News

Lots has happened this year. Bella has been upgraded to Class 2 in agility and has gotten ger first Finnish CAC from shows by being BOS, Jonni has competed in both Finnish Agility Championships and Finnish Youth Agility Championships and has been placed in BOTH: 38th in the "real deal" and 5th in the Youth one. Sirkku led him in both and also in our Regional Championships where they were 3rd and in the Junior Cup Finals where they were 2nd !!! WOW ! And the dog is almost 9,5 years old !!! Ruri "Jonni's son" has become a BIG lad, and handsome like his dad. Picture below is taken when he was about 4 months old. Now he is approaching 5 months of age and we have started Rally Obedience and Obedience and are waiting for a puppy course. Also his first puppy show is just around the corner..

New kid on the block !

Long time no updates. Puppies were born on the 5th of May. There were 8 pups, but 3 were dead and one male died within a few days from the birth. 3 males and 1 bicth were lefth and among them one grey male. Who incidentally came to live with his dad !!! :-) So I have THREE VALLS now !!! His name is Ruri, Fennican Rurik Jonnisson, a VERY LIVELY and BOLD yong boy who is an absolutely leovely little thing !!! Everybody adores him and he is a quite a handful at times but I just love him to death !!! He is a stunner and has a lovely character. Who knows what will become of him when he grows up !!?
Below Ruri at about 3 months....

Mating

News: Jonni has bred FIN CH Hurradonet Östina Östanvind, Vindi. She has HD A and clear eyes certificate (from -08). Vindi has already one litter of 4 pups and one of those has been in shows already and getting a very good critique from Swedish judge Kurt Nilsson. Vindi is reddish brown and about 33 cm high. Both parents have tails so we are expecting tailled pups, both grey and reddish, in week 19 in kennel Fennican. Vindi is Swedish import and this combination's inbreeding COE is 0,20% in 5 generations. Vindi has a nice outgoing character which she has passed on to her pups. She is also a tough dog sho she has the "kick" to be a performance dog in many things, such as agility. Hopefully the pups from this litter will be good companions and also competitive dogs for showing and agility and obedience.

NEW YEAR 2009 HAS BEGUN !

Some wintery picture of my beloved dogs:

We had a busy year in 2008. Jonni got 14 clear rounds in agility, participated in the Finnish Agility Individual Championships and got to the Finals with a clear run in the qualifying jumping course and a little after that he got himself the S AgCH -title that only 2 Valls in the whole world has attained until this day. His leader was Niina Leinonen in these competitions. I led him in our breed championships and we finished 3rd in the championships and 8th overall with a fiver. Later in the fall in our Regional Championhips Jonni won with his new leader, a 14-year-old Sirkku Kouki, who led Jonni to a double clear and they won the title with 0.33 secs difference to the 2nd placed dog ! A CLOSE CALL !!! In dog shows Jonni was BOB once, BOS 3 times, BOB-vet 2 and BOS-vet 2 times. In the WW-show in Stockholm he was 3rd in the Veteran Class with an EXCELLENT.
Bella competed in agility a lot more than last year and with improving results. She got ONE CLEAR ROUND (a qualifyer to Class 2) and few clear rounds with time faults, one of those in Boden, Sweden !!! She was placed 5 times and the best placing was 2nd in our own competitions ot the 6th of December. In unofficial competitions she also made clear rounds and even WON once. In shows she got mostly VERY GOOD as her results, the best being in WW-show, where she was awarded a red ribbon as being VERY GOOD !!! :-) I was SOOOO pleased !! Late in the fall Bella was MH-tested with good a result and she - again - proved to be ignorant to shooting. Just before Christmas Bella got seriously ill. She had some sort of stomach trouble and it started to look like that she would not survive. But to my relief she pulled through and is back to her normal self. I am SOOOO happy to have her with me. I love her so much and if I had lost her it would have been a big blow to me. I lost my beloved horse just before Christmas a year before and loosing Bella now would have been too much to handle. But luckily she is till among us !!!

WE WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 !!!