Today our beloved Alba left us, but not for her new home. Her new home was supposed to be Norway and she was supposed to leave us in December.
Nine days after the vaccination, three of our puppies caught one of the diseases that were part of it - Coronavirus. All of them managed to fight with this terribly dangerous disease successfully, but Alba gave up her long struggle for life today. She was a very beautiful female with a great character and we only hope that wherever she went, she is as happy there as she was with us. We will never forget her.

I added some recent photos of our cute puppies. You can see them here.

All puppies have opened their eyes but it will take another few days for them to start seeing properly. Every day they are faster but also louder - two of the males even started to practise barking :-). I am adding some pictures of this morning (click on the pictures for enlargement):

The first ten days passed very fast and with no problems fortunately. Fatima recovered very well and she has all her energy back now. The puppies are growing very fast and the average weight on the 10th day is 1052 grams! They eat all the time and every day they make a lot of progress.

I am adding some recent pictures of their father:

The 9th day of their life all the puppies prosper well, with average weigth of 950 grams and a lot of hunger for their mother`s milk. Look at the pictures of our cute mouses:

The big day finally came and Fatima started to give birth to the first puppy at 2 AM. Other puppies followed with some breaks 10 minutes to 1 hour long. Everything went ok and at 8:30 we had a huge surprise in the form of the last puppy -- it came out after a 3 hours break and honestly, nobody expected another puppy anymore :-).
In total we have 3 golden females, 4 black and tan females and 3 black and tan males. All ten are perfectly healthy and during the first day of their life they all put on some weigth - 40 grams on average. You can see some pictures of our little "mouses" here:




Father of the puppies also had quite a successful weekend: at the International Dog Show in San Gallen (Switzerland) he won CAC, CACIB and BOB on Saturday, and he added r.CAC and r.CACIB on Sunday. Congratulations to him!

Today it has finally been confirmed by our veterinary that Fatima will give birth to our first puppies around the 25th of May 2005. The father is Atos ze Stareho dvora, a very successful dog both in the shows and in work. Here is some information about him:

ATOS ze Starého dvora
(Alma Rùžové atrium x Argo v. Balmfluhkopfblick)
HD A1
Working exams: ZOP, ZPU1, RH-E
Titles: Czech champion, Slovak champion, European winner 03, CAJC, 11x CAC, 4x CACIB, 4x BOB, 6x rCAC, 5x rCACIB

If you are interested in this connection, please email me at klara.pipkova@centrum.cz or call +420 605 701 547.

We have a good reason to celebrate! Fatima gained her second champion title -- the Slovak Champion. On Sunday she won CAC and r.CACIB at the Slovak international show in Nitra. All her show results can be seen here

We visited our friends, kennel Modranska vinice, last Sunday and saw their beautiful 3-weeks-old puppies. The mother is Caty Kris-Ve-Mar and the father is Chiron z Páralovy zahrady. Aren´t they beautiful? Unfortunately, all of the 7 puppies are already reserved by their new masters... and we are really looking forward to having similarly cute puppies this June! I will not disclose the name of the father yet, but great mentalities, working potential and very good exterior is guaranteed. Is there anyone interested?

We celebrated at the very first dog show of the season! Fatima won another CAC in Brno, and thanks to her past successes became the CZECH CHAMPION! All her show results can be seen here

Her breeding code is "5/2a/A3,M1/AA" ...(AA = the best possible mentality).
If you know about any potential master for our puppies, which we plan for the next year, contact me at klara.pipkova@centrum.cz

Fatima gained V2, r.CAC this Saturday at the special hovawart club show in the working class. The show winner, BOB, was obtained by a black female Oriflame Gasko Prim. You can see Fatima´s show results here

We passed our second rescue exam during a lovely one-week training in southern Bohemia. RH-E is the entering exam to all other rescue exams according to IRO.

At today´s international dog show we added another CAC to our portfolio, this time together with res. CACIB.

Very similarly to the Slovak HW Club Show two weeks ago, we ended up with Excellent 1, CAC at the Czech Hovawart Club Show this weekend in Kromeriz. Pictures will be here soon.

Today we successfully passed our first rescue exam called ZZZ (Czech equivalent to RH-E) and finally became real members of the Prague rescue brigade.

Our young Czech team that went to the Slovak Hovawart Club show ended up with quite a success. Fatima Excellent1, CAC in the middle class, Afra Katcina smecka excellent2, r.CAC in the middle class and Albi Katcina smecka excellent1, CAC in the males middle class.

We passed ZZO, a new Czech national working exam that concentrates mostly on dog´s character and working abilities.

We passed ZPU1 (czech national obedience exam - second level) with a good result. The best part for us was tracking which brought us the full amount of points.

Today we visited another dog show and ran for the Class Winner and then won the Regional Winner title. Results can be found here.