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| Beverly almost 5 moths. Pic: Liisa Airas |
I think that the dogs have enjoyed that I have been so much at home. We have walked in fields for almost every day and I have tried to groom all of them in my grooming schedule, but well... It haven't work as I hoped for. :D I'm trying to have more interest with Orlando's coat, but it's gonna take a while when he will have full coat. No pressure for this year, I'm trying to get him into the rings in fall or at least in spring 2014. :D
I cutted Envy's fur, so now she can grow it back nicely. I didn't get it all off, just shortened it 2 cm. It looks good for now so :)
Austin and Hoover are both in full coats, so I have work to do with them. Hugo has almost full coat, so soon I will have 3 full coated boys. Thankfully Austin coat is now days super easy to work with, and Hoover doesn't change his coat anymore, so I think he's grooming is not going to be hard anymore.
And then I have baby Beverly. But her coat is a thing that I don't have to worry for a while. She's so simple to wash & groom, except that it takes almost 1,5 our to dry her coat. Hope that she will not have so much coat as her uncle Chester has. I can tell u that he's a afghan with lots of coat :D
Back to Hugo. As I told before, he's growing his coat back nicely and it's almost in full length, sooo we started our show year with Hugo few week's back. We where in Tallinn, Estonia, where was Intrenational dog show. I traveled to Estonia with my dear friends Jennika and Nanna. We had 5 dogs with us, 3 shih tzu's (Hugo and Jennika's Namu & Inkeri), one pomeranian and one afghan (surprise it was Envy ;D ). We started our journey on Friday evening. First plan was that we where going to stay the night in boat, but cause our rings started so late on saturday morning (almost in 1 pm), we decided that we would go to the hotel for the night. And that was a good choice, cause I washed Envy at the hotel on saturday morning so I didn't have to worry her coat on friday (in Tallinn the weather was rainy).
So, on Saturday we started our show weekend with the pomeranian and Envy. Both of them didn't succeed as we hoped, but u can't always win :) Envy won her class (3 dog's) with EXC but didn't get the CQ. Judge wanted more coat for her. And that's a good opinion cause she was almost bald :D
I also presented Beverly's uncle, Chester, in Tallinn. And he did great: Int EXC2, CQ, BM2 and Re-Cacib!
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| Me & Chester in Tallinn. Pic taken by Salla Kuikka |
After Nanna had gone to the boat, we went back to the hotel with Jennika. We decided that we would eat first before we would start to groom the shih tzu's. So we went strait to the nearest super market and started to search something to eat. And ohhh what we found!! Super good sushi from that supermarket. It was a "fridge sushi" and I haven't tried it before. But I can tell you that it was super good, just like we would have ordered it from a restaurant. And for dessert we bought a tiramisu cake.
Our meal was delicious!
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| Yummy shushi! |
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| Tiramisu & sparkling wine |
After eating we started to groom the dogs. I had a easy job cause Hugo was pre-washed on Wednesday so he didn't have any tangles. My job was done in 2 hours. Poor Jennika didn't got any time to pre-wash her dogs so it was a little job to have the dogs done. Also Namu is a big male with lots of fur, so he's not that easy to prepare for show.
I fell a sleep about 23:30, and I woke up at 01:00 am when Jennika was starting to go to bed.
We woke up at 07:30 and started to back our things. We left from the hotel to Saku Suurhal at 10 am. We used a taxi to travel around Tallinn. It's not wise to pic up a Taxi strait from the harbor, cause there are many fake taxi's that can cost a lot then it should cost.
I had few taxi firm numbers that we used to get a taxi. And always when we ordered we got a nice service (even they usually didn't speak english, or finnish, so we used a mix up of english, estonian and finnish language :D) and got a big enough taxis where our stuff and dogs fitted nicely. :)
Our ring started at 11 something, so we didn't had that much time to work with the top knots. Jennika made all dogs top knots cause she's a pro to doing them (even that she thinks that shes not...)
Even we had to hurry up with the dogs we managed on time.
First it was Hugo's turn. he competed in open class with one other dog. I was little bit nervous with Hugo cause he haven't been in rings for over a year, so I didn't know what to expect. But he did well! He showed like a pro and won his class with excelent. He didn't get a CQ cause he didn't have enough coat, but it's a good start for us :)
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| Hugo & I. pic taken by Oona Karhu |
Our travel back to home was OK, even the little mess up with Viking Line (again...) but we made it!
Again thanks to girls for fun trip, I had a blast with you!
So I think that's all for now, I promise that I'll try to write new text soon! Hopefully these "lazy days" are over, soon it's spring and many super thing's are coming up. For example one BIG BIG BIG thing that hopefully will be a good step towards to my dream!
p.s It so nice to know that I have readers!! Super big thanks for all who have left a mark to my blog, is super nice to know that someone else then my mom is reading my blog. Please leave a comment if there is something that you want to read about or if I'm chattering just nonsense :D
