2007 - June to Apr. 2007

June 30, 2007
Today we have again been visiting our breeders in Slovakia. Really exciting, as yesterday there was a big day for me (Voodoo): Bella (Champ. BELLA STELLA Hot Chocolate) has given birth to my first offspring, and Mum was of course rather thrilled. A great litter: 7 puppies (1 boy powderpuff, 2 boys hairless, 3 girls powderpuff, 1 girl hairless). Of course lots of pictures were taken and Mum has now set up a slide show for my offspring. Have fun while taking a look.

June 17, 2007
Once again we have a wonderful and "exciting" day behind us: Yesterday noon we we went to Slovakia to our family and Mum was also shortly at our vet to get food for all of us for the near future. Right for the welcome at our breeders Ula (Slovakian Champion) and myself (Slovakian Junior Champion and Slovakian Champion) received our Championship confirmations and certificates, which will soon decorate a wall here in the house. Great, now we have our success also in black and white. :-)

Then we went off to an important examination. My mom Greta (Ch. Groteska Alexa Lachesis), Bella (Ch. Bella Stella Hot Chocolate), Ula, Naomi und myself were examined for Patella subluxation and the results of all of us are the same and real great: we all are Patella negative! You can for sure imagine the jos of our breeders and of Mum.

There was great weather again, and so we spent all the afternoon in the garden. Ivana and David also came, later in the afternoon also some family members of Iveta and Jozef. While the humans were chatting, we dogs spent our time with playing and sleeping. My brother Hopi (Ch. Family Song's Hopkirklachesis) amused everyone with his incredible gymnastics practice. Pictures of that and of myself can be found in my slideshow Voodoo is grown-up.

Thanks a lot to Iveta and Jozef for the wonderful hours!

June 3, 2007
Three days with shows, two dogs entered .......... three championships finished (see news back till June 1). Our weekend with the show marathon is over and now we have a rest from shows till mid of August.

Today in the morning we went again together with Naomi's breeder Ivana to Nitra. The today's results have also made everyone happy: Naomi's father, came with CAC out of middle class, Ula with Res. CAC out of open class and myself with CAC out of open class.

As I now have got another CAC at a further International show, we can use the one from Mai from Bratislava for another Championship. During one weekend I have made two championships: I am Slovakian Youth Champion since June 1, 2007, and since today Slovakian Champion! Nobody has reckoned on that, and that with one CAC before my second birthday at an International Show I can also turn Youth Champion, the human only realized on Friday, as I had been Youth Winner twice last year.

We congratulate our breeders for three Championships during one weekend, and we are grateful for the great show preparations as well as the wonderful assistance for Mum, for whom the shows with small dogs have been completely new.

A wonderful weekend lies behind us, and for sure we will remember these gorgeous three days for a while. Lots of thanks for the great hospitality to Iveta, Jozef, Ondrej and Martin, lot os thanks to Ivana for the rides to all three shows, and we look forward to a reunion soon, latest when Bella has whelped the puppies from me.

See the photos of today's show in the slide shows Ula's shows and Voodoo's shows.

June 2, 2007
Today at noon Naomi's breeder Ivana and her husband Lubo picked us up, so that we all could travel to the Specialty in Nitra together. Ula got excellent 4, which is really not bad, as the judge fave lots of "very good" and good. I won my class again and got CAC, which meant much today, because there were also classes where no title was given, respectively no "excellent". The three other boys in my class got "very good" and "good". So we all can be pleased with another win of myself.

Tomorrow, with the International Show in Nitra our show marathon of this weekend is over, and then we have a rest from shows till mid of August.

June 1, 2007
Our three days show weekend began really great: Ula and myself have won our classes and got CAC. Therewith, we both are Slovakian Champions since today. You can for sure imagine the pleasure of our breeders and our Mum. But our breeders and Mum hope for more, namely if I receive another CAC on Sunday, I would therewith gain another Championship. Oh well, we will see ..........

Yesterday evening we arrived at our breeders' where we will stay till Sunday. Our Naomi is also with us, even though she is still not in the show ring. Maybe she is our lucky charm.

Today at noon we went together with Ivana, Naomi's breeder, to the show in Senec. Naomi's fatherhas also won his class and got CAC, so a great day for Ivana as well. Tomorrow we all drive to the next show - we are going to Nitra to the second Slovakian Specialty of this year.

May 27, 2007
Since it is summerly hot, there is a "swimming pool" for us small ones. The only one who makes the most of it, is our little Naomi - she is a real keen swimmer. And sometimes she takes advantage of it as the last resort, when Ula during tolling is behind her .......... becaue Ula does not go into water. A real sly dog, our little Naomi.

Today, finally, Mum could take some photos while Naomi was splashing around in her "pool". Of course the photos are already in the slideshow Naomi's childhood. Have fun looking at them!

May 26, 2007
As we have got to know today, my - Voodoo's - first children will be born end of June 2007. The details can be read in our Breeding page. We all are pleased together with our breeders about these offsprings and fingers are tightly crossed, that everything will be as Iveta and Ondrej wish.

Mai 21, 2007
Today we had birthday celebration: I, Voodoo, have turned to be two years of age. This is not only a special day all in all, but also because from now on I will compete in open class at shows. This will not be easy as the concurrence is hard and most of them are fairly older than I. We will see.

