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Greetings
from Poland!
December
13th-14th 2008 Winner Show 2008, Helsinki
judge Elina Tan Hietalahti, Finland (American Akitas) judge Kirsti Lummelampi, Finland (Basset Hounds) judge Jukka Kuusisto, Finland (Beagles) American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Champion Class EXC/1, BD-2, RE-CACIB Midian's Aki-Ice Diamond Veteran Class VG/1 Midian's Piece Of Heaven Junior Class G American Akita females: Midian's Piece Of Heaven Junior Class G Basset Hound males: Yesterday Of Riverside Junior Class VG/1 Beagle females: Midian's Anastacia Open Class VG This is how it goes, there are no two great days in a row. Today was not a day for our dogs. Pena and Pilvi, our puppy-juniors, were too puppylike in the Junior Class and only got a Good. They were critiqued about things that will improve when they get older so I am not at all worried. They also got many praises from other judges outside the ring, everyone said they are very high quality puppies but it just wasn't their time yet to succeed in their first Junior Class. Thank you to Heidi Thomsen/Senseo kennel for handling Pena and to Pilvi's co-owner Mervi Lehto/Mergitten kennel for handling Pilvi! Our grand-old man Niko should have had more coat but he showed great and with lots of experience with his owner Nina Axi-Timmerbacka. He got a Very Good. Our golden boy Äijä did great and was Best Dog 2nd with a reserve cacib.. Thank you for keeping Äijä in such a great show condition to Anne. Äijä showed very well and his movement was stunning to watch. Thank you for handler Lotta Granström!! The judging was tough in the American Akita ring, 9 dogs got the grading Good! Unfortunately the Basset ring was at the same time with the American Akitas and I only got to see the Best Dog competition and of course after that the females. Our Basset Manu didn't do that great either, he won the Junior Class with a Very Good.. Manta Beagle had also gotten a Very Good from the Open Class, good luck to owner Eija Rinne to the next shows. But we did get one Winner as Heidi's Icelandic Sheepdog male Simpa won the males and got the Winner 2008 title, Cacib and was BOS! Wow, congratulations! It was a tough trip but we had a great time, thank you to everyone at the show, we'll be there again next year, with or without dogs. Our golden boy Äijä left to conquere Denmark from the show. We are very sad to see him go but we know that his breeders Heidi and Anders will take very good care of him. Let's hope that we will hear some great news from the shows. Paavo our gentleman also left to visit his breeder Blanka in Poland. I already got some great photos of him and immediately started missing him even more. I know that he will take things easily and will enjoy his vacation in the good care of Blanka's family. Let's hope that they will also send us great news next year. We will share news about our travellers in this news page from time to time. BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DOGS AND THEIR OWNERS WHO RECEIVED JUNIOR WINNER AND WINNER TITLES! MERRY CHRISTMAS AND SUCCESS TO THE YEAR 2009! November
30th 2008 Puppy Show, Helsinki
American Akita male puppies: Midian's Quiet Black Bear 5-7mth Puppy Class 1, HP, BOB Puppy, BIG-1!!! American Akita female puppies: Midian's Queen Of Spades 5-7mth Puppy Class 1, HP, BOS Puppy The litter siblings of our Q litter were in their first show with great results. Our co-owned girl Diiva was best femaly puppy and BOS. Thank you Johanna and congratulations on your great show start! Good luck to the next shows! Diiva's brother Mökö won BOB Puppy and in the end also the group, super congrats to Heidi and Mökö, great result!! Good luck to the next shows!! Thank you for the photos to Jenna Saarinen. 
BIG-1 & BOB Puppy BOS Puppy Diiva & Johanna Ollila November 23rd 2008 International Show, Jyväskylä Breed judge Yochai Barak, Israel Group judge Anthony Moran, Irland BIS judge Peter Manchetanz, Germany American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Champion Class EXC/1, BD-1, CACIB, BOB, BIG-1, BEST IN SHOW!!!! Finigan Ak-Tan Callahan to Midian's Open Class EXC/1 American Akita females: Midian's On Stage Junior Class EXC/2, BB-3 Midian's Little Victory Open Class EXC/1 Midian's Amaterasu Veteran Class EXC/1, BOB Veteran
There were 6000 dogs entered at the show. This was an incredible win for us and at the same time a great way to start the Show Dog 2009 competition. What we know is that our golden boy is at the 1st place at the moment. ;) Huge congratulations once again to Äijä's co-owner Anne and a big thank you for everything! Greetings to Denmark to Äijä's breeders Heidi and Anders, it is great to own such a magnificent and charismatic dog! Tara, the star of my first American Akita litter, showed in the veteran class for the first time and was BOB Veteran. Warm congratulations to Tara and her family. It was so moving to see how happy this old lady still is and how she showed so well with Laura with so many years of experience. Tara really looked like she was smiling in the ring, I was truly touched by her. 
 BOB Veteran Congratulations to Anne for the second CAC of Welho in tough competition and for the success of the mudis! Congratulations to Doris and her family for a great start in the junior classes, 3rd place in the Best Bitch competition is a great result. Congratulations also to Viivi and her owners, she showed well and was handled very nicely. A Big thank you to Heidi for being our driver and huge congratulations for Pipa's (Icelandic Sheep Dog) champion title! WOW!! Thank you also to all our supporters and friends for a nice day at the show. We made it home in the snow blizzard overwhelmed with happiness, Äijä's win was an incredible experience. Thank you to all the judges and show organizers who came to congratulate us. It really was awesome! November 2nd 2008 SSKY's puppy show, Vantaa judge Sheena Easton, UK (American Akitas) judge Soile Bister (Beagles) American Akita male puppies: Midian's Piece Of Magic 7-9mth Puppy Class 1, HP, BOS American Akita female puppies: Midian's Piece Of Heaven 7-9mth Puppy Class 1, HP, BOB, BIG-1 Best Brace: Midian's Piece Of Magic & Midian's Piece Of Heaven BIS-3!! 
