About us

Our first Sheltie was born in 1984. Sheila was a mahogany sable female from Germany. She was a great pet, but not suitable for showing as we had hoped for. In 1987 a tricolour female crossed our path rather unexpectedly and we started our kennel with her. The first Skeldale litter was born in 1989. In 1994 we got the opportunity to import a beautiful blue merle female from England. Molly arrived in january, after she had been mated in England. She had her first litter in february, 3 lovely puppies from which we kept our Humphrey. He is still with us today at the grand old age of 15½ years. Humphrey is the father of several champions and CAC/CACIB winners. Unfortunately he had to be castrated when he was only 6 years old. It was a great blow for us, as we didn't have any offspring from him (we thought we still had lots of time to keep something). After a long search we were able to import a female that went back to Humphrey and she is the mother of our Manouk. In 2008 we were able to import another Humphrey descendant, she is our Fame. In februari 2001 we imported a blue merle dog from Sweden, Ziggy. Both Manouk and Fame are his daughters.

Besides the Shelties we added an Australian Shepherd female to our kennel in 2005. Shortly after that we also imported a red tricolour Border Collie female from Denmark. We co-own her, but don't breed or show her as she lives with Bianca's sister.

We only breed litters now and than as our Shelties are most of all our pets. We try to find the best possible combination to breed a healthy Shetland Sheepdog that fits the FCI breedstandard. Therefore we keep the option open to keep one of the puppies in every litter that we breed. Our puppies grow up in our livingroom and we spend a great deal of time socialising them, as only a well socialised puppy can be a wonderful family member. All our puppies are sold on contract (we use the contract provided by the Dutch Sheltie Club). We only sell our puppies after we have met possible future owners. We know we are very fussy about to whom we let our puppies go, but our babies mean a lot to us and we want to find the perfect home for each puppy we breed. We hope you will understand that.

 Our dogs are most of all our much loved and spoiled pets, but of course we like to take them to shows too. Their showresults can be found on this website.

We are members of the Dutch and Swedish Sheltie Clubs and Dutch Australian Shepherd Club. We breed according to the rules set by the Dutch breedclubs.