We started our kennel in year 1980. The breed we started with was Australian Kelpie, in 2004 we started with German Shepard.

 Björn and I bought our first dog in 1974 it was a German Shepard male with name Dart. He was a nervous dog so Björn handled him best. We learned a lot of this dog and my children loved him. Björn and Dart competed in obedience with him very successfully. In tracking he had a hard time to concentrate but with meet balls in the track he did very well.

After a couple of years with small children, I wanted to go out and compete too. I realized that Dart and I did not match. So I started to look for a new dog. I looked for German Shepard and Boxer and realized that this breed should be too big in a small apartment.

In just right time, they wrote in the Working dogs newspaper of the breed of Australian Kelpie and Cattle dog. I got very curious on the Kelpies, they seemed to be small but tuff and alert dogs. So I called the tree breeders who had the breed at this time. I ordered a puppy from Kerstin Rennerfeldt but her bitch did nott carry any puppies, so she send me to Gunilla Fristedt Yttergårdens kennel. Gilla told me that they just got a bitch from Australia who carried puppies and she and Charlotte Hillerström hade bought her together.

I bought the puppy on the phone and ten weeks later landed a black little wild puppy on Midlanda airport with the name Kangaroos Action.

Dart paniced when we let the puppy in the car, he believed that it was my friends black evil cat. We did not know that we should have let them say hello in a neutral place first. We came home with the dogs and we had to feed them. We gave Dart his 1 liters portion and Action his and suddenly Action disappeared and we heard Dart wining and we discovered that Action had eaten up all his food. I phoned Gilla and ask what to do, I was afraid that the puppy should crack.Gilla conferred us that kelpies are so close to Dingos that they can eat big portions and melt it.

After that Action always ate by himself for the rest of his life and he had a long life. I put him done when he was 16 ½ years old. He died with his loved bitch Oueenie they were the Alfa in our group of dogs, so I let them die together. Queenie was 15 ½ years old when she died.

We started our kennel with these two dogs. Action was a gangster (I could write a hall book about his adventures) not afraid for anything and a leader in the pact. Yttergårdens black dancing Queen was a aristocrat except when she was working with the sheep. She had full control over the sheep and working real hard. She controlled the dog pact together with Action. Both Action and Queenie were very good dogs of there breed both mentally and exterior so we got the advise to let them have puppies. We got a litter of six puppies, four black and two red. They were sold to families who wanted either pets or working dogs. It was not many who knew Kelpies as working dogs at this time.

We have breed 11 litters in our kennel up to now. I never take any litters if I don´t think the dogs is good enough or I have time with the puppies.

We have breed winners in the Swedish obedience championship and several rescue-dogs and our best bitches are Yttergårdens Red Oongies Lassie, Nemårs XL- Cola and Aussie Action´s Red Glory. Glorys is International rescue dog and were in Turkey in the earthquake and get the Swedish Kennel clubs exploit medal for here work there. She is the mother of I-litter.

Aussie Action’s red Frolic is father to Toccatas Red Freja who is the Swedish most successful kelpie in the show and she is a rescue dog too.

The problem to breed Kelpies is that we don’t have so much material to work with and we can’t find so much more in Australia.

So we work hard to keep this wonderful breed.

We started with the German Shepard when our daughter bought  a bitch of the breeder Göte Larsson called Piwinas Dessie. She is called “Lady”. Lady is a very good bitch with very strong mentality so Göte wanted to buy a litter of her but she didn’t carry any puppies then the male was sterile. Göte moved to an apartment and couldn’t have any puppies there. So we mate her with Triumphs Layos. My heart has always beat for the German Shepard. I’m interested in both show and work with the dogs, but it’s been hard to find breeders who have done both with  them.

We tries to have both show and work in our kennel. Our first litter was born in 2004 so they have started in shows and obedience and tracing competing. So we wait and see what they can do in the future. 

The most fun with being a breeder is to see the pups born and to see them grow up and see the love between the owner and the puppy. A bonus is when they are successful in obedience, tracking or working dogs. You get a lot of new friends both with four and two legs.

 My goal is to breed good working dogs who also is successful in show. Each new litter are learning me something new, the pups are growing differently and each puppie is a new individual with different personality. I learn a lot of the dog’s language and behavior in the pact, and spends a lot of time with my dogs.

We tried to be there for the people who buy our pups, we help them to train the dogs and helps them with other problems they may have.

This is a little presentation from our kennel. 

Regards from Christina and Björn Näslund