Om oss/About us 🐾
Hello and a warm welcome to Dog Life & Dog Sport! This is a website that is about our dogs and the training and competition we are doing, as well as thoughts we have about dog sports in general and obedience specifically.
My name is Mattias Lövgren and I live in Sörmländska Vingåker with my wife Nina, our two children Timmy and Moa, the dogs Eragon and Diesel, the horses Kalle and Bangsi and the rabbits Lars and Doris.
I grew up with dogs and have older siblings who started with dog sports already in the early 80s and who have since been successful on the competition track for many years with several SM and national team assignments on the merit lists until the mid 90s.
Nina got her first dog in 1999, a German shepherd named Xtra, which she took over when she did an internship at Hasseman's kennel during the years when she studied animal care at the Himmelstalund high school in Norrköping. Nina and Xtra ran obedience class and they were promoted to the elite before she was retired.
I myself got my first dog in 1995, a German shepherd named Arco, with whom I initially intended to run trails in the utility classes. But when he unfortunately got shot early on, that wasn't an option so we started with obedience class instead and have since been faithful to the branch and never regretted it.
Professionally, we work with and for people and have done so throughout our adult lives, career choices that we have never regretted. Today we are both active in the world of schools, Nina as a teacher at a municipal school and I as a classroom teacher at a boarding school for young people with NPF diagnoses.
The most important thing for us is of course to always have as much fun as possible with our dogs and with our friends. But we also strive to constantly learn new things and develop as dressers.
We always try to watch and learn from the best, because if you want to succeed in maintaining as high a level as possible, you have to be open-minded and receptive to new ideas. But maybe it's important for us to have really good training friends who genuinely care about us.
Nina has had a break with the dogs, partly because she doesn't have a competition dog of her own at the moment, but above all because she has been focusing on the horses, which are also a great interest of hers. But in 2024, she has taken over the training with Eragon and started again, which feels very good.
My goal is to continue to develop as a trainer and learn new things while always striving to have as much fun as possible with my dogs who hopefully also develop and become better and better in obedience.