Pierre Walshtrom

The reason was that we didn't get the numbers of dogs for service work, to educate the soldiers and to fulfill the work we should do.

The politicians decided we should be like

to get our dogs by ourselves.

And that was a super hard work in the beginning because we get females from the civilian market, from the sports lines, dogs lines mainly.

And the number we had at the beginning was, this is official, this is no secret at all, it was 80 females.

So that is the numbers we are around still.

And we have to produce a couple of hundred dogs a year because of the work.

Not only because to teach, to have dogs for the work, for the soldiers or training up the dogs for service work.

We need to have a certain number to continue the genetics, to work, to make the genetics better.

There is a lot of things that you need to change in our breeds.

that a small breeder never can reach during a lifetime.

I mean, you start at 89, even if you should have 10 liters a year, Ivan, you should never reach your success before you die because, I mean, okay, you produce good dogs.

But if you want to change something, you have to have a high number and to produce high numbers of dogs, then you can't have the chance.

And we have the best genetics experts

working in the military they are specialists in this i mean we have the breeding responsible us are there are the best people you can find to counting genetics and dna and you know all this kind of stuff and then you have the other guys like nerds like me who knows the lines and behaves and do the tests so we are a super nice team together who can

I mean, we have never reached that success so fast without all this knowledge.

And of course, the support we got from the Swedish people who pay taxes so we can breed those dogs.

I mean, this is the end of the day.

And we are responsible to be open and we must give information what we are doing.

And the system is not the science, actually.