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Katariina Roiha's Blog – April 2009 Archive (5)

Easter training

The snow covered mountains of ours have started to melt because of a heatwave. Well this won´t last long as we know summer can not arrive in lapland yet.

Grouses have started mating season though and they are super nice to dogs. They stay put and dogs have time to inhale wonderful scents of grouse-perfume

I trained obedience with these tamed grouse… Continue

Added by Katariina Roiha on April 13, 2009 at 5:30am — 9 Comments

How the"best dog of Winter Trials" relaxes after hunting season...

A wooden stick has magic powers...

...in making a young setter go wild

Every masterhunter is a bit of a nutcase ;)

Added by Katariina Roiha on April 6, 2009 at 1:10pm — 5 Comments

The kennel Ailigaslammen setters are here again ;)

After a long period of silent times we are back in pictures :)

The weather is nice and temperatures are nearly on the + side. Spring is always coming slowly up here in Lapland...

Grouse situation is looking good. Those we missed in the fall have come back. Where ever they left us, we don´t know ?but the important thing is that grouses are seen in big flocks. Those big flocks are… Continue

Added by Katariina Roiha on April 5, 2009 at 10:22am — 12 Comments

More pictures of finnish Winter Trials spring -09

IS Kragereden Hjalte

English Pointer Hirvasvuopion Cajo

IS Finby Chico

IS Finby Daim

ES Ohlsmyrens Sting

IS Kynis Sophie

IS Håkoyas C-Spitfire and winter… Continue

Added by Katariina Roiha on April 4, 2009 at 2:23pm — 8 Comments

Our ES North Walkers Sirius was chosen the best hunting dog in finnish winter trials in the fjell/lappish mountain

Plus he recieved the 3.prize in open class. He would have recieved the first prize if my husband would´ve shot the grouse down but snowy terrain makes it usually hard to succeed in shooting a white grouse in winter trials...and finnish rules are strict...:(

The judge was from Norway, Roger Halvari from Vadsö. We had 31 dogs starting in the trials. Only 3 setters won prizes. IS Håkoya´s C-Spitfire and IS Finby Chico were prized with… Continue

Added by Katariina Roiha on April 3, 2009 at 2:10pm — 11 Comments