Tuire at Dog Shows

To put it in a nutshell:

Multi Champion
International Champion
Finnish & Norwegian Champion
Baltic, Estonian, Latvian & Lithuanian Ch
Russian Champion
Baltic, Estonian, Latvian & Lithuanian Vet Ch

Estonian Winner 2002 & 2008
Baltic Winner 2002
Latvian Winner 2002
Estonian & Lithuanian vet Winner 2008

Multiple BOB and CACIB winner
BOB-puppy at Finnish National Speciality 1999
#1 top winning shiba bitch in Finland in 2001
Group placement BIG-4 at all breed show


Tuire finished her champion title in three successive shows in three weeks (15 days!), getting three CCs and being also BOB every time. Two of the shows were international championship shows and one was a specialty show. Tuire has been shown only lightly but in 2001 she hit the showrings a little more often with excellent outcome - Tuire was crowned top winning shiba bitch in Finland!

Tuire started her show career winning BOB-puppy at 1999 National Speciality under judge Antti Aarnio. While in puppy class she gathered many BOB-puppy rosettes and even a group placement. At Finnish Virtual dog show 1999 Tuire won Best Puppy in Show. In junior class Tuire was shown few times. In junior classes she won best junior bitch few times and in World Dog Show 2000 in Milan she got quite a nice judgement under Japanese judge Masao Itoi.

At Midsummer 2001 we were at Belye Nochi dogshow in St. Petersburg Russia. Under Mr Aleksander Burikin Tuire won BOB, got CC & CACIB and finished her Russian Champion title. At Tartu dog show in November 2001 Tuire won CC & BOB and finished her Estonian champion title under Mr Miklos Levente from Hungary. Tuire was also BIG-4 (M.Levente) and BIS-5 at brace competition with b&t shiba Basse under Zidy Munsterhielm-Ehnberg.

In 2002 Tuire's first show was Latvia Winner 2002 international show held in Riga, Latvia. Under Joszef Zeidl Tuire won BOB with CC and CACIB. She finished Latvian Champion and International Champion and got also LVW-02 title. Two weeks later at Estonian Winner 2002 show Tuire won BOB again. Judge Zhuza Farkashazi gave her also CACIB. And more was to come as Tuire won BOB at Baltic Winner Show in Palanga, Lithuania. Next dog show adroad was in 2003 in Norway at Oslo International show, where Tuire also got CC and finished Norwegian Champion.

Tuire has been shown very little after this, no shows in 2004 nor 2005, once in 2006, 4 times in 2008. The show in 2006 was JKC Speciality Show where Tuire got excellent under Japanese judge Fujie Shigeki. Next few shows were in 2008 in veteran classes with super results! Tuire got 4 x BOB-vet, 2 x BOS and 1 x BOB and also BIS-4-veteran and BIS-1-brace with Kimmo. No more show plans for this years, maybe next year.

As a youngster Tuire really enjoyed being in the spotlight, so some junior handlers participated with her in junior handler competitions which also went well. As a beautiful and exotic spitz, she certainly stands out between the typical junior handlers' breeds. She got some very nice wins with the young handlers.

Some highlights

Tuire going BOB puppy under Mrs. Haapaniemi, photo: Erika Häkkinen

Tuire going BOB-puppy under Mr. Juha Lehtinen

Tuire BOB and BIG-4 at puppy show

Tuire best junior female

Tuire going BOB in Russia

BOB in Eckerö 2002

Winner 02 show, judge Tomio Fujihata

BOB at Baltic Winner Show 2002