Lucky's 3rd litter and meeting Kati

On 31.05.2012 was born Lucky's 3rd litter. 2 tricolour girls, mother of puppies ACHOR'S SURPRISE DAISY-DIAMOND, breeder Inna Tolli, kennel White Coastal.

White Coastal Little Black Baby & White Coastal Little Broken Heart.

Little angels, don't you agree?

What makes me very happy and proud too - one puppy went to family who already has puppy from Lucky's first litter - to Katriina  & kennel Shet Up in Finland.   Well, actually the puppy is co-owned and lives with their very good friend, but point is the same - maybe I'm beeing vain, but to me it looks like compliment to Lucky <3.

When Katriina came to pick up the puppy and visit Inna, Lucky and I smuggled ourselves there too :o). We have been in contact with Kati for almost 2 years and now I finally had a chance to really meet her. I'm repeating myself, but still - Kati, it was very-very nice to see you and biiiiig thank you for the Sheltie-gifts!!!  Unfortunately Peppi couldn't come, as weather was very bad in Finland this morning, but we'll find the possibility for sure. We are very much looking forward to see you all again.

As usual, some photo evidence for you too:

Pick me, pick me :o)

& Essi sending kisses and best regards to her sister Peppi

Last time with mum

and telling secrets to daddy

White Coastal boys Darwin & Kimi checking the visitors
& later -  visitor checking them back

Lucky was BOS at FCI I group show

Lucky had very successful show day today - he was BOS at FCI I group show held by Estonian Society of Sheepdogs and Cattle Dogs

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Karin, for showing him. Karin just has eye to Shelties. As beautiful as on her photos are the Shelties showed by her. And biiiiiiig thank you to judge Mari-Maria Palgi for rating my dear Lucky so high. And conqratulations to Lucky's breeders Aud Jorun and Helge Lie, Lucky is 57th CC winner from their breeding.

Show critique (translation is by me, so it's probably very unprofessional):

Right size, elegant, specially beautiful head and expression, medium lenght neck, kind of upright shoulder, good rear angulation, chest could be deeper and broader. Good length of body, little bit short tail, which is carried in right position, well presented.

To tell you a little about our show day. There were 19 Shelties entered, 9 of them males - 2 dogs in junior class, 4 dogs in open class (incl. Lucky), 2 dogs in champion class and 1 veteran dog. Very different compared to good old times when we went to shows with Rocco. And number of Shelties entered was usually... 1 :o). OK OK, sometimes 2 or 3 too :o). I miss good old times :o)

Our main goal was to get good and fair show critique. As on litters registration in Kennel Union you have to give copy of daddy's show critique too, I have had to give his junior class show critique starting with word "крупный". Which translated from russian means BIG!!! Just as remark, Lucky is 37,5 cm and has very slim and sporty body, which in show context means he could weight about 1 kg more then he does. I wonder what did this judge mean then, his ego???? :o) Lucky cooperated with Karin so well. And we got the good show critique we hoped for and additionally open 1/1, best dog 1, CAC and BOS. I'm more then happy about the result!!!

Show day was one of the few warmest days this summer, it was even more then +30 C outside. We had little Caily, Rocco, our daddy and his Jossu too keeping thumbs to Lucky, so after the show we went to the river so dogs could have fun and cool down a little.

Below on the picture Lucky is teaching Caily that children are not allowed to go into too deep water :o)

And one more photo proofing that not only dogs had fun at the river :o)

Puppy news!!!

Lucky & Fancy (Bridemoor's Blue Fantasy, ow. Karin Põiklägu) are proud parents of 5 sweet little  puppies! 2 blm girls, 1 tric girl, 1 tric boy & 1 blm boy were born today!

2 blue girls on left, blue boy in middle, then tricolour girl with white in neck and tricolour boy on right

It's Lucky's 3 years birthday today!!!

Happy birthday dear little friend, happy birthday Foxy, Isac, Max and Shadow!!!

For Lucky, a happy day means an active day so we went skiing with him. 

