The dogs are really enjoying themselves and we are too. It is wonderful to finally live by ourselves again surrounded by forrest and mountains. All dogs can run free all day and we can go for long walks in the nature from our own home. That is really a gift we enjoy every day! As seen from the photos below the dogs love it too :-)
Lapinlumon Yllätys "Totti"
Aslan
Lapinlumon Miamaia "Mia"
Lapinlumon Namupala "Namu"
Lapinlumon Xaana
Xaana again
Unfortunately moving to Sweden has proved more difficult than we thougth. This is the sixth week we are here and we are still waiting to get our Swedish social security numbers which seems to be the key to everything up here. This also means we can not get a tv connection, phone number or internet line set up. SIGH! So it has been hard to keep in touch and reply people. Hopefully you will have patience with us a little while yet. Besides from that we love it here and celebrated a lovely peaceful Christmas with the family as well as Valdemars first birthday.
But it was not all about realaxing. As we were already here we decided to do a show in Sweden and entered the Nordic winner show in Stockholm in December. It was a bit exciting to finally show our dogs among "real" competition, we have been in Denmark for so long knowing which other dogs would enter the ring and mainly competing against our own breeding so it was fun to meet completely different dogs. We have not had the chance to travel so much the last two years due to first our pregnancy and then the fact we had an infant baby so when we got the papers from the show and saw there were 86 Finnish lapphunds entered we looked at eachother and though okay, now our dogs will have to prove their worth! :-) Years back we did a lot of showing (and winning if we may say so :-) ) out and about, but the dogs we are showing at the moment had mostly been shown in Denmark.
But they did prove their worth! Well in Stockholm after driving through a horrible snow storm we saw in the cataloque that many dogs from Finland were entered and not just any dogs, but dogs who have won a lot there. Even the judge was Finnish, Saija Juutilainen. So naturally we felt so proud and humble and grateful when our dogs did as well as they did. With entry numbers like this each class had a number of dogs between 10 and 20 so just to place was great. But we did more than that!
Lapinlumon Elämänilo "Ilolas" won a big open class and even beat Finnish champion males in the class and we were so happy, also with the words we got from the judge about him. At the end out of all these dogs he finished as third best male rigth behind his dad Lecibsin Macce and he won the res. CAC and CACIB as well. Next up was my old favourite "ilo" Orso-Farm Ötömöttinen. In his days he was practically unbeatable and has won at both world and europe winner shows as well as at the breed specialty in Finland. however we did not show him for 4 years at official shows as he really could not win any more. But he loves showing and we decided he deserved to go again and so he did with style winning the veteran class and getting the title Nordic veteran winner 2011. Finally Lapinlumon Yllätys entered the ring again also after some years break doing it with style too winning open class bitches! She finished as 4th best bitch and she too won the res. CAC. WAW. To come here from Denmark at our first show here with such high entry numbers and so many top dogs there from Finland both males and bitches and then to win three classes each class with among 15 dogs in them was amazing. To make it even better the winner of the class of youth bitches was a puppy from Lapinlumon Elämänilo and Lapinlumon Davvebiegga and the winner of the junior class males was a puppy from Lapinlumon Esimerkki. So even those two winners we take a bit of credit for. 5 class winners with 86 entered dogs is not too bad....
We are excited to see what the new year here in Sweden will bring and we wish you all out there a happy new year and finish this post with a few more shots of our personal paradise.
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