The finale of this year’s season of “The Farm” is fast approaching with only a week and a half left, and earlier this week it almost blew up into a storm on the farm.
More participants ended up in a war of words with each other, but have apparently managed to put it behind them.
With only a short time left of the season, the farm will be washed out, and the animals will return to their owners. This applies to everything from horses, cows, pigs and dogs. The latter two animals were transported out of the farm in Wednesday’s episode, but what really happens to the “Farmen” dog after the recording is over?
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Balto, as this year’s dog is called, is of the Swedish breed Norrbottenspets and was only three and a half months old when he first set foot on Samsjø farm.
– When we choose a dog for “The Farm”, we consider it in relation to the farm, what kind of stories we want to tell, and which participants we have with us. And then we try to find a dog breed we think can fit, says the press officer for “The Farm”, Alex Iversen, to Dagbladet.
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Close follow-up
Balto lived with the animal manager for the program for two weeks before filming and two weeks after.
– She also visited the farm almost daily to make sure he was well, and during the meeting and duel she was there with him when there were no people on the farm, the press officer says.
– Balto was very active, and very smart. He and the pig Lotta became good friends along the way, he adds.
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The small, white dog comes from a breeder in Lierne in Nord-Trøndelag.
– Norrbottenspets is a hunting dog for forest birds, but is considered a versatile farm dog reminiscent of the Norwegian buhund, says Iversen, and adds that Balto is now back in Nord-Trøndelag.
– Balto is currently in training to become a hunting dog, and continues to be a fun family dog. He seems to be a fantastic dog for the family he owns today, he continues.
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According to Iversen, host Mads Hansen is the one in production with the most experience of a similar dog breed.
– Mads has grown up with a buhund, his parents have it and he knows that breed well, says Iversen.
With on the hunt
Fred Stensen, who owns Balto in real life, says that it has been fun to see the dog on TV and that he gets along well with both animals and humans.
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– We obviously missed him and it was a little too many weeks, but we already knew that when we bought him, Stensen says to Dagbladet.
Well at home with the family, Balto is already on the hunt, and works well for both that and as a family dog.
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