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THE YEAR 2009

I hardly know where to begin! This year will be a year that I will never forget! So many things has happened, both good and bad, but in the end it is all the great things that without a doubt takes over and makes me feel happy and proud.

I should probably take it from the top!

January
Me and the dogs started off the new year with one of our best walks of the year. Blue skies, sun and a little bit of snow! Johanna and Wilson joined us and we had a very nice walk and photosession in the great weather.

Wilson and Yaya

Wilson and Yaya

Dando, me, Moa and Yaya

My boy Dando and me

Wilson, Yaya, Moa and Dando- The Kadamo pack!

For the first time ever I went to the big dogshow My Dog in Gothenburg. My sister Johanna joined me and we had a nice weekend at our little house in Varberg . The first day of showing Wilson was making his official debut as a junior, Yaya was being shown in puppyclass and Moa was shown in openclass.
Judge of the day was Ligita Zake from Latvia and first out was the puppies. Yaya won amongst all the lovely bitches and was BOS!
Then it was Wilson's turn to enter the ring with me and he did it well by winning the juniorclass with CQ. He went on to Best Male with all the big boys where he ended up as 4th Best Male only 10 months old!
Then it was Moa's turn in Openclass and she did just as well placing 3rd with CQ in a large class, and then went on to 5th Best Bitch!
The second day Wilson again won the class and Moa won the Workingclass with CQ but no placement.
This was without a doubt a great start of the year!

Yaya

Wilson

Moa

By the end of January Fendi (SVCH Hamnuddens Fendi) came into heat and it was time for me and her mum Carina to hit the road. We spend a very nice and exciting weekend together with Fendi's husband to be, Bosco (SUCH Zaxxon's Prince Bosco) and his breeder Lotta and owners Sandra and Jocke in Örebro. Thank you all for a great few days in your company!
Bosco and Fendi was a great couple and got along great. So with high expectations we went back home to Stockholm with a hopefully pregnant Fendi!

During this little trip Dando and Yaya were staying with Fendi's "dad" Micke. And Yaya kept him busy... She stole and ate all the dogfood that they had with them, she chewed and broke Dando's medicinjar and spread out all his pills...
So some phonecalls to my veterinarian later we could breath normal again and realized she was ok!
But that is not all! Yaya was good enough to break a huge table at Micke's work knocking out the legs of it, but her and her guardian angel walked away without a scratch!
I can just say that I think Micke was happy to see us come back and me picking up my dogs...

Lotta, Sandra and me happy about the first mating

Fendi trying to steal a kiss from Bosco

February
This month Yaya turned "junior" (9 months) old and started to enter the unofficial showrings as preperation for her official debut. She managed to win 2x BOB, 2x BIG-1, 1x BIS-3 and 1x BIS-5 from two shows with different judges! That showed great promise for the future!
At the show where she placed BIS-3 the BIS-judge was Mr Åke Cronander, a man I later on this year would start to adore! ;o) See below the reason for that!

Mr Åke Cronander, me with Yaya in the BIS-final, Yaya 9 months old

In the middle of February it was also time for our first ultrasound on Fendi which confirmed that she was in whelp. We got the chance to do it early on so we did a second one a few weeks later aswell which said the same thing. So now the real waiting began!

March

On 10th of March little Mr Wilson turned 1 year old! Time really flies as they say! Our little stunner was growing up!
By the end of this month he was X-rayed with perfect score hips A/A and elbows 0/0!

In March a lot more started to happen to Fendi and her belly! She started to get bigger and bigger and we did an X-ray which showed, well, a very crowded belly!
12 big puppies was hiding in there! And on March 25th it was time for them to pop out! Six sweet boys and 6 sweet girls!
All but one popped out without Fendi even having to work for it! Number 8 though (Ms Fat Orange) needed some assistance from the gravity before popping out and giving way for the last puppies.
It was really great to see how well Fendi handled it all, and again a BIG thank you to Lotta at Zaxxon's kennel for coming an being a great support the whole day and evening!

All 12 puppies

The first six puppies

April
The puppies kept on growing and developing very nicely. Each day something new happend and you could just sit and watch them for hours.
They started to open their eyes... they started to eat "solid" food, their teeth started to grow...
Twelve individuals and twelve personalities! It is amazing how fast you get so attached to these little once!

