• Cacib Székesfehérvár (H), Judge: Tibor Gellen (H)
  • Tally (Open): Exc. 3
  • Grace (Intermediate): V1, CAC, Res.Cacib

Tally	Grace & Tally	Grace

• International Dogshow in Klagenfurt (A), Judge: Mr. Javor Davor (HR)
  • Tally (Open): Exc. 1, CaC, Cacib
  • Panda (Junior): VG 2
  • Grace (Intermediate): Exc. 1 CaC, Cacib
  • Faye (Open): Exc.2 ResCaCa

  Tally has been awarded Best Dog (Cacib) in the last three shows under three differenz judges in two different countries, what a success! Grace has got her first cacib at her very first start in intermediate class at the age of only 15 months, what a good girl she is!
  
  Daisy's belly is growing and we really can't wait until her babies will be born in two weeks.

• Tally has sired his first litter of 6 beautiful puppies in Slovenia! More information --> here.

• Daisy is in whelp!
  What fantastic news today at the vet when we saw some puppies on the ultra scan.
  Our H-litter will be expected around 28th of June 2009.

• International Dogshow in Salzburg, Judge: Brigitte Bregenzer (Aut):
  • Tally: Open dogs: Exc.1, CaCa, CACIB

• Expected litter - more information --> here.

• We're back after two very exciting weeks in England, hoping that Daisy is in whelp and a very sweet bitch out of Alison and Bob's "Littlethorn" Kennel. A report and many fotos can be seen --> here.
• Tally will be father for the first time!
  In about two weeks Tallys first babies will be born and we're hoping with Lovro and Mateja for nice puppies. Updated as soon as babies are born.

• CACIB Show in Ceske Budejovice (CZ)
  Judge: Mrs. Margit Brenner (Aut)
  • Tally: Open dogs: Exc. 1 CaC, Cacib
  • Grace: Junior bitches: Exc. 2

• We got Grace's hipscore result and unfortunately it is only a "B". No problem for her or for breeding, but as she hasn't been in season yet, we would like to have another look at her hips when she is older.
  And now all things are packed for our trip to England!

• Grace has fullfilled the conditions for her second junior Champion at the age of only 13 months! So Grace now is Austrian and Slovenian Junior Champion!
• CAC Maribor (Slo):
  Judge: Marija Kavcic: Grace: Junior Class: Exc. 1, Juniorwinner

• International Dogshow in Wieselburg (A) on April 5th, 2009:
  • Tally: Open dog: Exc. 2 (of 8)
  • Panda: Junior bitches: Exc. 4 (of 10)
  • Faye: Open bitches: Exc. 1 CaCa (of 2)

We congratulate Julie and her Faye to their success and their second award for the Austrian Champion and Elke and Panda for achieving the Exc. 4 in a really good junior class!

Faye Heaven	Showing is tireing

• New fotos of Entertaining Jack and Gypsy.

• Breitensport Tournament in Austria:
  Big congratulations to Martina and her nearly 9 years old "Archie" to their big success in gaining 285,96 pts. ("Excellent") and first place!
  Also big congrats to Bernd and his nearly 7 years old "Beautiful Fly" to achieved 290,14 pts. "Excellent" and first place!
• Bettina und Easy are coming to train with us at the dogschool after Bettinas "Baby-break". Easy is a good worker and shows such a nice heelwork as his mum Daisy does. We took the chance to make some fotos.

• Daisy, Tally, Grace and me have had a lovely weekend at a herdingseminar with Marion Fuchs.
  We've had two wonderful days with nice people and have learnt a lot. Marion has a really good feeling for young dogs and gave us handlers at the right time an "Ohm!" to calm down and stop stressing our dogs!
  
  Tally, who has been a bit rough and stressed at the sheep in the last months learnt to calm down and that he has to concentrate and work with only small moves to work the sheep and he relaxed, what a good feeling to have a sovereign dog again!
  
  Grace made good steps into the right direction again and shows a nice feeling for balance at sheep, something we can build on.
  
  Daisy has had the chance to work on a really big field and showed impressive outruns on both sides. Firstly she got a bit stressed (or me) when she worked the sheep at low distance but learnt how to drive the sheep away from me. It was incredible how much all my dogs learnt in just a few minutes "Ohm"!!!
  Thank you, Marion, what a wonderful weekend!
• New photos of Grace and Easy.

• Today we've had our yearly examination for eye diseases incl. gonioscopy and the results are the following:
  • Flash Tally, Grace Kelly and Daisy are free from Glaucoma.
  • Tally and Daisy also passed their yearly test for eye diseases.
  • Grace will have her eyes examined after her hipscoring.
  • Tally has also his shoulders x-rayed for the OCD examination and also passed it as "free".

  Herewith Tally has passed all possible health examinations:
  Hips/Ellbows/Shoulders: free
  CEA/KAT/PRA: free as a puppy and 2009
  CEA/CL/TNS/MDR1: genetically free
  Glaucoma: unaffected

• We visited Gilmore Girl and her family this week and are happy to say that she's living a wonderful life and is very pretty! News photos on her page.
• Congrats to Finnleys showresult at the clubshow in Graz: Exc. 2, Res. CaCa.

• Today we got the following news from Alison and Bob Tunnicliff:
  "We had our two stud dogs goniscopy tested today SH CH Littlethorn Galaxy and SH SH and Word CH Littlethorn Continental both are unaffected, descriptive comments L&R NORMAL ANGLES PECTINATE LIGMENTS WELL DEFINED".
  Littlethorn Continental is sire to our Daisy and to our F-litter, Littlethorn Galaxy is sire to our G-Litter.

