The person behind Chaspades Australian Shepherds is me, Elin Landén. I live together with my fiance Pontus, who is also involved in the kennel, and our children Vera and Noah in a village called Östberg near Svenstavik in Jämtland, Sweden. In addition to our aussies, we also have three cats that belong to the family. My mother Anna-Karin lives in the same village as us, she is also involved in the kennel and often accompanies us to dog shows and competitions.

I spend a lot of my free time with my dogs and both the dogs and I love exercise in different forms. In the summer I like to walk, run and cycle with them and the dogs also love to swim, so we spend a lot of time by the lake where the dogs swim and retrieve toys from the water. In the winter we often go skiing and train mushing (pulling). In addition to everyday obedience and tricks, we practice agility, rally obedience, obedience and tracking. I also show my dogs a lot and we go to many dog shows every year.

Pontus and I own a large house with a large fenced yard that the dogs have free access to when we are home. When we are not home we have five spacious kennels at our disposal. In one of the kennels the dogs have the opportunity to go inside our storage house where we have a heated dog room and in the other four kennels they have the opportunity to go inside isolated dog houses.

We have large forests near our home that we use for tracking, among other things. We also have fields next to our yard where the dogs can run loose on large surfaces and we also use the fields in various training contexts. When we are home the dogs are either inside with us or loose outside in the yard and during the night they sleep inside the house. Our aussies are part of the family, not kennel dogs.

We breed 1-4 litters of puppies per year and I want to breed aussies who are confident and function well in everyday life, and who can also work with good focus and high drive. I want the dogs I use in breeding to be well built and conformationally correct. They should not have too much sharpness, have too high stress levels or have fears.

We are proud ambassadors for ARION Sweden!
All our adult dogs eat Arion's food and our puppies are raised on Arion's puppy food. Arion has a wide assortment so each dog eats food that is adapted to their nutritional needs and age. We have been using Arion's dog food for over 10 years and are incredibly pleased with it! All our dogs are healthy, well-muscled and have great coat. No one has allergies, skin problems or stomach problems and we can thank Arion's high quality food for a lot of that.