Dogs and everything concerning them is my far my biggest hobby. I have been around dogs my whole life and had a dog since 1990, when I was 12, but then the Icelandic Sheepdog bitch Flögu Sunna came to live with us. We originally only got Sunna as a pet and never planned to breed but we joined the Icelandic Kennel Club (HRFÍ), participated in few dogshows and the interest in breeding came little by little. Sunna had her first and only litter in the autumn of 1994 and three maledogs from her litter stayed with us, Sunnusteins: Muggur, Canis and Erró. 

When Sunna´s litter was registered we bought our affix, Sunnusteins. My parents are the breeders of this litter but in 1997 the affix, Sunna and her three sons were put to my name. From then there were no turning back, Sunna´s litter was excellent and this litter made the foundation I have mostly been building on ever since. 

1999 I got another bitch, Reykjadals Staka Sól, she had to Sunnusteins litters, the F-litter in 2001 with Sunnusteins Canis and the G-litter 17 months later. In 2002 I added another bitch to the home, ISCH Kersins Katla. At the time I wasen´t planning to add another bitch to the home but when I saw Katla I compleatly fell for her. Katla has put her remarks on my breeding and had 3 Sunnusteins litter. The father of her first litter, born 2005, was Sunnusteins Canis but in the litter was only 1 puppy, Sunnusteins Sunna Rögg, who I of course kept. Katla´s second litter were in 2006 and the third in 2007. 

I am educated as a horticulturalist and a teacher and work on a small farm owned by my family where we grow cherry-tomatoes. It´s a privilage to be able to work at home and makes everything around the dogs so much easyer. 
The part of the Icelandic Kennel Club (HRFÍ) that is responsible for Iceland´s only national dog, the Icelandic Sheepdog, is DÍF or the Icelandic Sheepdog Breed Club of Iceland. I have been active member of both clubs, take every course available and am a member of the board of DÍF. I also work as a ring-steward for the kennel club, am in the editorial comittee of the clubs magazie and have for the past 3 years worked with the mentality evulation team of the kennel club. 

My dogs live inside with the family and followe us everywhere. The Icelandic Sheepdog can be fantastic family dog, they are very happy and outgoing but at the same time very gentle and full of evergy. It is a working dog and even though it is very adaptive it is good if it gets opertunity to use the mind and it has been proven that it is possible to teach Icelandic Sheepdogs almost anything!

The Icelandic Sheepdog is Iceland´s only native dogbreed and therefore Iceland´s national dog. The worldwide population is not big and only few decates ago the breed almost became extinct. Thanks to visionary people it was possible to safe the breed but breeders everywhere in the world have to be well aware about the small population and the bottlenecks in the past. Dogs from smaller familylines have to be used in the breeding, the inbreeding co-efficient must be kept low and breeders must avoid overusing single breeding dogs. Everyone must work together to do anything we can to preserve these wonderful dogs for future generations! 

2009 a dream for many years came true when Chisobee Jared came to live with us. Jared is the 4th saluki to be imported to Iceland. Despide how differend the saluki is from the Icelandic Sheepdog then he gets very well on with them.