Anyway, I have been celebrated and spoilt respectably today I really liked it very much. :-)

May 14, 2007
Our past weekend was as great and successful as the previous was: Overnight stay with our breeders, therewith great hours together with them and on Sunday international show in Bratislava with success repeat to Banska Bystrica. With gorgeous weather Ula went Exc. 1, CAC in open class with hard concurrence and myself in mediate class as well Exc. 1, CAC. The only difference to the weekend a week ago: our litte Naomi joined us and could breath show air for the first time.

Big congratulation to our breeders for these great show results, and once again thank you very much for the hospitality and the wonderful hours we could spend with them. Some special thanks goes to Lubo, who took photos of our show appearences with Mum's camera, so that there are new pictures in our Show slide shows.

May 6, 2007
We have another weekend in Slovakia at our breeders' behind us: a great weekend!

Yesterday afternoon we first drove to our vet to have our little Naomi vaccinated against rabies, so that she is completely vaccinated now. Then we drove to our breeders where we have been already expected. We were a bit late because Mum had driven down from the highway a bit too fast and was caught by a radar. So we had to stop, show all the papers and then pay the fine (fortunately not too high, as the kind policeman probably had compassion with us foreigners. THANK YOU, dear Mr. Policeman, you were great!).

A nice afternoon, again excellent meals, a comfortable evening and in between beauty styling for us .......... and then we went to bed - comparatively late as always on such weekends. Today at 5 in the morning the alarm woke us, as at 5:45 a.m. Naomi's breeder Ivana picked us up (together with Naomi's Dad and Carrlos, an offspring of Naomi's breeder), to drive with her to the show in Banska Bystrica. Ula's sister Lilly joined us, and of course our breeder Iveta.

We were not really taken this time, because sind the late evening yesterday we had pouring rain and this did not mean anything good for us: the show in Banska Bystrica is outdoor and, therefore, everyone feared about our styling, and our humans did not even have to think about wearing nice clothes. With lots of umbrellas, thick awnings for our crates and raincoats for us and our humans we left at 6 a.m. And our "expectations" were even surpassed: through soaking wet grass and deep mud our Mums had to pull and push us in our crates and all the "luggage" to the ring. When finally we arrived there, our Mums where a bit done. Building up all the cover against rain had to be done rather fast, as our breed was the first to be judged in the ring. Everything worked fine and our Mums could shortly take a breath before they had to go to the ring with us, one after the other. But now the reward for all the effort came: except Carrlos we all went Exc. 1 and CAC in our classes. With these results Iveta, Ivana and Mum were immediately compensated for everything, and they were thrilled. They did not even recognise the bad weather any more.

Very early in the afternoon we were allowed to leave and get back home, which really pleasd al of us, so that we could spend some more nice hours with our breeders and have a great lunch. Naomi had stayed with Jozef and all the other dogs, and she was so thrilled when we came back. She did not even want to stop to reserve our Mum.

As the weather had been so bad, Mum had not taken our camera to the show. We have then - because finally it had stopped raining - taken some photos at Iveta, so that there is still a small memory of this show. We three Family Song's dogs were photographed one by one and all together. These pictures are of course already in our slide shows (Ula's Shows and Voodoo's Shows).

So even with very bad weather and not too good conditions in the show ring a day full of success, and especially once again some more great success for our breeders: three dogs entered, three winners. Big congratulation, dear Iveta and dear Ondrej! And of course many thanks to Jozef, that he took care that our little Naomi had a great time while she was not with us. Congratulation of course also to Ivana for another great success of Naomi's father!

April 29, 2007
This weekend we had again a big family reunion in Slovakia: Yesterday we drove to our breeders, where Naomi's breeder Ivana also came with all her dogs. Sunshine and summer temperatures invited for many hours in the garden. This time Mum could take some nice photos. Our little Naomi is on most of these pictures, so the photos came into the slide show Naomi's Childhood.

Today we visited our breeders again for short, but with all the wind it was not the fun we had yesterday.

Next weekend we are going to spend the night in Slovakia, because Ula and myself are at the show in Banska Bystrica on Sunday, and therewith, we are going to meet all again. Let's see what we can then report.

April 22, 2007
New photos of Naomi in her slide show Naomi's Childhood.

April 21, 2007
A new site of our homepage is now online: Breeding.

April 14, 2007
Today our little Naomi needed another vaccination, and so we drove to our vet in Slovakia. And of course we took the opportunity to visit our breeders. Naomi's breeder, so our friend Ivana, also came - with all her dogs, by which Naomi could see her parents and her brother Cossmo as well as her half-brother Eastwood again. There was really much going on: 15 dogs (6 Chinese Crested hairless, 4 powderpuff, 4 Yorkies and one German Shorthaired Pointer puppy) played in the courtyard and in the garden. As the weather was absolutely summerly, we spent all our time in the open until our departure in the evening. Unfortunately the wishes of Mum around photos did not turn out as she had thought, because there is only one single picture in Naomi's slide show now, but who cares ... there will be lots of opportunities for taking picutures of us.

April 1, 2007
A sunny warm weekend is behind us and we all could enjoy many hours in the garden on both days: playing, tolling, lazing around .......... it was gorgeous. Today Mum took many photos of us and they can now be admired via our gallery. I restrained myself unobtrusively, but Ula and Naomi as well a s Naomi with our Briard friends Frizzante and Oh-Lala can be found there.