Then it was time for Easter and the International Dog Show "Lilla Stockholm". This time held at Kista Mässan on walking distance from me. So it was now time for Yaya 11 months old to do her official debute in the showring under judge Åke Cronander, remember him from the BIS-finals in February... Nice man! ;o)
She entered a pretty large juniorclass and my nerves was as always bad... But they didn't need to be! She won the class with CQ and got to compete in Best Bitch! My little girl amongst all the grownups! And it didn't stop there!
Yaya acctually won Best Bitch gaining her first CAC! Then she also went Best of Breed!
So in the afternoon we got to come back for the Groupfinals and it was judged by Manola Poggessi, Italy. And my little princess became BIG-4!
That is what I call a decent start of a showcareer!

Yaya Best of Breed with Judge Åke Cronander

Yaya BIG-4

In the middle of April both Yaya and Wilson passed their aptitudetest in Blood-/Fieldtracking for judge Allan Pettersson. Our good youngsters! This was the start for a summer with a lot of tracking!

We had one more show in April and it was the National Show in Västerås judged by Gunnel Holm, Finland. This time it was Moa's turn to shine by winning the Workingclass and ending up 3rd Best Bitch!

May
On the 1st of May me and Johanna took Dando, Moa, Wilson and Yaya and headed to Norrtälje for some fieldtracking. It was Yaya and Wilson's first time in Openclass tracking and Moa and Dando's first time in a very long time! Judge today was Leif Henriksson and all dogs did great!
Yaya met a moose in her track but this didn't even bother her she just kept on tracking. All dogs recieved 1st prizes and Moa and Yaya also got Honours Prize!

Moa, me, Yaya, Dando and Leif the judge

Johanna, Wilson and Leif again

On 9th of May Yaya turned 1 year old! Another very fast passing year! We celebrated it by going to the National Dogshow in Larv were Yaya was 2nd Best Juniorbitch with CQ and then also 4th Best Bitch! Wilson was 2nd Best Juniormale with CQ! Judging today was Manola Poggesi, Italy.
Our drive to the show was a bit of an adventure... We got hit by another car which made our car not driveable. So after a long time our sweet Dad came and gave us his car and got a rental car for himself. After that we could continue our journey to the place where we were spending the night. So instead of a nice dinner in great company it was straight to bed in the middle of the night and up early in the morning for the last drive to the show...

Yaya 9 months old

Wilson 11 months old

One week after that it was time for some more blood/fieldtracking for Yaya and Wilson. This time in Knivsta with judge Ingvar Jansson. Both dogs did great recieving their second 1st prize in a row. Both dogs gunshootproof!

Now we are coming to the end of May which also means the puppies moving away from home. It was 8 lovely weeks! Of course with a lot of bad smelling poo and cleaning, but that is what I signed up for from the start so it never really bothered me. Well, it wasn't always that fun to wake up around 5 am to clean after 12 puppies, feed them and clean again, and then trying to get some more sleep... But in the end it was all worth it!
So by the end of May all the puppies had left and I only had a little bit more cleaning to do before my place looked like it's old self again. (See more of the puppies HERE.)
Two of the puppies had left the country and flown to their new homes in Germany and Finland. All the puppybyers were very obedient ;o) and kept me updated right away when they got home on how they were doing so I could sleep relaxed at night!

Kadamo's America litter

By the end of May we went for some lure coursing with the dogs. Moa has done this quite a few times before and knows more than well what she is expected to do! She gets wild!
Today Wilson was going to try it out for the first time and he did so well! They both loved it so much!

Moa going wild!

Wilson all geared up!

Wilson doing hs first run

May ended in the best possible way with Yaya and Wilson going tracking for the third time both recieving a 1st prize! Third in a row for them both and Yaya with her second Honours Prize! This made them new Swedish Fieldtracking Champions! Hopefully their first Championtitle that will be follow by many others?!

SEVCH Tarujen Uyaya Kadamo

SEVCH Roseridge Red Rastaban

June
The best boy in the world- My Prince Dando- turned 6 years old in June! Of course the most important day of this month!
Dando has had a more relaxed year than the girls staying out of the competitive scene.
But he doesn't mind! As long as he still get's to do some training which means him getting treats he his happy!
Dando is my One-of-a-kind dog! I know I will only get one dog like him in my life and I feel blessed! And I am not even religious!

In June I also started the puppyclass for the A-litter. It was so nice to meet them regurly even though they had moved to their new homes! It is without a doubt a special feeling to see the puppies, the way that they remember you and love you unconditionaly!
That is a special bound that no one can take away from you as a breeder!

