NEWS 2007

11.12 winner show

On Sunday Bitti and Kössi took part in the winner -07 Show in Helsinki. Both got Excellent and Bitti finished third best junior bitch and Kössi second best veteran male. Damn, so much for the Winner tittles ;-D. We also took part in the arrangements of the show under toller clubs team. hard work, but nice chance to meet old friends and chat with them. See you all next year :-)

7.12 Kennel meeting

On Thursday, Independence Day of Finland, we had a little kennel meeting for the R & R litter. All pups living in Finland joined: Otto, Kairo, Nitro & Toffe. They had developed very nicely and I was very happy to see them nicely trained and obedient enough for their age. We did some exercises outdoors and continued inside with dog talk and show training basics. I want to thank everyone for coming. Special thanks goes to Mila's owner Nina and Jouni's owner Minna, who helped a lot with the training part. Some picks will follow soon, thought I'm afraid there wont be that many good due to an awful weather.

3.12 trip to sweden

A while ago we took a long weekend in Sweden. On Thursday we took the ferry to Stockholm and spent the next morning hanging around in a retail shop and drove up north to Uppsala. The same day we had the chance to meet few potential males I had been thinking about for Lyyli and also showed Kössi for few interested people. After that nice afternoon we drove down to Ljungby and spent the night there. Next morning Kössi and Tiitus were shown in a small show in Åstorp. Goal of this trip was to get a Swedish CAC for Tiitus. Unfortunately the "wrong" dog won, Kössi was BOB and Tiitus fourth best male. The CAC went to the second best male so we'll need to take a new trip later. What an excellent excuse to take trips ;-)

After the show we drove to Hönö, which is located outside Göteborg, to "inspect" Kössi's & Sushi's pups. They turned out to be energetic, lively and had a lots of the Finnish "sisu" :-D. On Sunday we had to leave back home. Altogether the trip was lots of fun! Big than you to everybody who made it possible. Picks will follow sometime (soon)!

25.11 obedience

Bitti started in our own clubs' obedience competition on Saturday. She did really good work in her own precise style and finished with 198.5 points out of 200 possible. Just a tiny fault in taking the position after the call-in.

Speedy started in elite on Sunday. Few faults, extremely eager dog and lots of fun. Result 307 points out of 320. Guess if I'm happy with the result :-)

Also Oona competed and got a third prize in winners lass (class 3) on Saturday and a first prize on Sunday. Congratulation!

Speedy competed in obedience last week and we visited Swedish friends few weeks back. More about those a bit later.

7.11 Show on Lahti 3.11 and teeth problem

Kössi & Terra son Bingo and Kössi & Helmi daughter Oona took part in a group show on Lahti last Saturday. the judge was Riitta Liisa Lehtonen. she found bingo too light and gave him a good. Oona was cute but her ears caused her to get Very Good. Also some pups from Kössi & Eve litter were shown in the puppy show. Eppu was BOS, Hulda BOB and second best bitch in her age group was Essi and third Rilla.

Kössi was entered but couldn't take part. It has turned out that a small fracture in one of his upper front teeth caused a problem. A bacteria had gone in and caused infection. The tooth was to be removed. When taking closer look and x-rays it turned out the inflammation was also in the next tooth so both were removed. Poor Kössi :-(

28.10 bitti passed BH

Yesterday Bitti passed the BH test which must be passed before starting in utility dog competitions in Finland. (We are faaaar away from competing, still) We decided to do the test now because usually tests are very full bit this time we had the advantage of being members of the organizing club. Test includes obedience part (miles long heel work, sit and lay down from movement, calling the dog and lying on place while the pair does the other parts. Dogs passing obedience continue to do the "city part" where joggers pass the dog from behind, dogs run by, etc normal life situations.

