This man is the Kennel Club’s “Baghdad Bob” :
Source (Jemima Harrison)
The Crufts winner had to be bleeped for legal reasons.
The Finnish spitz is actually a gun dog. It be used as a treeing dog and a flusher– just like spaniel. (Although, unlike spaniels, it is required to tree or “perch” the bird.)
So it actually still does have a purpose for which we can breed it.
I don’t think the Finnish hunters think these dogs are of poor quality. I think they would probably think the UK show dogs are. I’m not familiar with them, but I do know that gray Norwegian elkhounds have some similar characteristics.
When I first watched it, I laughed so hard that I nearly fell out of my chair.
It’s not the Mr. Cavill is stupid. He does know dogs, but his understanding of dogs is entirely within the framework of fancy. And that has him blinkered.
Natural History 
A poster child for the wackadoo-wing of the Dog Fancy, right there.
No surprise there. And the worst part is, these Wackos are running the thing.
Lunatics running the asylum?
You should see the Finnish Spitz showring in Finland: lots of men in hunting gear trotting around with their dogs. Any rosettes the dog wins are proudly worn on the owner’s clothes for the rest of the day ;)
But honestly, I think with the Spitz the problem with large numbers of epilepsy comes from breeding too much for work – and results in tests. Just as using popular showdogs too extensively in pedigrees leads to problems, using a good working dog too much will quite easily lead to problems. Especially with something like epilepsy that doesn’t directly have an effect on the dogs performance when working (as compared to hips etc).
We have the thing in working strain goldens in this country. A couple of sires are used too many times.
I’m not as familiar with the Finnish spitz as I am with Elkhounds, but every once in a while, a gray elkhound has a red puppy (and we know where that came from!)
Apparently the situation with over-used sires is not just a Golden problem.
Couldn’t get through it. His train of thought is so all over the place it’s like Charlie Brown’s teacher: waah waah waah.
I think that a large proportion of Finnish spitz population was lost during and after World War II.
We have them in the English speaking countries, but they are almost never used for work. Ironically, in the US, they are in the “Nonsporting Group,”which is the opposite of the “Sporting Group”– the dogs used for bird hunting.