Welcome to Lueldar Kennels website.
Lueldar Kennels are owned and operated by Darren and Elaine Walker, and were established in 2004. It is a small family run show kennels. It consists of our ever growing pack of siberian huskies and alaskan malamutes, to whom we are hopelessly devoted. It is set on over an acre of the beautiful Kilkenny countryside. We not only have a large exercise area for our dogs but we take all dogs to shows, agility and training classes, and fun family day trips to the beach, forest and parks. Among our ever expanding family of dogs we have several multiple green star winners, placements in groups, group wins, and a best in show to date. All members of Lueldar Kennels are loved equally, whether they are best in show winners or just our beloved family pets.

We are both founding members of the All Ireland Siberian Husky Club, where Darren is the chairman and Elaine is assistant secretary, and also founding members of the Alaskan Malamute Club of Ireland, where Elaine is the secretary and Darren is the treasurer. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you require any help or advice on either of these breeds.We also attend movement and conformation seminars whenever possible, along with anything else of relevance to either of our breeds.
Elaine has always been around large breed dogs all her life (German Shepherd dogs, Rotties, and an Old English sheepdog), so she always knew that dogs would be a large part of her life. Darren had no dogs growing up and always wanted one, so things took their natural course and over time we got our first Siberian husky and Lueldar Kennels started from there.

We spent the first 7 years of our life together travelling all over the world. Our travels eventually took us to Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, where we were lucky enough to encounter many beautiful Nordic breeds, mostly Siberian huskies, which took our breath away with their beauty, and the impressive Alaskan malamute. We started to plan a trip to Alaska and while researching where to go and what to do we read more and more about these 2 breeds of dogs. So instead of going on holiday to see more of these wonderful dogs we decided to buy a house so we could get our first Siberian husky. We purchased our home and within 4 weeks we had our first Siberian husky, and things went from there until we got involved in showing our dogs, imported two Siberians from France, one of whom had been mated to a Hungarian champion and was in whelp, so we sold our house and bought a cottage in the country where we now have enough space and kennels for all the dogs that we want. Our canine family has been steadily increasing ever since.

We are totally smitten with every one of our dogs and will never re-home any of them, as they give us so much unconditional love, respect, enjoyment and companionship, also success in the show-ring, and by producing the next generation of Lueldar dogs. We keep all our dogs, show or pet, for the whole of their lives, as we have enough time to give them the attention they deserve and enough love for each and every one of them. We will look after them in their old age and beyond, as this is the least they deserve after all the wonderful years of enjoyment and fulfilment they have brought into our lives.

Elaine, Darren, daughter Luca, with dogs Rhani and Willow