Lukehaven Icelandic Sheepdogs

02/17/2025

Elsa made it to the quarter finals but I really don't know what that means exactly - she is apparently in the top 1% of all dogs in the competition and there are 14 dogs in this Quarter Final group. Keep voting for her daily and maybe we can get her in the semi-finals. Voting for semi-finalists ends Feb 27! Wouldn't it be cool to have an Icie on the cover of modern dog??!!

Elsa is a beautiful, loving and talented Icelandic Sheepdog! She loves everyone and adores spending all her time with her favorite humans.

02/10/2025

Icies are showing at 2:15 pm today at Westminster - Ring 4 -

Watch the 149th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show live here.

01/17/2025

Our Lukehaven Safir Elsa Freyjasdottir Of Windrock made it into the top 20 in her group! The next cut is in January 23rd - help her to stay in the game by voting daily for her - one vote is free! Thank you for supporting our lovely Elsa!

Elsa is a beautiful, loving and talented Icelandic Sheepdog! She loves everyone and adores spending all her time with her favorite humans.

01/12/2025

Help Elsa stay number 1 in her group! The top twenty are decided on January 16 in just four days!

Elsa is a beautiful, loving and talented Icelandic Sheepdog! She loves everyone and adores spending all her time with her favorite humans.

01/07/2025

Help our beautiful Elsa be the next America's Favorite Pet with a tax-deductible donation supporting PAWS.org in their mission to help sick, injured, and orphaned animals! You can vote once daily by donating (multiple votes) or one vote for free! Thank you!! https://americasfavpet.com/2025/elsa-0ff0

Elsa is a beautiful, loving and talented Icelandic Sheepdog! She loves everyone and adores spending all her time with her favorite humans.

12/31/2024

Our wonderful Icelandic Sheepdog became Britain’s latest pedigree breed!

"A dog breed cited by Shakespeare and believed to be more than a thousand years old is set to be recognised by the Kennel Club for the first time.

The Icelandic Sheepdog is the Nordic country’s native breed and has ancient origins, having been referred to in the Sagas – the country’s most famous literary export, which detail events from around 50 years either side of 1,000AD.

The breed is thought to be the descendant of the dogs brought to Iceland by the original Viking settlers to herd livestock in the ninth century.

It is also one of the few to have been mentioned in a Shakespearean play, with soldier Ancient Pistol uttering the phrase, “Pish for thee, Iceland Dog, Thou prick-ear’d cur of Iceland,” in the second Act of Henry V."

The breed is thought to be the descendant of the dogs brought to Iceland by the original Viking settlers to herd livestock

12/26/2024

Happy Holiday Season and All the Best in the New Year!

11/17/2024

Happy Birthday to the Freyja x Torfi litter born November 17, 2022! They are all so beautiful and living their best lives in CT, FL, OR, and NY!

10/20/2024

It's so hard to believe our sweet angel CH Lukehaven Elfa Raina is 5 years old today! She is the most loving, affectionate, little wild child and I adore her to the moon and back! Happy Birthday little darling Raina!

09/22/2024

Our beautiful Freyja got Best of Breed 9/21 & 9/22 at the Northwestern Connecticut Dog Club! Such perfect weather for a dog show!

09/08/2024

I can't believe it's been three years since these gorgeous babies were born to Freyja and Stormy! All seven puppies are thriving, happy and accomplishing so many things with their wonderful people. Happy Birthday Torvi (CT), Hope (MD), Floki (NY), Thora (MD), Reuben (CT), Loki (OR), and Rollo (CO)!

07/07/2024

Another Lukehaven Champion! Lukehaven Stjami Nikulas Freyjasson (Sire: Torfi Eden Frahalendi; Dam: Lukehaven Freyja Of Isneista) is a new Champion as of July 6, 2024 at the Yankee Classic; Farmington KC; ISAA Specialty. He has only been shown 4 times since April 2024 and won Best of Winners every time with three 5-point majors! We are very proud of our sweet boy! Thank-you Dan Flynn for your expert handling and looking forward to getting his Grand Championship! Here he is getting his show photo and enjoying downtime in the pool after the shows.

07/01/2024

Crisp is simply a gorgeous representative of the Icelandic Sheepdog. Thanks to Jan Deguire his owner, and to Kristin Ouellette and Dan Flynn who also believed in him. Here are the photos from his Group 1 and Best In Show win on June 28,2024 at the Hockamock Dog Show in Wrentham, Massachusetts.

06/29/2024

Special day today. Crisp, AKA GCHB CH Lukehaven Trivia’s Crisp and Cold Vetur was awarded Best in Show in Wrentham, MA. I am so proud of him, his owner Jan Deguire, his handlers Kristin Ouellette and Dan Flynn. I recall his birth by emergency C-Section by wonderful vet Amanda Rizner. Here are photos from the day Jan picked him up at 8 weeks, a Group 1 photo from June 17th, and today’s photo with his handling family.

04/07/2024

Lukehaven Freyja got her ACT 1 titles (jumping and standard) today with 3 first place and 1 second! So proud of our darling girl!

02/23/2024

GCHB Lukehaven Trivia’s Crisp and Cold Vetur CGC shined today in West Springfield ,MA and was awarded a Group 4 in the Herding Group. And the icing on the cake- Lukehaven Freyja of Isneista was awarded Best of Opposite in Breed. Thanks to loving handler Kristin Ouelette and loving owner Jan Deguire with Crisp and Paula Sanderson with GCH Freyja.