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26/12/06 |
We can look back
to the year 2006 with a great deal of
satisfaction. We have shown our three younger
girls in 27 shows in four different countries
with a more than reasonable success. Angie has
collected up to 6 CACIB and 10 national
challenge
certificates (CAC) in 3 different countries, and is
Champion of Spain and Portugal. Amélie is Junior
Champion of Gibraltar. Feeling that she was
wasting opportunities in junior class, we
upgraded her - contrary to our general practice
- with 16 months to the intermediate class
. In 5 shows Amélie has got 2 CAC, 2 RCAC and 2
RCACIB. At just 17 months she has been RCAC
and best bitch 2nd at the 1st Samoyed
Championship Specialty Show of the Spanish
Samoyed Association. And all that competing out
of coat! Haltija will whelp her first
litter in a few days. And last but not least our
old Silver - despite the vets' prognoses - is
still with us and looks healthier than 6 months
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19/12/06 |
Up
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The
Portuguese Kennel Club (CPC). Angie achieved her
Portuguese championship with her CAC in the
International Dog Show of Batalha held on Sunday
10th of December. The CPC signed her
champion title four days later, on Thursday 14th of
December, and we have got it by mail today.
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Down
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The
Spanish Kennel Club (RSCE). Angie achieved her
Spanish championship in the Obligatory Show held
in Vigo on Saturday 16th of September. Until
now, the bureaucrats of the RSCE have not
found the time to sit down and confirm the
champion titles of all dogs which got the right
to be Spanish champions in that show. If the
Spanish Kennel Club had been as diligent as its
Portuguese colleagues, Angie would be Gibraltar
champion too. |
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17/12/06 |
1st
Specialty Championship Show (CAC and obligatory
point for the championship of Spain) of the
Spanish Samoyed Association.
Amélie is RCAC and 2nd
best bitch at just 17 months !!!
Congratulations Nadége !
Many, many thanks to her judge, Ms Hazel
Fitzgibbon.
We would like to congratulate here as well our
friend Miquel Pardo (Can Batlle Samoyeds) owner
of the CAC bitch and BISS,
USA CH Polar Mist Secret Code (our favourite if
we had bet before and during the show), and
breeder of the CAC dog and BOS Daydream Nariz
de Nieve de Can Batlle. Congratulations too to
his owners Marta and Angel.
To round off the
weekend, Amélie gets the CAC and is RCACIB at
the International Dog Show held on Sunday.
Thanks too to her judge, Mr Antonio Choya.
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11/12/06 |
With Marga put out
of action because of a broken foot, it was Luis
who had a tour de force weekend with Amélie and
Angie. On Saturday our 'little rocket' Amélie
was shown in Alicante for the second time in
intermediate class, now at just 17 months, and
she was RCAC. After the show, he had to drive
1300 km to Batalha in Portugal. There,
Angie - after a
hotly contested show - was CAC, RCACIB and
became a Portuguese Champion !!!
Many thanks to her judge Mr Denis
Kuzelj. |
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04/12/06 |
Haltija's
pregnancy has been confirmed today by
ultrasonography. There are at least 5 little
hearts beating. We expect now puppies for January 3rd
2007. |
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26/11/06 |
First show of
Amélie in intermediate class. She gets the
CAC and is RCACIB with 16 months!
Many thanks to her handler in the class,
Dominique Firetto, for getting that incredible
movement out of her. Thanks too to her
judge : Ms Kim Ramey-Leblanc.
The same day Amélie's full sister, Arctic Alsea
de Sanna Gourska, makes her debut in the show
rings with a CAC, BOS in Marseille.
Congratulations to their breeder and Alsea's
co-owner Nadège Dubois. |
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26/11/06 |
New section with a
full list of Amélie's shows added. |
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14/11/06 |
With age, Angie
resembles more and more her outstandingly
beautiful sire :
BISS USA & INT CH Rexann's Casino Magic.
Thanks Kathy for sending us some fine pictures
of your dog Casey! |
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13/11/06 |
Silver underwent
today a palliative surgical intervention to
remove a tumour in one of her mammary glands.
