Welcome to Gagganjunis kennel
OUR AIM
Our aim is to provide irish setters, especially for highland, but also lowland - hunters that will enhance the experience of the sport. At the same time we try our best to operate with integrity and honesty. Your satisfaction is our priority, no matter if you are a rookie or an experianced hunter.
WHO WE ARE
We are a couple in our prime, non-professional breeders, living far up north in Norway. Our hometown Tromsoe is a charming little society with only 70.000 people.
Our greatest advantage is having excellent huntingfields in a very close proximity. We hunt grouses both in winter and fall; we belive in breeding strong dogs, with exellent fur.
Both are neccesary because of the weather and the hunting conditiones, which sometimes can be very rough. Or to put it another way: Showdogs is not our bussiness!
THE DOGS
Our dogs have strong natural point and a natural tendency to retrieve, most of them doing so at a very young age. They have a strong desire to please their owners. Therefore, harsh methods should not be required. We think it's very important to breed dogs with the friendly and fun Irish spirit that we all have come to love so much.
We don't want our dogs to be too large, but more like "middle-sized". That is because they often must do their job in deep snow. This is also the reason why we do not want them curly-fured. Nobody wants his or her dogs to look like a big snowball at the end of a day in February.
OUR KENNEL
The name of the kennel, "Gagganjunis" is the Sami name on the mouintain shown on the picture below. We choose that name because we have our cottage there and spend very much of our time hunting in those areas.
The Sami people is a "tribe" that is indigenous to the circum polar areas. It is a fitting description since they live in the habitable parts of this northern region. The sami-people live in the nothern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
The forefathers of all these people were hunters and fishermen. The number of wild reindeers decreased when other peoples arrived in these areas and competed for the same game with more efficient huntingtools such as muzzle-loaders and rifles.
The native people adapted their survival strategy and some became herders of the reindeers. Others became fishermen, and some appropriated the ways of the immigrants and became farmers.
As mentioned earlier, we consider ourselves "non-professional breeders". In addition to our great interest for the Irish setters, we both have full-time jobs as radio and -TV journalists.
We strictly sell puppies to hunters and to people involved in field trials.
You are more than welcome to mail us.