 Midian's Piece Of Heaven Midian's Piece Of Heaven & Midian's Piece of Magic BIG-1 BIS-3 Brace Thank you Maarit Haavisto for the photos. Huge congratulations to Mervi for the success of our co-owned girl Pilvi! It was a great achievement, WOW!! The best brace competition was not that great to see as they both wanted to go to different directions, on top of each other etc. But we still made it to BIS-3, yes! Thank you to the judges. Beagle male puppies Midian's Emperor 7-9mth Puppy Class 1, HP Thank you family Tauriainen for entering Leevi to the show. It was so nice to meet you and show him. It was a shame that he was in a bit of strange growing stage and he sure has been a good eater... Good luck to the next events, it was a nice first show experience for Leevi and you :) The honor prize was a nice achievement! See you again!! Thank you to the judge. It was a shame we didn't take any photos.
 FIN CH MIDIAN'S JOHN WAYNE "VÄINÖ" Big congratulations to Väinö and family Palo for this great achievement, gaining Väinö's champion title at the Specialty Show!! It was so cool ;) Great job Maria and Väinö, way to go!! November 1st 2008 Specialty Show, Vantaa judge Sheena Easton, UK (60 American Akitas entered) American Akita male puppies: Midian's Piece Of Magic Puppy Class 2, HP American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Champion Class EXC/2, BD-2, awarded with the prize for Best Head Midian's John Wayne Open Class EXC/1, CAC, FIN CH!! Midian's North Milkboy Intermediare Class EXC/1, RE-CAC Blak Jak's All Or Nothing Open Class EXC/2 Midian's Aki-Ice Diamond Champion Class VG Midian's General Tiger Champion Class VG Midian's On The Rocks Junior Class G, awarded with the prize for Best Tail Midian's Impressive Bear Champion Class G Midian's Intense Dragon Champion Class G Midians King Of the North Champion Class G American Akita female puppies: Midian's Piece Of Heaven Puppy Class 1, HP, BOS Puppy American Akita females: Readbears Always In My Heart To Midian's Junior Class EXC/4, BB-4 Midian's On Target Junior Class EXC Midian's In Your Heart Open Class EXC/1 Midian's Little Victory Open Class EXC/2 Midian's In Your Hope Champion Class EXC/1 Midian's Eternal Flame Champion Class VG/2 Midian's Regal Rouge Junior Class G Midian's Kind Queen Open Class G American Akita breeder competition: Kennel Midian's, Breeder Class 1 
 Senseo Black Wizard BD-2, Best Head 
 BOB and BOS Puppies Midian's Piece Of Heaven BOS Puppy 
 Midian's John Wayne Midian's On The Rocks Midian's North Milkboy CAC Best Tail RE-CAC 
 Breeder group, Breeder Class 1 Thank you Maarit Haavisto and Katariina Lahikainen for the photos. A warm thank you to the owners of our dogs for this great turn out to the Specialty Show. Even though everythin didn't go that great let's be happy with the results we got and go to the next shows in good spirit. Overall our dogs did great in a tough judging! Some didn't have enough ring experience, coat, substance, size etc. Still we know that the own dog is the best :) You can't give up, shows come and go and so do judges opinions. The atmosphere at the show was good except for the lack of space and small ring in which it was difficult to even run with the dog. You had to be afraid of the slippery floor both at and off the carpet. The judge treated the dogs nicely and was kind. She wrote about things that were true but on the other hand she gave much value to small areas which played a bigger role in the final outcome than the overall picture (for example the paws). I was the only one who was able to show the breeder group. All the dogs were given excellents, two of them were class winners and one had become a champion at this Specialty Show. Despite this our breeder group didn't get the honor prize which I couldn't conceive as the dogs were already awarded with excellent which is a higher prize than the honor prize. The reason was that they needed tighter paws. Well, if you don't want to give any credit or want to encourage the breeding work done in the country that's fine but I have to say that I was offended by this and all the other breeders were confused and wonder how is this possible. Everyone within the breed would have granted the honor prize to our group because the judging was so tough but this was the outcome this time.. It might well have been that the judge didn't know about the judging rules in Finland etc.. The written critique was almost forgotten first but this I think is the fault of the organizer if they don't tell how you grade dogs in the country. I had six of my own dogs at the show. Pena was second in the puppy class with the honor prize, Khan our USA import was second in the Open Class with an excellent, Äijä our Danish import was second in the Best Dog competition and the winner of the Best Head award, Irina won the champion class with an excellent and Alice our girl born in Russia did best by being 4th in the females. Pilvi was first in the female puppies, received the honor prize and was BOS puppy. Despite everything it was nice show trip, we went camping for the Saturday-Sunday night in Lempivaara. The cottage was nice and we had a good time. A big thank you for the company to Mia, Mervi, Konsta's family and Ebba's and Nana's family (we didn't take those photos this time either). On Sunday we headed for the Puppy SHow with Mervi, Pilvi and Pena and had the same judge as on Saturday. The kids did great at the show! Thank you to the judge and everyone who cheered for us. Super thanks to Anne again for everything and congratulations for Nuppu's great placement in the Best Female competition. And a big thank you once more to the owners of our dogs. Huge congratulations for Väinö's champion title to family Palo and congratulations for the Best Tail award to Rocky's owners. Congratulations for the winners of the Specialty Show, Score and his owners and to Päivi and Mauri for Prada's great win over the females! Big congratulations also to the owners of Olavi's brother Mosku!
