The Swedish Vallhund is an old spitz breed bred to work on farms in there home land Sweden, and many are still used for there original purpose today. On the farm the Vallhund was used as an all purpose farm dog, they could act as a watch dog, a ratter and there main job to move live stock, often cattle.

It is said that the breed can be traced back 1000 years and that the breed may have accompanied Vikings. Its believe that in the 8th or 9th century the breed may have crossed paths with the Welsh Corgi in some way as the breeds share some similar traits. Whether the vallhund was brought to wales or the Corgi was brought back to Sweden is unknown, ask people which came first and some will say the Vallhund probably made the Corgi, Some will say the Corgi probably made the Vallhund and some will say it was probably a bit of both.

Before WW1 the breed was a common sight in its homeland but by the 1940's the breed had become scares to the point it was almost extinct! A man by the name of Count Bjorn von Rosen along with another man called K. G. Zettersten worked together to search Sweden for examples of the short legged farm dogs they knew from their childhood. They gathered a group of dogs together to be there foundation stock and set about bringing the breeds numbers back up, and in 1943 the breed was recognised with the Swedish kennel club.

The first vallhund to make its way to our shores in the UK was in 1974, the breed society formed in 1980 and the breed was recognised by the Kennel Club in 1984.