Yeah, I'm the worst to keep promises.. This blog is kinda dead, but always when I'm bored and have inspiration, I'll write here. So. Since my junior handling career ended, my dog show-hobby has taken a step down too. It's sad, really sad, but no can do. I don't have a dog of my own to show because none of them is in show condition :/
Nelli has grown a beautiful coat, but entering her to shows is kind of "useless" since she could get great results, yes, but she wouldn't probably win as we have such high standard in kleinspitzes now. And she doesn't need any CAC:s or CACIB:s from Finland, so, too much for my wallet.. :(
Ninja is still not growing her shaved coat back after her surgery.. I'm thinking she could have post-clipping alopecia (NOT bsd!), cause its symptoms are that the coat won't grow back in a long time from clipping/shaving. And it hasn't. In a year :( But I've read that it should eventually grow back in two years or so. So let's hope for the best!
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| Ninja is March this year |
Otherwise they're both enjoying summer and living the life. I'm sitting at work the whole July and in September I will have my first part of the matriculation examination. For those who don't know what it is, it's compulsory to pass these "final exams" to be a graduate in high school. In autumn I will have my Finnish, English and Geography final exams. That's why I thought about writing here again, to keep up my English skills. I'm a lousy reader and student so maybe this could be a way to study..
Also, I visited Cannes in south of France a few weeks ago - loved that place! So beautiful!
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| Me in Cannes on vacation |
I've had a break from shows since Kuopio INT show in the end of May, and now last weekend I was in Mikkeli NAT. Yey! It felt like I'd been out from shows forever. I really need to be there regularly, haha!
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| Me and english pointer Lamark Painted Lady, winning BOB in Kuopio INT show |
I went there together with Nina (Memorylane bearded collies) and helped her with her dogs. It was only a 2-hour drive there, but the walk from the parking area felt like forever.. A note for the organizers - people are not happy to drag their million cages and other stuff with them many kilometers.. =) Well, we had lot of time so the world wasn't going under because of that.
First up was Nina's young (but not so small!) male "Elmo". Such a sweet dog, he was 2nd in junior class and finished 3rd Best Male with a RES-CAC! Nina's co-owned junior male won CAC and was 2nd Best Male. "Rekku" the golden-oldie won all the males and finished BOB and BOB-VETERAN!
I showed "Java" who won her class with excellent but unfortunately without CQ. "Liinu" won 2nd Best Bitch and again the veteran dogs took the highest prizes. "Lexxy" won the bitches and ended up as BOS and BOS-VETERAN.
After the bearded collies I showed a cute schipperke-boy "Papu" in junior class, he ended up as 3rd Best Male and got RES-CAC!
Now I had time to watch the junior handlers, my friend Erna Halttunen was judging - and she did such good work! My other friend, a bit younger one - Ellen Harjanne won the whole competition being BIS-JH and qualified for the Finnish Championship final!! Huge congrats Ellen! <3
The weather forecast predicted awful rainy weather but we got only a few drops on us. So for once, we were lucky with the weather! And I guess we had luck with us all day..
Memorylane Hold On Tight "Rekku" went to the groups and together with Nina they came out winning the whole thing! Rekku went BIG-1 under judge Mr. Antonio Di Lorenzo!
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| Memorylane Hold On Tight winning BIG-1! |
And it didn't stop here.. I showed a beautiful keeshond Ikurin Stella Polaris "Keksi" in the group finals, and he got shortlisted to top-7!
..And last but not least Memorylane kennel won 3rd BIS-BREEDER! Whoo! The day couldn't have been better. Thank you especially Nina for dragging me to the show and all my friends for awesome company =)
Next up is Tornio and Ylivieska shows, far up north in Finland.. Fortunately Nina is crazy driver, so the trip shouldn't be a problem :P
I also started my own facebook-page for pictures I've taken! Take a look :) https://www.facebook.com/PicsByHilde
♥ Hilde ♥
