About me...
My name is Malin
Eriksson, I live in the country outside of Trosa in Sweden with my husband
Lars, our children Tove, Sunna, Viktor, our dogs, some rabbits and a few other
bugs. I have had dogs in my family since i was a little girl, but I was 17
when I bought my first "own" dog, a Berger belge Groenendael male.
I have always been fascinated by animals since I was VERY little, it was therefore
a matter of course to choose an animal high school when I was going to start
at the high-school. I was reading 3 years about animals aimed for zoo-animals
and wolfs. After the high-school I was working at a zoo in Stockholm called
Skansen with the monkeys and half-apes. When I got pregnant with our first
child, my husband and I wanted to move away from Stockholm out in the country
side.
I then got a dog-instructor education by "Anders Hallgren", a famous
Swedish dog-psychologist, and I started to give some dog-courses.
Parallel to the dog-courses I was also involved in a union, "Catastrophe
help for birds and wild animals”, where I was helping to breed and take
care of animal babies that had lost their parents in one or another way.
Now I am studying Molecular Cell Biology at the university high school, I
find this very interesting and I have the opportunity to study what I like
the most, genetics, gene-expression and gene-regulation. After 5 years of
studies I will be finished in 2006.
By the side of my studies, family and dog activities I am also active in a
dog breeder group where we are some breeders that get together every 3rd week
to discuss different dog- and breeder-issues.
I bought my first White Swiss Shepherd, Beyas, in February 2001 from Sandra
Eriksson, Kennel Tågabo. It showed out that Beyas was a fabulous female
with a unique exterior and mentality. This resulted in that I could fulfil
my childhood dream, to breed dogs.
My aim with the breeding is to breed healthy, nice, beautiful White Swiss
Shepherds, dogs that have a healthy mentality as well as a healthy exterior,
dogs that fits for both working, shows.
I am not interested in some puppy production just to gain money. Instead I
want to be part of building up a healthy, sound White Swiss Shepherd population
that will be at least as good even in the future.
To reach my breeding goals I choose my breeding animals with most carefulness
and of course I only use healthy well qualified animals.
To get a bigger genetic diversity in our small population I think it is of
most importance that we don’t use the same breeding animals too many
times, if more different studs (mostly) are used we will spread the gene pool
which will gain the population and give raise to a strong healthy population
with a huge genevariation.
The White Swiss Shepherd
is an active dog that needs to use the head in some way; I therefore only
sell puppies to active homes where you are prepared to activate your dog in
one way or another.
All my puppies MUST be x-rayed (hips and elbows). Once you bought a puppy
it is NOT allowed to sell the puppy to another place but back to me.
Of course I will be here for you and your dog ALWAYS. Don’t hesitate
to ask about anything, I will be glad to help out.
You are most welcome!
/ Malin