What a beautiful Easter! Cold as winter, dizzle and wind ... Tyna and I competed in Obedience and got our first official title - OBZ! It was a tough one and I value it more than any of her showtitles :D

Retrieve over jump

On Friday, March 30 2012 Honzik joined the angels over the rainbow bridge ... part of my soul went with him. May he live on in his progeny and our hearts. We will never stop missing him.

Apart from the sad news we have some good news to share mainly from the showrings, our D-team made us very proud!!!

Tyna was shown "lightly" but successfully
CAC Brno 7.1. 2012, CAC, National Winner, BOB and BIG-2 (New Czech Champion)
CACIB Brno 4.2. 2012 Exc. 3
CACIB Brno 5.2. 2012 Exc. 1, CAC, CACIB
Championshow Bratislava, Best Junior, 2x CAC, Junior BIG (New Slovak Champion) - thanks to my husband for handling Tyna in Bratislava!
CACIB České Budějovice Exc. 1, CAC, CACIB (New CMKU Champion)

Einstein:
CACIB Brno 4.2. 2012 Exc. 4
CACIB Brno 5.2. 2012 Exc. 1, CAC (New Czech Champion)
Congratulations to Kamila and Enis' handler Hanka!

Boss (Dorian Gray Nyathi)
National show in Rakvere (EST) - got his EST Sert. and become champion of Estonia and finished Balt. Ch. Finally in main ring Boss was BIG-3.
Many congratulations to owner Maruta Ergle and best handler Dzintra Staprena!

Dixi, our first ridgeback crossed the Rainbow bridge tonight ... we miss her so much!

Tyna  and I have an amazing end of 2011 show season. After the very successful trip to Tulln in Austria (and strange judging in Ceske Budejovice where the judge did not award title because Tyna had scratches on her ear) we competed for the first time in Open class in last CACIB show of this season - The Prague Winner. And we did great!
She won her class of 17 females with CAC, bit later aslo best female with CACIB and BOB among 124 entered ridgebacks. In the main ring we took second place in group VI - BIG 2. What a day!

Tyna and I in supertough competition for CACIB with Markéta Novákova and Eliviann z Valdštejnských lip who took res CACIB
photo Vašek Švejda

Tyna taking CAC, CACIB, BOB, Prague Winner 2011 and later in BIS ring also BIG-2
photo Vašek Švejda

Our family did great too:
Dr. No Nyathi - Excellent
Hannah Ranua (Kaktus daughter) - Excellent 1, CAJC, Best Junior. By this win Hanička completed her Czech Juniorchampion title!
Alisa z Osady Taranka (Honzik daughter)  Excellent
Ashari z Osady Taranka (Honyik daughter) Excellent
Ashley z Pacovského dvora (Kaktus daughter) Very promissing 3
A'Virgie z Pacovského dvora (Kaktus daughter) Very promissing
Aimee z Pacovského dvora (Kaktus daughter) Very promissing
Aaron z Pacovského dvora (Kaktus son) Promissing
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

JCH Hannah Ranua, Best Junior
photo Vašek Švejda

Tyna is not only a very good showdog, she also occupies her - and mostly my - mind in Obedience. We took the chance to compete in unofficial competition for beginners. All in all Tyna did great work, I did not do such a great work :) and we finished on 6th place but very happy - both of us and it is the most important. With littlbe bit of my training  and some precision on Tynas side we can start to think of trying the entry level test :)

Tyna's heelwork, 10 points out of 10

Retrieve, 8 points, too fast to run for it :D. The judge on the left and steward on the right.
thanks to www.arcondia.cz for the photos!

Our lovely Latvian puppy, Boss aka CH Dorian Gray Nyathi gained his second adult title - Lithuanian champion.
Huge congratulations to his mummy Maruta and handler Dzintra! I am so proud of you.

One of the last shows we entered this year was double show in Austrian Tulln. This was Tyna's first show in Austria in adult class and we hoped to get first certificates (CACA) towards her Austrian title. Well, we did much more than that!
Our show team was coupled by Katka, Marek Ascot and Titi.
As usual, our trip plans were badly damaged by Katka's car now widely known as the French Willain, which as usual, decided not to do the work it was designed for.
Our results from Saturday's Bundessieger under Franz Zimmerman were:
Tyna: EXC 1, CACA, Bundessieger 2011, Tino won Open class with CACA and res CACIB.

Photo Vašek Švejda

The plan was to visit ReshZone kennel in the evening and to back to Tulln next day to compete at Clubshow under Jan Coppens. We were sure that the French Willain will decide otherwise therefore we found hotel nearby and spend evening in lovely chinese restaurant with all you can eat bar. With bellies full of shrimps we couldn't do more than just go to bed :D

On Sunday we were first on the parking place to find good place for our cars (our car and Katka's Willain).
Tino won Open class with CACA and Best Male, Ascot won Veterans with Best Veteran.
Tina first won Intermediate class with CACA, followed by Best Female

Katko, from now on you are the exclusive photographer of Tyna!!! even I look -5kg on the photo!

And topped it up with her third BOB/BISS. Once again the Ti-Ty team competed in the ring finals!

Many thanks to all friends we met in the ring and outside who made this weekend a real enjoyment! We are feeling bit tired this autumn therefore we decided to take a little show break. We have entred two more shows in CZ close to our place till the end of this year and we will be back in rings in 2012. Tyna has already run lots of laps in the rings around Europe and deserves a break ... and so do we !

Thanks for photos to: Vašek Švejda and  Martin Ludvík