 FIN CH SENSEO BLACK WIZARD "ÄIJÄ" Our co-owned boy Äijä gained his Champion title with style in Seinäjoki, his 20th CAC made him a Champion right after he turned 2-years-old. Despite his young age Äijä already has many great achievements, for example Royal Canin BIS Junior and Grand Prix placements, Best In Show win at Jyväskylä, many group placements and a high placement in the Finnish Kennel Clubs Show Dog competition. His first offspring seem promising. Time will tell what the future holds for this boy. In the photos above is Äijä at different ages. October 25th-26th 2008 International Show, Seinäjoki judge Gunnar Nyman, Denmark (American Akitas) judge Rainer Vuorinen (Basset Hounds) American Akita male puppies: Midian's Piece Of Magic Puppy Class 1, HP, BOS Puppy American Akita female puppies: Midian's Piece Of Heaven Puppy Class 1, HP, BOB Puppy Midian's On Regal Rouge Puppy Class2 American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, FIN CH, CACIB, BOB, BIG-1!! Midian's North Iceboy Intermediare Class G American Akita females: Midian's Eternal Flame Champion Class EXC/1, BB-2, CACIB Midian's In Your Hope Champion Class EXC/2, BB-3, RE-CACIB Midian's Kind Queen Open Class EXC/1, BB-4, RE-CAC Basset Hound males: Yesterday Of Riverside Junior Class EXC/1, BD-2, CAC 
 BIG-1, BOB Anne, Äijä & Katri 
 BOB Puppy BOS Puppy A great weekend at the shows, we had some great success on our home show. Our golden boy Äijä gained his Champion title soon after he turned 2-years-old, it was his first try. This Champion CAC was his 20th CAC. On top of this Äijä was BOB and the winner of Group 5! We didn't get a placement in the BIS ring on Sunday. Äijä's and Irina's puppies did also great and Midian's girls got CACIB, RE-CACIB and RE-CAC. They were BB-2, BB-3 and BB-4 in the show. Oona was second in the female puppies and Poju got only a Good this time as he was out of coat. Just needs more muscle and coat before the next show. I want to say to the owners that don't enter the dogs to shows if they are changing their coat, they don't look their best at that time! Thank you to all our friends for a nice weekend at the show. I especially want to thank Marika who was here a couple of days earlier already to help take care of the dogs, bathing them etc. To Mervi and our co-owned girl Pilvi thank you for visiting us and congratulations for the BOB Puppy win! Super thanks again to Anne for everything and congratulations for the BOB win of your Mudi Hippi! Thank you for a quick visit also to Johanna and thank you for the photos! Thank you to "Malamute Suski" and her company for their visit, I hope the guesthouse was warm this time and you got some sleep. Thank you Suski also for helping with the handling. P.S. That photo with the "town nut" hat is not to be shown at public. We had fun even though we didn't have much time in the evening. You could sometime come earlier so we could have more time to spend together ;) Congratulations to Suski for the new Champion and BOB win!! See you next weekend! Thank you to Teija, the owner of Manu The Sausage, for rooting for me and Manu before the ring. CAC and BD-2 placement was a great achievement as I really don't know yet how to handle a Basset that well. :) We had a bit of a hurry before the ring. Next time I can't think that the schedule will be late ;) Fortunately we just made it. A warm thank you to the judges! Thank you to our friends for cheering for Äijä during the BIS competition. We did the best we could but this time didn't get the greatest placement. Well Äijä is only 2-years-old so there will be time in the future also. ;) Beagle
puppies expected in the end of this year to Greta and Rusty at my
friends in Estonia Jami
sends his greetings Greetings
from Into and his friends Beagle
puppies Fall
greetings from the E Beagles
September
21st 2008 Puppy Show, Orivesi
American Akita male puppies: Midian's Piece Of Magic Puppy Class 1, HP, BOB, BIG-1, BIS-2!! American Akita female puppies: Midian's Piece Of Heaven Puppy Class 1, HP, BOS These two pups were also Best In Show 4 in the Best Brace competition!! Pena boy and our co-owned girl Pilvi (co-owner Mervi Lehto) were at their first show in Orivesi and they did great with wonderful critiques. Thank you to the judges!! There were altogether 400 puppies in the show. Thank you to Mervi, Vilhelmiina and Antti for nice company at the show and huge congratulations on Pilvi's great start at the shows! Special thanks to Antti for shopping with us girls at the countryside flea market. ;) 
 BIS-2, BIG-1, BOB 
 BOS  BIS-4 Brace Beagle
puppies!
Youngsters
keep on growing...
September
13th 2008
Köyliö
American Akita females: Midian's In Your Heart Open Class EXC/1, PN3 Great job Mervi and Impi! September 13th 2008 Porvoo judge Pier Luigi Buratti, Italy American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, BOB, BIG-2!! American Akita females: Readbears Allways In Your Heart To Midian's Junior Class EXC/1, BB-2, RE-CAC American Akita female puppies: Midian's On Regal Rouge Puppy Class 1, HP, BOB Puppy Midian's On Stage Puppy Class 2 Thank you to all our friens for a nice day at the show! Big thank yout to Anne for grooming Äijä to the show again. :) It was a great accomplishment to gain the 19th CAC and of course the Group placement was the icing on the cake! Congratulations to the families of Oona and Doris for their success at the puppy class. Thank you family Palo for driving me and Heidi at Porvoo, we went to Brunberg's candy store etc. See you soon!! Thank you to the judge. The photos were taken by Anne Rautiainen. 
