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14.12.2008
During this passed weekend we visited Helsinki, Finland, to take part in the last dogshow for this year - the "Finnish Winner 2008" title show.
The trip was very nice: we had a lovely hotel and besides, the central part of Helsinki is absolutely beautiful with all the Christmas decorations! Lovely finish for this ending year!

Now about the dogshow:
Thousands of people gathering together to take part in this well-organised doggy-event. Many people are travelling from other European countries to look at the trends and lines in breeding at the breeds they are interested in. Breeders are willing to show the progenies of their kennels and breed-clubs are present to advertise the different kinds of dog breeds.

At the beginning English setters were supposed to be judged by the judge from UK. Then it changed into Danish judge - in the end we had Mr. Harry Tast (Finland) judging the entry of 24 English setters at this show.
From this amount (not so many entries) there were only 4 entries representing the English origin of this breed.
During all these years we have been taking part in "Finnish Winner" shows at almost every December, but unfortunately our dogs have not been so lucky to get excellent results.
We cannot blame any judge at his/her judgement, we cannot blame our dogs, we cannot blame us! We can only blame the breed-type we have the dogs from, if I may say so! As I said before, this show at the end of each year shows the trends (fashion) of each breed: the wishes and vision of each breeder how the breed should look like.
And unfortunately, it is sad to say, this is not what my dogs at home look like!
Oh yes, I know that "very good" at the dogshow will be given to the representative of certain breed which is very close to the standard of FCI. And "very good" is not a bad remark, and many dogs get even worse remarks once in a while during their show carreers. This is not my point! But the judges at the shows are supposed to judge according to the FCI standard, the standards of the breeds are worked out in the homelands of each breed according to the origin of each breed - and for sure - every dog owner knows it!
But of course, who says the life has to be fair!
Here is the description that our Annie received this time (translation from Finnish language):
"Correct measurements at head and body. Head should be prettier from scull and the eyes darker. Missing teeth from both sides of jaws. Should have stronger angulations. Too high tailset. Good quality and quantity of coat. Correct movement."
The question is in the air (I started to doubt): is it really needed to use a bitch like this in breeding according to this description?! Maybe the puppies of this bitch will be even worse-looking?!
Or is it just a show in the right sense of this word - a victory of lottery, who wins - shouldn't I take it easier?!

With these words I am wishing:
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY! HAVE A NICE END OF THIS YEAR!

Annie, 14.12.2008, in Helsinki

26.11.2008
We had a big snowstorm here in Estonia at Sunday, as a result of which we still miss the electricity from half of the house. And we were really lucky to get the Internet connection back today at noon.
The good thing is that the white and pure snow covers the ground and the dogs enjoy it very much!
Here are some photos from yesterday and today:

25. - 26.11.2008

03.11.2008
I advise to look at the English setter database HERE !
This database contains now more than 23 000 English setter pedigrees and will be continuously complemented, so it is worth to look at every now and then.
Thank you, Andrea (Willie Walker homepage), for this wonderful idea to make this database!

18.10.2008
All-breed dogshow in Valmiera, Latvia.
The judge for setters and FCI Group VII: Hannele Jokisilta (Finland).
English setters entry: 5.
We drove more than three hundred kilometers from the northern Estonia to the south and then to Latvia to take part in this doggy-event.
The show itself surprised us with the very dog-friendly atmosphere: lots of space and fresh air to breathe to everybody.
As for the result our Annie received "excellent" 1, best bitch 1/3, CAC, BOB, BIG5. There were 6 dogs competing at the best in group VII competition and we were lucky not to get the last place!
Annie was very well handled by Anne-Stiina.

At our way back driving in the utter darkness through the autumn in Estonia, we made a "pit-stop" at Kalev Võitla's farm to take two more passengers on board - now we have 2 pheasants living in our garage after some time again.
Annie will have a good time at the field searching for pheasants again!

15.10.2008
We were spending the nice and sunny autumn day out in the huge fields at Albu, Estonia, where we tried to get more knowledge of field-trial test by the judge Mart Mae.
In spite of our thorough search, there were no birds on the fields and so the dogs could not practice searching alive birds.
Annie did not surprise us: she ran away and made some mischiefs also - did not want to come back again and obey commands.
But anyway, our friend Kaspar managed to make the test for the III grade - which is a remarkable result for the beginning!