Of course we did some showing in June aswell. The summer season started off with a very rainy Ridgeback Speciality Show at Årsta Slott. Wilson did amazing debute in Intermediateclass making it all the way to 2nd Best Male, only one dog away from that first CAC.
Yaya was 5th Best Juniorbitch from a large class and Moa Best Workingbitch with CQ. Judge was Lena Stålhandske and breed entry 80+.

Wilson 2nd Best Male

Moa Best Workingclass bitch with CQ

So now it was time for Midsummer! Of course this means a lot more nice walks, swims and just good times! There isn't anything better than coming home from work early in the afternoon and taking the dogs out for a walk in the woods ended by a little bit of swimming in a lake.
That is why I am a summer person and not a winter one! ;o)

Dando, Yaya, Wilson and Moa

By the end of June me and my Dad drove to the northen parts of Sweden for a "relaxing" long weekend up in the mountains. We had a few days of hiking in the mountains that was just amazing. One of the best things I have ever done! So going hiking with the dogs up north is definetely something that I will start to do every year and I can recommend it to everyone!
Sweden is so beautiful and it is a great way to spend some time off but still enjoy the company of your dogs!
(See all the pictures from this trip HERE.)

Yaya and Dando playing in the snow

Thick ice

Dad sharing his dried meat with Dando, Yaya and Moa

Moa, Me, Yaya and Dando at the top of the mountain!

While we were up north I took the opportunity to show Moa in Norway for judge Per Iversen. He has liked her before giving her BOB and her first CAC one year earlier. So I had high hopes when arriving at the NKK show in Trondheim. Breed entry was 36 and Moa was shown in Openclass.
She won the class with Excellent and went on and won Best Bitch! She then got to meet the Best Male and won also over him becoming Best of Breed with Norweigan CAC and her first CACIB! This meant that the day she becomes Swedish Champion she would get the Norweigan Championtitle aswell!
We had an amazing day in the heat and sun with great company at ringside! We definetely like Norway and will come back!

Moa infront of the judging table

Moa and me running

Moa and me with her ribbons

Moa with her Norweigan CAC and CACIB

July
After our lovely weekend in the north we headed towards the Swedish westcoast for some more relaxing time and of course dogshows! We spend some days in Varberg with only one difficulty... Moa was in heat... And we were living with Wilson... But Moa fell in love with Dando so Wilson never had a chance! ;o)
During our time on the westcoast we did some swimming, fieldtracking in Gothenburg (1st prize for both Yaya and Wilson), visit at my puppy Gaya's home and a visit at Vereus Qoya's kennel.

Since I had a great time with Moa at the two days of showing in Tvååker last year we of course had to go back this year! First day the breed was judged by Ivana Bakal from Croatia.
First out was Wilson charming his way into this judge heart winning his class with CQ and then also Best Male gaining his first CAC! Not bad to do that at Swedens largest outdoor show!
Next up was Yaya and she also seemed to be liked by the judge who placed her as winner of the class with CQ. Moa also won her class with CQ so for the first time I had two dogs competing against eachother in Best Bitch. And since I can't clone myself I had to use the next best thing... Johanna my twinsister of course. She got to show Moa and I showed Yaya. Yaya did amazing becoming 2nd Best Bitch with her 2nd CAC! Moa was unfortunately not placed in the Top 5 this time.
Wilson was after that placed as BOS! So not a bad day! Two CAC and one BOS!

Me and Wilson moving

Me and Wilson when placed as Best Male with CAC

Yaya and me running

Yaya and me placed as classwinners

Moa and me running

Yaya and me in the ring

The next day the breed was judged by our big time favourite Åke Cronander and I had only entered Yaya this day. So we had a little bit of extra time in the morning cleaning out the place where we had been staying and well... time flies... It all ended with me pretty much running with Yaya from the car and straight into the ring!
After that experience I promised myself to always be at shows in time to relax before my turn... Anyway I was happy to see that the judge recognized Yaya and put her as winner of the class.
She did it again and won Best Bitch and Best of Breed with her 3rd CAC! (She has upto this day also given away two CACIB to the second place because she has been a junior...)
I was as happy as ever with Yaya winning both the Bitch CAC possible to win this weekend! To top it off she was also placed as BIG-3! (And her name was also in Hundsport after this show, unfortunately not her on the picture belonging to the text though...)
So to summarize this weekend we drove home with 1x BOB, 1x BOS, 1x 2nd Best Bitch, 1x Male CAC, 2x Bitch CAC and 1x BIG-3! And not to forget, the best prize of them all, the Hallandslax! ;o) Not to bad at all!

