A historic video about the true story of the ancestors of the Labrador and how it was exterminated in New Foundland. The books are introduced on Kickstarter and are the core of a Book-, game- and learning concept for children. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1054624740/malusen-the-labrador

1. Hi there!
My name is Malusen!
It’s about me and my
big family of
Labradors,
it’s all about!

2. Here is my dad’s
true story about:
The Genesis of the
Labrador

3. A creature as beautiful as the Labrador deserves to have its history
and fate told to children and juveniles. Learn why the Labrador is
the way it is – and that 4 miracles saved the Labrador’s ancestors
from extermination.

4. My story about the genesis of Labrador is based on historical
events and tells how it all began and ended for the dog. It starts
with the English seasonal fishing for cod off Newfoundland in 1575
and ends in 1885 when fishing in Newfoundland turned into a bad
business.

5. This is the primitive living conditions the first seasons fishermen in
Newfoundland lived under, and it is here the St. Johns Water Dog is
born in 1583. The dog’s life with fishermen at sea and hunters in
the woods has shaped its many properties that the Labrador has
inherited.

6. Newfoundland was rediscovered by the English navigator John
Cabot in 1427. John Cabot named the place: St. Johns. He didn’t
find any gold in Newfoundland and the discovery was quickly
forgotten. The wealth though, was lying below sea level in the form
of cod.

7. The British began seasonal fishery off Newfoundland in1573. Large
fishing fleets sailed from ports in England in March towards New
Foundland and did not return until the sea almost froze in
November.

8. St. John's, a natural harbor in Newfoundland, was only a fishing
station and was deserted in the winter, but in 1583 New Found-
land is declared British territory by the English naval officer
Humphrey Gilbert and the first winter settlements takes place.

9. The British and Portuguese fishermen were the first people who
overwintered in St. Johns in 1583. The two teams were during the
winter repairing all houses and fishing installations, so it was ready
for the summer season fishing. It was a hard and laborious job far
from home.

10. The Portuguese fishermen brought a guard- and mountain sheep
dog; The Cao Castro de Laboreiro. The Portuguese had for centuries
been breeding the bitches with the wolf to enhance the dog's
characteristics.

11. When the Portuguese
bitch is on heat, she is led
into the forest and tied to
a tree, to be bred with
the wolf, just like back
home in Portugal.
The shepherds in
Laboreiro had done that
through centuries to
enhance the dog's genes
and characteristics.
The great white arctic
wolf lives in
Newfoundland and this is
the one cross-bred with
the Portuguese bitch.

12. That is how the European dog got Arctic properties so that it could
cope with the arctic winters in Newfoundland. Here the dog lived
throughout 300 years with fishermen and hunters in St. John's. It is
the beginning of the dog we know today as the Labrador.

13. The dog came with love to the lonely fishermen in St. John's. Every
morning fishermen rowed out on the sea to fish and for 300 years
the dogs joined them. They helped the fishermen to pull nets and
lines and catch the cods that bounced off the hook or out of the
net.

14. Cod fishing becomes a goldmine for the British and St. Johns grows
from a deserted fishing station into a cozy fishing village. Every
spring the season fishermen came to St. John's, and in the autumn
the fishing schooners sailed back to England with the precious
cargo of cod and fish oil.

15. The British becomes the largest exporter of dried cod to the
European markets. Therefore the English king sends warships to
Newfoundland to protect vessels, fishermen and catch from the
pirates. Here are the warships at the entrance to St. John's

16. During a day the fishermen went out on the sea several times and
back home with the cargo space filled with cod. Often the
fishermen slipped in the slime from cod and fell into the sea, but
then the dog jumped into the sea, swam to the fisherman and
helped him back into the boat again.

17. The fishermen's task was to catch cod and bring it ashore. Here
teams were ready to clean the cod. There were "headers", they cut
off the head. There were "Splitters", they removed the guts and
filleted the cod. Everyone in fishing family helped in the fishing
process.

18. This is how a cod looks like when it has been through the hands of a
"Header", then a "Splitter" and finally ended up with the "Salter".
The salted cods and cods stacked up on the carrier boards, ready to
be put out to dry on the many drying racks.