13.10.2008
My friend Klaire (kennel Vinca Thore has perspective Irish Red Setter puppies in her kennel.
Dam: Applegrove Timespan of Vinca Thore "Mannu" ; sire Clonageera Starstrider by Cataluna "Viggo". Both parents are healthy and have proved to be excellent show-dogs.
More information can be found HERE .
In any interest about the tiny ones, would you contact me or directly Klaire (Klaire's e-mail).

08.10.2008
We arrived safe and sound from the one week trip to Hungary, Budapest, where during the 03.-05.10. the "European Winner 2008" title dogshow and the Setter Club Show was held.
Budapest surprised us with huge traffic jams to get along the streets (and the policemen were just watching, not acting). The traffic jams were so enormous, that at some point we even got the feeling that we never will get to the show place for the beginning of the dog show - but with strong efforts we finally did! - The traffic in Budapest is absolutely crazy without any politeness at all.
Strange that the judging at the most important dog show in Europe started even hours late, and people just waited politely - maybe it is also common there.
The club show at Saturday (04-th of October) was the day of pouring rain and cold weather - the show was outside in the park. We had to wait for about 2 hours for the start of the judging and we were just freezing.
But these are only emotions from the show, now come the results of our dogs:
Friday, 03-rd of October:
English setters entered 57, judge: Vilmos Kardos (Hungary).
Happy - working class "excellent" 2/4, res-CAC ;
Annie - open class "excellent" 4/8.

Saturday, 04-th of October:
English setters entered 53, judge: Linda Taylor (England).
Happy - working class "excellent" 2/4, res-CAC ;
Annie - open class "excellent" 4/11.
So, at both days our dogs got the same results! Especially we are proud of our young Annie, who competed in the strong open class with all beautiful competitors.

P.S. Happy still misses 1 CAC from the Hungarian Champion title))) - we have almost lost the hope to get it))) - never mind!

Thanks for handling Happy & Annie to Kaisa and Marika!

Photos:

30.09.-07.10.2008

27.09.2008
We have been making a field-trial training almost every day now. And the obedience of Annie has improved quite a lot - it is just amazing!
We had friends practicing with us today - it is always better to have the training accompanied with goods friends.
Some portraits and other feelings can be seen here:
27.09.2008
These photos are made by Anne-Stiina.

20.09.2008
We spent a day in Latvia, Zvirgzde, practicing field-training under Mrs. Marina Kuleshova from Latvia.
The day itself was very useful and we hope that Annie also learnt something. Marina Kuleshova liked Annie's knowledge and working-style a lot!
But... we will have a lot of work to improve the obedience. So, it is very unlikely that Annie can make the field-trial test this year.

It is very sad that in Estonia noone is interested in the field work with setters, there is not possible to make the field-trial test, there are no trainers and training-lessons - it all makes the things much more complicated, because we cannot travel thousands of kilometers every time to get the professional opinion.
Although the field-trial test is needed to get the EST CH title - noone is dealing with field-training in our country - what a pity!

18.09.2008
Hurrah!
Our tiny Annie got her LT CH title confirmed by the Lithuanian Kennel Union.
She is 2,5 years old and can be presented in the champion class - we are so proud!
I hope it won't be the last CH title to Annie)).

Our field trial practice goes over rocks and stones: she is so very impatient, too enthusiastic and too energetic - who knows, maybe we have to wait for some more years with her to calm down.

13.09.2008
There are quails living at our premises again. Guess what we are doing with the quails on the field? - we are trying to tame our Annie to get the steam down what concerns the bird-hunting.
It is not an easy task if taking into consideration the bird-instincts of Annie.
What is the worst thing: if the dog has no instincts on birds or it is crazy about them?!

