Bella in Eno...

This picture is taken by Sari Pitkänen.
It is quite a nice photo of my Bella, taken from Eno dog show. Bella has matured quite nicely but she has still some growing to do. She needs a bit more mass in the body but that will come with age. And also, I have been told that a bitch will mature after she has gotten her first litter so... Waiting eagerly what she will look like later this year. But so far so good !!

The picture of winners in Eno

This is a picture I got from Emilia Toivonen.

I am on the left with Jonni, who was BOS in Eno Group show at the 19th of February. In the middle is our judge, Saija Juutilainen, and on the right is the BOB, the one and only: Multi Ch MultiW Fennican Geeba Gerbera with her owner/handler Kirsi Hotanen.
Geeba was a double winner on that weekend. She won the show held on Saturday in Tuusjärvi and there she was also placed as a Group-3 !!!
Geeba was a member in the Fennican breeding group in Eno and they were placed as BIS-3 !!!
Kennel Fennican had yet another success in Eno: BIS-Veteran was a 10 year old INT Ch bitch Fennican Xanga De Lux. So all and all we had a good day !!!

Pictures of the tired travellers...

Show weekend Part 2

Today was the last show of this weekend. Luckily this one was held in Eno, about 30 kms from us. BUT our ring was the first and started at 9 AM so we had to wake up early. Bella was still a bit upset from yesterday and was more nervous than normal, BUT she collected herself and behaved nicely in the ring (a tough little one she is !!) although the surface was NOT good for the dogs to run and she did not get good remarks on her movements. (But neither did Jonni !) Bella got the same result than yesterday: Open Class GOOD, but she had -yet again- a very promising critique.
Jonni behaved more boldly than yesterday and became BOS, losing only to Geeba. This time we managed to get a Fennican Breeding Group which got an honourary prize. Jonni was not among the group, because he had a tail and "we" had 4 bitches with bobs so they made the group. They stayed for the big ring. We came home and are all very tired. Now we can rest since neither of dogs have been entered anywhere. We DID have a quite good weekend, after all.

Show weekend Part 1

Today was the first dog show of this weekend. Jonni got an EXCELLENT but lost to a dog competing in Junior Class so Jonni's placement was BD-2. So a bit of a dissappointment there. Bella however managed to get herself a promising critique from a very tough judge (there were 6 bitches and only one, Multi Ch Geeba Gerbera, got an EXC !!! She was BOB.) and got GOOD from the quality judging. It was Bella's first appearance in Open Class and she did great, despite the fact that the show was held in a narrow greenhouse (empty at the moment !) and Bella was bit nervous about the noices and the lack of free space. But in the ring she was more relaxed and I was happy about her performance. She has come far from those early days of last year! Tomorrow is a new day and after that show I will update my pages. So untill then...

Happy Valentine's Day !!!

Tuesday 14.2. 9.30 AM

Happy Valentine's Day to you all !!!

Agility updates

It has been a while since the last entry. So let's update !!!
We have been to two agility competitions now: 4.2. in Varkaus and yesterday, 11.2., here in Joensuu. From Varkaus Jonni got a DISQ and a clear round (our 5th qualifiyng result) and in Joensuu the results were: DISQ, clear round (0.40 overtime but up to 0.99 overtime is still a clear round !) (our 6th qualifier!!) and a clear round with 1.69 sec timefaults, so the end results was that 1.69 !!! So NOT BAD !!! We were placed second on the second course yesterday so we even got a prize !!!
Our third competition is sceduled on the 4th of March.

Next weekend both Jonni AND Bella are going to dog shows. On Satuday there is a Group show in Tuusniemi and on Sunday there is a Group show in Eno. Both are close to us, Tuusniemi is about 70 kms and Eno about 30 kms from us.