Kennel Blue Light was established in 1963 by Erling Strandheim.
He is probably most known as a exterior judge, but he is in fact the person
who has been working most with Bedlington terriers in Norway.
In addition to be the owner of the kennel that has bred the
most champions in Norway.

In 1994 I was given the honor to take over the kennel and the
responsibility with obtaining the standard Strandheim had lead.
By that time I had had Erling as a mentor and teacher for
over 20 years. He is satisfied with what I have accomplished so far.

We would all rather breed perfect dogs, that’s not always as easy.
All dogs have one form for bigger or minor fault.
Not everybody can swallow this as easily because everybody thinks,
as the old saying; we all think best of our own.
And what’s best can’t have faults. Or…?

The main issue is of course that they’re harmonic and companionable,
that they can show joy and not least that they have a good
mentality. It’s wrong that a dog backs up or withdraws when you
want to pet them.

A Bedlington should have a beautiful athletic, muscular body,
where one can clearly see the over- and undeline, like with a Whippet.

They should also have as rase typical head as possible.
This is a long cuneiformed or shaped like a pear,
which should be in right contrast to the rest of the body.
They should not have small, blunt heads.

Then we come to movements. This is a breed that is bred for hunting,
a dog which is bred to eradicate vermin and such.
To do this they have to be able to move, they also need good
angles on their legs. Better angles means greater speed and
movements. What people is mostly interested in talking
about is knee angles and over angulating.

The Bedlington Terrier has five angles back which we can focus on,
for it is mostly the hind legs which are put into focus.
On top we find the hip bone. These go in angulation down to the hip
knot which go in angulation down to the knee angles that go do
down to the hocks. There on it’s straight down before the toes.

I have yet to see a Bedlington who is over-angulated and
I have seen many. But some are very well angulatet and then with
equally good movements.

Seen from behind I want them as broad as possible.
Some Bedlington terriers are tight at the hocks, but they
must NOT be cowhocked. First of all this is a defect,
secondly it is hard to breed it out.

I use carefully selected dogs in breeding. To find out which
dogs to use for this purpose I do a thorough research.
I have to find two dogs that are compatible both in regards
of the physical and the mental. I don’t use dogs with gross defects.

I would also say that a Bedlington is one of the breeds that
handle being put in another home, even in adult age.
This is a breed that goes well with both big and small,
both people and other dogs.

I hope that I have succeeded well with breeding,
I have gotten quite a few positive return messages.