My life has always revolved around animals, both cold- and warm blooded. We started with reptiles at home because my brother has fur allergies.  We rebuilt the kitchen to a gigantic tropical room for our Iguanas and in 1993 we also started to breed chameleons.
We became the first in Sweden to successfuly breed Calyptratus chameleons!
Over the years it has also become many different snakes, lizards, spiders, rats, guniea pigs and salt water aquarium.

    

But in the spring of 1996 life took a new path when I got my first dog! It happend to be an doberman pincher bitch that my brother found in the yellow pages. Had only been out with the whole neighborhoods dogs but I could nothing about dog training...
But with very hard work and a lot of training and support from good friends, I even managed to compete in both agility and obedience!

The same year I became a member of Stockholms Hundungdom (a club for young people and there dogs in stockholm) and even joined the board. Later on I even started to hold courses and children´s summer camps. During my 12 years as board member I managed to educate my self to obedience and agility instructor. When I wasn´t at the dog club I was in school and when it was time to choose the upper secondary school, there was nothing I rader wanted than to go on Spånga Gymnasium (a school whith animals, to beacome an zookeeper). This was some of the best years of my life and when I graduated I started to work holidays and weekends at the school taking care of the animals.

During the last year of school I met Mats and we moved in together quite immediately. Soon after that my other dog came in to my life (Gizmo the German Shepherd). Not long after I graduated I started to work full time at Bagarmossens regiondjursjukhus (animal hospital).
It was an extremely rewarding job. However there was some negative sides... I don´t like killing perfectly healthy animals and it´s scary to see how many owners don´t know anything about animals at all.... It´s a tough job but I´ve learned a lot!

In 2005 life once again took a completely new era when we got our first child- Natasha. At that time we lived in a bigger apartmen in Akalla- Stockholm but I have always wanted to live in the country. And just 3 mounths after Natasha was born we found our dream home, and we still live her today. Then came my third nugget, Sydney. 

I then started to work as security at Arlanda airport and I am still employed. However, I am currently on maternity leave, got our baby boy Nicolas in 2008. Expanded the dog pack even more with an cattledog bitch called Queenie (as Queensland...) Unfortunately Cheri (doberman) past away that same year...

Has now planned to start my kennel and dog courses, so for the moment everything revolves around reconstruction and financing. But with some luck I hope everything should be ready in 2009!

To read more about Mats and our children click on to "The rest of the pack".