She is back home and has dined with her
customary
voracious appetite. The good news is that her lung cancer seems to be
stabilized. |
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12/11/06 |
Eight new pictures of Angie added (Photos, Our dogs,
Angie). New section with a full list of Angie's
shows added. |
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10//11/06 |
Humoresque Snowy
Xamba, grandaunt of our Haltija on her mother
side, new World Winner 2006 in Poznan.
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08//11/06 |
Puppies section : 6-generation
pedigree of the planned litter Oliwer x Amélie
added. |
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06/11/06 |
Haltija is back
home from her honeymoon in France. Now we expect
her to whelp her first litter early in January
2007. |
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03/11/06 |
We have got the official evaluation by AVEPA of
Amélie's elbows. Result : "Grade 0/0"
(certificate nº 10).
By the low number of her certificates (nº 10 in
elbows, and nº 3408 in hips, we can have a
picture of the poor level of concern of Spanish
breeders about the health
status of their dogs.
Anyway, we must take in mind that AVEPA is not
the only official body for hip and elbow
dysplasia evaluation in Spain. |
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02/11/06 |
The first
Championship Specialty Show of the
Spanish Samoyed Association (obligatory show
for the Spanish championship) will be held
December 16th in Valencia.
There will be 3 championship shows in that
weekend : the Samoyed Specialty (judge : Mrs
Hazel Fitzgibbon (Smiliesam
Samoyeds) and a CAC
National show (judge : Mr Fernando Madeira) on
Saturday 16, and a CAC/CACIB International show and
Samoyed Special (judge : Mr Antonio Choya) on
Sunday 17. |
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02/11/06 |
We announce the
planned mating in spring 2007 of our Amélie with
Vitkind's Oliwer Twist. See our puppies
section. |
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24/10/06 |
We have got the
official evaluation by AVEPA of Amelie's hips.
She has been rated "A" as expected
by our vet and by us (certificate nº 3408).
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21/10/06 |
Haltija has
started her season one month ahead of
schedule. Now she is gone for a couple of weeks
on honeymoon to France with her fiancé , the Multichampion Thundery Thysonn de Sanna
Gourska.
See Our Puppies section. |
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06/10/06 |
We announce the
planned mating
in late autumn of our Haltija with the handsome
Multi-Champion Thundery Thysonn de Sanna Gourska. |
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04/10/06 |
Amélie and Angie have been subjected today to an
ophthalmologic exam. Both are free of
ocular lesions and have been declared not
affected by any hereditary defect. |
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03/10/06 |
Amélie has been checked for hips and elbows. In
about 3 weeks we will have the official
certificate by AVEPA, but both hips and elbows
are normal. |
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25/09/06 |
Show weekend in
Gibraltar. On Saturday, Angie gets the GCC, adds
a new CACIB of a third country, and is BOB.
Amélie is Excellent 1st Best Junior both days, and becomes a
Gibraltar Junior Champion !!
Many thanks to their judges: Ms Carmyn Kingston
and Mr Kari Jarvinen. |
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16/09/06 |
Autumn obligatory
show for the Spanish championship held in Vigo:
Angie becomes a Spanish Champion !!!
Her littermate El-Al's American Boy for Bilken
gets his Spanish champion title too. 15 years
after ESP CH El-Al's Elegant Prince Charly (sire
of our first Samoyed, Ciro) two new El-Al's
Samoyeds add their names to the roll of honours
of Spanish champions. Congratulations to their
breeders Elsie Buhaly and Monica Hackett!
We would like to
congratulate here as well the third Samoyed
champion of 2006 : Snowmist High Voltage
(half sibling, on their sire's side, of our Haltija, and descendant of ESP CH El-Al's
Elegant Prince Charly on his dam's side). |
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31/08/06 |
We have just got
the result of the X-linked PRA test for Haltija.
She is Normal/Clear, will therefore never
develop XL-PRA disease and will transmit only
the normal gene to her progeny.
