We live in a small community called Bollebygd in Sweden. The nearest big town is Gothenburg, 40 km east from us.
My love for the breed Hovawart started as early as 1989. I was 15 years old when I received my first Hovawart and I´became an active member of the Swedish workingdogs association. Since then I have been the breed faithful.

Toghether with John, we applied for kennel name in 2004 and we had our first litter in september 2007.

We belive that a working dog is a healthy dog. Because of that we spend all of our free time to train and exercice our dogs. Apart from regular training as obedience, tracking, search and so on we also spend a lot of time on the physique.
Every summer we do a lot of swimming with the dogs in our own pond, along with hikings and rides with bicycle.

We are  members of  the Swedish dog associations (SKK) and Swedish workingdogs association (SBK). We are also members of the Swedish and German breeding associations (AFH and RZF).  John has been the  secretary of the Swedish Hovawartclub since -2004. He is also a member of the Swedish mentality committee of Hovawart.

We are active in several workingclasses as well as obedience. Tracking, military service, search and rescue, messanger dog etc. We also enjoy dog shows (exhibitions) a lot.
Until today 5 of our dogs have obtain the military workingdog certificate and one of them is a certified search and rescue dog.
John is also a certified exterior judge for Hovawart since 2008.

All of our dogs lives inside our house as familymembers, we don´t use dog yards or kennel houses. As they are familymembers we do not give any of them away becuse of the fact they are not suitable for breeding.

Jennie & John Bergenhovs Kennel