22.10 Working test weekend

Last weekend was full of work ;-) On Saturday we took part in working test training organized by Finnish hunting retriever organization in Hauho. Bitti did excellent job in the morning when we concentrated on markings and lines. Then I decided let her rest for the Sundays' test and trained Kössi in the afternoon. Mistake! He was totally terrible: noisy, too eager, not listening and we both totally embarrassed ourselves! Damn, he's not perfect after all...? On Sunday Bitti took part in the working test. Markings were perfect accept for one when she dropped the dummy few times (I'm sure it was greased ;-)) both search and line were something we haven't trained enough in the right way so they were not perfect but neither impossible. Total of the day was a second prize. I'm really proud of my young little darling :-) Oona took part in the same test and got a first prize! Perfect end for the season, congratulations!

While competing, my friend Nina took Kössi to Finnish retriever organizations yearly show. He got excellent but was beaten by the two other veterans Cajo and Jouni in the completion. Thanks to Nina for taking him!

Terra's and Kössi's son Bingo competed in Obedience and got a first prize in Beginners class. Congratulations!

1.10 Back in Business

Things are back to normal know that Tiitus and Jani are back home from their hunting trip in Lapland. There hadn't been that many birds to shoot, maybe better luck next year...

It needed just a little bit agitation and a free place in a hunting test -ad in a discussion forum before Kössi was entered. So we started in a open class hunting test on Saturday in Pomarkku. I'm very happy with Kössi's performance considering the amount of training. He made little noise, missed the other marking and could have done better search in the water area (partly my fault because I didn't send him there well enough) So we ended up getting a third prize. Most important: I'm really happy to notice I have an eight year old dog in such a good condition he can start in a hunting test in difficult terrain.

27.9 Health and Pups!

Few more x-ray results for Kössi pups: Ruffe's hips B/B and Lordi's A/A. Both had clear eyes and elbows. Still waiting for Bingo's results...

Thinking out loud pays off sometimes! Bitti's eye examination result in DogNet was market to be "sick, Cataract grade 1". I was a bit confused how this could be and called my vet. On the ECVO-form the cross was set on "suspicious". After a while I got a call back from my vet who had discussed the matter with kennel club and said there had been a mix up and the result in Dognet will be fixed. So Bitti wont have the "stamp on her forehead" yet at this point. ;-)

Sushi has given birth to four little princesses and three princes. the proud father Kössi and rest of the Redadict team congratulates!

24.9 latest news

Finally some news! First things first. The pups have moved into their new homes and our home feels rather empty and quiet. Good luck in the future for the new families of Otto, Kimi, Toffe, Jing, Kairo and Nitro!

Bitti and few Kössi ofsprings have done their health check. We are still waiting for some results but already we have the results for Eetu and Cava. Eetu had A/A hips and Cava B/C. Both had clear eyes, elbows and knees. Bitti has A/B hips, clear elbows and knees. Unfortunately she had cataract like chances in her eyes. We can't do anything else than wait to find out if it's heritable type or not. Waiting is definitely not one of my strengths but there is nothing else to do - accept surfing the internet and trying to find more info on different kind of HC's. Oona and Kössi were also eye checked and everything was OK.

Lyyli and Anu have started in obedience and got together 174 on class 2. Congrats for the first prize! Oona started in a hunting test on Sunday. The result was a round zero. The works just wasn't her thing at that moment. Women and bitches are sometimes so :-( and ????.

On Sunday I had the chance to visit Hulivilin kennel meeting and meet Eve & Kössi of springs Eppu, Rilla, Essi and Hulda. Thank you their owners for letting me see the pups work. Their breeder finds them to be champion quality and I must agree ;-)

10.9 pups and results

This is the week when the little angels with devils horns start moving into their new homes. We will miss them for sure. Good luck with them to their new owners (chauffers, think the pups ;-))

Kössi offspring's have done some wonderful results again. (I'm so happy with the fact that they have such nice homes!) Helmi-son Tihku got first prize in beginners class obedience, Terra daughter Lordi got second price in open class game tracking and Itu daughter Lyyli second prize in open class obedience and her sister Tiltu first prize in beginners class. But there is also very sad news, Kössi and Terra daughter Nesta is living on the rainbow bridge now.