Finnish Toller Speciality
11-13th June 1999
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It had been warm for a few days already, and my humans decided to make it even warmer. In the car we went and
drove to this place my humans preferred to call Aitoo. I think tollerheaven would have beem a better name! There were
lots of tollers - a million or maybe just about 80 - who knows. We did some training stuff, walking in the woods,
swimming in the lake, sleeping in a tent and other stuff too.
I don't have all the pictures yet, but I'll update this page if I get some good stuff.
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One of the funniest things was the running competition. Being the fastest toller of the galaxy I was sure
I'd win, but I didn't! Nitro was first with the time 5.70 and I shared the second
place with two other dogs. Our time was 6.10. I just have to do
better next year! Here I am with the winner anyway.
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Here I try to teach my human a little agility. I'd never trained agility before, but hey, when one's a
natural talent, one doesn't need to! I hope I can train my human more sometime, because she really
needs it!
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The tunnel was first a little bit scary when you didn't see through it, and if you run into
some bitches in it, it could mean trouble. |

This was little more difficult. Trying to get the bait is anyway something I do gladly. |

Here I'm trying out the lake with my sister Riina (Trindy's Paradise Barbi).
You remember I have four sisters and three brothers? (I don't..) Riina was anyway the first
littermate I've met.
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My sis was a real dish. I'm not sure, but I suspect that my humans didn't really like my loving attitude.
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On Sunday there was big show. Combing and combing, no swimming. How could one possibly think that's
fun? My humans did anyway. Here I am with my six soulmates (I'm the leftmost one). Young guys who all propably would
prefer to be someplace else...
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And here we're running. I didn't do so well. Normally I've got much more energy and am able
to run much faster than my human and search the ground for sweets, flowers etc. Now I was a bit tired from the
exhausting weekend and the incredible heat, so I had to trot just nicely beside my human.
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Here, still exhausted I stood rather still and let the nice people take a good look at me. That wasn't so bad
actually. The judge Mona Gustavsson was a harmless human. |

Here's a moment of glory. They say I won in my group (junior males)! Second was Nordwart Bijou
(s:Foxgrove's Timberlea Wood Duck
d: Harbourlights Pick Up Sticks) and third was Mindare's Trombi at Ares
(s: Hircum's Jacquino d: Siphra's Indian Ramona).
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Here we are again... I figured that as I had won the game, I was allowed to do what I want and
I thought I'd start with the nice things the nice lady had in her hand. Too bad I was stopped
before I had found out which ribbon actually would have been the best one.
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As I made so well in the first round, I got to the second one too. With me I had the two soulmated from the
first round and a lot of other guys, maybe older and wiser than myself - but mind you, not wilder! The whole running
around business was getting on my nerves, and as a natural talent I assumed I could decide on the pace. So soon I
speeded up! Nice trotting is for bores and veterans!
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Another moment of glory, this one even better than the first one! Being second to such a dog as
Fin Ch WW-98 Siphra's Indiana Jones (s: Rödrävens Björnbär d: Westerlea's Tornado at Siphra) is not bad!
Third was
Mäkiharjun Prima-Penner (s: Siphra's Indian Red Hawk
d: Nordwart Hestia), fourth was
Hedera's Barbate Beam (s: Small Fetcher Asterix d: Hedera's Orange Flower) and fifth was Fin, Swe & Int Ch Siphra's
Indian Red Hawk (s: Rödrävens Björnbär d: Westerlea's
Tornado at Siphra).
In front of us magnificent dogs is Mika (from m-file 18), he
didn't get any price despite the pose.
Wanna know what the judge said?
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