16.08.2008
We took part in Tallinn International Dogshow with the entry of 3 English setters - all of the three were bitches.
The judge for setters as well as for FCI Group VII was Mrs. Liliane de Ridder-Onghena (Belgium).
The weather did not favour dogshows as it was raining until the afternoon, but inspite of this Annie was in a good and active mood running well in the showring.
The judge liked our tiny Annie a lot and praised her with "excellent" with BOB, CAC, CACIB and BIG2.
I usually do not brag, but this time really, according to the judge, Annie was best from all setter-breeds in the FCI Group VII competition and this was indeed a very lovely result!

BIG1 went to the nice Hungarian Vizsla dog Quickstep of Skyrocket "Kaspar" about whom you can read from his personal homepage HERE.

Thank you Marika and Kaisa for running in the showring with Annie!

12.08.2008
New photos from our garden, click here:

10-11.08.08

05.08.2008
The photos we made from the Vilnius trip can be seen in the web-album here:

Vilnius Summer & Baltic Winner 2008 dogshow

04.08.2008
Our Annie will be mated in the summer of 2009 to the male from the direct Bournehouse breeding-lines.
If you have the interest in getting a puppy from these particular English setter breeding-lines, you are free to contact me by e-mail or by phone.
The possible puppies will be born with the Seaset kennel name.
More information about the mating can be found HERE.

03.08.2008
We arrived from Lithuania, Vilnius, where we spent two days in extremely hot weather of 30 degrees (Celsius).
So after this heat and sunshine our Estonian weather seems to be like being at "the North Pole". But of course we will acclimatize soon.
Now about the dogshows during the weekend:
Friday, 01-st of August - judge from Australia: Ron Besoff - English setters entered: 11.
I never have received the worse critiques to my dogs. Nothing was at the place where it should. Happy was too heavy overall, too heavy in movement. Annie lacked elegance, has immature coat, moves close behind, shows moderate reach and drive.
I wonder where the elegant movement of Annie has gone within only two weeks?! And Happy has become too heavy - maybe eating too much?!
But never mind!
Annie received "excellent" with CAC, CACIB and best bitch 1-st place.
And Happy received "excellent" being 3/3 in champion class.

Saturday, 02-nd of August, was a better day! There were 13 English setters entered to the judge Laszlo Erdös from Hungary.
Although Happy got "excellent", the judge told me how overweight Happy is. Again 3-rd in the champion class among American made competitors.
Annie seemed to be more elegant for this judge (as he did not mention that she is not) and so she received "excellent", best bitch 1-st, CAC, CACIB and also the title of "BALTW 2008".
Of course we are very proud of our little girl!

Our Annie was handled so well by Anne-Stiina!

I have to mention that we had very nice travel companions this time: Jaana, Satu, Piia with their dogs. It is good that Swannery Unforgettable "Luca" and Nattaset Rock Baby "Vilkku" are "Baltic Junior Winners 2008" now and Sniffens Time To Be Star "Nana" is also "Baltic Winner 2008".
But you can read more from the homepage of kennel Nattaset and from the homepage of Nana .

in Trakai
Jaana, Piia, Anne, Andrus, Kätlin;
Luka, Lilli, Vilkku, Nana,
Annie, Happy.

Vilnius Summer 2008
Annie
handler: Anne-Stiina.

Photos by Satu Saarinen - thank you!

23.07.2008
We will be celebrating the 9-th birthday of our Max on the 30-th of July.
For this occasion we made some photos of him.
Max is full of life and energy - a very healthy boy. Although he does not like dogshows and the fuss around it, who knows, maybe some day he will also be competing for the best veteran.

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Annie also wanted to be on the photo:

21.07.2008
We had a wonderful weekend here in Estonia full of good weather and dogshows.
At Saturday, 19-th of July in Haapsalu, all-breed CAC-show the English setter entry was 12, judge: Jose Baddeley (England):
Happy - CH class "excellent" 1, best male 1, BOB (not placed at the group competition);
Annie - open class "excellent" 1/4, best bitch 4.
At Sunday, 20-th of July, Happy continued with the same style running well in the show ring for Best of Breed and later BIS4.
The judge, Mrs. Sharon Littlechild (England), valued our Happy so very highly and chose him to be the very first from 18 entries.
Annie's result at Sunday was more modest, but not bad either - open class "excellent" 3/5.

Both dogs got very nice critiques, and besides, Happy was BOB at Setter Summer Speciality Show already for 2 years running.

