Last update 20.05.2006
HAPPENINGS 2005
25.12.2005 Happy birthday to Visse (Zagala Fantacy Fame)! She will be today 13 years old. She doesn't see or hear so well anymore, but otherwise this granny is totally healthy and brisk :)
22.12.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Janita Leinonen won agility Ranking list 2005 in Finland! This was really important to me, because I was quiting the whole agility with Tekla, when she became deaf. Who could handle the fast and deaf dog... But this black lightning just won everybody, when I learned to handle a new way and I started to handle, istead of assuming... Thank you Tekla for everything, you are a real jackpot, you have taught me so much about agility and understanding the visual angle of the dog. You are just a BDW (=Best Dog of the World)! Cosmo was number 13 in the same list. There are listed 999 best agilitydogs in Finland, all the sizes mixed up.
10.12.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita won an International agility competition in Stockholm :)
6.12.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Hanna Heikniemi-Patama won an agility competition with a clear round! There were 48 participants in class III, maxi dogs. It was just a pleasure to see and so enjoyable to watch, still smiling :)
6.12.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita made two clear rounds in agility competitions. We won the first one (52 participants) and we were third in the other one (48 participants).
6.12.2005 Ludde (Lunde til Decathlete's) and Jaakko Knuutti made a clear round in agility class III, congratulations!
6.12.2005 Rally (Decathlete's La Vaga Bonde) and Kimmo Sui came second in agility competitions in class I! Training starts to give results, good for you, excellent work!
27.11.2005 Thekla (Decathlete's Little Thekla) and Louisa Wibroe made a clear round in both agility and jumping course in class I! Congratulations, we are so happy for you :)
26.11.2005 Little Cosmo (Decathlete's Little Cosmo) and Per Hvid Hansen came second in agility competitions with a clear round! This was their third leg for class II, congratulations for a great run :) Right after getting to the class II, they won it with a clear round! They were approximately three seconds ahead of number two... Wow, what a day you had :-0 Well done, keep up the good work, we are very proud of you!
19.11.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita won an agility competition in class III. There were 41 dogs in this class.
19.11.2005 Arpa (Decathlete's Alea Iakta Est) and Hanna Heikniemi-Patama won an agility competition in class I with a clear round! Their time was over 20 seconds under ideal time... The course was just perfect, excellent Hanna :)
15.11.2005 Aino (Decathlete's Fidus Achates) and Mia Laamanen won two agility competitions with clear round in class II! They are missing one more leg before getting to the highest class, congratulations for your super day and great courses! It was pleasure to see those both :)
6.11.2005 Thekla (Decathlete's Little Thekla) and Louisa Wibroe took part to the Obedience dog of the year 2005 in Denmark. They won the final competition with 270 points out of 280! In total they came second with 1065,5 points, missing only 0,5 points to the winner. Thekla and Louisa took part only to six competitions out of ten possible. Congratulations to you two for your excellent obedience year and for winning your first inside competition! You are soooo gooood :)
5.11.2005 Ludde (Lunde til Decathlete's) and Jaakko Knuutti won an agility competition with a clear round! There were 51 dogs in class III. Congratulations, once again!
9.10.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Janita won an agility competition.
9.10.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita won a South-West area competition in agility. They have now straight permission to take part to the Finnish Championships in agility 2006.
9.10.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Janita and Wekku and Jenni Uotila won a team championships in South-West area competition in agility. Other teams had four dogs, we had only three dogs in our team...
8.10.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita came second in agility competitions in class II. We lost the first place to our teammates Fly and Mauri Helle, who were 0,04 seconds faster than we were :)
25.9.2005 Rally (Decathlete's La Vaga Bonde) and Kimmo Sui won an agility competition in class I with a clear round! Congratulations, you have developed so much in last six months!
25.9.2005 Arpa (Decathlete's Alea Iakta Est) and Hanna Heikniemi-Patama won an agility competition in class I with a clear round!
25.9.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Hanna Heikniemi-Patama made two clear rounds in agility competitions! They were third in both competitions, there were 42 and 45 competitors. Thank you Hanna, you are goooood!
24.9.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita made two clear rounds in agility World Championship team competitions. They were sixth fast in jumping class!