Yaya and me competing for Best of Breed

Yaya placed as BIG-3!

Johanna and Wilson with his CAC, Me and Yaya with her two CAC!

The Famous Hallandslax!

In July we celebrated our fourth dogbirthday, my princess Moa turned 3 years old! This year would turn out to be hers!

We spend some time in July with walks and swims with friends and their dogs. For example that one time by the "lake" Mälaren that we found in the woods! ;o) We were there with my friends Annso and Sara with their dogs and had a very nice day!

Tindra and Yaya swimming with the same stick

Tindra resting by standing on her backlegs in the water!

Fröja out for a swim

Dando found some nice boatpeople he could get dogtreats from!

Moa on her way out into the water

The last weekend of July we had two shows to attend. The first one was in Ransäter where I showed Moa and Wilson for one of Moa's favourite judges, Per Iversen.
The weather was pretty nice when we arrived but the longer the day went on the more rain it came... It was pooring down by the end of Best Bitch!
Wilson was first out in Intermediateclass recieving a 1st prize but not a CQ today. Moa won the openclass from 12 bitches with CQ and went on to become 3rd Best Bitch with her 2nd Swedish CAC! Only one more to go!

Moa and me in the ring

Hm.. did I mention it RAINED?!

Moa with her 2nd Swedish CAC

Right after the show we started driving towards Gothenburg but we did one stop on the way in Sollebrunn for some fieldtracking with Yaya and Wilson. They did good again and each got a 1st prize!

After this we drove to Gothenburg were we were staying at this lovely little house belonging to Nina and Jocke from Jamaajadi Kennel. We also had the pleasent company of my dear friend Patricia with her Ridgeback girls Moa and Sancy. We finished off this lovely day with a really great BBQ and we slept like babies the whole night!

Early next morning we drove to Tjolöholm for the Big Speciality Show judged by Torbjörn Skaar. Today it was just bitches being shown so Yaya and Moa was entered.
Yaya finnished as 5h Best Juniorbitch with HP out of 15! Moa won the workingclass with CQ. She then got to enter the HUGE Best Bitch class and I was very happy to be picked out in Top 10! Moa was finally placed as 8th Best Bitch out of 80+ this day! I was more than happy about that!
Since she had won the workingclass she also got to do an extra competition for Best Workingdog against yesterdays Best Workingclass male, Ch Kuzongas Sheriff. Moa won this fight and was rewarded Best Working Ridgeback at Speciality 2009!

The judge with me and Yaya

Yaya and me moving

Moa and me in the ring

Moa and me competing for Best Working Ridgeback against Mona and Cheriff

Judge Torbjörn Skaar with Moa and me

August
In the beginning of August I started to swim indoors with the dogs again. It was now time for Yaya's first attempts on swimming a pool, and she absolutely loved it! Neither Dando or Moa likes it that much so it was nice to get one dog who loves it!

Happy Yaya swimming around with a toy

Moa swimming and trying to find a way out of the pool!

Sweet slow swimmer Dando!

During the summer afternoons me and the dogs stopped at the dogclub quite often for some agilitytraining, obedience or other kind of training. They all seem to love to work and agility is the girls favorite because of the speed! They just go and does all the obsticles by themselves and comes to me for treats... The tunnels and "bridge" is their favourites!

Yaya looking very muscular coming up on the "bridge"

Dando coming down the A-obsticle at the same time Yaya flies over it...

Moa coming out of the tunnel at the same time as Yaya goes in!

My little obediencedogs! Yaya closest, Dando in the middle and Moa furthest out

In the beginning of August me and the girls took a trip to Örebro and Askersund. There we had two days of showing, first one National and one Ridgeback Speciality.
The first day was judged by Carl-Gunnar Stafberg and Yaya was first out in juniorclass winning it with CQ and a nice critique!
Moa was showed in workingclass and won it with CQ! Moa has been classwinner every entry in workingclass and with CQ all but once this year! Not a bad record!
So in Best Bitch my friend Lotta from Kennel Zaxxon helped me show Yaya. Yaya was unfortunately not placed but Moa was picked out for the Top 5.
The judge put the number 1 Championbitch between Moa and the Openclass winner and had us run like that. My heart was beating soooo fast! We were running as number 1! And that final CAC didn't all of a sudden look that far away!
When the judge pointed us out as winners I thought I would faint!
She did it! She got her 3rd CAC and the Swedish Champion title and was also Best Bitch! The best feeling in the world! Some tears of happiness fell before I got myself together again! Moa finished as BOS this lovely day!
And this was not all! Today she also recieved her Norweigan Championtitle!