Haapsalu CAC
BOB- Happy ; BOS - Nattaset Moonflower
Setter speciality CAC
BOB- Happy ; BOS - Nattaset Marigold
photo: Kickie Boman
Setter speciality CAC
BOB, BIS4- Happy

/other photos by Anne-Stiina./

12.07.2008
Two nice photos from the ISF World Wide Open Show taken by Kickie Boman ( Rose Reflections ).

Thank you Kickie for the photos!

09.07.2008
We took part in the World Winner 2008 Dogshow in Stockholm at Saturday, 05-th of July, and also in ISF World Wide Open Show in Taxinge at Sunday, 06-th of July.
But I start from the very beginning...
We left for Finland already on the 1-st of July and spent some lovely days travelling through Aland Islands to reach Stockholm for Saturday. The Aland islands are really very picturesque: quiet and peaceful surroundings with not too many tourists. And the nature - it all is worth to watch!
My photos from our trip are to be seen here:
01.07.-08.07.2008, trip to Stockholm through Aland islands.

At Saturday, 05-th of July, we found ourselves in more crowded place: the WW08 show with lots of pure-breed dogs and the boutiques and stands full of dog-equipment.
English setters entered: 71. The judge Laurent Pichard (Switzerland) valued Happy with "excellent" and res-CAC in working-class.
Annie got the excellent description with the words:"... Excellent breed type. Pretty picture... Excellent mover." Yes, she got "excellent" with the 2-nd place in the large open class consisting of 9 nice bitches from different breed-types and ages. Later Annie also competed for res-CAC - and she received it!
We are very pleased with these results!

At Sunday, 06-th of July, we spent a lovely day in the park of Taxinge Castle, where the ISF World Wide Open Show was held. The English setter entry: 34 ; judge Mrs. Chris Sayers (kennel Christter, England).
This day was better for Happy: he won the Open class-II (from 5 entries) getting Best Male - 3rd place.
Annie was not so lucky this time, but had also a very good result being 3-rd in the Open Class-I bitches (4 entries).

I would like to say THANK YOU to Marika for handling Annie at both days!

Also THANK YOU to Ildikó and Laszló for the nice company at Galö Camping nearby Stockholm!

18.06.2008
Annie started her season some weeks ago.
For some years already we have been dreaming of visiting Finland, Lapland - the most far north of this beautiful country of thousand lakes.
Not even the wisest can put these two things together: Lapland and our Annie's season - but we could. As the three boys here at home missed Annie so much because of her season, we thought that we can make their life a little bit easier if some of us will move out for a while. And so we put the travel-bags to our white motor-home and started the way towards north.
Now we are back with a lot of memories and the camera full of photos. Some of the photos are here:
18.06.08

16.06.2008
Batman's birthday. For 7-years being our friend here!
Happy birthday to Lilli and Annu too!

02.06.2008
Here is one of the photos of Annie taken at Holland Clubshow by the Slow Fox team .

Some more photos are at the show photos page.

Thank you, Ildiko, for sending me the lovely photos!

All the photos and the full results are at the homepage of the Holland English Setters Club: photos & results !

01.06.2008
Some photos made at the seaside added to the web-gallery, click the photos:

29.05.08

30.05.08

31.05.2008
The day of "Estonian Winner 2008" International Dogshow in Tallinn. The judge: Daniela Radu (Romania); English setters entry: 6 dogs total.
I had entered only Annie, whose result did not surprise us so very much anymore - again we were left to lose for the other type of the breed and it really is quite sad!
Here is Annie's result: open class "excellent" 1/2, best bitch 2-nd, CAC, res-CACIB.

Annie moved really nicely! Thank you for handling her, Marika !

28.05.2008
We arrived from the journey to Holland, where we participated at the dogshows on the 24-th and 25-th of May.
I have to admit that lately we have not been so very lucky to be able to show our dogs to the judges who like the type of the English setters we adore. This time the CC-rights hunting dogshow in Bennekom, Holland at Sunday was a good example: the announced judge was changed into another substitute judge for the reason there was so many setters entered. Then this substitute judge from Croatia was changed into another judge from Croatia, who really did the strange choices for his winners. (And we did not know the name of the judge until the last minute: we could only read the name of the judge from the advertisement by the showring). This is really the very first time we had this not so pleasant experience. Besides, all the English type English setters were left to lose to the American type.
The results of my dogs (entry: 26 dogs total):
Happy: CH class "excellent" 3/3;
Annie: open class "excellent" 3/4.

