The database and website SVPedigrees.com with information on over 27,000 Swedish Vallhunds has been transferred to the Specialklubben för Västgötaspets. From January 1st, the responsibility for the database and website will be the club, who will be responsible for operating costs and responsible for the system and its development.
The Swedish Vallhund Pedigrees database, svpedigrees.com, has been handed over to the breeds club in Sweden, Specialklubben för Västgötaspets (SKV). As many know, Sharon Donaldson, Kennel Ausled Australia, has operated the database for many years. SVPedigrees has grown continuously and today has kinship information and other valuable data for over 27,000 Swedish vallhund right from the founders of the breed until today. SVPedigrees is therefore a very valuable source of knowledge for breeders and enthusiasts worldwide.
A few years ago, SKV signed an agreement with Sharon Donaldson to take over the database on the day Sharon feels that she has done her part in running and managing the database. During the month of December 2025, the move has taken place, Menno Vlaanderen, who managed the data technical part of the database, has transferred the database to the Swedish breeds club.
We are grateful to have been trusted to manage all the important data compiled over the years. We therefore want to send a big thank you to Sharon for her solid work and commitment to the breed. We also want to thank everyone else who contributed to us having such a valuable database. You will be important and needed in the future as well.
Sharon will also in the future be one of the volunteers around the world who continuously enter important information and new dogs/litter into the database.
The SKV will in January 2026 take over financing of the operation of SVPedigrees and welcome everyone to use the system. We will therefore remove the option to donate money.
Today, there is a very rapid development of systems that support breeders in breeding work. Not least because the demands from authorities and the public regarding responsible breeding of both physically and mentally healthy dogs are constantly increasing. This is of course also a central goal for the Swedish breed club and to preserve our great breed.
The possibility of having access to international, relevant data and functioning systems will therefore be even more important in the future. SKV has therefore already started work to review how all information in SVPedigrees can best be managed and developed for the future. The database is many years old, and the tool it is built with needs to be upgraded if possible. However, the most important thing for the breed is not the system itself but its valuable data and giving breeders access to important and working tools, so we will look broadly at the best solution for the future.
You get to the database by following this link https://svpedigrees.com/
Feel free to enter the database and follow your dog’s pedigree all the way to the very first approved Västgötaspets. We are happy to receive pictures and supplementary information, such as health information, on your dog. (Do this when you want to submit a picture of your dog; add information to SVPedigrees)