Me and Yaya moving in the ring

The judge has pointed at us as the Winner with CAC, and as you can see I realized my princess just became Swedish and Norweigan Champion! A pretty nice feeling!

Happy me being congratulated by our new favourite judge Carl-Gunnar Stafberg!

Moa and me with BOB winner Lex and his owner Tina

Two happy handlers! What do you say Tina, since we enjoy eachothers company so much in the top, why not just stay here?!

We finished this great day with a lovely dinner at Kennel Zaxxon in the best company ever from Lotta, Johan, Maximus, Sandra and Jocke and of course all the Zaxxon dogs and puppies!
After a long day me and the girls had a nice bed in Sandra and Jockes home waiting for us and we used it well! Very tired after this great great day!

Moa and Yaya sharing a winners ice-cream

Dinner at Zaxxon's, Sandra, Jocke, Lotta, Maximus and Johan

Me covered in puppies!

Next morning we were off again to the showground for the Ridgeback Speciality Show judged by Per Svarstad and again I was showing both girls. Today we had some lovely company aswell from A-litter puppy Leya and her owners Carin and Stefan who came to cheer for us!

Yaya did as well as yesterday winning the juniorclass with CQ and Moa was for the first time shown in Championclass! Not the worst feeling I have ever had! ;o)
She did an absolutely amazing job aswell and won the class! So again both girls got to enter Best Bitch! Today I borrowed Sandra to show Yaya and she did it well! Yaya and Sandra was placed infront of me and Moa and then we got to run and run and run! And that's how the judge placed us! Yaya won the whole thing becoming Best Bitch with her fourth CAC and Moa was 2nd Best Bitch!
Guess which blond girl that was happy and proud today?! (ps... Me!) So for the second time this weekend I got to enter Best of Breed but with my other dog, still meeting the same male though, Lex!
Today it was the girls turn to shine and Yaya won Best of Breed for the 3rd time only 15 months old! And this also made her BISS! (Best in Speciality Show) Not a bad record for this young girl!

Sweet Leya (Kadamo American Brownie)

Moa cooling down in the shade

Moa infront of the judging table

Moa showing her movements

Sandra and Yaya in the ring running for Best bitch

Yaya and Sandra running as number 1 and me and Moa as number 2!

Me and Yaya winning Best of Breed, Tina and Lex BOS. Second time with Tina in the top this weekend!
(I just want to say I love to see the smiles on the audience faces! That is what I call shared happiness! Love to you!)

BOS Lex and Tina, Judge Per Svarstad and BOB/BIS Yaya and me!

Yaya BIS at the age of 15 months!

Moa and Yaya with all their ribbons and trophy

Agust went on with more dogshows, it was what kept us busy most of our weekends of this month! Next stop was the International Show in Norrköping judged by Eli-Mari Klepp.
For the first time ever Johanna was going to show Wilson by herself! And she did it well by winning the intermediateclass with CQ! Unfortunately no placement in Best Male but still a good debute!
After that I showed Yaya for her the first time in intermediateclass. She kept her style from Juniorclass and won it with CQ! Moa entered Championclass becoming 3rd Best Championbitch with CQ.
Johanna jumped in and showed Moa for me and I was very happy to see both girls picked out for the Top 5 placements! Yaya ended up 3rd Best Bitch and Moa 5th Best Bitch!
Another great weekend!

Wilson 17 months old showed by Johanna

Yaya becoming 3rd Best Bitch at her first entry in Intermediateclass 15 months old

Moa and me running in Championclass

After the show we stopped in my old woods on the south side of Stockholm for a walk and to let the dogs swim. Unfortunately Wilson got a deep cut in one of his toes at something near the water. So we had to do some First Aid in the woods using some poobags and hairbands. Luckily I have my lovely vets 24/7 that I could call and we never had to stitch it up. But not the best ending of a day that in other ways was good!

The next great thing that happended in August was that I X-rayed Yaya. Her scores came back clear! Hips A/B and elbows 0/0! I was so happy about this since I have hopes to be able to use Yaya for breeding in the future! So a big sigh of relief after this since Yaya has been my wildest puppy yet and I was afraid she would end up breaking legs instead of getting great scores!