 BIG-2, BOB BIG-2, BOB BOB Puppy Puppy Class 2 Puppy Class 2 
 Leevi Leevi Thank you family Tauriainen for letting us see our boy Leevi who is bred by me. He has an outgoing and happy temperament and very promising movement and overall appearance, nice dark pigment in the nose for a red & white. September
6th 2008
Helsinki
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-2, RE-CAC Midian's North Milkboy Intermediare Class VG/1 American Akita females: Readbears Always In My Heart To Midian's Junior Class EXC/1, BB-1, CAC, BOS American Akita male puppies: Midian's On The Rocks Puppy Class 1, HP, BOS American Akita female puppies: Midian's On Regal Rouge Puppy Class 1, HP, BOB Thank you to our friends for a nice day at the show! Special thanks of course to Anne and Timo & Sami, it was great to meet the long coated Miina and Teemu who was at his first show. Big congratulations to the families of Oona and Rocky who were in the puppy class! We have some great looking youngsters growing up! Thank you to Heidi for the company at the trip and for helping with the driving, we had a tough trip once again. Thank you to the judge. 
 BOB Puppy BOS Puppy BOS Puppy BOS Puppy August 30th 2008 Yppäri judge Esko Nummijärvi (American Akitas) judge Juhani Lappi (Basset Hounds) AmericanAkita males: Midian's John Wayne Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, BOS Midian's King Of The North Champion Class EXC/1, BD-2 American Akita females: Midian's Little Victory Intermediare Class EXC/1, BB-2, RE-CAC Midian's Kind Queen Open Class EXC/1, BB-4 Midian's Little Love Intermediare Class G American Akita breeder class: Kennel Midian's Breeder Class 1, HP, BOB, BEST IN SHOW!! Basset hound males: Yesterday Of Riverside Junior Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, BOB, BIG-3!! Thank you to the owners of our dogs and to our friends for a nice day in Yppäri. Congratulations to Väinö and his family for winning the males and for the CAC. Congratulations to Viivi and owners Mia and Mervi for the reserve CAC. Thank you for waiting many hours in the chilly weather for the breeder class competition in the big ring. Thank you to Aini & Konsta, Kimmo & Väinö, Mia & Viivi and Eija & Nana for showing our BIS breeder class, great job! Miss Lyyli needs a bit more experience in the ring, that's why she only got a Good. Her ears went against her head the whole time she was in the ring and she was like spagetti; more practise, more practise. Thank you to the judges. I also had my friend Teija Valkama's Basset Hound Manu The Sausage at the show, his real name is Yesterday Of Riverside. He showed me at the ring that he can do what he wants, in Basset style. Manu realized that I was a first timer when it comes to Bassets. The Sausage sat down and also lay down at times in the ring, hah hah... But we did good as he was BOB and finally also BIG-3, that was great. I am so proud. :) Thank you Teija for trusting me with your precious Manu. You can take a look at Manu's other accomplishments at kennel Basstrik's website. Our daughters Elina and Laura were also at the show and everything went well. They asked me first thing in the morning before we left to the show, is the "squashed" dog coming with us. Manu has truly captured the hearts of us all. ;) Because of his looks and also his personality. Let's hope that he will be ours soon. :) 
 BOS BOB, BIG-3 24.08.2008
Kansainvälinen näyttely, Hämeenlinna
Fall
greetings from Nakkila!
August 16th 2008 Lapua judge Tapani Pukkila (Beagles) judge Tarja Hovila (Cockerspaniels) Beagle males: K-Run Windkist Rustic Ridge Champion Class EXC/1, BD-1, BOB, BIG-2!! Beagle females: Midian's Anastacia Open Class EXC/1, BB-1, CAC, BOS Cockerspaniel malest: Midian's Prodigy Pal Open Class VG/2 
 BIG-2, BOB BOS BOS We went to the show in Lapua, because it was close and we wanted to support our nearby show. We did great as Rusty ad Manta were the only ones receiving Excellents out of 12 Beagles. Rusty also placed 2nd in the group. Manta did great. She got her last CAC and was BOS. Congratulations to Manta's owners! Now she can come home to Tampere if you promise to still show her ;) Better luck next time to Pate and Anne. Thank you to the judges. August
10th 2008 Tracking test, Vammala
August
10th 2008 Puppy Show, Lahti American Akita female puppies: Midian's On Regal Rouge Puppy Class 1, HP, BOB Midian's On Stage Puppy Class 2, HP Midian's On Cloud Nine Puppy Class 3 The girls Oona, Doris and Lola from the O litter (sire Blak Jak's All Or Nothing, dam Midian's In Your Dreams) went to their first show in Lahti. All got very flattering critiques, they are very promising ladies. Below are photos of the girls. 
 Oona (M. Regal Rouge), Doris (M. On Stage) and Lola (M. On Cloud Nine)  Doris, Oona and Lola Rocky and his family came to visit his siters at the show as turists. Compared to the girls Rocky boy looked just like a bear, incredible strong and handsome young male. Thank you Sari and family for the meetings! 