Haltija will be bred in spring next year. We
will now look for a healthy and suitable male
for her. |
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10/08/06 |
New pictures of
Angie in her second
birthday. |
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30/07/06 |
We were with our
three young girls for a show-weekend in Sintra
(Portugal). Haltija and Amélie got bad results,
and Angie poor ones - although she
succeeded in getting the qualifying excellent
for the Portuguese championship at the Specialty
Show. Moreover, the organization was a disaster,
our girls were attacked by a male Boxer when
returning from the ring to our grooming place,
the owners of two dogs interchanged shouts and
hits just in front of us after another dog
attack ... At least we stayed
in a
wonderful hotel, and our Sammies enjoyed our
long walks through the Sintra forest.
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10/07/06 |
Silver has been
diagnosed an invasive lung cancer. The vets are
astonished that she still looks so happy,
eats with great relish, shows no signs of pain,
and is always ready for a long walk with the
rest of the pack. We had always thought that she
would live at least 14 years, since she is a
very strong girl. That will not be possible. We
are desolated, and look ahead to the next weeks
or months with a great deal of anxiety. Until
now, all our Sams crossed one day the rainbow
bridge unexpectedly. |
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08/07/06 |
Amélie is 1 year
old today. See the pictures of our pretty
birthday girl.
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18/06/06 |
Haltija gets her
first CAC. Many thanks to her judge Pascual
Asensi. |
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10/06/06 |
We attend the
European Winner Show at Helsinki. Although we
had entered our three young girls with the
intention of taking the two in better shape with us, we had
to leave all of them at home. Two were in
season, and the third absolutely out of coat.
The low number of participants and the absence
of most of the Finnish breeders disappointed us.
At least we could see some interesting Sams from
Russia and Poland. And the winner was a half
sibling (on her sire's side) of our Amélie:
Sam-Ways From
Josie-Teryky Le Lotha.
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04/06/06 |
Amélie's G-sire,
Natchouko de Sanna Gourska, is new
French champion. Natchouko, now 8 years old, has
got his champion title in only 4 shows after
having been away from the show rings since 2000.
Congrats to his breeder and co-owner, Nadège
Dubois, and to his handler, Dominique Firetto. |
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20/05/06 |
Angie is CAC +
CACIB + BOS at the International Spring Dog Show
of the RSCE (Spanish Kennel Club) - obligatory
show for the championship of Spain. Her
littermate, El-Al's American Boy for Bilken
(Dandy), is CAC + CACIB + BOB. Congratulations
to his owners Belén and Enrique, and to Angie's
and Dandy's breeders, Elsie Buhaly and her
daughter Monica Hackett, for this splendid win.
Both Dandy and Angie only need to be rated
excellent in one of the next obligatory shows or
breed specialty shows to get their well deserved
Spanish Champion titles.
Many thanks to the judge Ms Jean Lanning.
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13/05/06 |
Angie, in her
first show in open class, gets her 3rd CACIB and
her first CAC for the Portuguese championship
with a qualification report completely full of
excellent grades. Haltija makes her debut in
intermediate class with a RCAC and a RCACIB.
Many thanks to their judge Paula
Heikkinen-Lehkonen.
We are very happy, but all could have been
very different. Angie was attacked and bitten in
the prering by a St. Bernhard, who caught her left upper thigh
with his big mouth. Fortunately
the incident shook us and her but that was all.
We are still waiting for the handler of the
attacker to make his apologies. Maybe we should
reconsider our taking part in shows organized in
places clearly unsuitable because of lack of
space. |
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10/05/06 |
Haltija's eyes
have been re-checked today. Result: clear.
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23/04/06 |
New
photos of
Amélie with 9 months. Our girls are growing up! |
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20/04/06 |
To date four out
of seven littermates of Haltija (Hardyhurricane,
Hemingway, Hemmo Halinalle and Happendinhalti)
have been evaluated for hip status: all have
been rated A/A (excellent hips), as Haltija and
their sire (Jeppe) and dam (Piku) . Congratulations
to their breeder and owners. |
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20/04/06 |
Some old pictures added to Photos. |
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05/04/06 |
Silver is twelve
today. Happy birthday! She is old and
overweight, but she keeps her splendid dense,
"easy-care", coat , and does not miss any of our
daily cross-country, several kilometres long,
walks with the rest of the pack.