By the end of August I took my first trip outside of Sweden with the girls for some shows and a family reunion in Finland. I was going to meet my A-puppy Myy (Kadamo The girl Next Door) and her mum Elina. After that I would be staying with Yaya's breeder Anne and attend two shows with Moa and enjoy the company of some more Tarujen dogs and owners!
But it all didn't start off great... I was seconds away from missing the ferry... Something had happend in traffic so I was stuck trying to get trough town and to the harbour!
I was talking to the ferrycompany on the phone and breaking every traffic rule there is and with some huge chunck of luck I made it on the ferry as last car before they closed...
I don't think I have ever felt so sick out of stress before and a few breaths and tears later me and the girls headed up to our little cabin.
We strolled around the both a little, enjoyed some fresh air outside and I of course paid the Taxfree a visit before going back to the cabin for a well deserved rest!

The girls out on deck

The girls on the boat

The first day in Finland we spend first on our own taking a long walk just outside Helsinki with a picnic in the grass, some playtime in a dogpark and some reading! After that I drove to Myy and Elina. We had a nice late lunch at their house before driving towards the woods.
We had a nice time there half lost and walking off the sun and of couse a little photosession with Myy!

Yaya in the dogpark

Moa in the dogpark

Myy 5 months old

Myy being happy!

Myy 5 months old

After this lovely afternoon I headed towards my breeder Anne. There I got to meet of course her pack of dogs but also Yaya's halfbrother Tarujen Samir and we had a very nice BBQ dinner.

On Saturday we drove to Kouvola and the National Show there judged by Vincent O'Brien. Moa was shown in Openclass and won it and also becoming Best Bitch with the finnish CAC which made her Finnish Champion!! She got to meet the winning male and won over him aswell becoming Best of Breed! The judged loved her and gave her a lot of praise which was very nice to hear!
So time for Group finals judged by Arvi Ellmen were she placed nicely BIG-2!

The ridgeback gang at the show, Little A-puppy Myy in the middle there to socialize

Moa and me moving in the ring

Moa being placed as BOB!

Moa placed as BIG-2!

After an extremely long day it was nice to get back to Anne's house were we had the pleasure to meet some of Yaya's siblings and relatives! We had a great evening with a lovely dinner and nice chats! I am so happy for each and everyone who came this evening to meet me! I had an amazing time!
(Individual pictures of all the dogs I met can be found in my Ridgeback gallery HERE.)

Gathering around for dinner!

Happy people equals great evening!

My two tired lapdogs took the couch together with me... My sweet princesses!

Sunday morning we got to get up early and head for the National Show in Heinola today judged by Lazlo Erdös. Moa today entered Championclass since she got the title yesterday and she won Best Bitch today again! For Best of Breed she met handsome Tarujen Penzi who took that today which made Moa BOS! Very happy about this!
After the show we left to go and say goodbye to Yaya's mother and the other Tarujen dogs before I had to drive towards the ferry.
We took a nice family photo with four generations together! It was great to have met all these wonderful dogs! And now I know who to blame all of Yaya's weird beaviours on! ;o)

Moa infront of the judging table

BOB: Tarujen Penzi and BOS: Moa

Yaya's greatgrandma Dolly, grandma Numa, mum Dana and Yaya

Moa and me with all her trophys and ribbons from this weekend!

September
In the beginning of September Johanna and Wilson went to the show in Högbo Bruk. This was Johannas second time showing him herself and her very first time going to a show on her own!
They both did good and Wilson won his class with CQ but wasn't placed in Best Male. Later the same day the met a judge for some fieldtracking. This also went more then well and he recieved a 1st prize and was very close to and Honours Prize aswell! Good job!

In the middle of September four of the A-puppies was shown in Alunda and did it so well! They all finished in the top with Charlie (Kadamo Don't mess with Texas) as BOB, Leya (Kadamo American Brownie) BOS, Ramoz (Kadamo The Stage is set for You) 2nd Best male and Chanel (Kadamo Lady in Red) 2nd Best bitch!

In September I also had the first puppymeeting with Fieldtracking for the A-litter. It was a great group that spend the day together and we also had the pleasure to have the company of daddy Bosco!
All the puppies and their owners did well and showed great promise! I hope we can do this kind of thing ever year! (See more pictures from this day HERE.)

Getting ready to hit the woods

Excited and happy dogs!

A nice coffee break!

In September Yaya and Wilson also got to do some more fieldtracking. We went one evening after work and they both tracked nicely recieving 1st prize. Yaya tracked soooo nicely that they judge almost gave her an Honours Prize. He told us that this year he hadn't given it to any dog but she was so close to get it... Oh well...

