2 Junior Winners!!!

Last weekend we had the biggest dog show event in Finland, the yearly winner shows in Helsinki.
On Saturday the judge mrs. Säde Hohteri fell in love with our young Rocky, well at least that's what we think she thought when reading the critique of Rocky... ;)
So he won the junior class and got the title Helsinki Junior Winner 2011!!


Photo by Katja.

The others entered on Sat was Hertta, who got vg and CAO Faruk, who had g.

On Sunday the jugde was mr. Cox from Ireland. This time Rocky was again the best Finnish junior male, excellent 2. The winner was his Estonian cousin, both most handsome youngsters! Maisa was 3rd in the big champion class, with cq.


Hertta's photo by Kirsi Villberg, this was taken in August.

Our princess today was Hertta, who can now call herself Fi Jw-11 Hi-Lite Hula Hoops!! She moved and looked beautifully and won the junior class of 6 girls. We are so very proud of these young dogs and are grateful to their co-owners Mari and Laura!

Puppies definately on the way!!

Sweet Minni had an ultra scan today and she surely will have babies... ;)
Perhaps 7 plus something? LOL
The litter is due at Christmas Holidays.

If you are interested in this very exciting and promising combination, please do not hesitate to contact us at hansukytta@hotmail.com or tel +358-44-5381688

Here is Minni at 7 weeks of age, being such a cupcake!!



And this is Duke, looking amazing when gating, as always:

Show weekend in Jyväskylä

And this weekend surely offered us some success as well :)
On Saturday the judge was mrs. Brenda Banbury from England. First our handsome youngster Rocky won the junior class and later on went 4th best dog with res-cc! All the Champion class boys before him make us proud too; as the best male was Tuuli's son Karma, 2nd best was Timon's son Jaro, who finished his Fi ch-title and 3rd was Rene - that is awesome!!
Also Robbe, Timon's Swedish born son was awarded cc-quality, beautifully handled by Janne :)
The queen of the day was anyway Maisa, winning BOB and later on the day also Group-2 under the same judge!! We felt amazing because of this great win - thank you <3

Photos of Maisa by Katja Lappalainen, thank you!





On Sunday Rocky was again 4th best male with a cc, this time judged by mr. Tino Pehar from Croatia. He got a lovely critique; and this was his 3rd official show in Finland, he has gained nicely 2 x cc and a res-cc!
Duke was 4th in ch class with a cq and Maisa was 2nd best bitch with res-cacib. Timon's young and promising son Robbe, a half brother to Rocky, won res-cc! Another Timon-son, German visitor Jaro, was BOB this day - congratulations Marcel and Tiina <3

Here is Robbe "Yulara Quickthorn" with Janne:

Our trip to Tartu, Estonia

Travelling abroad is mostly fun. Extremely tiring but fun! And so was this one also. Was so happy to make this trip with my friend Ari and his basenjis Finny and Siiri. I had the youngsters Rocky and Hertta with me.
There were 2 international shows and on Saturday the judge was from Italy, mr. Claudio de Giuliani. He fancied Rocky a lot as he made him first to win the junior class, then he went BOS-junior, to his sister, and was finally 2nd best male! Hertta-the-sister won BOB-junior title and obviously they both got junior ccs.

Mr Anatoli Zhuk from Belarussia was judging basenjis on Sunday and Rocky got an excellent also this time and Hertta was BOS-junior and to my pleasure she went all the way to 2nd best bitch (out of 10 out of which 4 were champions and she did beat them all!)!
I was honoured to help Ari in the BOB-BOS ring as Finny was best male and Siiri was best bitch from open class. So the trip was very successful and great from the beginning - thank you once more dear and congrats :))

Herewith a photo of Baby-Hertta, who got 2 x cc from Estonia!

Success at Seinäjoki International Show!

As I was unable to take the dogs to the show as was playing ice-hockey for the whole weekend, Janne was lovely enough to make this exhausting trip with Papa-to-be-Duke, Maisa and daughter Hertta, helped by her owner Mari :)

The judge was mr. Unto Timonen. First out it was time for our lovely yougnster Tico(Hi-Lite Honky Tonk) to enter junior class for the first time after a very successful career in puppy classes. He was beautifully handled by his owner Niina and first won the class with excellent and cq! Later on Tico was 3rd best dog with a res-cc!!! So proud of you guys :))

Here is mr. Tico at 9 months of age when he was visiting us:




Also handsome Lego (Hi-Lite D'Light Bulldobas) was entered and he got a cq as well, 3 shows and 3 x cc quality gradings ;)
Then Janne took Duke (ch Kimwitu's Duke E) into the ring, and he did nothing less than finally won Best male with a cacib!!!

Then, princess Hertta (Hi-Lite Hula Hoops), full of joy as always ;) gave Janne a bit hard time in junior bitch class, but a convincing win with excellent and cq!
Momma-Maisa (ch Bulldobas Crown Jewel) was 2nd in champions and and finally 3rd best bitch - beaten by her daughter who was 2nd best bitch with a cc!! We are naturally more than thrilled and most happy.
Congratulations to all our friends, we love you all <3

Red/white puppies expected on 27th December!!

Finally some puppy news :)



Our beautiful, elegant and long legged girl Minni (Hi-Lite D'vine Bulldobas) was mated yesterday to the most handsome basenji boy Duke (BISS Fi ch, FiW-09, FiJw-09, NordJw-09 Kimwitu's Duke E).
This litter has been planned from Spring 2011 so it's been carefully pampered and thought through...
Minni has been very sparingly shown, only 7 times and she still has gained one cc and 3 x res-cc. We are very proud of our ultrafeminine looking girl!!
I guess papa Duke doesn't need much praising. Since the first time he put his paws into the show ring he has been one of the absolute top boys in Finland. He makes us soooo proud all the time!

These puppies are due just after Christmas.
Puppy inquiries are welcome. Please contact hansukytta@hotmail.com

A little update on puppy plans 2011

It is very hard to wait for something you want so much :)))
So the mom-to-be Alli (Kingwanas Greatest Story Of All) has not started her season yet.
But she will come to us next weekend to wait a bit more.. hopefully just a bit!
We will tell right away when she starts her heat.
Isn't she gorgeous?