements-and-recommendations-including-health-screening/
- Other Breed-Specific Webpages
Article: Modern Dog Magazine:
The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling RetrieverA true Canadian canine (eh?)| Photographs by David DaltonCOAT COLOR IN THE TOLLER: Breed history and current genetics.
By JP Yousha, Danika Bannasch DVM, PhD, & Phyllis McDonald
(February 2007)
YOU BE THE JUDGE
By Robert Cole
From Dogs in Canada, December 2002
IMPORTANT BOOKS (Amazon)
The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Paperback – November 1, 1996
by Alison Strang
Alison Strange - one of the breeders from the start of the breed have written a bock that covers the history, the breed standard and many other wonderful things about Tollers in her book, that is on every Toller home bookshelf:
A Breed Apart: Nova Scotia's Duck Tolling Retriever Hardcover – July, 1998
by Gail MacMillan
A breed apart, is one book that a Toller fan just has to have on the bookshelf!!
- Breed-Specific Research
POPULATION GENETICS OF NOVA SCOTIA DUCK TOLLING RETRIEVERS
Data from: Maki, K 2010 Population structure and genetic diversity of worldwide Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever and Lancashire Heeler dog populations. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics; doi:10.1111/j.1439-0388.2010.00851.x
- http://www.instituteofcaninebiology.org/more-details-about-the-toller-study.html (Internet Archives)
Research Projects: US: NSDTRC-USA: https://www.nsdtrc-usa.org/health/research/
NEW - International
Research update information is available for CDDY; formally known as chondrodysplasia or skeletal dysplasia - "Dogs have very short limbs and sometimes very crooked legs." Updated research February 2018
Research Projects: Sweden: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrieverklubbe | http://tollarklubben.se/avel-halsa/tollarprojektet/
Degenerative Encephalopathy in Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers Presenting with a Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvim.14575/epdf
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvim.14575/full (HTML)
A possible systemic rheumatic disorder in the Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever
Helene Hansson-Hamlin and Inger Lilliehöök
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica200951:16
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-51-16
© Hansson-Hamlin and Lilliehöök; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2009
Received: 28 October 2008 Accepted: 30 March 2009 Published: 30 March 2009
- Breed Clubs
We are listing sites for breed clubs with health or other information that might be helpful. Follow links below.
Canada: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club of Canada -- http://www.toller.ca/
US: The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club - USA: http://nsdtrc-usa.org/
Sweden: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrieverklubben: http://tollarklubben.se
UK: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club UK: http://www.toller-club.co.uk/
Australia: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club of Victoria: https://www.tollerclub.org/
Finland: Novascotiannoutajat ry: http://www.tollerit.fi/
Netherlands: Beginpagina - Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club: http://www.tollertales.nl/home
Poland: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever - O rasie: http://www.novascotia.pl/
Switzerland: Toller Schweiz: http://www.tollerschweiz.ch/
Belgium: Belgian Toller Club: http://www.ducktollingretriever.be/
Denmark: Tollerklubben Bankforbindelse: Sydbank, Reg.nr. 7046: http://www.tollerklubben.dk/
Germany: Deutscher Retriever Club e. V.: http://www.drc.de/
České republice: Klub chovatelů loveckých slídičů: http://retriver.cz/index.htm
Norway: Norsk Retrieverklubb: http://retrieverklubben.no/toller/
AKC: http://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/nova-scotia-duck-tolling-retriever/
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