Tundrai - Who We Are

We are Brisbane based and home to gorgeous Finnish Lapphunds

​Tundrai is Melanie Curtis and Mitchell Warby, along with our four gorgeous lappies - Demo, Raizu, Kiita and Arctos. We are located in South East Queensland and are home to the beautiful Finnish Lapphund.

The name Tundrai arises from Sami 'tūnntre', or in English 'tundra' (where these beautiful dogs work!) and our foundation girl, 'Raizu'.

By chance, when on an afternoon walk one day in 2009, we crossed paths with a beautiful Keeshond. Unable to remember the name of the breed when we searched for it, we ended up going in alphabetical order online through the breeds to find it once again, and with F just before K, we couldn't help but fall in love with the gorgeous Finnish Lapphund as we laid our eyes on Armahani's gorgeous boy, Louis, who was the cover model in that instant for the breed on Dogzonline.

This spiralled our beginning for this quest into motion and after much research, Demo joined us 11 months later. Although we had both had dogs growing up, this was the first dog that we would know a true bond with. Demo's breeder, Cassie, encouraged us to show Demo and thus our introduction to the dog world had begun. Along came Raizu in 2015, then Kiita in 2016,  and the rest is history.

​Our dogs are our family and a huge part of our lives

We have been involved in the dog show world for many years, helping handle dogs and raise litters for other breeders. Although we are not very competitive, we dabble in a vast array of sports in order to keep our dogs at home enriched and are continuously introducing them to new activities. Our dogs' health is of utmost import to us and because of this we only select breeding stock that we deem to be healthy and breed with the utmost care. We breed sparingly, carefully and aim to produce healthy, sound puppies with good temperaments and structure, and aim to better the breed and our own breeding program. 
Our dogs mean everything to us.