23.9.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita came 8th in agility World Championship in individual jumping course! Even though Janita falled before the last jump and the time wasn't working so their time were taking by hand. There were 119 participants in maxi dogs.
18.9.2005 Ludde (Lunde til Decathlete's) and Jaakko Knuutti won an agility competition with a clear round! Congratulations, you two rules :)
18.9.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) got a "good" in exhibition, so now he is ficially a Finnish Obedience Champion :) Thank you so much for Hugo's handler Nina Lahin for showing him!
10.9.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Janita won two agility competitions with a clear round :) In the other one Jenni and Space, our dear friends, came second, what a great day!
10.9.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita won an agility competition with a clear round in class II :)
4.9.2005 Ludde (Lunde til Decathlete's) is a Finnish Agility Champion! This was the first weekend that they could take the last winning for Champion title, and they made it right away :) Congratulations and a BIIIG hug to both of you, you two are just amazing!
Gonratulations also to Ludde's 'husband' Jatsi (Tending Blackie) and Lentsulle for a clear round and getting to class II in agility!
28.8.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita got a first prize in obedience elit class and now Huupi miss only a confirmation result to be a Finnish Obedience Champion and he is only 1 year and 7 months old... Finally we can concentrate to agility :)
28.8.2005 Zorro (Decathlete's I Did It My Way) and Sari Kärnä won an agility competition in class III with a clear round! Way to go, continue the way you started towards SM...
27.8.2005 Snoopy (Decathlete's Carpe Diem) and Sari Niemi won a water rescue competition in class 2 with 99 points out of 100! Congratulations you water beasts :)
27.8.2005 Little Cosmo (Decathlete's Little Cosmo) and Per Hvid Hansen came seventh in Danish Championships in obedience! They got a first prize, once again, congratulations, quite well with such a young dog!
26.8.2005 Janita bought a new training hall, 36 x 37 m, with 'trick grass ground' (I don't know the word), it's perfect to train again :)
21.8.2005 Fasse (Decathlete's Fusees) and Ville Maanavilja got a first prize in obedience class 2! Next time they will compete in class 3, congratulations and good luck to the higher class :)
13.8.2005 Little Cosmo (Decathlete's Little Cosmo) and Per Hvid Hansen came the third in agility competitions with a clear round! They need only one more clear round before getting to class II, congratulations, we're so happy for you :)
5.8.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) was DNA tested for CEA, the result was 'normal', he is not a carrier :)
30.7.2005 Aino (Decathlete's Fidus Achates) and Mia Laamanen passed the water rescue test! congratulations for "waterbeast" and the owner :)
28.7-3.8.2005 Janita and Jenni were visiting in Canada. Back to Finland was flying with us Flamma-puppy. Thank you Carolyn and Bob Lewis for taking such a good care of us! Welcome to Finland, it's our turn to spoil you...
23-24.7.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita came second in Finnish agility team qualifications, so we are going to the World Championships in Spain 23-25.9 and to the Nordic Championships in Sweden 10.12. Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) was the 10th, there were 99 maxidogs competing for team places during the weekend.
16.7.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) was the third in Dania Cup - final and Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) was the fourth! There were 40 best maxi dogs competing in the final in the end of the Dania Cup week.
16.7.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita came second in agility competitions. There were 87 dogs in our class.
16.7.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita came fourth in agility competitions in class II with a clear round. There were 53 dogs in our class.
15.7.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) got a douple winning in jumping class! There were 102 dogs in our class. This was Cosmo's secong Danish jumping ceertificate.
15.7.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janitalle made a clear round in agility class II. There were 52 dogs in our class.
14.7.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Janita came fifth in jumping class and got a Danish jumping certificate! There were 100 dogs in our class.
12.7.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita came second in agility competitions. Little Cosmo (Decathlete's Little Cosmo) and Per Hvid Hansen were third in the same competition, also with a clear round. There were 72 dogs in our class. So Hugo got to the agility class II just as 18 months and four days old!
11.7.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita won agility class I with a clear round! There were 76 dogs in our class.
10.7.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita won a jumping class and got a Danish jumping certificate! There were 102 dogs in our class.
10.7.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) came second and Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) was fifth in agility class III in Dania Cup in Denmark. There were 96 dogs in our class. There were participants from Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Norway and of course from Denmark.
