Miscellaneous Notes
  • Rauhaarige Elo
    Rauhaarige Elo
    The Elo has two size categories, Groß-Elo (standard) and Klein-Elo (a smaller dog).
  • The standard Elo is based on crosses involving the Eurasier (itself a new breed based on crossing the Wolf-Chow [a mixture of Wolfsspitz and Chow Chow], and Samoyed), with the Old English Sheepdog and the Chow Chow.
  • The smaller Elo was based on crosses involving the Eurasier, Old English Sheepdog, Pekingese, German Mittelspitz and Japanese Spitz.
  • There are also two coat-types: the normal northern spitz double coat, the glatthaar, and a rough-coated form, the rauhaar, that reflects the Old English Sheepdog portion of their ancestry.

Breed Books
  • Das Elo®-Projekt: Eine junge, kindergeeigneta Hunderasse by Marita and Heinz Szobries. Self-published, 2003. This book tells the story of the new breed's creation and development. In German.

Articles and Chapters
  • "Haplotype analysis of the MDR1 flanking region in the dog breed Elo" by S. Fecht, A. Wöhlke, and O Distl. In: Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift, May-June 2008, volume 121, issue 5-6, pg 211-215. Drug sensitivity caused by a mutation in the canine multidrug resistance gene is found in several breeds descended from the Collie lineage, which includes the Old English Sheepdog, a breed used in development of the Elo. After studying haplotypes of 177 Elos, the authors concluded that the version of the multidrug resistance gene they found came not from the Old English sheepdog but through the Japanese Spitz, another founder breed for the Elo.
  • "Analysis of the Canine MDR1-1Delta Mutation in the Dog Breed Elo" by S Fecht, A Wöhlke, H Hamann and O Distl. In: Journal of Veterinary Medicine. A, Physiology, Pathology, Clinical Medicine, October 2007, volume 54, p 401-5. A deletion mutation in the canine multidrug resistance gene has been associated with drug sensitivity in several dog breeds descended from the Collie lineage, which includes the Old English Sheepdog. Blood samples from 177 Elos were examined to determine if the breed has inherited the gene from the Old English Sheepdogs that were used in the breed's creation.
  • "Analysis of the mode of inheritance for distichiasis in the Elo dog breed using complex segregation analyses" (title translated) by J Kaufhold, H Hamann, G Steinbach, S Gordon, R Brahm, H Grussendorf, CU Rosenhagen and O Distl. In: Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift, May-June 2007, volume 120, p 232-6. The inheritance of distichiasis was analyzed using 296 Elos, of whom 65 dogs were affected. The prevalence of distichiasis observed was insufficiently explained by non-genetic factors and the breed composition. In German.
  • "Analysis of the prevalence of distichiasis in the Elo dog breed using complex segregation analyses" (title translated) by J Kaufhold, H Hamann, G Steinbach, S Gordon, R Brahm, H Grussendorf, CU Rosenhagen and O Distl. In: Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift, May-June 2006, volume 119, p 233-7. The eyes of 234 Elos were examined over a four year period and 27.8% of the dogs showed between 1 and 31 distichia. Litter size, the number of examinations of Elo dogs per ophthalmologist, and the proportion of Eurasier in the dog's background all influenced the prevalence of distichiasis. Also, the proportion of genes of the Old English Sheepdog were just above the significance limit of p = 0.05. In German.
  • "Population genetic analysis of the new dog breed Elo" (title translated) by J Kaufhold, H Hamann, and O Distl. In: Berliner und Munchener tierarztliche Wochenschrift, January-February 2005, vol 118, p 67-75. Report on the creation of a new dog breed, the Elo, begun in 1987. One interesting aspect of the study is the discovery that the higher the proportion of Chow genes in puppies, the greater the probability of stillbirth. In German.
  • [unknown title, unknown author]. In: Das Deutsche Hundemagazin, November, 2004. In German.