About us          

    My name is Anki Broberg, and I am the one with the biggest dog interest in the family. My husbands name is Tommy, and together we got 3 children, Christer born -91, Robin -93 and Nathalie -95.
    My first dog was a german shepherd that I bought when I was 13 years old. Her name was Grace, and she will always have a special place in my heart. With Grace I found out how fun it is with dog training and competing. When she was 2 years old she was obedience champion, elite obedience champion and competed in eliteclass tracking. Grace was a good competition dog, but most of all she was a wonderful friend that without any problem managed the changeover from beeing just my dog and then followed me through life and the new situation in a family with 3 children. 

 I had german shepherds in 19 years, and liked that. But then I started to look after a breed that didn´t have the german shepherds guardinstinct, but I still wanted a dog that was willing to work. Beyond german shepherds I had also trained and competed with bearded, collie, australian shepherd and golden retriever, so I knew exactly what kind of dog that I wanted to have and what I don't wanted to have for a type of dog. I choose the toller, and I have never regret it! Now when we also have cavaliers and bernese mountain dog, I often got the question how it comes that we have choosen 3 so different breeds. The answer is that they are not so different from eachother.
All 3 breeds is what I call life-enjoying-dogs.
   
Toller, cavalier and bernese have a lot in common. The toller is the working dog number one with a lot more energy and that must work, but all 3 breeds is happy and nice family dogs, they love to work but they are pleasant to have in the family. None of them needs extremely coat care, or are bothersome in any other way. The biggest difference is the size I think, and I appreciate that! I cannot say which one of my 3 breeds I like most - all of them are fantastic! I never thought that I should meet a breed that should fit me as perfect as the toller do, but both the cavalier and the bernese have impressed on me, and they have taken a big part of my heart. To get knowledge about the breed and different lines takes 3 times as long time with 3 breeds then if I only have got 1. But dogs is the best that I know, and by listen to and learn of people with more experience, I hope I will learn a lot more of all of my breeds.

     

Why am I a breeder, and what is my goal with my breed?

Early in my life I became interested in what it is that makes some dogs better than others. Earlier I was absolutely sure and a bit naive in my opinion that: "A dog will be what you make it to". Now i realize that of course the surroundings under the growth and the training means a lot, but the qualities a dog possess from birth is always in the background and have part in how the adult dog will be.
My goal as a breeder is to always try to improve the dogs congenital qualities. I think it´s very exciting and inspiring to breed dogs. To try to make combinations were the offsprings became better then the parents is a habit forming challenge.

I think that one of my biggest strength as a breeder is that I can see objective on my breeding stock. The perfect dog isn´t born, and will probably never be born, but to know about and admit your own dogs weakness is a big step on the way to create better dogs. To go around in blinkers and refuse to see the problems and say that "my bitch is perfect so that fault must depend on the male or the puppies new owner", is not good either for yourself or the breed. If my bitch  have a weakness in her exteriour or in her mentality (which all dogs have, because there are no perfect dogs...)  it´s important to find a male that can compensate that weakness so the male is extremely good were the bitch isn´t so good and vice versa that the weakness the male have will be compensated by the bitch.

The searching for a good male to breed with can sometimes feel impossible, the more you learn the harder it get because the more you know about the breed you find more that can be wrong... At the same time it is important to see clear at the problem. The faults that you know about you have to make allowances for and try to attend that in the next generation, if there is something real good that you want to have in this combination. Breeding is a long-term work!

Of course I would like that everything should be perfect right through with both the male and the bitch, but - the perfect dog is not born.

 To see critical at your own dogs, have a clear focus on your priorities and to learn by them with more experience, is what I think is important when you try to create your dream dog.

For me it is important to never do a combination were I shouldnt wan´t to have a puppy myself -  that is the most important rule I live after in my breeding.

     


    Since 1990 we live in a house built 1862, on the countryside outside of Kil in Sweden. Since we moved here we have built our house from 72 m2 till 220 m2.



Finally we have a car that fit us perfect!