about us
Breeding is a life long adventure and the best one of them all! We've
been devoted to the Pyrs since 1989 and our aim is to breed sound,
beautiful, breed typical Pyrs with warm and loving temperment. We
believe that quality
and health always should go hand in hand, and let us tell you this; once you
fall in love with this breed - you're in it for good. Once you pop, you
can't stop!
During the years I've had a lot of different kinds of dogs, but when I
suggested to my husband that we ought to buy a Pyr - his first thought
was: No! Pyrs were too big and too expensive, he said. Stubborn as I am,
I secretely saved money for buying a dog. Dragskär's Cassandra came in to our
lives 1989 and to make a long story short - 1992 we went to the United
Kingdom to buy four more Pyrs!
The contact we gained with Mrs Beryl Lord, Laudley's Kennel, proved to be one of the most important steps for us as a kennel. It was from Beryl we were trusted with Laudley Dolly Daydream (Tina) and Laudley Dolly Blue (Donna) - two bitches that together are the foundation for almost all our breeding. Tina was a pure white bitch with one of the best temperments we've ever seen in the breed. She was an amazing mother that delivered a handful of quality puppies in each litter she had - and still we see glimpses of her in every single puppy we breed! Donna is the mother to some of our most successful dogs and she herself was the top winning Pyr in Sweden '94-'97. We will always be deeply grateful for our friendship with Beryl at Laudley's kennel.
The contact we gained with Mrs Beryl Lord, Laudley's Kennel, proved to be one of the most important steps for us as a kennel. It was from Beryl we were trusted with Laudley Dolly Daydream (Tina) and Laudley Dolly Blue (Donna) - two bitches that together are the foundation for almost all our breeding. Tina was a pure white bitch with one of the best temperments we've ever seen in the breed. She was an amazing mother that delivered a handful of quality puppies in each litter she had - and still we see glimpses of her in every single puppy we breed! Donna is the mother to some of our most successful dogs and she herself was the top winning Pyr in Sweden '94-'97. We will always be deeply grateful for our friendship with Beryl at Laudley's kennel.
Our dogs are our life. Some of the dogs have individual kennels where
they can choose between staying indoors and going outdoors themselves.
The indoor part is fully tiled and the dogs all have their own beds (some
with blancets and some without - depending on how great their love is
for ripping the blancet in microscopical pieces to create their own
bed). We are lucky enough to own a big, big field with nice little holes
and hideabouts, so the dogs in the kennels are always allowed to run
free every day. Almost all our bitches go together in a pack and are out
and about all day long, but the males settle for a couple of hours of
flirting time with the girls every day. During the nights we let one of
the males out on his own or together with one or two of the puppies, and
then they're in charge of keeping us safe!
All puppies live in the house with us until they're four months old. After this stage, we don't put them in the kennels among the adults straight away. Instead we have rebuilt our stable, so that the youngsters
can sleep together in big, strawed, boxes. First thing in the morning all the youngsters go out together in
the large paddock (small field with stumps and small little wooden houses), and last thing in the evening
they go back into the warm and cosy stable. We always put one or two adult dogs in with the puppies
we've kept and the youngsters, this in order to make it possible for the young ones to learn how to act in
a pack of dogs. They are now also used to spend some of their days together with a Malamute!
As stated above, our dogs live more or less outdoors...and they LOVE IT. In our house we only keep our old
Nova Scotia bitch...more or less! The old Pyrs do, more often than seldom, seem to make their way into
the house as well! But after a long life in a pack of dogs it's, indeed, our pleasure to have them even closer
to us.
Whelping bitches and puppies ALWAYS live in our house, where we've built a whelping room next to the
kitchen. The whelping room is directly combined with an outdoor puppy area. The puppy area is in its turn
combined with both the front of our house and the big field for the dogs,. When the puppies have reached
six to seven weeks of age (depending on maturity and weather) they are released into the garden!
Sometimes they go out by themselves, sometimes together with their mother and sometimes some of our
older dogs are welcome to say hello to the puppy pack.
All puppies live in the house with us until they're four months old. After this stage, we don't put them in the kennels among the adults straight away. Instead we have rebuilt our stable, so that the youngsters
can sleep together in big, strawed, boxes. First thing in the morning all the youngsters go out together in
the large paddock (small field with stumps and small little wooden houses), and last thing in the evening
they go back into the warm and cosy stable. We always put one or two adult dogs in with the puppies
we've kept and the youngsters, this in order to make it possible for the young ones to learn how to act in
a pack of dogs. They are now also used to spend some of their days together with a Malamute!
As stated above, our dogs live more or less outdoors...and they LOVE IT. In our house we only keep our old
Nova Scotia bitch...more or less! The old Pyrs do, more often than seldom, seem to make their way into
the house as well! But after a long life in a pack of dogs it's, indeed, our pleasure to have them even closer
to us.
Whelping bitches and puppies ALWAYS live in our house, where we've built a whelping room next to the
kitchen. The whelping room is directly combined with an outdoor puppy area. The puppy area is in its turn
combined with both the front of our house and the big field for the dogs,. When the puppies have reached
six to seven weeks of age (depending on maturity and weather) they are released into the garden!
Sometimes they go out by themselves, sometimes together with their mother and sometimes some of our
older dogs are welcome to say hello to the puppy pack.
...but there is more to Vi'skaly's than only dogs! In our home there is
lots of love and lots of animals. I have lots of sheep and in the field together with them - is
the horse Victoria. "Vicky" is a
Swedish half-blood and has given us three beautiful foals during the
years. She was born in 1980, is pure black with only few grey hair, and
she's GLOWING!
I swore an ode to only ever have cats living in the stable, but when Clyde came around I softened up. He's living in our house together with the sweet Maine Coon female - Idun.
To learn more about me and my daughter as individuals and professionals, please have a look at our own pages! (links at the top of this page).
Best Wishes,
Ingela (and Pernilla)
I swore an ode to only ever have cats living in the stable, but when Clyde came around I softened up. He's living in our house together with the sweet Maine Coon female - Idun.
To learn more about me and my daughter as individuals and professionals, please have a look at our own pages! (links at the top of this page).
Best Wishes,
Ingela (and Pernilla)