5.1.2009
Mella is mated with Remu, Cheery Jack's Hula-ray and puppies are expected to be born in early February. More info under "Puppies".

2007

11.12.2007
Some updates on just about every page. The most important news must be that Mella will have her first litter next spring. More info will be coming soon.

6.7.2007
On June 20th 00:57 our little son was born. Everything is going smoothly and the dogs are ok about having a little "brother". Supi has taken our baby boy as if would be his duty to look after him and protect him. :)

6.5.2007
Mella is in heat for the second time in her life. First season was almost exactly 9 months ago. Supi will leave next week to stay with his breeder and will have lots of fun playing with his sister, mother and aunt Tiltu. Let's hope the girls can stand Supi, he is a true gigolo!
Supi's eyes are fine and the vet who operated Supi was very pleased to see how well he has healed. We'll have next control in August and then we'll decide whether or not the other eye needs surgery.

23.4.2007
We have moved and finally our internet connection is working. Supi went through eye-surgery in the end of February and has fully recoverd. He still needs to be medicated once a day and the medication (cortisone eye drops) will continue for several months. Mimosa is also on medication right now, she has a nasty ear infection in her right ear. Mella is the only one who is not sick at the moment but I bet she will go on heat within a month... It's 8 months now since her first heat so I'm curiously waiting whether she'll be like her mother and have her cycle every 8,5 month.
It seems that I haven't remembered to mention about our biggest news! I'm pregnant and due 18th of June so there will be no puppy plans this year. If everything goes well and Mella stays healthy, she will probably be mated in spring 2008. But we'll see what happens, at the moment I'm totally focused on my own (huge!) belly. :)

7.2.2007
I received the most awful phone call on December 19th. Tramp had died after escaping from a fenced yard and running into the horses' paddock. There was nothing we could do... :( Tramp is missed deeply by all of us and his memory will stay in our hearts for the rest of our lives.

2006

11.11.2006
I just returned from Germany a few days ago with a wonderful little puppy called Tramp! He is a sweetheart and at first it seemed that he will be really calm and cool. Now after really settling down, he has shown the little rascal side of him! Nevertheless, he will brake your heart with his sweet little puppy eyes!

14.9.2006
Bad news. Supi has cataract in both eyes, he was diagnosed today. HC seems to be proceeding in his right eye, so we'll go back for a check-up after six months. Then we'll decide whether or not he'll need surgery. The only good thing in this situation is that Supi hasn't sired any litters. Oh, and Mella's eyes and knees were all clean.

14.8.2006
Mella is in heat, finally! At the respectable age of one year two weeks, Mella decided to start her first heat on Friday. I came home from work to discover blood on the floor. I've only waited for about 4 months for this to happen. Mimosa has been sterilized for so long that I've almost totally forgotten what to do with a bitch in heat. Supi is going away from home for awhile, of course. 
We survived yet another exhausting weekend. Now it was our own agility competition. Mimosa has had bad luck in our own competitions before and this weekend wasn't an exception. She started to limp her left front leg just before we were supposed to start. She's fine now, thanks to massage and pain killers.
Supi was as fast and feisty as always. On Saturday we managed to get one result, finishing fourth with 13,73 faults. All the rest we failed. Now we just have to practice more to be ready for our next competition on September 2nd.

6.8.2006
Finally SawoShow weekend is over! Supi was Good, Very Good and Acceptable, Mella was Good both times and Mimosa was Excellent and was placed in her class! This pretty well sums up dogshows...
Agility has been so much fun. Supi and Mimosa have been to official competitions now, both have one result and two failed. Next weekend we'll have competition here "at home". I've also started on training Mella for agility and she totally loves it!
I almost forgot. Mella turned one year last week and she went to the vet to get her shots. The vet checked her bite (correct) and her teeth. She's missing 3x P1 (the smallest one of premolars) and one M3 (the smallest one of molars, the very last tooth).

17.6.2006
Supi and Mella at a group show. Supi was Excellent for the first time. He was also second best male and got a res-cert. Mella was Good. I'm proud of both of them!
Next dogshows will be in August and meanwhile we'll concentrate on agility. Mimosa and Supi will go to their first official competitions at AgiRotu which is a big annual agility happening. It will be lots of fun, just like last year and the year before that. After AgiRotu we'll go to a two-day competition. Can't hardly wait untill July!

23.4.2006
Long time since last update. New pictures of all the dogs (Mimosa's and Supi's in their own webpages) and I've also added quite a few links also. Snow is slowly melting so soon we'll start to train tracking and agility. I've planned to go to dog shows with Mella and Supi, the first for this summer beeing a group show in June.

3.2.2006
I finally got around to update Mella's pictures which were taken during Christmas holidays. Essi is showing her and Milla took pictures (kennel Tallihiiren). Mella's bite is correct now, thank goodness! Both Mimosa and Supi are well, our agility practices have started and both of them enjoy it. I'm now training obedience with Supi on my own and I'm hoping on going to a competition this spring... But we'll see about that!

16.1.2006
We've now settled in. Moving went fine, the dogs felt right at home as soon as they could go sleep on our couch. All the new sounds coming from the stairway are keeping the dogs alert as well as our couch beeing now next to the window. I hope they won't be on guard much longer... Now I just have to get up and start unpacking everything, I hate living with all these cardboard boxes!

10.1.2006
Mella's information can now be found from Finnish Kennel Club's database. There isn't much information yet but hopefully it will be filled with results from different kinds of tests one day. :)
We're moving to a smaller apartment only about 5 km from where we now live. I hope that moving won't be to stressful for the dogs (nor for me!). I'll keep all of you posted on how it all went.

2.1.2006
Happy New Year! We spent our New Year's Eve at home watching movies because Mimosa is scared of fire crackers. This year I gave her Serene-UM which is a food suppliment that increases dogs own serotonine production. Mimosa was quite fine up untill somebody was next to our living room window firing "screaming" fireworks. Mimosa started to shake and pant in panic. Mella and Supi didn't react at all, they only barked a couple of times (people were running in stairs making noise).

29.12.2005
Mella got her papers from Finnish Kennel Club and is now officially registered in Finland. Yesterday Mella went to see a vet to get her milk fangs taken out. Her lower fangs are growing next to milk fangs and will need to be manually manipulated in order to make her bite correct.

23.11.2005
Mimosa and Supi had their eyes examined, Mimosa was as healthy as before. Supi unfortunately has PHTVL/PHPV grade 2 in his right eye but his knees were healthy (0/0).

16.11.2005
New photos of Mella, who is now 16 weeks old. I've also finally made new pages for all of the dogs for all you not speakin Finnish can still know some facts about our dogs.

17.10.2005
Mella (Anbis Cassella-Caramella) is finally home! Her own page (in English) will be coming soon, meanwhile you can enjoy the pictures and pedigree from Finnish version.

25.3.2005
English pages opened. In case of any malfunction. please contact me by e-mail