NEWS 2008

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LITTLE SUMMARY OF 2008 Lets start with our A-litter Tommy with limited showing had much success in the rings - Estonian Junior Winner 2008 with Crufts qualification - Intermediate class winner with "excellent 1" and unofficial Best Male 5 placement with RCAC at Finnish Specialty judged by Cheryl Currie-Thompson - "Excellent" and placement in top 8 juniors at World Winner Specialty in Sweden - Est JCC, Lv JCC, RCACIB, Fin RCAC Chester is doing only better and better in the rings - Estonian Junior Champion - "Excellent" at World Winner Specialty in Sweden - 3 Est JCC, BOB and BOS placements Emma doesn't like showing that much, however she gained 5 junior championtitles - Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Baltics Junior Champion - Estonian Junior Winner 2008 with Crufts qualification - Best in Group in Haapsalu under Mr Gunnar Nymann (Denmark) - many BOB and BOS placements Thank you dear Erle, Angela and Kadri for showing our puppies, I`m so so proud of you! And now mom Lotta and dad Freddie Lotta with VERY limited showing - Champion of Spain and Morocco - 5 CCs (Portugal, Spain, Morocco), 6 CACIB, BIG2, BIG3, 3xBOB and 3xBOS Freddie had an amazing year with 8 new CH titles - International Champion - Champion of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Russia and Baltics - BOS and Best Dog at Porto Winner 2008 - 8 CCs (Portugal, Spain, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, Finland), 5 CACIB, 2 RCACIBs, BIG2, BIG3, BIG4 Yes, 2008 was really great for us and I do hope next year is even better! Let's see what 2009 brings:) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DECEMBER 14TH - BATALHA CACIB Portugal Judge: mr Dusan Paunovitch (Serbia) Our results: Freddy exc1, CACIB, CAC, BOB Lotta exc1, CACIB, CAC, BOS
DECEMBER 12TH "I`m dreaming of a white Christmas", well not really ... took some nice pictures today - flowers in our garden in December and of course, a bit beach fun by Lotta-Freddy aswell;) Enjoy HERE
Freddy: "I`m dreaming of a white Christmas"
DECEMBER 8TH - NEW PICTURES OF LOTTA-FREDDY HERE
DECEMBER 5TH - CHRISTMAS SHOW FOR PUPPIES AND VETERANS IN TALLINN, EE First show for Freddy and Nessa`s puppies African Breeze Fly Higher "Zara" and African Breeze Natural High "Nora". Zara was BOB Puppy this time, but they both got a promising critiques, behaved well and had fun in the ring. Congratulations! Pictures here
Sanna and Zara
NOVEMBER 30th - SANTAREM CACIB IN PORTUGAL Judge: mr Igor Selimovic (Croatia) Our results: Freddy exc1, RCACIB Lotta exc1, CACIB, CAC, BOB, BIG2  Well well, darling Lotta is one step closer to the P CH title! My big thank you to our judge, who said just after seeing Lotta "I like her very much". Sorry, no pics from the dog show as I went alone, but some pics from the bird show what was held at the same place HERE
Darling Lotta with her BIG2 award
NOVEMBER 26TH - FREDDY AND NESSA PUPPIES  Who is on the pictures, 4 months old Freddy? Oh no, we have here very daddy look like girls Scully and Mia (from kennel African Breeze). Nessa and Freddy puppies are 4,5 months, they`re beautiful and with good characters. Pictures of Mia, Zara, Jete, Lotte, Scully, Ronja, Hero ... HERE
NOVEMBER 22nd WE`RE BACK IN SPAIN  Lotta and Freddy are back in Spain and doing well, we`re planning to stay here till May 2009, we`ll see. Since yesterday we`re back online (thank you Telefonica;)), and I`m going to update my site more often. Stay tuned, some new picutes HERE
NOVEMBER 15TH - FINNISH RR SPECIALTY IN LAHTI Judge: Mrs. Cheryl Currie-Thompson (Australia) from Caprivi kennels Breed entry was 84 Weistrand AllGood Things from Oz "Tommy" managed to win Intemediate class with "Excellent" and finally took an unofficial 5th place at the Best Male competition with R CAC. Really wonderful result from such a young dog! Weistrand Adventure Apollo "Chester" was 2nd in Intermediate class with "very good". Thank you Erle and Angela for training and showing "our boys", I`m very proud of you! Pictures HERE
	Lovely boy Tommy	photo: Reea Salomaa   "Tommy`s hard life"
photo: Reea Salomaa             Good boy Chester