Thank you all for nice company at the shows and for the gorgeous photos as well. Congratulations to Oona and promising super handler Jenni for the BOB win. Congratulations also to Doris and Oksana for their second place and honour prize, we were very happy with the third place with Lola. See you in Helsinki. August 9th 2008 International Show, Tornio judge Annukka Paloheimo (American Akitas) judge Pekka Teini (Beaglea) American Akita males: Midian's King Of The North Champion Class EXC/1, BD-1, CACIB, BOS Midian's Mystery Man Open Class EXC/1, BD-2, CAC, RE-CACIB American Akita females: Midian's Kind Queen Open Class EXC/1, BB-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB!! Midian's Little Victory Intermediare Class EXC/1, BB-2, RE-CACIB, RE-CAC American Akita breeder class: Kennel Midian's Breeder class 1, HP, BOB Breeder Beagle males: Midian's Copperman Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB!! Huge congratulations to all for great success. To Edi and his family big congratulations for their first CAC. To Beagle Vili and Nora huge congratulations for winning to whole thing!! Thank you for showing the breeder group in the breed ring to Aini, Eija, Mia and Mari. I didn't want them to go to the group ring because the dogs were not consistant in size, color, type etc. Thank you to the judges. 
 BOB BOS BB-2 BD-2 
BOB BOB
 JW-06, W-06, ESTW-07, FIN CH Midian's Impressive Bear Huge congratulations to the new Finnish Champion Elvis and Saila, great job!! August
9th 2008
Helsinki American Akita males: Midian's Impressive Bear Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, BOB, FIN CH!! Midian's John Wayne Open Class EXC/2, BD-2, RE-CAC Huge congratulations to the new Champion Elvis and to Saila!! Big congratulations also to Väinö and his family. Väinö is doing great at the shows, hopefully we will get to celebrate also his champion title in the future. ;)
 INT, FIN, EST, LV, LTU CH, ESTJW-06 Midian's Intense Dragon Huge congratulations to Heli and Into for this International Champion title!! A great comeback to the show rings!
August 1st-3rd 2008 Kuopio SAWO
SHOW, 3 x International Show judge Gert Christensen, Denmark 
American Akita males: Midian's Intense Dragon Champion Class EXC/1, BD-1, CACIB, BOB, INT CH!!! Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-2, CAC, RE-CACIB American Akita females: Readbears Always In My Heart To Midian's Juniro Class EXC/1, BB-1, CAC, BOS Midian's In Your Mind Open Class VG/1 ********* SATURDAY judge Leif Herman Wilberg, Norway (American Akitas) judge Owe Germundsson, Sweden (Beagles) 
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Opan Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB, BIG-2!!! Midian's Intense Dragon Champion Class EXC/1, BD-3 American Akita females: Readbears Always In My Heart To Midian's Junior Class EXC/1, BB-1, CAC, BOS Midian's In Your Mind Open Class G Beagle females: Midian's Anastacia Open Class VG/2 ********** SUNDAY judge Eli-Marie Klepp, Norway (American Akitas) judge Jose Homem-de-mello, Portugal (Beagles) 
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB Midian's Intense Dragon Champion Cass EXC/1, BD-3 American Akita females: Readbears Always In My Heart To Midian's Junior Class EXC/1, BB-3, RE-CAC Midian's In Your Mind Champion Class EXC/2, BB-4 Beagle females: Midian's Anastacia Open Class EXC/1, BB-2, RE-CAC, CACIB ********** What a great weekend in Kuopio! We had lots of success, more than we even dared to hope for. The Midian's Team came home with 5 x CAC, 4 x CACIB, 3 x BOB, 2 x BOS, 2 x RE-CAC, 1 x RE-CACIB. And on top of all this an International Champion title to the great Midian's Intense Dragon and the honor of placing 2nd in Group 5 with Senseo Black Wizard on Saturday!! Huge congratulations to Heli and Into for their INT CH title and for their all together eight CACIBs!!! Äijä has gained 18 CACs and 10 CACIBs so far! Our little "prindle princess" Alice was to our suprise very successful. The two day wins in the females with CACs was a great accomplishment. Big thank yous for handler Marina Ivanicheva! Big thank yous also to Svetlana, Roma and George Golota. It was nice to meet you again. Thank you for being your company and being a wonderful host on Saturday evening. Iina was bit on the heavy side, apparently due to false preganancy. Next time better luck when competing in Finland! We will meet again in September! Thank you for a nice Friday evening to Heidi and Tapsa. And greetings to Wleho also, he's a great boy!! Thank you Tapsa very much for helping us carry the crates at the show place, we did manage to put up the tent after all. :) Thank you Heidi for helping with the driving and also for the company at the shows and camp site. Next time we will rent a cottage. ;) Tero and the girls were also with us in a rented motor home were we stayed for the weekend. They had a very nice time, especially when the girls got to play with George. The didn't like it at the show place that much so they only visited on Sunday. A warm thank you to all the judges, they were very nice and competent! A warm thank you to all our friends for a nice Sawo Show. The weather was in our favor on one of the days. The show was well organized except for the rude parking staff. It was amusing to see them even argue with each other at times. I don't know what brought up such behaviour. ;) We also got told off when all we wanted to do was to unload our vehicle closer to the gate. The frist bans were silly in a sense that not all of the participants surely were entered already for Friday when you were supposed to go get them, that was a big minus. The show place had great food service. Even the picky eaters didn't need to go hungry at Kuopio. All in all the folks in Kuopio were nice people. Thank you for the photos to Johanna Huovinen and Maarit Haavisto. 
