We are Karen & Ryan. We live outside Aalborg in the Northern part of Jutland, Denmark. Karen works as a Psychologist and Ryan works with construction engineering.

We have always been dog-lovers and grew up with them; Ryan with german shepherds and Karen with labrador-mutts. We started our looking for an english bulldog, but we realized that we wanted a slightly more athletic dog. We had of course watched "Turner & Hooch" - only then we didn't know it was an actual breed, we thought it was som kind of boxer-mix. Then one day we google'd Hooch and the name Dogue de Bordeaux popped up.

Our first dogue Vega was born in 2005 and we got her when she was 4½ months old. She was just bought as a pet and we didn't have any breeding plans. However we ended up falling so hard for the breed that soon after started looking for another dogue - this time one that could be shown and possibly bred. Less than 2 years later we found ourselvs living in the countryside to be able to accomodate a few more. Today we have 4 which we feel is a good number.

It is very important for us that our kennel is just a hobby and not a business, and that our main motivation for breeding is the love of the breed. We try our very best to do combinations that we feel has something positive to offer for the breed and we would never do a combination we wouldn't want to keep a puppy from ourselves.

We are very thanksful for the more experienced breeders who has helped us along the way and who are still there to answer questions every time we call. There has been MANY calls over the past few years :-)

Our kennel will always be a family type of breeding which for us means;
 

* Our dogues live with us in the house as a family

* Limiting the number of dogues to approximately 5,  this allows us to spend  quality time with each of them.

* Respecting the quality of life and life cycles of breeding dogues; we are definetely against intensive breeding and it's excesses.

* Focusing on one breed only; the Dogue de Bordeaux as it is our passion.