Skaldsong Swedish Vallhunds

30/03/2025

Marlow is nothing but joy as she runs FastCAT in Oklahoma!

AKC-Pointed Skaldsong's Not Like The Other Warlocks

19/03/2025

🎵 CH Skaldsong's Bard To The Bone 🎶
✨ FCAT CGC TKN ATT FITB FTN ✨

“Poesi” was born in March 2023 and was bred by Carol Gravley of Skaldsong Swedish Vallhunds. She has excelled in everything she has set her mind to, including breed specific work - She passed her Herding Instinct test at the Swedish Vallhund Club of America National Specialty in 2024 and we will be pursuing this further as she matures. She is currently the lifetime #1 fastest Swedish Vallhund recorded in FastCAT.

Poesi has been awarded Best of Breed at multiple competitive conformation shows. Poesi is social, environmentally sound and enjoys being athletic inside and outside the trial ring. She finished her AKC Championship at just under two years old with a Group 3 placement.

27/01/2025

Poesi and her human Laura knocked it out of the park this weekend!

She earned a Group 3, giving her her final major to finish her AKC Championship! She also earned her FCAT, plus an NOHS Group 4! She is the 2nd puppy from her litter to earn her CH.

I'm so proud of this team. They're fantastic.

Poesi is now (pending AKC approval):

CH Skaldsong's Bard To The Bone FCAT CGC TKN ATT FITB FTN

You guys are amazing. ❤️❤️

08/01/2025

Poesi's out there making a name for herself! I'm so proud of her and her human.

✨🌻 It's official... Poesi is the fastest Swedish Vallhund in the American Kennel Club FastCAT systems. She now sits at #1 for both 2024 & Lifetime achievement, and will be offered a place at the AKC Fast CAT Invitational this year. Congratulations, Poesi! 🐇💨✨

I'm incredibly proud of her for the enthusiasm and energy she puts into everything we do, and we are so proud to represent Skaldsong Swedish Vallhunds with this special girl.

She is now just a few points away from receiving her FCAT title, which we hope to acomplish in just a few weeks at the Copper Classic Dog Show with Harmony Dog Sports. We'll see you there!

Skaldsong's Bard To The Bone
DCAT CGC TKN ATT FITB FTN

03/01/2025

Look at Barbarian! He's famous now, ha!

I'm so proud of this little dude and his amazing humans. He should be finishing his FCAT2 this month and has regularly edged into the top 5 fastest Swedish Vallhunds.

26/12/2024

Hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday!

23/12/2024

Poesi has attained her DCAT, passed the AKC temperament test (ATT), and I don't remember what else since I last reported on her. She and her human are doing so many amazing things I can't keep up.

She is also currently the #1 Swedish Vallhund in FastCAT after a blazing 7.29 second/28MPH run that pushed her average up to 24.28mph! Apparently she really wanted to unalive those plastic bags.

She also earned her last few singles and went BoB over two specials (her uncle and grandsire!) in Tucson. She now just needs a major to finish!

Picture nabbed from her owner at Solros Kennels ⋆ Swedish Vallhunds

Poesi is currently (unless she's earned something that hasn't yet been recorded by AKC, ha!)

AKC Major-Pointed Skaldsong's Bard To The Bone DCAT CGC TKN ATT FITB FTN

08/12/2024

I have so much to catch up on with the Skaldsong family, so let's just start with Cleric getting another Group 4 in Shawnee, OK in a large, gorgeous herding group back in October!

He also participated in his very first agility trial (NADAC) a couple of weeks later where he at least managed a placement, but no Qs out of his two runs. This was mostly just us having fun and introducing him to a trial environment. Hoping to debut in AKC agility this spring.

CH Skaldsong's Carry the Blessed Home, multi group-placing.

08/09/2024

Today Rune earned her Rally Excellent title!

Skaldsong's Mysteries And Magic RE BCAT CGC

Super proud of her and her human Brilynn!!

01/07/2024

What a great weekend at our home town show, the Oklahoma Summer Classic!

Turlough finished his Championship on Thursday going Best of Winners over the girls for his last major! He is now:

CH KleinHaus Hand Me My Harp at Skaldsong BCAT NF RATI

Poesi and her lovely owners Laura and Eric showed on their way through on a cross country move! And boy, I bet they're glad they did! Poesi earned her first major by going Best of Winners over the boys on Saturday and then scored a double by going Best of Opposite over a SPECIAL (and beating her sister in Winners, ha!). They are a major and up to a single away from earning Poesi's Championship. I'm so proud of them! But not only that, Poesi picked up two more titles: Her CGC and DCAT!

I got to hold her and almost didn't give her back. (Just kidding, her family is beyond amazing).