 Äijä Äijä Alice Alice 
 Alice Into Iina 
 Son and father, Black Wizard's Aim And Shoot & Midian's Intense Dragon July 26th-27th 2008 International Show, Pori judge Sergio Pizzorno, Uruguay (American Akitas) American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BOS American Akita females: Readbears Always In My Heart To Midian's Junior Class EXC/2, BB-2, RE-CAC Cockerspaniel females: Midian's Lady Planet Open Class EXC/4  Photo Erika Häkkinen It was a nicely organized show in Pori and the weather was great, even too hot. Big thank yous to Mervi for lending us a show tent and the crates and also for the tasty food, you don't get this kind of service anywhere else than in Pori. Thank you Mervi!! Thank you to all our friends for a nice show day and to Heidi for helping with the driving and for the company when travelling. We'' be back next year. Thank you to the judges. I also met two turists here in Pori, Midian's On Target and Midian's Piece Of Heaven. Both of the puppies looked promising, great!! Photos below. 
Midian's On Target Midian's Piece Of Heaven
Beagle puppies
July
20th 2008
Ylivieska
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB!!! Midian's King Of The North Champion Class EXC/1, BD-3, RE-CACIB American Akita females: Readbears Always In My Heart To Midian's Junior Class EXC/2, BB-2, RE-CAC Midian's Kind Queen Open Class EXC/1, BB-3 Midian's First Sakurano Open Class VG/2 Thank you to all the owners of our dogs and to all our other friends for your nice company. Thank you to Heidi for travelling with us and congratulations for the CACIB of your Icelandic Sheep Dog Pippa! Thank you to the judge. Photos Miia Piipponen (all but the one on the right). 
 BOB BB-2 BB-2 BD-3 BB-3 BB-3 July
19th 2008
Ypäjä
American Akita males: Midian's John Wayne Open Class EXC/1, BD-3, RE-CAC Congratulations to Väinö and his family for yet another successful show! Summer
greeting from Rocky! July
13th 2008
Leivonmäki
American Akita males: Midian's John Wayne Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, BOS!! Huge congratulations for the CAC to Väinö and his whole family! Keep up the great work. ;) July
12th 2008 International Show, Oulu
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB!!! Midian's King Of The North Champion Class EXC/1, BD-2, RE-CACIB Midian's North Goldenman Junior Class EXC/1, BD-3, RE-CAC American Akita females: Readbears Always In My Heart To Midian's Junior Class VG/1 Midian's Little Victory Open Class VG/1 Midian's Kind Queen Open Class VG/2 American Akita breeder class: Midian's Kennel Breeder Class 1, HP, BOB Breeder Our breeder group consisted of dogs which were entered at the show so it was not planned before hand. This is why the dogs were of different type, size and colour. We did not show our breeder group in the big ring even though we could have. July
13th 2008 National Show, Oulu
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-2, RE-CAC Midian's King Of The North Champion Class EXC/1, BD-3 Midian's North Goldenman Junior Class EXC/2, BD-4 American Akita females: Readbears Always In My Heart To Midian's Junior Class EXC/1, BB-1, CAC, BOB!!! Midian's Little Victory Open Class EXC/1, BB-2, RE-CAC Midian's Kind Queen Open Class EXC/2, BB-3 American Akita breeder class: Midian's Kennel Breeder Class 1, HP, BOB Breeder (We had the same dogs as on Saturday, they were not shown in the big ring.) Beagle males: Midian's Copperman Open Class EXC/?, BD-3 This was a show that will not be forgotten easily, we needed some outdoor spirit and humor to get through it. The rings were like mud puddles and they resembled mud wrestling arenas. I can only imagine how the owners of small dogs with longer coat have gotten through the day. It sure was an experience but there is nothing we from Bothnia would not get through, that's just how we are! ;) We were on the road with Heidi and we had a great time! Thank Eija for your hospitality and for putting up with us the whole weekend. :) Tank you also to all our friends and the owners of our dogs. We will be back next year if the show place has changed. ;) Congratulations to our Beagle Vili and his owner Nora! Congratulations also to Heidi for the success of her Icelandic Sheep Dogs! I especially want to congratulate Heidi, Tapsa and Welho, and of course Welho's breeder Anne for the great success on Sunday!! Welho is an amazing boy! It is great to see what a successful combination of Midian's dogs can produce. Welho is nearly perfect! Thank you to the judges on both days. 
 Äijä BOB on 12.7. & BD-2 on 13.7. Alise VG/1 on 12.7. & BOB on 13.7. 
 BOB and BOS on 13.7. Alise & Welho (photo on the left @Sirpa) 
BOB Breeder on 12.7. & 13.7. Lady
has been successful in Poland! June
29th 2008 Tracking test Elimäki
June
28th 2008 Beagle puppies were born in kennel Hessin June
22nd 2008 American Akita puppies were born
American Akita male FIN CH Midian's King Of The North "Konsta" 
 Congratulations to the new Champion! June
22nd 2008 International Show, Rovaniemi
American Akita males: Midian's King Of The North Open Class EXC/1, BD-2, CAC, RE-CACIB, FIN CH!! Wow, can there be any better news during the Midsummer Eve weekend! Huge congratulations to Konsta and Aini and their whole family for this champion title!!! Thank you also to the judge. June
15th 2008 International Show, Forssa
June
8th 2008 Tuuri Million Dog Show
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, BOB, BIG-2 Wow, what a day! Äijä showed like a dream with me and the result was great despite the fact that his coat was not at its best. Thank you Anne and "mudi grandma" for a fun day, we had a great time once again. Unfortunately I forgot to enter my other dogs to this show but luckily Anne had taken care of Äijä so I was able to go with him to this show near where we live. I also showed Nuppu. She placed third in the females and got a reserve certificate. June
7th 2008
Pieksämäki
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class VG/1 Thank you Anne and huge congratulations for Nuppu's first CAC. Thank you Tuula for handling Äijä! Midian's
Bob Dylan is about to become a dad Introducing
the P litter Welcome
Owelan Aspen "Olavi"
Summer
greetings from Doris!
