ABOUT US AND OUR BREEDING

ABOUT US
 
The twolegged creatures at this kennel are Linda (b: -73), André (b: - 67) and our daughter Ella (b: oktober - 06).
 
I (Linda) bought my first english springer in 1989. It was a liver/white bitch, Mistily's Happy Dream. A very appropriate name for my first dog. I have always been a huge lover of animals. As a child, I spent all my summers and holidays at my grandparents farm. I felt at  home amongst horses, cows, cats, hens, rabbits and dogs. When I was younger it was horses that were by greatest passion. I started riding at the age of 4 and continued until I was well over 20. During the same time I read everything I could find about dogs. I have a book of dogbreeds which is really wellridden as a searched for my dreambreed. I became interested in Welsh and English springer. I chose the English springer and that's a choice I will never regret.
 
André and I met in 1996. I had two springerbitches at the time and they soon charmed him totally. He just couldn't resist them, not that I think that he tried very hard. It didn't took a long time before he was as interested and comitted to the dogs as I. In 1997 we moved to our current home. Our home is in the middle of the forest, it's pefect for both us and our dogs. After we had moved to our house the fourlegged pack was soon extended and the thoughts of breeding began to take form. We applied for our kennelname and the affix CHARLESCROFT was approved in 1999. The affix is by the way, a translation of the name of the place where we live. The year after, in 2000, our first litter was born out of Ch Mistily's Waltzing Matilda.

 

 
For us, the dogs is a way of living and we could not imagine living life without them. Most of our time is devoted to our dogs. As well as we enjoy the company of them every day and everything around them, they have also, during the years, given us opportunity to get to know people with the same love for dogs and dedication for the breed like ourselves.
 
I work nights with disabled people, which is perfect as I'm mostly at home with the dogs during the days. André is working as IT-manager for a company. Other thins we like do do when we have the opportunity is golf (André)and meet with friends and family. We are also co-owners in a trottinghorse so we are visiting trottingcourses now and then. When we get the opportunity to a vacation, we like to take trips to the breeds country of origin, England. There we will go and see more English springer. This is how we real dogfanatics are.
 
Linda is, since autum 2003, editor for the official breedclub magazine "Springertidningen". I have always liked writing and doing all sorts of things with design and layout, so this really suits me well. I have also made and are webmaster for several homepages (including our own). If I get the time I love reading or see a movie.
ABOUT OUR BREEDING
 
We have only a very small breeding. At our kennel a litter is only planned with the intention to keep at least one puppy out of that certain combination. We will never have litters only for selling purpose. This means that we seldom have more than one litter every other year.
 
Every litter that is born here is very special for us in many ways and we always look forward to a new litter with great excitement. We want to keep it this way and therefore we choose only to breed in a small scale and first and foremost for ourselves and we also hope that we can breed typical springer that will be a joy for their new owners. We feel that it's really important to know as much as we can about the relatives in the coming puppies pedigrees.
 
To have a purpose and a goal is a must as a breeder. Our goals is to improve the breed and the quality of the dogs that we breed, according to the breedstandard. We have a clear vision of our idealspringer and this is always in our minds when breeding. The perfect dog isn't yet born and it will probably never be, but this is what breeding is all about, to get closer to your own ideal. Temperament and health are essentials and together with a good conformation, we hope to breed the correct, typical springer. The most important thing for us is that the dogs that we breed will be a joy for us and their owners in the everyday life. We own and breed dogs simply because we love them and the breed!
 
All our puppies means a lot to us and therefore we also demand something from our puppybuyers. They should be able to give the dog a good life and also be willing to learn and listen and we want the breeder-buyer relationship to consist of mutual trust . Our task is to give every puppy and its new owner the best start together as possible.