Saturday was a better day. The show was held in a lovely atmosphere at a beautiful small village of Zaltbommel. Although the judge from England Mrs. Lorna Howarth (Moorbrook kennel) was very critical about the English setters in general giving only few "excellent" marks, we enjoyed the day.
The results of my dogs at Saturday clubshow (entry: 34 dogs total):
Happy: CH class "excellent" 1/2;
Annie: open class "very good" 2/4.

At Saturday evening we took part in the barbeque-party, which was all organised by the Dutch English Setter Club . We spent some good time with tasty food among friendly people!

In general it was a memorable trip, we drove more than 4600 km with 8 days passing Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany - seeing many people and a lot of picturesque small villages in Holland.

We also visited Sibille and Frank (Settermeute) in Hannover.
THANK YOU so much for all your help and care, dear Sibille and Frank!

P.S. Holland is really a picturesque country, especially the villages with their gardens and small doll-like houses: everything is in perfect order in these villages. The horses, domestic birds... and a lot of wild birds, which our dogs are supposed to hunt for at the field-trials (we saw a wild pheasant too). It all is worth to see!

Some photos of our trip are seen here:
21.05.-28.05.08

09.05.2008
New photos of yesterday -
08.05.08

06.05.2008
Some more new spring photos added to the web gallery, will you click the photo:
05.05.08
Photos made by Anne-Stiina.

22.04.2008
I have added some new spring photos to the web gallery, will you click the photo of Kilbi:
22.04.08
Photos made by Anne-Stiina.

19.04.2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR ANNIE - 2 YEARS!
Always in action...

Annie 2 years

12.04.2008
In a couple of days Annie will celebrate her 2 years birthday. That is the reason why we took some standing photos of her.

Annie 2 years

12.04.2008
Some new spring photos made with our new camera are added to the photo album .
Some new portraits are also at the photopage .

08.04.2008
Click HERE to look at the homepage of lovely Hungarian vizsla dog Quickstep of Skyrocket "Kaspar" - do not forget to sign in the guestbook of Kaspar & Marika & Annika. This homepage will be often updated, so it requires frequent visits to the homepage.

08.04.2008
Off topic again!
Watch the Black Stork reality TV camera by clicking HERE!
Black Storks are very rear birds, there are only few specimens left. Estonian ornitologists have put the camera above the stork nest for the whole summer to watch how the life of these beautiful black birds proceeds.

29.03.2008
Every dog has its own personality. It is clearly seen within our pack.
When our Batman is the real gentleman and a serious-minded boy, Happy deserves his name. Besides, Happy always wishes to pose to the camera and he can make a lot of funny faces. Annie is a true energy-bomb: there is never enough of her everywhere. Max is a ballerina from the bottom of his heart: he can climb wherever he wants - he can be very graceful when he jumps up with all his four feet off the ground at the same time.
Here are some new photos taken today (let us hope it is the last snow of the winter - as it is melting so very quicky now, and the smell in the air calls for coming spring).

Batman
Happy
Annie

More photos are to be seen at the photopage .

20.03.2008
Kickie ( kennel Rose Reflections) has made some lovely photos of Tampere show - click here to watch these.

19.03.2008
Some new Easter photos have been taken, please visit the photopage .
Added also a brand new photo of almost 2 years old Annie posing:

Annie 23 months

16.03.2008
Yesterday evening we arrived from Finland, Tampere. We took part in the International Dogshow where the English setters entry was 22 and the judge was Mr. Jos de Cuyper (Belgium).
It is not polite to criticize the judgement, so I leave this part of the show behind, and although many dogs got "good" and "very good" remarks, my Happy and Annie got "excellent" and this was already a great achievement in these circumstances.
So, here are the results on my dogs:
Happy: CH class "excellent" 1, best male 3-rd;
Annie: intermediate class "excellent" 1/2, best bitch 4-th, res-CAC.

