SSRK Sweden: spaniel, retriever and tolling activities

Key facts

Regional structure

Fourteen divisions across Sweden [source]

A specialist club with regional divisions

Svenska Spaniel och Retrieverklubben, abbreviated SSRK, is affiliated with Svenska Kennelklubben and describes a network of fourteen regional divisions across Sweden. Its stated interests include preserving the characteristics that make spaniels and retrievers useful hunting dogs. The organisation combines regional participation with national specialist resources and links to breed clubs. A new owner can therefore distinguish three useful contacts: the regional division for nearby activity, the breed club for breed-specific discussion and the national club for regulations and programme administration. The public membership resources also provide a separate route for international members.

Several assessments share the club structure

SSRK’s activity directory separates retriever hunting tests, spaniel hunting tests, tolling tests, game tracking, functional descriptions, shows, breeding, education and youth activities. That range explains why an SSRK event is not automatically a retriever field trial. Within the retriever programme, the documents page further separates Field Trial or A-prov, B-prov, Working Test and Mock Trial. It also lists championship and young-dog derby resources. These named formats help a handler identify the intended assessment and allow a researcher to retain the precise meaning of a published result rather than combining unlike performances under one generic hunting title.

Documents, entries and current rule periods

The retriever document page publishes rules and implementation instructions separately, with effective dates and different rule periods visible side by side. At the time of this guide, it includes both the 2022–2026 regulations and material for 2027–2031. That is useful for planning ahead and interpreting past results: the date of the event determines which period is relevant. The same site links SKK Start account support, entry information, event programmes, results and statistics. A participant can follow that chain from the activity description to the relevant rule version and actual event, while a regional division supplies the local community connection.

Common questions

Sources & further reading

References for this guide. Rules and services can change; check the responsible organisation for current details.

• SSRK: activity directory (opens in a new tab)
• SSRK: about and regional structure (opens in a new tab)
• SSRK: retriever test documents (opens in a new tab)

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