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LeiriHeli Virtanen, the owner of Into (Midian's Intense Dragon), arrived on Thursday evening here in Nurmo in order to continue her trip to Rovaniemi's Internatinal Midsummer Show the next day. However the plans changed and instead of her traveling there alone with her dogs she talked us over into joining her. After thinking about it for awhile we decided to go see the show with our family. We had not signed up any ofLeiri our own dogs but six American Akitas bred by us were taking part. There was also a chance for us to take part in the Breeder Competition so that also made it easier to head for the show as I really wanted to see how these dogs were coming along and to meet with their owners. Before we left there was a question of where we would get our 5-weeks-old Cockerspaniel puppies (six of them) to care as it was unlikely that anyone would take them with such short notice for the Midsummer weekend which is a special Finnish summer festival. Together we decided to take the puppies and their mother Kikka with us. Luckily Heidi Hautala promised to take care of our dogs for the time we were on the road. Huge thanks to Heidi!

LeiriOn Friday afternoon we headed for Rovaniemi with the following crew: Tero my fiancé, our two girls Laura and Elina, Heli with her dogs Into, Jorma and Pami and the six Cockerspaniel puppies and their dam Kikka. Sounds interesting, doesn't it! We drove for about seven hours and the trip went without any problems! It was about 530km Midian's Mystery Man "Edi"from Nurmo to Rovaniemi. Of course we did make some stops from time to time as the dogs needed to take a walk and so did our children who travelled very nicely even though it was quite a long drive. We headed straight next to Ounashalli where to Midian's King Of The North "Konsta"show was going to be held and spent the night in the caravan.

After a well rested night we spent the next day at the show. We were very successful even though the judge was Hans vd Berg who is known to be a very precise and exact judge. He does not give out the highest awards lightly. The show began with the puppies being judged. The male puppy Midian's Mystery Man (owner Mari Kujala) was shown by Mari's sister. Edi was awarded with Puppy Class 1Midian's Intense Dragon "Into" without the Honor Prize. We did not find out why he didn't receive the HP even thought the critique was good and he showed nicely. Maybe he could have been a bit more energetic when on the move but puppies are puppies. In the next class there was two American Akitas shown which were bred by us. Into (Midian's Intense Dragon) was shown by me and Konsta (Midian's King Of The North) by her owner Aini Lappalainen. Konsta was not fully matured yet and got a Very Good Midian's Little Victory "Viivi"and was third in the Intermediare Class. Into won the Class and got an Excellent. There were no other males in the show so he won Best Dog with CAC and CACIB. Outstanding!

Viivi (Midian's Little Victory) was shown for the first time in the Junior Class. Her owner Mervi Vesala showed her and she received an Excellent and won her class. She went on to winning the 4th place in the Best Bitch competition. In the Open Class our co-owned girl Ilona (Midian's In Your Dreams, co-owned with Sanna Niemelä) won the class and was shown by Sanna. She was 2nd in the BestMidian's In Your Dreams "Ilona" Bitch competition and was awarded with CAC and Reserve CACIB. In this case the CACIB will be confirmed as the winner of Best Bitch is already an International Champion. Excellent result! The Champion Class was won by Aiko  (Midian's Dayshimmer Girl, owner Mervi Vesala) who has been extremely successful. Mervi showed Aiko as she won the Best Bitch competition and received a CACIB which she won't need as she already is an International Champion.

Midian's Dayshimmer Girl "Aiko"Best Of Breed was won by the handsome male Into and Best of Opposite Sex by the beautiful Aiko. What a great result! We also showed in the Breeder Competition and the judge thought our group to be of high standard. He awarded us with an Honor Prize and BOB. I was very pleased with the critique.

ROP-kasvattaja, kennel Midian'sHeli went on to showing her other dog, P.ter. Jorma. Jorma is already a Champion in seven countries but had to settle for the 3rd place in the Best Dog competition. It was a shame as the dog who won BOB also won the Group, which is a rare treat for this breed. The Group competitions started for the American Akitas soon after the breed ring but this time we were not successful.

Midian's Benny Hill "Benny"After the show we headed back to Nurmo. On the way we stopped by to see Benny (a Beagle bred by us) and his family in Kemi. Benny is a very promising, nice male. He's got a strong hunting drive and we are waiting to see results from him in the future. He looks excellent and he will surely be successful at the shows. Thank you to Benny's family for having us! We also visited shortly Mervi and J-P (kennel Shimmerian) in Kello. We already met them at the show but we just had to see the youngsters and their new kennel facilities. They looked very nice! Thank you for letting us stop by!

Kasvattaja-mamma cockeripentuineenThe drive back home went well and there was not much traffic as we were on the road in the night. We saw a few elks by the road, but our trip went safely. We arrived home in the early hours on Sunday morning. The children and the dogs travelled extremely well. The puppies looked like they had been doing this for years! We were very pleased with our trip! There was a few incidents of "smell issues" with the Tytöt ja tuliaisporotpuppies but we were prepared for it. Also there was a bit too many mosquitos for us in the north.

Thank you for a very nice trip Heli and everyone else for their company. We had such a nice time that we will have to think about maybe going back next year to spend our Midsummer in Rovaniemi and with a bigger group!
 
 
Below are yet a few photos from the trip. Such a shame we did not take any photos of the great scenery! Some of the photos from the show are taken by J-P, thank you!

 
 
Midian's Mystery Man "Edi"    Midian's Intense Dragon "Into"    Midian's Benny Hill "Benny"


 
 
 


  

 

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