October 19th - we had a show trip to Norway, RRs were judged by Arne Foss, who liked Lotta some years ago. Unfortunately my dogs didn`t move well on the slippery and unstabile floor (I lift my hat to these who did it well). Freddy - ch 1st quality, CK, BM3 Lotta - ch 1st quality
October 10th - our Freddie`s - Amashutu Cool Aussie Boy  - International Champion title is officially confirmed by the FCI!
	INT CH Freddy and INT CH Lotta :)))
October 5th - Lotta, Chester, Tommy and Mona tried bloodtracking in Mooste, and some of them were really good in it. More info will follow ... Pictures HERE
I and Lotta	Erle with Tommy
Angela and Chester on the track	Kaupo and Mona just chilling
October 3rd - and again I added some new pics to Freddy`s gallery HERE and to Lotta`s gallery  HERE
Beautiful Lotta - Harjaselän Karpalo	Bold Freddy - Amashutu Cool Aussie Boy

SEPTEMBER

September 29th  - We`re enjoying the autumn and arranging things for moving back to Spain.


Freddy                                                                                            With my beloved dogs

September 23rd - here is a wonderful present from my puppy owners ... already hanging on the wall;)))) THANK YOU ALL !!!

Septembr 14th - Sunday in Tartu  ... I and Lotta visited Chester and Tommy in Tartu. First we had a nice walk with "boys" and Lotta, later Sanna and Tuuli joined us with their RRs Zasa, Iivari and Inka. Thank you Erle for hospitality!
A lot of pictures HERE
And some new pics in Chester`s gallery HERE


EST JCH WS Adventure Apollo "Chester" - 19 months                     Brothers Chester and Tommy

September 11th - Happy Birthday to our darling "always tail-wagging" Freddy-boy!!!  You`re the best and we love you so much;)


Birthday-Freddy;)

Weistrand AllGood Things from Oz "Tommy" - back in agility ....pictures by Tuuli Kauer HERE


Weistrand AllGood Things from Oz - Tommy

September 7th - great day with our friends at Match Show organized in Pärnu by the Dog Breeders Club of Pärnu - Kaidi`s dachsie Yonna went BIS1 puppy and our Freddy BIS 1 !!! Thank you to the great judge, we were really happy and surprised! After the show we had a nice autumn-walk in the forest - pictures here
More pictures of Freddy HERE

Ch Amashutu Cool Aussie Boy - Freddy 35 months

I haven’t updated Diana`s gallery for a long time, this mistake has been fixed now. Diana is our 7,5 years old rottweiler, in good health and young by soul, soon in veteran class;) Pictures HERE


Ch Goldenbeck Diana - Diana 7,5 years

New pics of Freddy x Lotta`s "puppies" Tommy, Chester and Koby.

AUGUST

August 16th - Tallinn CACIB, judge Mrs Liliane de Ridder-Onghena (Belgium).
Freddy - open exc1, CACIB, BM1, BOS

Now we`re having a little break of showing till October.

After the show we went to see Freddy`s pups in Kennel African Breeze. The whole litter is very even and beautiful, we took also first stacked pics of the pups. Puppies 5,5 weeks stacked HERE

Freddy with his son Hero

August 1st - 10th - Showing in Finland

It was in May when I and my good friend Marian decided to enter our dogs to some CACIB shows in Finland. Our main goal was to get CC to Freddy and CACIB-CC to dachshund Mimi. Having 5 dogs (Freddy and 4 dachsies - Tessi, Mimi, Ruts and Zorro) in my Chrysler, we headed to Finland.

August 2nd Kuopio CACIB, RR judge Mr Guy Jeavons (Canada), entry 17
Freddy - open exc1, CC, CACIB, BM1, BOS - what makes him a champion of Finland! I was over the moon:)

August 3rd - Kuopio CACIB, RR judge Robyn Wallis (Aus), entry 20
Unfortunately the judge preferred different type from our boy. Anyway we had a good laugh reading Freddy`s critique later - lacking forechest and eyes could be darker ... hihiii are we talking about the same Freddy?!
Freddy - open vg3