Now he is sleeping next to me and probably dreaming about running in  forest, barking on me and spurting after daddy. And as there's no computer time in Lucky's happy day :o),  I promise I write a post about him here next week  (I'll have vacation then!!!)

Here are the greetings and photos we got from Lucky's family in Norway: 

Congratulation to you all from mum and dad

N Uch Leeland Queen In Starshine and N UCh Lythwood Scrumpy Jack

Happy birthday Lucky, best wishes from Norway your sisterunden Foxy!



                       

                      Lucky's mum & dad

       

 Lucky's sister Foxy with her owner
and little friend Bella   

Max and Foxy captured on their

 birthday party today

  Foxy and Bella

Lucky HD/ED tested

We got Lucky's HD/ED test results today - AA/00. It's just as it had to be, but soooo good to know.

Summerfun with friends

Summer is time to do a lot of fun and meet friends to collect warm memories for cold winter. Same comes to dogs and here are some photos of Lucky and Rocco and their friends having summerfun

First a walk with Kaire and her Cavaliers Winston and Morris. We definately have to take it one more time, the real 30 C summer wasn't arrived then yet and because  of rain we had to hide our cameras and don't have much photoevidence to show you :o)

Look at little Morris flying

Then a beautiful sunny day with Karin and Inna and 7 Shelties.

Here's the slideshow of photos made by Karin

and bigger pictures you can see here

Then a wonderful day with Free Soul Dachhounds Lotte and Annu (Luna was left home this time) and their family

We didn't get 4 dogs on the same picture this time, because it's very cruel to waste huntingdog's time with your camera if the world if full of smells :o). But here are Lotte and Annu before they escaped to chace mices and other prey animals fields and forests are full of :o)

And we managed to catch Annu for one more picture

But a proper Dachhound has more hobbies then hunting, here's Lotte, doing her 10 points diving

1. And should you blame my innocent Shelties - no, it's not because she's escaping Lucky and Rocco :o)

Then, visiting Helle and Uno and Cheddarhill Welsh Springer Spaniels in their wonderful summer home, photos are taken in the bog near to it

Next to Lucky and me is witches broom :o)

And now we are back in town.

I have wonderful pictures to show you of our walk with Karin and Fancy and Pippi on our beach, look at this link.

But here one photo made by Kelli on the alley next to our city home

We very much miss a day with Kristina, Kendzi and Joker, but summer isn't over yet, hopefully we have time to fix this.

Celebrities ;o)

I have reason to be happy and proud again: first of all for Karin and Fancy, because Karin's photo of Fancy is on the cover of America's next year Sheltie calendar!!!

And Lucky and Rocco are in too!!! Pictures are taken by Karin on our last summer Sheltiephotoday. I'm sure you recognize Lucky (well, just in case - he's the tricolour with sweetest face in the world) and Rocco is the one standing tall in the lake.
Real celebrities, aren't they ?

:o)

Lucky’s I litter 1 year old

Lucky's puppies get 1 year old today, 27.08
Happy birthday Essi, Indy, Peppi, Ari, Inna, Mandi and Potter

This litter turned out very good – all puppies are beautiful and all have wonderful characters.

Already in this young age they have quite a lot good show results:
WCL Inkpepper “Essi” has 1 x Jun CAC in Estonia
WCL Blue Avatar “Peppi” has 2x BOB Puppy, 2xCAC in Finland
WCL Blackpepper "Mandy" 1x CAC in Finland
WCL Blue Aragon “Ari” is German Jun CH, Ausburg JunW (in only 4 shows!)

I collect all the pictures I get to their album
and here are the links to their own pages
Essi and Indy can be followed on www.whitecoastal.net.
Essi’s page http://www.whitecoastal.net/index.php?act=art&lk=283 and
Indy’s page http://www.whitecoastal.net/index.php?act=art&lk=284

Peppi’s blog: http://shetup-shetup.blogspot.com/ and
homepage: http://www.shetup.net/peppi.htm and
albums: https://picasaweb.google.com/katriina.kauhaniemi/Porvoo3072011#

Ari’s page http://www.sheltiezucht.ch/

Inna’s (WCL Black Bonsai, kennel New Spices) page: http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/niussa/koirat/index.htm

Mandi’s (WCL Blackpepper, kennel Rosebridges) page: http://www.sunpoint.net/~rosebridge/nartut/mandi2.html

WCL Blue Potter is living in Estonia, I hope some day we’ll meet him and then I can share more information about him with you.

