At the beginning of the twentieth century the Finnish Spitz Lintu-Mikko was one of the most prominent of North-Karelian Finnish Spitz population. The dog’s owner Väinö Walle (later used Valle) wrote that during ten hunting seasons a thousand birds were shot with this dog. In 1915 Lintu-Mikko won a second prize and got a prize of honour of best male in Kuopio Show. Lintu-Mikko’s breeder was a forester Pikov from Kuhmoniemi.
