About Us.
By day, Andy is a Systems Engineer for FedEx Freight. He has an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State, and is currently working on his M.B.A. at U.N.D. Sarah, when not playing with the dogs, teaches at a small Catholic university. In addition to Spanish courses, she enjoys teaching Linguistics courses.
Sarah is the family dog handler while Andy is the dog spoiler and official ringside cheerleader.
We started our small family-run kennel in 2015 in Cold Spring, MN, when Lincoln joined our household. Sarah always wanted a sheltie to do obedience with and Andy always wanted an English Setter to take out to the field, so we compromised and got both. :) Our dogs are spoiled members of the family who run our 3,000 square-foot rambler, and we love them dearly!
Sarah does not recall a time in her life when she has been without a dog (or two). Even though we are new to the sport and breeding, we have caught on fairly quickly while admitting that there is still so much to learn!
We are blessed by having amazing mentors. They have taught us the importance of pedigree in determining where you want to go with your breeding program, always with the goal of improving the breed standards and making health and temperament a priority. We have spent hours and hours analyzing different pedigrees as well as those of our dogs. We want to breed dogs that have fabulous form AND function, and are better than what we have (and they are pretty great!).
Our Kennel name? North Roe. We decided to name our kennel North Roe because it is an absolutely beautiful area of the Shetland Islands; we strive for beauty in our dogs.
Welcome to our site, and welcome to North Roe.
Sarah & Andy
By day, Andy is a Systems Engineer for FedEx Freight. He has an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State, and is currently working on his M.B.A. at U.N.D. Sarah, when not playing with the dogs, teaches at a small Catholic university. In addition to Spanish courses, she enjoys teaching Linguistics courses.
Sarah is the family dog handler while Andy is the dog spoiler and official ringside cheerleader.
We started our small family-run kennel in 2015 in Cold Spring, MN, when Lincoln joined our household. Sarah always wanted a sheltie to do obedience with and Andy always wanted an English Setter to take out to the field, so we compromised and got both. :) Our dogs are spoiled members of the family who run our 3,000 square-foot rambler, and we love them dearly!
Sarah does not recall a time in her life when she has been without a dog (or two). Even though we are new to the sport and breeding, we have caught on fairly quickly while admitting that there is still so much to learn!
We are blessed by having amazing mentors. They have taught us the importance of pedigree in determining where you want to go with your breeding program, always with the goal of improving the breed standards and making health and temperament a priority. We have spent hours and hours analyzing different pedigrees as well as those of our dogs. We want to breed dogs that have fabulous form AND function, and are better than what we have (and they are pretty great!).
Our Kennel name? North Roe. We decided to name our kennel North Roe because it is an absolutely beautiful area of the Shetland Islands; we strive for beauty in our dogs.
Welcome to our site, and welcome to North Roe.
Sarah & Andy
