2012 has been a year of many ups and some downs, I made some great new friends, reached most of my goals, had “my” first group win (with my homebred girl Penny). Here I'd like to share the highlights of 2012.
We started out slow, raised the “star” litter in the beginning of the year and then the ball of success really started to roll in the summer.
♥ Miles (Caeles How U Doin') was shown at Eindhoven before going to his new home in Sweden, he won BOB. This summer he added another title to his name when he got the cac and became Swedish Champion and won BOB under Åge Gjetnes.
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♥Stella (Twan-San-Yen Excel Mio Amico Gucci) went to 1 show in Germany while she was on a romantic holiday:) She won her class, got her first VDH-cac and the reserve CAC. In march she gave birth to 5 beautiful puppies who became my “star litter” where I kept Luna :)
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♥Sunny (Caeles All That Glitters) was shown once in Luxembourg where he gained his Luxembourg Junior Championship before he moved to his owner in Japan.
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♥Limit (Curvy Limited Edition) our co-owned girl sired by Ira did well this year with several BOB and group placements. She's got all the cac's needed for her Norwegian Championship but she's still to young.
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♥Ira (Alfheim's All Things Considered): Finished his German and VDH championships and sired a litter at knl Curvy, 2 very promising pups where born and the boy “Freddie” already has a couple of puppy BOB's to brag about.
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Joey (Caeles Magical Mr Mistoffelees) came out of retirement for the Donaueschingen sighthound specialty. He won BOB veteran both days, got a new title: Donaueschingen Veteran Winner 2012 :)
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♥Luna (Caeles Shooting Star) had a few outings in the show ring with her best result being BOB puppy and shortlisted in a huge puppy group in Amsterdam. She might hit the rings in the summer shows, we will see how she matures :)
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♥Emil (Caeles Time To Go): came back to me in the beginning of 2012, he's done well in the show rings and won big time in Munster, Germany at a sighthound show where he went all the way and won Best in show!! Due to that win, he got to participate in the “eukanuba super best in show” at the sighthound specialty in Donaueschingen. He made it through the first round but got beaten in the second round by a top winning, multi bis winning afghan hound. I was so honored that he had qualified to participate in that event.
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♥Penny (Caeles It's Showtime) had a great year. It started out very slow with lots of reserves but then she really started to show off in the rings and win. She won many best of breeds and got several group placements and I am very proud of her (and mine) first group 1 win. She won BOB at the Belgian sighthound specialty (Miles won BOB the year before) and ended the day going BIS-2!!
She added 9 titles to her name: Luxembourg, Dutch, German, VDH & Internationa Champion and Europasieger 2012, Donaueschingen Winner 2012, crbl-kbwc winner 2012 and Brussels Winner 2012.
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I have also been showing 2 other dogs:
♥Dolli (Halsakots Someone Is On Fire) came to me in June after the world dog show in Salzburg, he is a papillon and has really been doing great. At his very first show, I had entered him to the Belgian Club specialty, thought I'd scope out the competition and see how he'd show. What a day it was... the new kid in town went all the way and won best in show! Since then he's won several best of breeds, cac's in Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg and he's gotten 2 winner titles namely Amsterdam Winner 2012 (where he won BOB) and Brussels Winner 2012. He is qualified for competing at crufts as well :)
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♥Bazooka (Royal Frise Ginger Bazooka) is a bichon frise that I am lucky to get to show for her owner Madalina Popa. Bazooka was shown 3 times this year going BOB every time (in baby and puppy class) at her first show she got shortlisted in the big ring, 2nd show as Amsterdam where she won BIS-2 puppy out of a HUGE group of puppies and then in Brussels where she won BIS-3 ! What a way to start a show career! I can't wait to show her again :)
I also showed Fiefoerniek's Fortknox to BOB junior at the world dog show in Salzburg gaining his junior world winner title:) It was a big class of juniors and I am really proud of that win, Noknok has become one of my favorites and I am sure he will do well for his owner :)
Happy new year everyone, may 2013 bring you luck, friendships and happiness