May
25th 2008
Panelia
American Akita females: Midian's In Your Heart Open Class EXC/1, BB-1, CAC, BOS Huge congratulations for this first CAC to Impi and Mervi! Great job, best of luck to the next show! 
May
25th 2008
Oulainen
American Akita males: Midian's King Of The North Open Class VG/2 American Akita females: Midian's Go To Alpweiden Open Class VG/1 Greetings to Auli & Niki and Aini & Konsta, better results next time. :) May
24th 2008
Aptus Show, Helsinki
May
18th 2008 Greetings from Rajamäki
May
18th 2008 Tracking test, Pyntää
May
18th 2008
Pori
American Akita females: Midian's In your Heart Open Class EXC/1, BB-2, RE-CAC May
17th-18th 2008 Joensuu
judge Cristian Vantu, Romania (Sunday) Saturday American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, BOB Sunday (Int. Show) American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB Big thanks to Lotta Granström for handling Äijä both days in Joensuu. Huge thanks again to Anne for everything and big congratulations for the lovely Nuppu's (Black Wizard's Avec Wanted) puppy class wins on both days. Vappu (Midian's Hakuna Matata) and Into (Midian's Intense Dragon) sure did produce a gorgeous litter, you will hear about these youngsters! Thank you also to both judges! May
17th 2008 Puppy Show, Tampere
American Akita female puppies: ReadBears Always In My Heart To Midian's 5-7mth Puppy Class 1, HP, BOS 
 Alise, our little "prindle-princess", was at her first show in Tampere. She behaved and showed like a star, this is a great start. Thank you Svetlana and Roma for this lovely princess. Thank you to the judge. May
11th 2008 Tracking test, Ruotsinpyhtää
FIN CH Midian's Endless Joy Winner Class 1 41 points 
This was Bertta's first time out in the WINNER CLASS and she got the first prize straight awat! Huge congratulatiosn to Marika and Bertta!! Good luck for the next tests! May
10th 2008
Turenki
American Akita males: Midian's Impressive Bear Open Class VG/2 Good luck Saija and Elvis to the next show! May
4th 2008 Group show, Viitasaari
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class VG/2 Thank you Lotta for handing Äijä and thank you Anne for everything. Thank you also to the judge. ;) May
1st 2008 The traditional Match Show in Kauhajoki
April
26th-27th 2008 International Show, Vaasa
American Akita males: Blak Jak's All Or Nothing Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB Wolfteam's White Akbal-Bal Junior Class EXC/1, BD-2, RE-CAC American Akita females: Kulmakuusen Madara Champion Class EXC/1, BB-2, CACIB Midian's First Sakurano Open Class EXC/1, BB-3, RE-CAC, RE-CACIB Cockerspaniel males: Midian's Prodigy Pal Intermediare Class EXC/1 
BOB BD-2 BB-2 BB-3 A big thank you to Heidi for helping at the show on Sunday, for handling Sandra and Zoni and for helping to prepare the dogs for the show on Saturday. I think I would not have been able to do this trip to Vaasa without your help, because I was in Lahti by myself on Saturday. We did it, again! ;) Congratulations to Anne and Pate for a great result at the show! It was a shame I didn't get to to see you because you were in the ring on Saturday. April
26th 2008 International Show, Lahti
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-2, CACIB American Akita females: Kulmakuusen Madara Champion Class VG/1 Midian's Little Victory Intermediare Class G Thank you for a nice day at the show to Anne and a big thank you for everything! Thank you to Maarit for the photos and thank you to the judge. Many greetings to family Kivelä and thank you, it was great to meet you and to see your gorgeous boy. 
 Äijä Dara Viivi April
20th 2008 International Show, Jyväskylä
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BIG-1, BEST IN SHOW!!!! Wofteam's White Akbal-Bal Junior Class VG/3 American Akita females: Midian's Chiyo Diamond Champion Class EXC/1, BB-4, RE-CACIB
Just
amazing, Äijä went BEST IN SHOW in Jyväskylä's International
Show!! The group judge was Kari Järvinen and the BIS judge was William
Cunningham, USA. There were nearly 4.000 dogs entered at the show.
Huge thanks to Äijä's co-owner Anne for keeping him in such a
great condition! Lots of greetings and a big thank you to Äijä's
breeders' Anders and Heidi in Denmark. Thank you for a great day
at the show to Heidi Hautala and our other supporters. Thank you
to the judges, it was great to win such a big show! The photos
were taken by Liisa Vartiainen and Heidi Hautala, thank you!!
Thank you also to all the people who cheered Äijä to his victory
and thank you for the congratulations, we have had plenty!
April
19th-20th 2008 International Show Krasnovar, Russia
judge Ave Marshak (Sunday) Satuday American Akita females: Midian's In Your Mind Champion Class EXC/1, BB-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB, BIG-2!! Sunday American Akita females: Midian's In Your Mind Champion Class EXC/1, BB-1, CAC, CACIB, BOS Huge congratulations for Iina's success to family Golota and special thanks to Marina for handling Iina so nicely!! April
19th 2008
Kiuruvesi
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, BOB Midian's King Of The North Open Class VG/2 American Akita females: Midian's Go To Alpweiden Open Class VG/1 Thank you to Anne for everything and thank you Lotta for doing such a great job handling Äijä! To Aini & Konsta and to Auli & Niki good luck for the upcoming shows! Äijä got through in the group but did not get a placement. Thank you to the judges. April
19th 2008
Laihia
Beagle males: K-Run Windkist Rustic Ridge Champion Class EXC/1, BD-1, BOS Midian's Bob Dylan Intermediare Class VG/1 Beagle females: Hessin Tosca Open Class EXC/1, BB-1, BOB, BIG-1, BEST IN SHOW 3!! We went to the Laihia's show with three Beagles. We got great success, thank you to the judges! The only thing that was a bit dissappointing was the behaviour of our boy Bobby. His tail was down as the show scene seemed to be so exciting to him. Better luck next time. ;) Thank you Maria-Riitta for the photos and nice company at the show! 