• National Dog Show inCelje (Slo)
  Judge: Lydia Oklescen (Slo)
  Tally (Intermediate): Exc. 1 CaC
  Grace (Junior): Exc.1 Juniorwinner, Junior BOB, Junior Winter Winner

I would like to thank my mum, Grete, who acompanied me to this lovely little show and helped me when I had to return into the BOB Ring with two dogs to handle Grace so lovely ;-)))
 

• Happy first birthday to all our babies of our G-litter!
  You all live a wonderful life in lovely families and brought so much fun and love into their lifes. See new fotos of all our puppies, taken at their first birthday, some at their first ski- holidays with their families, others at home in the snow (even in Germany, where Gypsy is living):

Gypsy King	Galaxy little Thorn	Gilmore Girl	Gorgeous Panda	Grace Kelly

• We got the confirmation of Grace's Austrian Junior Champion!
  We are so proud of our little star, who does so well in the showring! Thank you for being such a good girl and making all our dreams come true! Grace only needed three shows for reaching the Junior Championtitel at the age of 10 months!
  
  Now all our Border Collies living in our house are confirmed champions:
  • Beverly is Austrian Veteran Champion
  • Daisy is Austrian Show Champion
  • Tally is Slovenian Junior Champion, has one award for the Austrian champion title, two for the Danish champion, 3 for the Slovenian champion and 1 for the Czech champion title.
  • Grace is Austrian Junior champion, gained one award for the Slovenian Junior champion and one for the Czech Junior champion title.

  But all our Border Collies are not only very successful in the showring but also love to work with us in companion dog, tracking and also herding the sheep.

• Double Cacib with Crufts Qualification for 2010 in Brno (CZ) :
  Saturdays judge was Heidi Poschacher (A), Entry: 80
  • Tally (Intermediate): Exc. 1, CAC, CACIB (Best dog), Crufts qualifiziert
  • Grace (Junior): Exc. 2 (out of 21)
• Sundays judge was Milan Krinke (CZ), Entry: 64
  • Tally (Intermediate): Exc. 3
  • Grace (Junior): Exc. 1, Juniorwinner, Best Junior in show

Thank you for the fotos,  Cecilia and Imre Friderics!

• Double Cacib and Club Show with CAC in Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  It was such a stressful and tiring weekend: three shows in two days. I wouldn't manage it without the great help of Julie, thank you so much, darling! And Tally and Grace did so wonderful, presented themselves lovely although the were so tired.
  
  We've had a lot of competitors from all over Europe: Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany and The Netherlands. Results:
   
  • Saturday Morning (Stella Clark, GB)
    Tally (Intermediate): Exc. 1, CaC
    Grace (Junior): Very Good
  • Saturday Evening (John R. Walsh, Irl)
    Tally (Intermediate): Exc. 1, CaC
    Grace (Junior): Very Good 2
  • Sunday (Milan Krinke - CZ)
    Tally (Intermediate): Exc. 1 CaC
    Grace (Junior): Exc. 1, Juniorwinner

  So we did really well: 6 starts and 4 won by our kennel! We're so proud of out youngsters!
  Tally has now three tickets for the Slovenian Champion and now we've to wait a year to finalize his Slovenian Champion with the fourth one. Grace got her first ticket for the Slovenian Junior Champion.

• Now it is official: Zemo is my young police dog. I took him at the age of 3 months on 30th of September for the Austrian police (actually to give him to another dog handler later), but I fell in love with him immediately and so I asked my boss to keep him myself. Chili will be 9 in April and has got Arthrosis in both shoulders. So it was a good time to have a puppy following her.
  Zemo is a Belgian Shepherd - Malinois - from a wellknown workingline, bred by Markus Schwendinger from Vorarlberg. He shows great potential in working, high aggression level, good nerves, loves to work and is such a clever boy - and he is mummys darling!
  The moment I saw him I have wanted to keep him, because I saw what he could grow into and he really matures well.
  A big "Thank you" to my bosses and trainers who didn't want to seperate the big team Lisi & Zemo, so that I have been able to keep him!
  
  Find more information about Zemo --> here.

• IHA Innsbruck, Sunday, Judge: R. Blessing (Germany)
  • Tally (Intermediate): Exc. 4
  • Grace (Junior) Exc. 2
  • Faye (Intermediate): VG 3
• NHA Innsbruck, Saturday, Judge: A. Sladaschek (A)
  • Tally (Intermediate): Exc. 1, CaCa
  • Grace (Junior): Exc. 1, Juniorwinner
  • Faye (Intermediate): Exc. 2, ResCaCa

Another big success on the show in Innsbruck! Grace fullfilled at only 3 shows and at the age of 10 months the conditions for the Austrian juniorchampion and Tally got his first ticket for the Austrian champion!

• Today we have had lovely sunshine, so we took the chance to make some tracking training. It was the first time für Grace - and she liked it. Here a few fotos of our tracking dogs:

Daisy, 4 years old		Grace, 10 months old
Chili, 8 years old		Who's that? (More information soon...)
	Got it! Chili on hunting for lost things
		Well done, old girl!

• We have been at a sheep herding training with Barbara to learn handling Tally better at sheep.
  It also has been the first time for Grace at sheep, she is 10 months now. And she did so well! She worked very calm and concentrated and knew exactly what to do. Grace collected the sheep, found the point of balance at once and brought them to me, what a clever girl she is!!!
  Some pictures can be seen on Grace's page. Also a new herding foto of Tally on his page.

• Today a shocking message arrived: Double Jack Pot (Cinderella Princess of Green Borderline x Jakovall Truly Entranded) ran into a car and was killed. What a tragedy! This is the first member of the "of Green Borderline"-family who left us. Our toughts are with his human family and we want to thank them for those happy years he was allowed to spent with them.

Double Jack Pot
Nov, 21, 2005 - Jan, 02, 2009