We did have some sadness in September. My sweet little guineapig Cewin passed away at the age of 8 years and almost 1 month! That is really old for a guineapig and it feels like he has always been around! All my dogs has grown up with him so it does feel a bit weird now when he is gone.
But he was always healthy and always hungry and was never afraid of the dogs. I can just be happy that he only got sick in the end and even though it was an awful decision to let him go it was obvious there wasn't any other way.
But this little guy will always be remembered!

Cewin 2001-08-25 - 2009-09-18

Cewin and Yaya in January 2009

To end off September we went to the Greyhound tracks for a Ridgeback race. None of the dogs has ever raced like this but both Moa and Wilson has done lure coursing which is very similar. So they both got to race and so did Yaya for the first time.
All three of them got the idea and had good times but Yaya the newcomer was the best of them making it all the way to 2nd fastest dog!

Moa running

Yaya running

Wilson running

October
This was a month that was different to our normal once! No shows this month either which is nice for a change. But instead me and Moa kept ourselves busy during the weekends with Obediencecompetitions!
Moa did her debute competing in Obedience on October 10th. She did well during the first thing that was laying in group. She was whining a bit because she was cold but stayed down the whole time.
When it was our turn Moa's focus was not on me but on the dog competing next to us. So not the best results today even though she did do most of the things decent, we ended up with a 3rd prize.
The day after it was time for our second competition. She was a lot more focused today and had more energy. Unfortunately she didn't enjoy laying down and lost some points because of that which made us end up with another 3rd prize.
After a week it was time for our third competiton and the rain was pooring down. If it was something that could be said for each of our competitons was that we were haunted by bad and cold weather! Not the best for a ridgeback!
Anyway the laying in group was probably the worst one I have ever seen, dogs walking off and refusing to lay down. Moa wasn't better and she sat up and sat the whole time instead.
But the rest she did very well. Since I had been practising a lot of laying down during heal since that has been the thing she hasn't been to keen on doing that now finally worked. The only problem is that now she didn't really listen and just did it by herself which meant that she laid down when I said stand aswell... Silly dog!
Anyway we got our third 3rd prize for this!
So time for our last competition the last weekend in October. Same crappy weather but Moa felt good. She laid the whole time in group but sat up a second before my command which made her loose point.
The rest of it went very well and we got some very nice scores and I thouht that this might be the day we recieve a 1st prize! So some waiting for the scores and when they came back I thought I would sink through the ground... She ALMOST did it... ONE (1!) point away from a 1st prize! Anyone who competes in Obedience knows how much that sucks! This was our last competition for the year and I wouldn't have minded if it had ended in a better way!
But still I am very happy and pleased with Moa and we are taking a well deserved rest over the winter and start again in the spring!

Moa sitting heal

Moa walking heal

Moa laying down during heal

Moa fetching

The last thing we did in October was to head towards our little cottage in Småland together with Johanna and Wilson. I had a few nice days off and wanted to enjoy them away from the city.
During this weekend we also went to the International Dogshow in Växjö judged by Rony Doedjins with a breed entry of almost 90!
Johanna showed Wilson and he ended up 4th Best Intermediate male. I showed Yaya in Intermediateclass aswell and she won the class with CQ and a great critique.
Moa was shown in Championclass and she also did amazing winning this class! So time for Best Bitch were I showed Moa and Johanna got to show Yaya.
And my girls did so well! Moa was 2nd Best Bitch with Reserv-CACIB and Yaya 3rd Best Bitch! Congratulations to Lotta with the winning girl Chelzie!

Wilson on the fields

Moa on the fields

Dando in Yaya's jacket!

All four dogs in the early morning

Johanna and Wilson

Me and Yaya standing as number 1 in Intermediateclass Yop 5

The large Championclass

Moa and me

November
The first weekend in November it was showtime again for a group of A-litter puppies. We had a very nice but long day together with some very nice scores! Winner was Ramoz (Kadamo The Stage is Set for You) who was BOB and BIG-2! I was very happy to see these five lovely puppies being shown so nicely by their owners! Keep up the good work, you are making me soooo proud!

From the top left: Vidar, Ramoz, Charlie
In the bottom from left: Leya and Chanel

During November I also had two small puppymeetings with fieldtracking together with a few of the A-puppies. It was so great to see these young talents track trough the woods! Absolutely great tracking dogs! And very talented owners aswell of course who manage to follow their dogs trough the woods without breaking any legs!
I am very much looking forward to see what next year will bring for these great tracking dogs! And of course see how they will do in the official showrings as they are now turning Juniors!