This makes Poesi:
AKC Major-pointed Skaldsong's Bard To The Bone DCAT CGC TKN ATT FITB

Cleric wasn't showing his best after three weeks of crate rest (long story I'll post on here later, I'm sure), but I was happy that he could go back into the ring. He still needs maturity to help both his brain and body, but I am so pleased with how promising he is. Right now he needs experience and time.

Barbarian showed super well all weekend and he and his kid Grayson did some wonderful things in Juniors! I just wish I could remember them all. I'm super proud of that team!

Marlow also showed well (except when she heard her human parents outside the ring, HAHA! Lesson learned) and I'm really proud with how far she's come. Like Barbarian, she's in a weird noodly stage of growth these guys can go through. Time will bring her back together. I was told by judge Michelle Scott that she is very promising and I may be a little biased, but I agree. She'll get there.

Brigid (dam of Cleric, Barbarian, Poesi, and Marlow) earned a GCH single as Select the one day I showed her and then later on her CGC and TKN. This makes her:

CH Caliente She's A Firecracker CGC NA NAJ TKN RATN RATI

She only needs 1 Champion Defeat for her GCH. I'm planning on mostly showing her and Cleric against each other at the small Oklahoma shows this fall until she finishes it, and then she'll be retired from conformation to fully concentrate on sports. Cleric will be the main dog I'll continue showing besides entering Marlow whenever I can find an entry of class girls.

12/05/2024

Happy Mother's Day!

Thank you to all the moms and mom-types and all the hard work that you do. Brigid certainly felt it. 😹

08/05/2024

Here's how Turlough is coming along in agility. One issue we have right now is knocking bars when he slices a jump, so we're working that separately. He's also just recently started on weaves.

I'm very proud at how he's running for such a young boy.... Only 18 months old!

He comes from a fantastic line of accomplished agility Vallhunds on his sire's side from Alkemi Swedish Vallhunds.

Turlough is...
AKC Major-pointed, ICKC BJPIS RBJPIS KleinHaus Hand Me My Harp at Skaldsong BCAT RATI

Hoping to start collecting agility titles soon.

30/04/2024

Barbarian picked up another point this past weekend, won a first over competition in Juniors, AND finished his DCAT!!!

Barbarian's human also showed my Turlough, picked up a single on him, and finished his BCAT!

He makes a great team with them both.

Barbarian is:
AKC Major-pointed Skaldsong's On The Back Of Dragons DCAT CGC

Turlough is:
AKC Major-pointed ICKC BJPIS RBJPIS KleinHaus Hand Me My Harp at Skaldsong BCAT RATI

15/04/2024

Rune (on the left) achieved her RA on 4/14! The day before she even beat her housemate Valo by a point with a score of 96 to his 95.

Massive congratulations to Rune and Brilynn!!!

Skaldsong's Mysteries And Magic RA CGC

10/04/2024

On March 30th Barbarian and family had an incredible day at the Claremore, OK shows!

Barbarian, affectionately known as "Bean," completed his BCAT and earned an Owner Handled Group 4!!! Way to go, guys!

AKC Major-pointed Skaldsong's On The Back Of Dragons BCAT CGC

10/04/2024

Since things get away from me sometimes, I never did announce that Poesi got her BCAT, TKN, and FITB titles in the past several weeks!

These babies and their amazing owners can be hard to keep up with.

AKC Pointed Skaldsong's Bard To The Bone BCAT TKN FITB

31/03/2024

It's Poesi!!!

AKC Pointed Skaldsong's Bard To The Bone BCAT TKN FITB

26/03/2024

On 3/23/24 in Fort Worth, Cleric went Best of Winners, achieving the last two points he needed to finish his Championship! Pending AKC, of course, and exclusively from the Bred-By
-Exhibitor class.

He is the first Skaldsong Champion and my first Bred-by Champion out of my first and thus far only litter. I am so proud of this little dude and how much he's accomplished in the 6 months since I got him back. Three three point majors, a four point major, and a double spanning the only three show weekends he's been entered in so far: Shawnee, OK in November (where he also got a Herding Group 4), Glen Rose, TX in January, and now Fort Worth, TX in March.

Neither of us are the best at win photos, but we're working on it. He's still very inexperienced, of course. I have no such excuse other than just general human awkwardness.

While the situation surrounding his return tested the trust I'd put into other people, I probably would not have kept him otherwise. The plan was to "keep" a co-owned girl in a guardian home, not a boy in my own suburban home. Yet here we are now and it was meant to be.

I plan on continuing to show him as a Special. We are also working on Rally, Obedience, and Agility foundations with a goal to debut in Rally in three months. He enjoys FastCAT, so we'll continue those, too!

CH Skaldsong's Carry the Blessed Home