19. The catch of cod was big and everything that could possibly be used
to dry cod on, were used. First you had the cod laid out on drying
racks, then the cod were twisted and turned until it was completely
dry. The process was crucial for the quality of the cod.

20. When the cod after a few weeks is completely dry, the cod is
carried from the drying racks to the weighing unit and the
warehouse. It doesn’t matter if cod is bone dry, it just needs to
soak in water and boil, then it will be almost as big as before drying.

21. When the carrying team reaches the weighing unit the fish is
weighed and quality tested and the price per read agreed. This is
how the fishing families in Newfoundland earned their money on
fishing in the large fishingbanks and the whole family was involved
in the processing of cod.

22. The merchants kept the dried cod in large warehouses. Here the
cod were sewn into large bags, so it could more easily be moved
around. When the fishing season was over everything was packed
in bags and brought on board the big fishing schooners and sailed
to England.

23. The dogs were joining the fishermen every day in the fishing
dinghies. They sat on the small seats in front and behind of the
dinghy. In the middle was the hold. The dogs pulled the boats up on
the beach in the evening and pulled the nets up on the beach when
fishermen caught Capelin, as bait for cod.

24. The dog always gave a helping “paw” where there was a need for
its help. It pulled small carts with freshly caught cod to the cleaning
stations. It pulled fire woods and nets to the tar ovens and pulled
the dried fish to the big stock and also brought the goods out.

25. In winter, the little wagon was replaced with a sled and then they
pulled off with that. The St. John's Water Dog is an Arctic dog and
the only Arctic dog that doesn’t belong the pointed snouts breeds,
and it pulls as well as the Eskimo’s dogs.

26. Cod fishing went well on the Newfoundland and St. John's
developed into a center of commerce with cod. Wealth increases
and fishermen buy small plots for their houses where they keep
livestock and grow vegetables, which they sell to merchants.

27. Over 200,000 people worked in the fishing industry, but in the mid-
1880s, no one in Europe wanted to buy dried cod. The government
decided to introduce sheep farming on the island. More than 4,500
sheep were bitten to death and the St. John's Water Dog was
blamed.

28. The dog got in the way of economic development and should be
exterminated. Each household were only allowed 1 dog. There
were 25,000 fisherman's homes with each 3-5 dogs. The dogs
should wear a dog tag 28 x 10 cm and name burned into the wood
block and tax should be paid for the dog.

29. In front of the Colonial Building fishermen and hunters are
protesting against the new law proposal that allows free shooting
of stray dogs, trapping and killing dogs. Many officers simply
refused to participate in the shootings, they left the police.

30. Fishermen and hunters gather for meetings in the harbor to talk
about what can be done to protect the St. John's Water Dog. But
eventually the fishermen and hunters had to give up. The
authorities' violent force was too powerful and they silently had to
watch the extermination.

31. The extermination was effecient! In 1908, just two females at 6 and
8 years remain in St. John's. They are immediately sailed to England
and are part of the English breeding. In 1913, only two old males 11
to 13 years are left. When they close their eyes for the last time the
St. John's Water Dog is extinct.

32. The last two St. John's Water Dog is found in a desolate area of
Newfoundland in the late '70s. These are two old males 13 to 15
years. They are dead now and can never come alive. But St. John's
Water Dog survives in England and in England the dog is called a
Labrador.

33. In honor of Newfoundland's two world-famous dogs the Labrador
and the Newfoundland Briton, the City of St. John's had made two
bronze statues of the dogs measuring 1½ time their size. They stand
in a memorial park in St. John's.

34. …. and how the whole
story is put together you
can read about in my
dad’s book
The Genesis of
The Labrador

35. My father's desire to
write about me and my
family does not stop
here, he has written 30
books about Labradors.
See them all at
malusen.com

36. Oh, by the way! I forgot to
tell you that my dad has
also created a new exiting
learning universe for
children around all the
funny stories about me and
the Labrador, namely
MALUSENLAND

37. Here Malusen will
provide children
reading- and subject
skills that can bring joy
and happiness into their
world.
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Greetings Finn & Lis

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