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30/09/2025

✨ Poesi ✨
Swedish: poetry [noun]

CH Skaldsong's Bard To The Bone
CA FCAT CGCA CGCU TKN ATT FITB FTN

🏁🐇 #1 Fastest Vallhund in 2024 Rankings
(2024 FastCAT Stats via American Kennel Club)

🏆👑 #1 Female Vallhund in 2025 Rankings
(Sept. All-Breed Stats via The Canine Chronicle)

🤍❤️ Best of Opposite Regional Specialty 2025
(Hosted by Swedish Vallhund Club of America)

Poesi is a young bitch who shows brains, beauty and brawn with her growing list of titles and accomplishments. We look forward to our winter conformation show schedule in the southwest USA, in addition to furthering her herding instinct training towards being trial ready in 2026. We have plenty of other sports to also actively pursue in the coming year - watch this space for updates on trick dog, rally, obedience, nosework, dock diving and agility!

Poesi will be furthering her health testing results in the coming months with an OFA radiograph exam (hips and elbows), OFA cardiology exam, and CAER eye clinic. All results will be shared publicly and submitted to the correct databases - regardless of her future in the breed, we take pride in adding to the collaboration of data collection in our breed community.

Eternal credit and thanks to the incredible people who came before us in creating such an amazing global breed community for these dogs. Special thanks will always be with Skaldsong Swedish Vallhunds for trusting me with this special little pup as we adventure through life together! 💌

20/09/2025

These two have officially had their whirlwind romance!

Applications are open for this litter.

NatCH IntCH HnrCH SC AV SI NTD NHD NN UCH CH Au Reult Sven The Red FDC BCAT ACTJ1 SWN SIA SHDN RATN CGC TKI IT VSV "Sven"
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GCH CH Caliente She's A Firecracker NA OAJ RATN CGC TKN VSV "Brigid"

13/09/2025

Viking flat tire.

08/09/2025

Planned Litter Announcement!

(It looks like a taco truck menu and I'm here for it.)

In the next week or so Brigid and I will be taking a trip to meet up with the amazing Sven and his wonderful humans!

I have had the pleasure to watch Sven grow from an adolescent into a gorgeous adult Vallhund over the past few years. He and his family are only a few hours from us and we often wind up at some of the same events.

What has impressed me the most about him is his drive. A few months ago we were in the blind together at a Barn Hunt trial and it was so fun to just watch this normally steady boy turn absolutely feral while waiting for his turn. I've also seen videos of him on stock and have absolutely loved his attitude. He's been very successful in Scentwork, both UKC and AKC, and has recently started agility training.

Breed preservation is extremely important to me and I firmly believe that retaining herding ability is a big part of that. Another would be retaining the natural bobtailed gene, which has been a breed hallmark since time immeasurable. I feel incredibly lucky to find such a lovely dog with both qualities semi-locally, especially one whose temperament I have been able to assess multiple times in multiple situations.

The only drawback to this breeding (as nothing is ever perfect) is they only score a 4 out of 10 on BetterBred for genetic diversity, most likely due to a heavy influence of British lines on both sides. Interestingly, though, their pedigree COI for 8 generations is only 5.45%. In any case, any puppy potentially bred out of this litter will need to look for a good outcross to reintroduce more diversity.

I expect these puppies to be on the higher side for both drive and energy, but capable of having a nice offswitch. They will most likely not be the couch potato sort and will need regular exercise and mental stimulation. They should be good prospects for both sports and conformation. There should be both reds and grays with all tail types possible.

Please PM me for questions or an application if you're interested.

17/07/2025

I know I post a lot about wins, etc, but I want to take a moment to highlight Kira (Skaldsong's Lavender's Blue) and all the amazing adventures she gets to have with her human in and around Berlin, Germany.

I couldn't ask for a better Vallhund-keeper and tucker-out-erer. I'm so proud of them both.

01/07/2025

I'll be posting more of an OK Summer Classic recap as soon as I have the time (what is this...."having....time?")

But first, here's mother and daughter Brigid and Poesi posing together.

GCH CH Caliente She's A Firecracker NA OAJ RATN RATI CGC TKN "Brigid"

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

31/05/2025

Congratulations to Poesi and her Best of Opposite win at the Western Regional Specialty in Lodi, CA!

Not only is she beauty, but she is speed as the lifetime fastest Vallhund in FastCat.

Poesi and her fantastic human hail from Arizona.

Poesi is:

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

30/05/2025

In early April I took Cleric to an International Canine Kennel Club show for some extra ring time and he wound up bringing home 7 Group 1s, 1 Group 2, 2 Reserve Best in Shows, and three Best in Shows! Completely blew me away.

These are fun more casual shows similar to IABCA. They use FCI standards and group structures so instead of being with Herding we showed in Spitz & Primitives.

Not bad for this young man with plenty of maturing to do!

ICKC INTCH MBIS MRBIS, AKC CH Skaldsong's Carry the Blessed Home

AKC multiple Group and NOHS Group placing

He hates win photos.

12/05/2025

I have so much news to catch up on from across the Skaldsong universe!

Enjoy this photo of Cleric noticing his Auntie Sarah (the photographer) in the meantime. I'll try to make more posts this week.

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. ❤️❤️

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