See pictures
of her, taken today. |
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03/04/06 |
We have got the
official evaluation made by AVEPA of Haltija's
hips: she has been rated "A" (certificate nº
3135).
For Angie they confirm the same status as the
OFA: "C" (certificate nº 3134). |
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03/04/06 |
Last weekend
Amélie was shown for the last two times in puppy
class. On Sunday she ended with a new BOB puppy.
Haltija, absolutely out of coat, finished her
career in junior class with two Excellent 1st
BOB Junior. We are very satisfied with her: due
to her type, very different from the average
European taste, we were very sceptical about her
possibilities in the ring. But she has an
outstanding feature, many judges could not
overlook: her movement. We will thank here all
of them, especially Carmen Navarro (specialist
judge and Samoyed breeder herself) for the BOB
she awarded to our Haltija with 9 months last
November.
We hope Haltija will improve with age and expect
her to be at full splendour with 3-4 years.
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28/03/06 |
We have got the
OFA result for Angie's hips. Unfortunately, she
has been rated Mild (= FCI - C). Therefore, we
will not breed her. In our breeding program we
will adhere to the rules of the Austrian Club of
Nordic Dogs: breed only A x A or A x B rated
dogs. We are desolated since Angie is a lovely
bitch with many outstanding features, and a
fantastic pedigree. Of course,
she will continue her successful career as a show
bitch.
We will express here our public thanks to her
breeders, Elsie Buhaly and her daughter Monica
Hackett, for their warm and sincere
support, and their promise to breed the best
puppy they can, for us to show and breed in
future. |
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26/03/06 |
Angie wins her
second Spanish CACIB and is BOB for the second
time. And she is still in intermediate class.
Amélie is BOB puppy again. Haltija, completely
out of coat, is rated very good only. Many
thanks to their judge Ms Monique van Brempt.
Angie's splendid coat with its glittering
silvertips caused sensation. In fact, several
people came to us asking for what products we
were using to get that finish. Our answer was
the truth: we do not use any cosmetics on her
(they would only spoil her superb coat). We had
her bathed the day before and brushed for
several hours. A short brushing before entering
the ring was all she needed. The rest is
genetics, good food and daily exercise. Of course, she
- and the rest of our Sammies - lives in hour
house: no need, therefore, to mask urine stains
typical in kennel hold Samoyeds.
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14/03/06 |
The Spanish Kennel Club (RSCE) confers the organization of
the CAC-Samoyed-Specialty-Show (obligatory point for the
Spanish championship) on the Spanish Samoyed
Association. |
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09/03/06 |
We have attended
the Crufts Dog Show. It was a joy for us to see
over 160 Samoyeds in the ring. We did like the
way Ms AM Danvers-Schmith made a very careful
and relaxed examination for 6 hours of all the
dogs and bitches! Not all our favourites were
honoured by her, but never mind. |
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03/03/06 |
Amélie begins her agility training. Our aim is
not to compete with her, but have her
interacting with other dogs without the presence
of her very indulgent and protecting friends
Angie and Haltija. |
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02/03/06 |
Angie and Haltija have been x-rayed
for hip status evaluation. We will have their
official results in about 3 weeks. |
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26/02/06 |
Web site updated with links and
new photos. |
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21/02/06 |
New
photos of Angie with 18 months after winning her
first CACIB and her 3rd CAC in Granada!
Many thanks to her judge Ms Irene González
Moreno. |
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05/02/06 |
Zaragoza CACIB show:
Amélie is BOB puppy for the 5th consecutive
time. Many thanks to her judge Mr Leif Lehman
Jorgensen. |
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02/01/06 |
The Spanish Samoyed Association has been
officially recognized by the Spanish Kennel Club
(RSCE). |