December
This months looked pretty much like the rest of the fall had, lots of rain and grey weather. But despite this Lucia came and the last show of the year, the International DogShow Hund 2009 judged by Sue Carter, breed entry 80+.
Johanna showed Wilson and did it extremely well by winning the Workingclass and ending up 2nd Best Male with Reserv-CACIB, just one dog away from his second CAC.
Winning Best male was our friend Enzo who became Champion today! Congratulations!
Yaya was shown in yet again a large intermediateclass and my nerves was bad as always. But my little star won the class with CQ!
Then it was time for Championclass were Moa ended up 2nd with some amazing words from the judge who loved her and the winning bitch. So time for Best Bitch, Johanna got to show Moa since I already new the judged liked her a lot and I showed Yaya hoping for a nice placement for her.
And they both did it! Moa ending up 2nd Best Bitch with Reserv-CACIB and Yaya ending up 3rd Best Bitch with CAC! Her 5th and she is just 19 months old!
I have to say that it was a very nice way to end the year!

Wilson and Johanna

Me and Yaya

Me and Moa

To quickly summarize this year I have to say it went well over my expectations! I am so happy to have seen Moa develop and making this her year and not staying in the shadows. She managed to Become 4th Most Top Winning Bitch on Guldhundslistan 2009! And also got as high as 12th place on Lydnadslistan 2009!
And for Yaya's year I have no words! I never thought I would have a dog this successful, it was of course my hopes and dreams when I bought her but I didn't think dreams came true for me... But this year they did!
Yaya managed to become 3rd Most Top Winning Bitch on Guldhundslistan 2009 and 5th Best Field/Bloodtracker on Viltspårslistan 2009! And she is only 19 months old!
And with little Wilson, he ended up being a very successful little coincident! And I have such great hopes for him during 2010. He finished as 11th Most Top Winning Male on Guldhundslistan 2009 and 7th Best Field/Bloodtracker on Viltspårslistan 2009!

	Moa (out of 12 Swedish shows) - 2x Swedish CAC - Swedish Champion SEUCH - 1x Norweigan CAC - Norweigan Champion NUCH - 1x Finnish CAC - Finnish Champion FIUCH - Nordic Champion NORDUCH - 1x CACIB - 2x Reserv-CACIB - 2x Best of Breed - 2x Best of Opposite Sex - 1x BIG-2 - Several Best Bitch Placements - Placed as 4th Most Top winning RR-bitch in Sweden 2009 - Placed as 12th Best Obedience Ridgback in Sweden 2009
	Yaya (out of 12 shows) - 5x Swedish CAC - Approved apptitudetest Field/Bloodtracking - 7 x 1st prize in Field/Bloodtracking - 3x Honours Prize in Field/Bloodtracking - Swedish Field/Bloodtracking Champion SEVCH - 3x Best Of Breed - 1x BISS - 1x BIG-3 - 1x BIG-4 - Several Best Bitch Placements - 2nd fastest dog at RR-Race - Placed as 3rd Most Top winning RR-bitch in Sweden 2009 - Placed as 5th Best Field/Bloodtracking Ridgeback in Sweden 2009
	Wilson (out of 11 shows) - 1x Swedish CAC - 1x Best of Opposite Sex - Several Best Male placements - Approved aptitudetest Field/Bloodtracking - 7x 1st prize in Field/Bloodtracking - Swedish Field/Bloodtracking Champion SEVCH - Placed as 11th Most Top winning RR-male in Sweden 2009 - Placed as 8th Best Field/Bloodtracking Ridgeback in Sweden 2009

A-litter (from puppyclass)
5x Best of Breed
3x Best of Opposite Sex
4x Group placements
4x Best Male
4x Best Bitch

So goals for 2010...
Well I have to say that I am so happy with what the dogs have already accomplished during the year. But of course if possible I want more! Who doens't?!
I hope to finish Yaya and Wilson's Swedish Championtitles when they turn 2 years old so we can start to do some travelling with them. I also hope for me and Moa to be able to have some success with our obedience and hopefully do some more fieldtracking.
But one of the things I am the most excited about for next year is the litter I am planning between Moa and Wilson! I have such great belief in this litter and I can't wait to see what the two of them will produce together! (More info on this litter can be found here.)
So I say good bye to this year with a lot of warmth in my heart and look ahead with a lot of hope and belief for this new year and decade!