As Mimi didn`t get the CACIB in Kuopio, we continued showing in Finland. Well I wasn`t sure about showing Freddy in Tornio as my boy was really tired and "didn`t need anything from the show", but the weather was sunny and nice there, and Freddy in good mood;)
August 10th - Tornio CACIB, RR judge Mr Igor Selimovic (Croatia)
Freddy - champion exc2, BM2, RCACIB

Thank you Marian and Kaidi for nice company, it`s always pleasure to travel with both of you and your dachsies!
PICTURES HERE

JULY

At end of July we had a trip to Croatia, more info and pictures later
 
July 19th - Emma BOBJ, BOB and BIG1 - amazing news from Haapsalu today!
Getting a phone call from Kadri that all the RRs today gainned "very good" except one...I  didn`t think it`s Emma, but it WAS Emma. I jumped in my car and drove to Haapsalu for the finals.
Our young Emma was the most beautiful dog out of FCI group 6 today, just wonderful!
Big big congrats dear Kadri and Emma!
Breed and group judge was mr Gunnar Nymann from Denmark.


            The judge mr Gunnar Nymann, Emma and Kadri

                                    Lotta and Mona

July 13th - Freddy Estonian Champion, having CCs from Romania, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia, he is automatically a CH of these countries as well. Plus INT CH and canditate to Spanish, Norwegian and Portuguese CH title.

Tartu CAC, judge Lazlo Erdos (Hungary)
Chester - junior exc1, BOS Junior, BM3
Freddy - open exc1, BM1, CC, BOB, BIG4 = EST CH
Thank you judge!!!

full results


                                    CH Freddy

July 12th - we have a new Estonian Junior Champion!!!

Chester got the last JCC needed, won over junior female BOB Junior and now we can call this handsome fellow as ESTJCH Weistrand Adventure Apollo. Mega congrats dear Angela and Che!!!

Räpina CAC, judge Petr Rehanek (CZ)
Chester - junior exc1, JCC, BOB Junior, BM3 = EST JCH
Freddy- open exc2, BM2

full results

                                    JCH Chester;)

July 7th - On the magical date of July 7th, Nessa (Harjaselän Oliivi) gave birth of 10 baby ridgebacks. Proud daddy is our Freddy.

Nessa and too early born babies are doing fine and gaining weight. We have 1 boy and 9 girls:))) 3 girls are ridgeless, but the rest of the pack have just perfect long and correct ridges. Few white, some with no white, all red wheaten in color with black noses. No DS detected so far and no kinky tails. INFO HERE

Welcome to the world "The Sun" babies and thank you dear Nessa for this lovely litter, we`re proud!!!

 

Chester and Tommy in Sweden July 4th - World Winner Specialty - 08 in Årsta Slott Junior males enrty about 35, breed judge Mrs Sue Simper from England Angela and Erle did amazingly well with Chester and Tommy! PICTURES HERE
Erle and Tommy - "excellent", were choosen to the top 8	Angela and Chester - "excellent"
July 6th - World Winner - 08 in Stockholm Junior males entry 28, judge Mr Stefan Sinko from Slovenia Tom and Che did their best, but unfortunately weren`t Mr Sinko`s type, although they got a nice critiques, the mark was "very good".

JUNE

Freddy - open exc1, CAC, BOB = LT CH
Thank you judge!
We didn`t stay for the finals, but had a cultural trip to Kaunas.

Chester - junior exc2, BM5
Tommy - interm exc1, BM2, RCACIB
Emma - interm exc1, BB4
Lotta - champion exc 1, BB1, CACIB, BOB, BIG3

PICTURE report is HERE

Thank you all for coming, I`m really proud of you all!

June, 21st - CAC show in Luige
Emma - JCC, JBOB, BOB
"Little" Emma received the last JUN CC needed for the EST JCH title, now she is known as EST, LV, LT, BALT, RUS JCH Weistrand A Treasure in YourHands! Big big congrats Kadri and Emma!


                                Emma 16 months

Nice show-weekend for our ridgies!
June 7th - Chester JCC, JBOS, BOS and , BIG3 at Kohtla-Järve CAC. Thank you Angela and Kadri for all the job you have done with your 4-legged friends, you`re the best! Pictures HERE
June 8th - Freddy went to Pihkva (RU) with his dobbie "friends" and came back with CC, BOB and BIG3!
 

