Ossi was travelling with us in Europe in June. Here is his story (only in Finnish) and lots of pictures. We were also at few dog shows, in Germany Ossi was BIS-2-veteran and finished D vet CH (VDH) and in Switzerland BIS-1-veteran.
Ossi won BOB and BIS-3 at Finnish National Speciality. He was also BIS-1-veteran.
Kimmo is proud father to three little boys in Christen Lang's Kennel Enerhaugen in Norway. Lovely mom is Japanese import Aso No Kiyoka Go Takayuusou.
Ossi was BOB-veteran and BIS-4-veteran at World Winner Show in Stockolm Sweden!! Breed was judged by Elisabeth Rhodin and BIS-veteran by Italian Paolo Dondina.
Ossi had super day at World Dachshund Speciality! Under German Sieghart Muthsam Ossi won BOB-veteran and in finals BIS-1-veteran!
Kimmo's official hip and elbow results are here: hips A/A and elbows 0/0!! :-)) Kimmo's eyes and knees have been checked earlier, also they are best possible, knees 0/0 and no sign of eye diseases.
We had great weekend in Estonia. On Saturday was Estonian Winner show. Tuire won BOB and Kimmo 2nd best male, Ossi was 3rd best male and Gigo 4th best male. Ossi was also BOB and BIS-3-veteran. In Estonian Dachshund speciality Ossi won BOB - this was his 4th BOB at Estonian National Speciality! Also Meri was BOB and Gigo BOS. Ossi won BIS-1-veteran too. In group show for FCI 5 our Tuire won BOS & BIS-4-veteran and Tuire and Kimmo were BIS-1-brace.
Gigo won BOB with CACIB at Helsinki International Show out of 27 dogs and went all the way to group win! Also Ossi was BOB and BOB-veteran and was shortlisted in bis-veteran competition.
Ossi went BIG-1 and BIS-4 at Rauma all breed show!
In Lahti Int we had Ossi, Dairin, Malysh and Meri and all of them went to Best of Breeds! Our Dachshunds were judged by Kari Järvinen and Akitas Gunnel Holm. In group finals Italian Massimo Inzoli made Ossi BIG-3 and Meri BIG-4.
Kimmo is now also Fin Ch, his titles are now Finnish & Estonian Champion and Estonian Winner 2007, he also has 2 CACIB's and BIG-3-win from all breed show.
Ossi, Gigo and Kimo were shown at Jyväskylä Int show, total entry was almost 4000 dogs. Ossi went BOB and BOB-veteran under Paula Sunebring and Gigo 4th best male under Jose Homem de Mello. Kimmo did perfect going 3rd best male with CC and finishing Finnish Champion. In group finals Ossi had the time of his life trotting proudly around the ring and ended up as BIG-2 and BIS-2-veteran.
There are lots of new pictures of our dogs in Blog.
We had a perfect day at Lappeenranta with our Dachshunds! In wire-haired miniatures Ossi won BOB and Anni BOS, in normal wires Meri won BOB and Gigo was 3rd best male with CC and finally in smooth kaninchens Malysh was BOB. Lisbeth Campbell was judging. In group finals Meri was BIG-2 and Ossi BIG-3 and Ossi also went BIS-4-veteran! In the picture from left Ossi, Malysh, Gigo, Anni and Meri.
Excellent results for our dachshunds at Lithuanian winner! Both Ossi and Gigo went Best of Breed and got the winner titles. Ossi was second in the group finals and Gigo 3rd right after him. Ossi was also BIS-3-veteran. Our shiba veteran Tuire was also shown and she was BOS and BOB-veteran. Dairin's daughter Kukka was 2nd best female with CC and res-CACIB.
Next day was Latvian Winner in Riga. Ossi ended up as BOS and Gigo 2nd best male. Tuire was 3rd best bitch and BOB-veteran. Kukka went BOS. In finals Ossi was BIS-2-veteran. In Lithuania there was also international dog show and Ossi's daughter Trumi went BOB & BIG-2.