Merry Christmas to all!!!

Best wishes, Hansu & Janne

The end of the show year 2013

We went to a 3 day trip to Helsinki, to attend to this massive show weekend.

On Friday the entry was over 30 and the judge was mrs. Outi Piisi-Putta. Our dream came true as for the first time a basenji bred by Hi-Lite won Best of Breed! And it was Ruuti, Hi-Lite Saturday Night Fever. The judge praised him and we agree with her. Ruuti got the title Helsinki Winner 2013 :) Rocky was excellent 4th with a cq in champion class. Congrats Tuija and Aki!
Sorry about the quality of this picture taken with my cell.... BOS was Behukai Elegant Pearl, congrats to her team once more!



Lilja (HL Wow Factor) continued her wonderful success winning the junior class of 7 girls and was finally 4th best bitch with her first ever title Helsinki Junior Winner 2013!!



Thank you Maarit Haavisto for this lovely picture of Lilja.


Saturday started great because Faruk won best of breed with the title Nordic Winner 2013 under judge mrs. Soile Bister!! There were 6 CAOs entered so we think highly of this win.




Later on there were about 60 basenjis entered to a judge mrs. Jadranka Mijatovic from Croatia. Ruuti was again the best Finnish dog and 3rd best male after all!! He is such a stunner. Rocky got excellent again, Lilja was among the best 7 basenji bitches out of a great entry, so a lovely result for her as well.

On Sunday the judge mrs. Magnus Hagsted gave excellents to both our boys Rocky and Ruuti, with cq to them. But the show was stolen by Lilja. This little girl won BEST OF BREED over almost 40 adult basenjis with a style!! She is such a piece of gold.... Lilja was also shortlisted in the final among the best 8. Congrats Mervi and JP!!

PUPPIES PUPPIES PUPPIES

Hertta gave birth to four beautiful tricolor puppies on Sunday evening, 8th December.
There are 2 boys and 2 girls, all just wonderful.

It all went smoothly and Hertta is a great mom. We are very happy, because we all got to be there to witness that amazing thing. Both two families, ours and the co-owners of Hertta of couse :)

All the puppies seem to be spoken for, thank you all for your interest!

Double success again at Jyväskylä International show

The whole entry to this show was gigantic, over 5000 dogs. Basenjis were judged by a lovely mrs. Viva Maria Soleckyj-Szpunar from Poland.

It was 5 Hi-Lite dogs entered, thank you all! First out was young master Seti with his owner Tiia, they did lovely job as first timers in an indoor show and Seti won the junior class with excellent critique and a cq. Well done!

Then it was Raisu's go in an intermediate class, he was exc-1 with a cq and so was brother Ruuti in open class. Janne beautifully handled Rocky again in champion class, excellent and a class win! So 4 of boys were shown, all winning their classes. After a very tough competition, the judge decided to give best male to Ruuti, followed by Rocky! Raisu was 4th best male with a res-cc.

Lilja was the only girl entered from Hi-Lite, but managed once again to win e.g. many champions and was the best bitch for the third time in a row in big international shows! She is truly amazing...

So the BOB competition was between Lilja and Ruuti and a very tough decicion for our judge. Ruuti, being more mature, won this time. Extremely happy!!

These 3 photos by Katja Lappalainen.





Ha ha, it is not always easy to stack a breeder's class... Still we managed to get a lovely critique.



In the finals, Hi-Lite group was chosen in the final 7 out of MANY wonderful groups by mr. Hans Lehtinen.
Our breed judge mrs. Soleckyj-Szpunar was also judging the group 5 and placed Ruuti as 2nd best in Group!! Thank you Salla Kuikka for this lovely photo.



Congrats once more to all our friends and the owners of our dogs, you are the best. Let's keep up the good work <3

Hertta is DEFINATELY pregnant!

Her co-owner Mari took her to ultrasound on Tuesday and yes, many puppies on the way! Yahoo!!!
I am sure the puppies will born exactly in one month ;)
Keep your fingers crossed for the rest of her preggy time!

This is how smooth she used to look, let's wait how she will look in 3 weeks or so ;)

Kennel Club's Dog of the year 2013-competition in Finland

Now this competition is over for year 2013 and the results gave us more than we could ever even expect!

Sweet and gorgeous Ruuti, Hi-Lite Saturday Night Fever, has had a marvellous year so far. He has 11 ccs and he was 7 times BOB so far! From this 7 times he was in the Group finals, he was placed 6 times!!
So his final placement was 67th of ALL BREEDS here in Finland - amazing! He is still not 2 years old....so we will see what the next year will bring to him :) Congrats Ruuti, Tuija & Aki!





Even more surprisingly our breeders class was placed as 27th of the year ALL BREEDS! Our group every time filled with young dogs only was shortlisted in the big ring in Jyväskylä, Lahti and Tampere before placed in our home town show Kuopio, winning BIS-1 breeder out of 6 at the Finnish Specialty and then hitting the jackpot at Iisalmi International!!

Thank you all our friends for making this possible, it wouldn't be possible without you <3

Faruk's health tests

Now our CAO boy Turkmen Stam Faruk has been officially health tested by his hips and elbows; results we the best possible A/A and 0/0!
We are naturally so very happy and pleased, not that we expected any less ;)