10.7.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita started their agility carreer as 18 months and 2 days old in Dania Cup in Denmark. Hugo made right away a clear round and came to the third place! There were 76 dogs in our class.
7.7.2005 Haka (Decathlete's Le Livre Blanc) and Tiina Koistinen got a first prize in obedience class 1. Congratulations :)
30.6-2.7.2005 We had a camp for Decathlete's and Eyewitness dogs. There were over 30 bordercollies enjoying agility, herding, obedience and searching trial. Thank you for all participants and trainers and special to Sirpa Saari for hundreds of photos! I'll chance the photos of the participants during this week.
Photos: Sirpa Saari
19.6.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Janita got silver in Finnish Championships! There were 127 participants in maxi dogs. Congratulations also to other Warriors team members: Jaakko Suoknuuti and Dea for your pronce in maxi dogs and Noora Salonen and Bono for your pronce in mini dogs! Thank you for all supporters and special thanks to the Warriors team for the greatest medal-party!
Photos: Jari Nevalainen
18.6.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita came second in agility competitions! There were 83 maksi dogs in class III.
Photo: Sirpa Saari
15.6.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita won an obedience competition in elit class with 291 points out of 320! Couple of movements didn't work out the best possible way, but otherways Huupi was just perfect :) Now we are missing only one more first prize in elit class to become an obedience champions. So maybe we can get to our aim; to be obedience champions before starting to compete in agility...
12.6.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita made two cleart rounds in agility competitions. The first course they won and in the other one they were second.
12.6.2005 Snoopy (Decathlete's Carpe Diem) and Hanna Heikniemi-Patama came third in agility competitions. What a great course, congratulations!
12.6.2005 Haka (Decathlete's Le Livre Blanc) got a first prize in a show. At least champion titles are not depending on the show results :)
11.6.2005 Haka (Decathlete's Le Livre Blanc) and Tiina Koistinen won an agility competition in class II with a clear round. Congratulations, keep on the good work!
11.6.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita came second in obedience competitions in elit class. This was the first leg to obedience champion title...
10.6.2005 Sody (Decathlete's Bohemian Rhapsody) has moved to better running fields today. She was diagnosied lymph cancer abouth a month ago. We are so sorry for your lost Lis and the pain you are suffering at the moment :(
6.6.2005 Aino (Decathlete's Fidus Achates) was DNA tested for CEA, the result was 'normal', she is not a carrier :)
5.6.2005 Ludde (Lunde til Decathlete's) and Jaakko Knuutti won an agilitycompetition with a clear round! There were 82 maxi dogs in class III. Congratulations for just perfect course, absolutely fantastic!
5.6.2005 Thekla (Decathlete's Little Thekla) and Louisa Wibroe were spending a nice afternoon in the privat garden of the danish prince Frederik and princess Mary. They got a border collie puppy a couple of months ago and Louisa and Thekla were showing them agility. First Louisa did one course with Thekla and then prince Frederik did the same course with her. Afterwards Thekla played with the royal poppy while Louisa told to Frederik and Mary about border collies :)
In the picture: Louisa, Thekla, danish prince Frederik and his puppy Ziggy
30.5.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Janita are for a second month leading the agility ranking list in Agility Sports Bulletin (Agility magazine in Finland, where are listed 1000 best agility dogs every month. All the sizes are mixed and there are counted the success for the pair during their last 15 TR-competitions). Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita are in place 12.
28.5.2005 Ludde (Lunde til Decathlete's) and Jaakko Knuutti won two agility competitions with a clear round! Agility is easy now since you got BH title in front of your name... Congratulations, well done!
25.5.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita won an obedience competition in class 3 with 302,5 points out of 320. Mum lost 15,5 points, Huupi was just perfect :) Next time Hugo will compete in the highest elitclass...
25.5.2005 Ludde (Lunde til Decathlete's) and Jaakko Knuutti passed the BH-test!
21.5.2005 Haka (Decathlete's Le Livre Blanc) and Tiina Koistinen won an agility competition in class I with a super minus result -22,31, which was 10 seconds faster than the second one had! Next time they will compete in class II, goodbye those early morning wake ups :) Congratulations for the great course!
