Croatia.. warm and sunny part I

Hey guys!

I've seen you've followed this blog this week even if I haven't written anything.. So sorry for that, but I've been home for only one day during the last week..

But I think it's time to tell you about our lovely trip to a lovely country - Croatia! What a great show, really, and people too! Where should I start..

The show opening on Saturday

We started our trip on Friday noon, flew first to München. The flight was late and so we were late to the connecting flight to Zagreb. We ran out of the plane and heard "Final call for passengers on flight XXX to Zagreb!". Auch! We ran a long way through the BIG airport of Münich. Thank god, we got there in time and flew to Zagreb. Ninja didn't like the airplane at all and kept some weird noises and barked the whole time.. Poor me had to pet her the whole flight from Helsinki to Münich to keep her quiet (2h and 20 min).. I can say: My back was really hurting after that.. :p Nelli was really great, she slept the whole flight.

My mom and the dogs

Well, we got to Zagreb and from there we took a bus to Zadar. It took 4 hours, but the time went pretty fast.
We were at our destination, our apartment at almost midnight.. So we just went to sleep :)

Then our first day at the show began! We could really feel that we were in southern Europe! It was about +30 degrees! Whoo, that was fine for me coming from +4 degrees and rain ;) We went to the office to get the numbers, which we don't do here, we get them by mail. It's really not a working system and when they send information on paper by mail - why can't they send the numbers too? The kleinspitzes were scheduled to start at 10 o'clock, but when we came to the ring, there had been made some changes. Apparently Mrs. Joan Walsh didn't have the rights to judge kleinspitzes and some other breeds, so they had to change the judge.

So the first day's judge was then Mr. Damir Skok, the president of the Croatian kennel club. Our ring started at 13.00 and there were 7 entered kleinspitzes. French and Finnish ones :) Ninja competed in Open class and took the highest award - BB/1 CAC, CACIB and finally BOB! Nelli as a champion competed in Champion class and got BB/2 CAC and RES-CACIB ♥ Critiques from Saturday below:

Ninja BOB on Saturday

Nelli: 
Matured bitch. Typical head. Nice front. Little bit tinier in the back. Excellent quality of the coat. Excellent presentation. 

Nelli CAC & RES-CACIB on Saturday

Ninja:
Young bitch. Excellent type. Nice head. Neck could be longer. Strong back part of the body. Good quality of coat. Good movements. Good angulations.


When kleinspitzes were finished, I had to start looking for a junior handling-dog! JH would start at 15.00 and judged by Mrs. Joan Walsh from Ireland. There were many nice people, and friendly junior handlers who helped me get a dog, thanks Ivan and Kristina! I competed with a lovely french bulldog, which was a totally different dog from what I'm used to show. Great! I love new challenges! "Rain" aka. Adriatic Blue Rain Of Love is a 11-month old cutie, who went very well in very hot weather. We managed to get placed as 3rd!! Thank you Ingrid for lending Rain for me!

3rd place in junior handling!

Adriatic Blue Rain Of Love "Rain"

After junior handling it was time for the group finals! FCI 5 would be judged by Mrs. Joan Walsh, which was really weird according to the fact that she didn't even have rights to judge every breed in that group.. So we could anticipate that we would not succeed and so we didn't.

The atmosphere in the show was very relaxed

The first day was really great, and after the show we went to eat at a great restaurant :) The show was by the way on a big campsite next to the beautiful Adriatic Sea. The background of some of the rings was the sea - it must have looked great on photos! The show area was also beautiful, white fence surrounded all of the rings and the trees gave great shadows, so we didn't have to stand under the sun the whole day.

I will write about the next days very soon..

♥ Hilde ♥