It is very useful to get the opinion of other people from every angle, isn't it so. And this time we were looking for to get the opinion about our English setters from Tampere dog show and we certainly received what we assumed to get.

12.03.2008
Our feelings from Crufts on 07-th of March can be seen HERE!
There are more nice photos at kennel Rose Reflections homepage - click here!

09.03.2008
This is the advertisement:
The homepage of Bournehouse kennel with so many lovely photos and good information!

08.03.2008
We paid a short visit to Birmingham, UK to visit the world's biggest dogshow Crufts presenting all the Gundog Group at Friday, 07-th of March.
We "did not care" that the SAS flying company cancelled the flight Copenhagen-Birmingham which we were supposed to take, and afterwards flying to Frankfurt to reach Birmingham finally, the Lufthansa company lost our baggage (read: the one and only trunk we had) and sent it to London (Heathrow) instead - as we are now back at home, we still miss our trunk (the authorities promised to send it to Tallinn in some days from now on).
P.S. The flying companies seem to think that people do not need too many things: clothes, personal things, presents to the people you care about etc. etc. - and these two days were clear proof to that: you only need a smile at your face and nothing more to take a trip to Europe by plane)))).

But inspite of all this above, we enjoyed our days in England so very much!
We saw hundreds of English setters there and we met many nice people. Our congratulations to Mrs. Linda Taylor (Wansleydale kennel) for getting CC and best male prize to Wansleydale Royal Flush!
Full results can be found at the homepage of ESA .
Besides, our Happy's son Finn was taking part of the show too - it was so nice to meet you again, Anita (Kennel van de Trendsetters) !

Our deepest sympathy and thanks to Tanya and Penny (Bournehouse kennel) for all your patience and taking care of us! - THANK YOU!

Photos will be added in a short time to illustrate this trip!

20.02.2008
Absolutely off-topic:
We have been watching the direct transmission "movie" from the wild-boar feeding-place here in Southern-Estonia for already several evenings. It is really worth watching these wild animals.
If you look at the "movie", and there is nobody there - you will have to be patient and wait -the prime time is in the evening, when it is dark outside, at about 7-11 p.m.
HERE is the link! (You have to have Windows Media Player in your computer). You can also read more about the topic in the English language HERE.
P.S. Do not forget to switch on the volume of the sound boxes on your computer while watching the piggies.

14.02.2008
Photos from the Setter Winter Special Show can be found at Rose Reflections setters homepage here! (Click at the link of "photoalbum" below the page).
Thank you for the photos, Kickie & Inga!

ESK Special Show, 10.02.2008,
photos by Kickie Boman

11.02.2008
We had a wonderful weekend passed.
Our tiny Annie was Best in Show winner at the Setter Winter Special Show yesterday - she is only 21 months old!
It is really a great surprise - amazing!

But first of all there was the International Dogshow in Tallinn at Saturday, 09-th of February. The judge for us was Marija Kavcic (Slovenia). English setters entered: 16.
My dogs did very well:
Happy: CH class "excellent" 1, best male 1, CACIB, BOS ;
Annie: intermediate class "excellent" 3/5.

And now comes Sunday, 10-th of February. English setters entered: 17. The judge: Leen van Genechten, Belgium.
Happy: CH class "excellent" 1, best male 1, BOS ;
Annie: intermediate class "excellent" 1/4, best bitch 1, BOB, BIS1.

I really would like to thank Mrs. Leen Van Genechten for appreciating our little Annie so much!

Special thanks to Marika Kuusman for handling Annie in the big ring - without her, I think, we would have not won the price!

Our special greetings go to Penny & Gordon (Bournehouse kennel) and to Ildikó & Laszló (kennel Slow Fox) for trusting me to have Annie & Happy - these two best friends!

21.01.2008
This year started with the very positive news: today we got the confirmation from the FCI that our "Happy" Iron Man of Slow Fox has been given the title of IntShCH.
Congratulations to the breeders of Happy: Ildikó and Laszló (kennel Slow Fox)!!

21.01.2008
Several new entries to the shows here in Estonia have been declared open. Here is the whole list of the shows.