"Exact copy of Lotta " Chester with Angela - BOS	Emma with Kadri BOB and BIG3

June 1st - Specialty for FCI group 6 in Tallinn. Judge Mr Stefan Stefik (Slovak)
Freddy - open exc2, BM3

MAY

May 31st - CACIB Tallinn - meet our Estonian Junior Winner Couple - Tommy (WS AllGood Things from Oz) and Emma (WS A Treasure). Judge - Theo Leenen from Belgium.

Chester - jun vg2
Tommy - jun exc1, JCC, BOB junior, BD2, ESTJW08 + qualification for Crufts
Emma - jun exc1, JCC, BOS junior, BB2, ESTJW08 + qualification for Crufts
Freddy - open vg3
 

Handsome Tommy	Beautiful Emma

May 26th - handsome Chester (WS Adventure Apollo) visited us last weekend.
Some pics of Chester and Lotta HERE


                    Chester sais Hello to mom Lotta
 

May, 18th - Valka CAC show

Tommy -BOS with Jun CC at his very first official show. Very well done Erle and Tommy!!!
Emma - JUN exc today.
The judge: Markku Mähönen from Finland

Many pictures of the show and afterparty at Chester`s place HERE.


                       Tommy posing after the ring
 

Living in South-Andalucia, so close to the "mysterious black continent Africa", we just had to go there. And not only, we had a dog show in Morocco as well:

Judge: Mr Espen Engh
Males
BOB, CC, CACIB, CH Morocco - Ch MATABO MOZI Folwark Zwierzecy (PL)
BM2, RCC, RCACIB (will be confirmed as CACIB) - Ch Amashutu Cool Aussie (the judge said about Freddy: he has a big future ahead:))
Bitches
BOS, CC, CACIB, CH Morocco - Ch Harjaselän Karpalo
BB2, RCC, RCACIB (will be confirmed as CACIB) - APASZKA ZIJU Folwark Zwierzecy (PL)


        Anu, Lotta and Freddy in hot (40 degrees) Morocco

APRIL

April, 12th - Specialty for FCI group VI in Riga, Latvia.

Emma - JCAC, BOS junior and finally ... surprise ... BOS over adult females! Amazingly done dear Kadri and Emma!!! Pictures HERE

April, 5th - Portuguese RR Specialty, judge Rita Kadike-Skadina (LV) - I have shown my dogs in some Specialties in Europe, judged by Sharron Taylor (Usakose RRs, Australia), Karin van Klaveren (Kisangani RRs, Germany), Orit Nevo (Rich Rach RRs, Israel), Janet Wang (Nomvyuyo RRs, RSA) … We have always get a full attention of the judge - complete examining of the dog to make the best decision, that`s why we call these shows Specialty Shows .... but not in Portugal, some really odd things started to happen there.
The show delayed approximately 1,5 hours due to another show (all breed CAC show in next show hall), what was judged … surprise … by our specialty judge. That fact made me suspicious about the quality of Specialty. How can the judge be able to judge Specialty after judging 92 dogs (different breeds)?
Well, about 4 pm the show started and soon it was time for open class males. Freddy was the first, the judge came by, I asked: “should we wait other males in the ring”, she said: “no, we can start” (she was hurry, then I didn`t know the reason) and asked me to show Freddy`s teeth. The judge was friendly, smiled and showed me the proper way of showing teeth, what was, of course a good advice;), then she checked F`s testicles and basically the job was done, no up and down running, no checking the ridge or examining the body or tail. And then …. the organizer run in the ring and said the judge has to finish here and go to judge BIS finals (all breed show, next hall). Unbelievable….they promised 15 minutes, after half an hour I got some info, the Specialty will continue after an hour, the judge is judging group finals and it takes time …jeeeez. Was it 6 pm or even 7 pm (I was totally bored and disappointed and asked myself what the hell I`m doing here), when the judge came back. And we went to the ring again, I was so naïve by hoping the judging will continue normally, but no, time is money … some minutes later she showed me 3 fingers - 3rd place (mark: excellent) …

I could never name that show Specialty and the way of judging proper to Specialty (Specialty judging should be of the highest quality), that`s why I packed my things, took Freddy and Lotta and we said G`bye to Portugal, there was no point to show Lotta there …

MARCH

Our boy from Australia, our Freddy finished his INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION title at the age of 30 months in Torrelavega, Spain by taking Best of Breed and RU Best in Group. Thank you judges for noticing Freddy`s qualities, thank you Mathilda and Werner for nice company and photos!