Lucky and Fancy the “cover kids”

I’m so proud - Lucky and Fancy are on the cover of Netherland Sheltie club magazine! I’m proud of my beautiful little Lucky and his beautiful little friend Fancy and my talented friend Karin who made this photo. Miracles just come out from Karin’s camera one after another, it's great that we have had possibilities to be part of them.

It's Lucky's 2 years birthday today!

My dear Lucky is 2 years old. No, young :o). Still our happy, active, fun, sweet, little puppy, bringing joy to every single day.

Happy birthday dear little friend, happy birthday Foxy, Isac, Max and Shadow.

Here are pictures of Lucky's birthday parties with friends:


Walk with Kendzi and Joker And puppy birthday for Lucky and Fancy, pictures by Karin Põiklägu

Lucky's first litter

Lucky has big new for you - he became proud father of 8 puppies today. Puppies were born from 3 o'clock tonight until 9 o'clock in the morning and it's a wonderful litter of 2 blue boys, 3 blue girls and 3 tri girls. 1 boy and 1 girl are very small, let's send all our good hopes for them. And big thanks to Lucky and Cassie, the mother, for great timing, as I get a year older today :o). Isn't it nice birthday present.

I'll post pictures here and give you the details as soon as I get them.

(And shame on me for not posting news here for so long time, I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.)

Sheltie-photo-day with friends

We had wonderful day today with Karin and her Shelties. And our cameras ;o)
And no diversionists interfereing us of takeing out all the fun of Shelties and cameras and wonderful weather and beautiful scenary combination ;o). Don't get me wrong. My little daughter is cooperating very well, if I want to go somewhere and take some pictures, but her patience has limits. And daddy too can spend a few minutes to take very very few photos of my dogs- well, on his kindest days :o). But that's definately not the same as to go out with a real Sheltie photographer for full day.
We started early in the morning, sun was shining and there was nobody else in many kilometers radius, so the "puppies" could run just as they wanted. We only stopped them to take pictures. My ambition was to learn from Karin, how to really use the possibilities my camera has (not only auto modes). Well, I have to think and try hard, maybe I'll manage some day ;o). We got a lot of beautiful pictures, I'll load them to our album and put the link here for you. But here's some samples for you. I even managed not to distroy links for bigger pictures this time, so click on the picture to see bigger picture.

First a picture of all our dogs: Lucky, Fancy (Bridemoors Blue Fantasy), Pippi (Kuukivi Pippike), Kiku (Kuukivi Kallike) and Rocco

Here's a sample of what we learned on winter nights :o)

What do you think, to whom are they talking to? :o)

Such a good boys

Isn't he gorgeous?
Lucky with his friend Fancy, I'll link to Karin's album when she has pictures ready so you could see more pictures of her
Look how sincere face, I'm sure, when looking at next 2 pictures, you don't believe me, if I tell he can have very selective hearing and he consistently steals from cat bowl every time he has the opportunity :o)

Rocco couldn't resist water and had to perform trick for us

2 more pictures of my good boy Rocco.

I don't know correct name for the plant behind Lucky and Rocco, could it be cotton grass. Usually it grows in swamp, but this picture is made in our forest after the State Forest Management Centre (RMK) converted all the trees to kronas :o). It was amazing - all white field, I haven't seen this ever before.

The real star of our day was Kiku, Karin's oldest Sheltie. She is 13 years old and suffers heart problems. But she is sooooooo optimistic. We carried her when we went off the road to make our walk easier for her. But she for sure would have followed the "candies" we had for them to the end of the world. Karin told she was the last to go to sleep when back at home and first to wake up in the morning. Such a wonderful old lady.

Link to Karin's album