Det går framåt!

Sedan jag blev godkänd på preparandkursen i maj så har jag varit flitig som domarelev på utställningar i Sverige, Norge och Danmark. Nu har jag kommit så långt att jag är aspirant på ett flertal raser, så nu börjar "allvaret"!:) Från och med nu så skall domarna istället kolla mina kunskaper jömför med innan då de skulle berätta och lära mig om de aktuella raserna (whippet, italiensk vinthund, greyhound, saluki och irländsk varghund). Det är mycket, mycket roligt och givande med denna utbildningen och förhoppningsvis blir det egna dömandet längre fram lika spännade!

Elisabeth Ahsltröm fotade mig i Borås när jag var elev på italiensk vinthund under Saija Juutilainen (Wallaby's salukis i Finland).

Puppies 3.5 weeks

Bitch 1
Bitch 2

Bitch 3

Bitch 4

Bitch 5

Dog 1

Dog 2

Dog 3

Puppies three weeks and out for the first time in sunny Sweden!

Good news!

As from today Memma (Play À While Lady Orlando) can title her self CIB!:) She won the qualifiing CACIB in Poland June last year so it has taken a bit of time to have the title confirmed.....


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Juni's puppies two weeks

The boys
The girls

Play A While Brideshead Revisited, "Lizzy" 12 weeks

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Memma playing with her son Byron!:)

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Play A While A Passage To India, "Sakari" 16 months.

Sakari lives with Susanne Holst in the north of Sweden and he is by Play A While Whitstable Bay Ale out of Ch Play A While Lady Orlando.

Play A While The Hours 11 weeks

Play A While The Hours, "Harry", ten weeks

Harry is owned by Jenny Thomson that lives in Mora just a few minutes from Mona and all the rest of the "Mora" Play A Whiles!

Almann Spring's Caramelle, "Babbsan", 13 months

Babbsan is by Ch Play A While Kometen Kommer out of Ch Balzac Bird On The Wire and resides with Mona in Mora, where Juni (Ch Play A While Late Red Autumnhop Ale) is now having her secdond litter

Play A While Brideshead Revisited, "Lizzy", 11 weeks

The litter 4 days

Byron 11 weeks

Byron is from the litter by Ch Khalibadh Snögubbe out of Ch Play A While Lady Orlando. Next week he will move to his new owners on the Swedish west coast! Byron is currently having fun here at Play A While playing with the tibetan spaniels!

The new litter is here!

During the weekend our lovely Juni (Ch Play A While Late Red Autumnhop Ale) whelped her second litter and the sire is Allettes Figaro. Photopedigree. Juni now has three dogs and five bitches to take care of!!:)) The colours are just as expected and even though they look quite dark in the photo they will end up yellow and white like mum and dad!

Congratulations Tintin and Eila!:))

Photo: Tuija Elomaa

Recently "Tintin", Play A While Iittala won a second CC in Finland! Tintin is by Ch Forgetmenot Flying Star out of Ch Play A While Late Red Autumnhop Ale.

Norway

The show ground
Judge Ingela with the effective ring secretary Henriette

To the right BIS Buebezi Exhibitionist and on the left BOS Farytail´s Thfragrance O´gold

This weekend was spent in Drammen in Norway. Yesterday I had a lovely day being a student under Knut Olav Wille who judged irish wolfhounds and since he is a breeder of wolfhounds this assigment was very educating for me! Today Sunday I was a student under Ingela Kyrklund of Colt´s whippets who judged a whippet specialty and again I had a very nice and educating day in the lovely summer weather!

Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!:))

Mira, Play A While Tiimari som varit bortsprungen utanför Umeå i två veckor nu hittades av sin ägare Susanne Forsgren ikväll och lyckan är natturligvis total hos alla parter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Byron & Zingo

Two of the boys from Memma's litter are still here but they will move to their new homes within a couple of weeks! Today I brought the camera when I was out with "the guys" in the garden and they have very fun together!!:))

Education to become a judge

"Class of 2010", students and teachers
Me judging an young afghan.

Two weeks ago I spent nearly a whole week at the wonderful place Öster Malma that is run by the Swedish Hunting Association. It was a very hectic and fun week and some 8 hours everyday we assessed dogs of all types of breeds and had to write qritiques as well as verbaly explaining our thoughts on each dog. Our teachers were 7 of Sweden's most experianced allround judges/judges. On a few occasions every week we also had the opportunity to examine dogs of breeds we all had applied for in our education and for me this means: italian greyhound, greyhound, whippet, irish wolfhound and saluki.

We were 17 happy trainees this week. The last day an examination took place and after some nervous waiting I was taken to a ring were I had to organise a "dog show" with three dogs I did not know about beforehand. A whippet, a saluki and a tibetan terrier were "my" breeds. I hade to go over the dogs write critiques give them a quality price and then explain to my three examiners my view on each dog. After a few hours of waiting I got the good news that I had passed!! Then I had some input from the teachers and was happy to hear that I done very well the whole week!

Now the practical side of the education starts and I will have to do three student assignments on each breed under experienced judges. Then it is time for two exmaninations in each breed. I will have to go over, grade and critique the same dogs as a judge at a dog show. Afterwards he/she will look through my decisions and decide if I have knowledge enough!

One can say that I know what I am going to do during the weekends this summer........