 BIS-3, BIG-1 BIS-3, BIG-1 BOS VG/1  Tosca, Bobby and Rusty April
13th 2008 St. Petersburg
judge Olga Kosareva, Russia (Int. Show) Specialty Show for American Akitas American Akita females: Midian's Dayshimmer Girl Champion Class EXC/1, BB-2 International Show American Akita females: Midian's Dayshimmer Girl Champion Class EXC/2, RE-CAC Congratulations to Mervi and Aiko for their success at St. Petersburg!! Let's hope that the CAC will be moved to Aiko (the first in the class was already a Russian Champion) and Aiko will gain her Russian Champion title. This girl has plenty of titles already, great job!! April
7th 2008 Beagle puppies were born
March
30th 2008
Professional 2008 Show Moscow, Russia
March
30th 2008 Kokemäki
American Akita males: Midian's Intense Dragon Champion Class EXC/1, BD-1, BOB!! American Akita females: Midian's In Your Heart Open Class VG/2 Congratulations to Into and Heli for the BOB win! Good luck to Mervi and Impi for the future shows! Thank you to the judge. March
30th 2008 Korpilahti
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, BOB!! American Akita females: Timberlake Bear Open Class VG/3 Thank you to Lotta for handling Äijä so superbly! Thank you to Anne and congratulations for the success of your American Akita puppies in the puppy class! Thank you to Erja for showing our co-owned girl, better luck next time. :) Thank you to the judge. March
29th 2008
Midian's North Iceboy moved to his new home
March
24th 2008 International Show, Lappeenranta
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Intermediare Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB! 
 Huge thank yous to Lotta Granström for handling Äijä and congratulations for winning the Junior Handler competition on Saturday and for placing third on Sunday with Äijä. A big thank you to Anne for everything and thank you to the judge for Äijä's wonderful critique! March
24th 2008
Ruovesi
American Akita male puppies: Wolfteam's White Akbal-Bal Puppy Class 1, HP, BOB Puppy American Akita males: Blak Jak's All Or Nothing Open Class VG/2 
 Thank you Heidi for keeping such nice company at the show! Thank you to the judge for giving Zoni such a great critique. It said that Zoni is "a picture perfect male puppy" and that "he already shows like he owns the whole Europe". :) This was an excellent way to finish the puppy classes. March
15th 2008 International Show, Tampere
American Akita males: Senseo Black Wizard Intermediare Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, CACIB, BOB, BIG3!!! Midian's Mr Mic Mac Intermediare Class VG/3 
 Senseo Black Wizard "Äijä", (photos from the group ring by Siiri Saarela) Thank you Anne, Heidi and others for a nice day at the show! Thank you to the judges! March
14th 2008 Health check results March
11th 2008 Puppy check at the new MAi-VET pet clinic in Seinäjoki
March
2nd 2008 Puppy Show, Helsinki
February
9th 2008 Beagle puppies expected Beagle
greetings!
American Akita male FIN, RUS, LT, LTV & EST CH, ESTJW-06 Midian's Intense Dragon "Into"  Congratulations to Into and Heli for these new Champion titles, great work!
American Akita female FIN & RUS CH Midian's In Your Hope "Irina" 
February
3rd 2008
Keuruu
American Akita male puppies: Wolfteam's White Akbal-Bal Puppy Class 1, HP, BOB Puppy American Akita males: Midian's Intense Dragon Open Class EXC/1, BD-1, CAC, FIN CH, BOB Midian's Mr Mic Mac Junior Class VG/1 American Akita females: Midian's In your Hope Champion Class EXC/1, BB-2 See some photos and read about our trip to Eno's and Keuruu's group shows February
2nd 2008
Eno
American Akita male puppies: Wolfteam's White Akbal-Bal Puppy Class 1, HP, BOB Puppy American Akita males: Midian's Intense Dragon Open Class EXC/1, BD-2, RE-CAC American Akita females: Midian's In Your Hope Open Class EXC/1, BB-1, CAC, FIN CH, BOB See some photos and read about our trip to Eno's and Keuruu's group shows February
2nd 2008 Parkano
January
6th 2008 International Show, Kajaani
Beagle males: Midian's Copperman Junior Class EXC/1, BD-2, RE-CAC Catching
up with Midian's Ancelika
January
26 th 2008 International Show, Turku
American Akita males: Midian's Intense Dragon Open Class EXC/1, BD-4, RE-CAC January
26th 2008 Official eye examination, veterinarian Taina Lehtonen
January
19th 2008
Alavus
judge Paavo Mattila, Cockerspaniels Beagle males: K-Run Windkist Rustic Ridge Champion Class EXC/1, BD-2 Cockerspaniel males: Midian's Prodigal Pal Junior Class VG Sheerclever Victim Of Love Open Class G January
6th 2008 International Show, Kajaani
Beagle males: Midian's Copperman Junior Class EXC/1, BD-2, RE-CAC American Akita males: Midian's King Of The North Intermediare Class EXC, BD-3, RE-CAC American Akita females: Midian's Little Victory Intermediare Class EXC, BB-3, RE-CACIB Congratulations to everyone for their success!! New
Year's suprises!
Welcome New Year 2008!
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