16.5.2005 Thekla (Decathlete's Little Thekla) and Louisa Wibroe won an obedience competition with magnificent result, 277 points out of 280! They lost one point in distant movement, everything elsi was full 10. It was the highest amount points given so far in Denmark this year and Louisa and Thekla qualified right away to Danish Championships :) What a perfect competition, you two are simply the best, breeders are bending down deeply!
16.5.2005 Little Cosmo (Decathlete's Little Cosmo) and Per Hvid Hansen came third in an obedience competition with 260,5 points out of 280! Looks like they will qualify to Danish Championships, congratulations for your even result level :)
14.5.2005 Zorro (Decathlete's I Did It My Way) and Minna Kirveskoski came third in agility compeitions with a clear round, well done Minna and Zorro!
8.5.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Janita won an agility competition with a clear round in class III :)
5.5.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) passed the bahaviour test BH.
Photo by Tuuli Mannermo
5.5.2005 Vito (Decathlete's What's Up) and Timo Haapanen made a clear round in agility competitions in class III, congratulations!
30.4.2005 Thekla (Decathlete's Little Thekla) and Louisa Wibroe got a first prize in obedience competitions with excellent points 271/280! This was their third first prize in class III, so they got a title Danish Obedience Champion (DK LPCH)! This is a new hobby to Louisa, so those great results are just SUPER :) Congratulations and tight hugs to both of you!
29.4.2005 Thekla (Decathlete's Little Thekla) and Louisa Wibroe got a first prize in obedience competitions! Congratulations for your great points, you do really nice work :)
29.4.2005 Little Cosmo (Decathlete's Little Cosmo) and Per Hvid Hansen got a first prize in obedience competitions once again! Congratulations for your great line first prizes in a row :)
23.4.2005 Ludde (Lunde til Decathlete's) and Jaakko Knuutti made two clear rounds in agility competitions and now she is qualified to take part to the team qualifications 2005, congratulations!
22.4.2005 Thekla (Decathlete's Little Thekla) and Louisa Wibroe won an obedience competition with 272 points out of 280! This was their first leg to the obedience champion title :) Congratulations, you always surprise us with almost full points :-0
3.4.2005 Little Cosmo (Decathlete's Little Cosmo) and Per Hvid Hansen got a first prize in an obedience competition again, now they have 11 points to the obedience dog of the year competition. We are very proud of you Per and Little Cosmo :)
2.4.2005 Little Cosmo (Decathlete's Little Cosmo) and Per Hvid Hansen got a first prize in an obedience competition, congratulations!
13.3.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Janita won an agility competition! There were 82 dogs in maxi III class. We had 1,5 seconds faster time than the second one and almost 2,5 seconds faster than the third one :) Tekla made a clear round also in jumping course.
13.3.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Janita won an agility competition! There were 50 dogs in maxi III class.
12.3.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita got 183 points out of 200 in obedience competitions :) Next time Hugo will be seen in class III.
6.3.2005 Snoopy (Decathlete's Carpe Diem) and Hanna Heikniemi-Patama won agility class III with the fastest time of the day! Only one more winning needed to the Agility Champion title, congratulations and warm hugs to both of you :)
5.3.2005 Haka (Decathlete's Le Livre Blanc) and Tiina Koistinen won an agility competition in class I with a clear round! It was over 21 seconds under the ideal time, way to go :) We were very happy that the second one was Jatsi (Tending Blackie) and Leena Välimäki, puppies will hurray to their daddy!
20.2.2005 Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) and Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) took a double winning in agility competitions handling by Janita. There were 47 dogs in maxi III class. Quite a weekend, I couldn't be happier :)
19.2.2005 Hugo (Never Stop Artist of Decathlete's) and Janita got 197 points out of 200 in obedience competitions! Only healing in leash was 8,5 points (Hugo didn't sit while stopped), all the the other movements were full 10 :)
13.2.2005 Zorro (Decathlete's I Did It My Way) and Sari Kärnä made a clear round in agility competitions! They were third from over 50 participants. Congratulations!
8.1.2005 Cosmo (Tending Magic Mind) and Tekla (Decathlete's Black Velvet) took a double winning in agilitycompetitions, handling by Janita. There were 57 dogs in maxi III class. What a nice way to start a year, especially in Hugo's 1-year birthday :)