March 15th – judge Fernando Madeira (PT)

Freddy– open exc1, BM1, CC, BOB

March 16th – judge Francisco Ruiz Rodriguez (ES)

Freddy – open exc1, BM1, CC, CACIB, BOB, BIG2 = INT CH

Freddy is my very special boy, my first male show-dog, full of surprises, sometimes a real challenge, at the same time the most warmhearted and sweetest dog I have ever seen. Thank you Barbara and Alan for sending Freddy to live with us, so far from Australia!
Pictures HERE

FEBRUARY

Frebruary 24th - Paneveziz, Lithuania
Emma BOB Junior with JCAC. Very well done Emma and Kadri!

February 20th - HAPPY 1 st BIRTHDAY TO OUR VERY SPECIAL A LITTER!

February 17th - I and Lotta went to Granada CACIB today (and we left Freddy home:), RR were judged by Mr Fransisco Ruiz (ES). We did it - Lotta fulfilled all the obligations for the title of ES CH today, and of course she did it with style by taking Best of Breed
Lotta  - open exc 1, CC, CACIB and BOB = ES CH

It is rather difficult to achieve the title of Spanish Champion, you need much “luck”.
Rules for the ES CH title
4 CAC from minimum 3 judges, at least 1 CAC must be obtained from the “obligatory point show”. Plus one more “excellent” from the other “point show”. And please note - there is only 2 “point shows” in year and a lot of beautiful dogs coming there in hope to get the CC.

We started to show Lotta here in Spain in November 18th, it took only 3 months to close the title ...

November 18th, 2007 - Jerez CACIB - CC, RCACIB
December 8th, 2007 - Alicante CACIB (obligatory for the title of ES CH) - CC, RCACIB
December 16th, 2007 - Valencia CACIB - CC, CACIB
February 2nd, 2008 - Zaragoza CACIB (obligatory for the title of ES CH) - excellent
February 17th, 2008 - Granada CACIB - CC, CACIB

Now Lotta is a champion of 10 different countries, if we`re adding here her INT and BALT CH titles and all her winner titles, Spanish CH title is the 21 official title for Lotta.


                 My dear friend and companion Lotta

February 9th - Tallinn CACIB
Two of our breedings Chester and Emma were shown at the CACIB show in Tallinn. RRs were judged by Mrs Annuka Paloheimo (Finland). For Chester and Angela it was the first show in junior class, they did well and the judge liked Chester.
Chester - junior exc1, Jun CC, BOB Junior (they didn`t stay for the finals)
Emma wasn`t the judge`s type - junior vg1
Very well done Angela and Chester, don`t give up Kadri and Emma!

          Chester (exact copy of Lotta) posing with his trofees

February 2nd - Zaragoza "point show"
We headed up to Zaragoza CACIB (one of the two "point shows" this year) in hope to get obligatory points for the title of ES CH. RRs were judged by Mr Javier Sanchez (ES). It was a long trip, but we took it easy and had time to look around and discover beautiful Spain, it was exciting to stay overningt in the castle-hotel from the 13th of century El Castillo Palacio del Papa Luna.
The show went well, as there were so many very shy dogs, I have to say it is such a pleasure to own a well-behaved and mentally stabile dogs;)

Freddy - open exc1, RCC
Lotta - champion exc2
So both Lotta and Freddy received the "points for the ES CH title":)

JANUARY

Our new "show year" started in sunny Porto, Portugal. Porto is the second biggest city, and the commercial and business centre of this country after Lisbon. One of Portugal's most internationally famous products Port wine, was named after the city because it was originally shipped from the area or, more precisely, from Vila Nova de Gaia, a city just across the river.

The show was one of the biggest this year (in July, there will be another big show in Lisbon), well organized, all the rings were huge and there was a lot of space for dogs and people. And our results are great:

January 19th - PORTO WINNER 2008, RRs were judged by Jorge Goncalves (PT)
Freddy - open exc1, BM1, CC, BOS
Lotta - open vg

January 20th - CACIB, RRs were judged by Horst Kliebenstein (DE)
Freddy - open exc1, BM3, RCC
Lotta - open exc1, BB1, CC, CACIB, BOS

Pictures HERE


              Good boy Freddy having his dinner with Port Wine

January 3rd - new pictures of Tommy, Chester, Koby, Mona and Emma

January 1st, 2008 - Freddy and Lotta @ beach  many nice pictures HERE