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December 30th

Put in some pictures of Yippie in his gallery from when he was 5½ months old. New pictures of Tiger & Stavros from a summershow 2008.

I finally gave up the old guestbook that never worked and installed a new one, feel free to try it out!
A few new pictures of our cats!

A long time since the last update, things are busy with a little baby at home!

Sotis is doing very well after all of her shoulder issues. She walks a bit strange but is happy and plays with the other dogs and is painfree now, so we are very greatful that she is still in our lives.

We have been to a several shows and a few are worth mentioning.

Stavros went to our local Kennel club show in the beginning of October to warm up for the remaining of this years showing. He did well and ended up BIS 3 of all breeds just after celebrating his 1st Birthday.

In the beginning of November we went to a Whippet club speciality and Stavros won Junior class, Best In Show Junior and was placed as 4th best dog.
Bree was 2nd in Championclass and ended up 4th best bitch, more than 120 whippets were entered to this show! Tiger won championclass and ended up 2nd best dog. Judge Roger Wiklund, Signum Whippets.
At this show we got to see 4 of Lacey's puppies, from our 2008 litter. I took pictures of all 4, go see them on Kelly, Wiggo, Klara & Annies pages!

The weekend after that we went to a Sighthound show and again Stavros won Junior class. He ended up 2nd best dog, judge Saija Juutilainen Finland.
Finally we went to the last show of this year and once again Stavros won Junior class which qualified him for Crufts 2009 (again since he won junior class at the World show also!!). He was placed 5th best dog. Bree was 2nd in champion class and ended up 2nd best bitch, judge Unto Timonen Finland (Woodbrook's).

To sum things up for 2008 Bree is 3rd top winning bitch in Sweden. Stavros 5th top male & 2nd on the debutant list, pretty darn good concidering only being able to compete since July when he went out for the first time in junior class and became a World Winner! Tiger was 3rd top male.
Burnt Sienna was 4th top breeder with only 6 dogs competing and Sotis 2nd top brood bitch. Stella was nr 1 Whippet Race bitch!

So we can say that we are happy with this years results and are even happier for our beautiful baby girl Kendra!

September 11th

Bree gained her Swedish, Danish & Norwegian Championship last weekend! She won her final Swedish CC & R-Cacib at the Kennel club show in Högbo, 2nd BB after winning Open bitch class and only beaten by an International Champion in BB line up.

Steffie was 2nd in championclass but not placed in the BB line up.
Stavros won Juniorclass and ended up 5th BD after 3 champions and an Open dog that received the CC.
Burnt Sienna also won Breeders class but didn't stay for the finals. Steffie was in heat and Stavros was going wild after her......

Judge Nenne Runsten, Sweden of kennel Airescot.

Kendra and daddy Krister were with us at this 2 day show. Kendras first trip to a show, 15 days old and staying at a hotel! Daddy did an excellent job taking care of her while mommy was busy with the dogs.

We picked up Sotis at the Animal hospital on monday, she was just as happy as we were to come home again.
Just look at what they took out of her, all of this hardware is from her surgery last fall!

And now she is here, Kendra Evelina Winder, our 2 legged baby girl. She was born August 21st.
Our little human family have all taken and old family name after my Grandmother on my mothers side, Winder!

Having her first bath with daddy's help.........

Oohh that was wet!

And then some news that aren't as happy....
Sotis is going in for another surgery on thursday, please keep your fingers crossed that she can have a successful operation and spend the rest of her life painfree.
We are just devastated that she has had to go through all of this, she is such a wonderful girl....

Sotis giving Kendra a first kiss saying welcome home....

All the puppies have moved to their new homes now and we wish them good luck, it's empty here at home.....

Put up a few new pictures of Bree from the matchshow.
I had forgotten to put out Patience blog link, sorry! She has written alot about her trip to Sweden and telling about the 5th Int. Whippet Congress, so go check it out!

Iris came over for a visit a few weeks ago so we took some new pictures of her, she had just turned 10 months old.

Most of the puppies have moved to their new homes now and finally I have some time to update!

We are very proud that our little boy Stavros won BOB junior at the World show a few weeks ago! So now he has a new title JWW-08!!!
He was first in the ring under judge Thomas Münch, Germany of kennel Flic Flac were he won the junior class males. He then moved over to the bitch ring and competed against the winning junior bitch and won! Judge in that ring was Magnus Hagstedt Sweden of kennel Signum.
So from there we went in the main ring and having all best of breed winning juniors from 3 different groups in competition.
Stavros was in the ring all the way to 3rd place out of all these juniors!! Judge there was Per Iversen Norway.
Stavros had not even turned 10 months yet, so it was his first time out in offical class and he did make us proud!

Stavros daddy Mike won BD and earned his Swedish CC and WW-08 title, so happy for you Tone!

Bree ended up 2nd in a HUGE open bitch class, she has just been in season so I can't say she was thrilled about the whole thing.....

Then we had the 5th Int. Whippet Congress here in Sweden so of course we had to attend at this!
I had dear friends that had travelled from the US to be here at this Whippet week that we will never see the likes of again in this country ( not while I'm alive anyway!!).
Patience Renzulli that has "my" William, Brees brother that is, and her travel compainion Crystal Mcnulty. We had a wonderful time both here at my house and the following week at Krägga were the Congress was held.
Patience helped out with showing Looper, Brees & Williams litter brother and they made a great team even though never have seen eachother before. Looper ended up in 2nd place in a huge Open class.
Crystal was kind enough to help show Dustin, they made the cut but were not placed in Open class. They also did a very good job together in the ring! New pictures on both these boys pages.

Bree was also invited to the Match Show on one of the evenings at Krägga, they had invited last years top winning whippets from Scandinavia. She was in no luck at this but I know the best dog went home with me anyway!

Then at the Sighthound show the following weekend Tiger won his Swedish Championship! He was 2nd best dog with CC before our boy Stavros that was 3rd. In 4th place was Stavros daddy and 5th his Grandfather...
Stavros was BOB Junior once again and went all the way to BIS Junior at this huge Sighthound show.
The well known Philip Moran-Healy from Great Britain of Hillsdown kennel was the judge.

And we also have to say congratulations to Rhetsgis Lord Calvert with his breeder/owner who has now won his final CC and became a Swedish Champion!

Our JWW -08 Burnt Sienna Cutting Edge just after being placed 3rd BIS Junior!

And his Daddy Mike with proud Owner/Breeder Tone Orre

The puppies are starting to move now that they have turned 8 weeks.
We took pictures of them all the last few days before their 8 week birthday.
Go to this gallery to find their pages.

New pictures of the puppies 6 weeks stacked.
Go to this gallery to find their pages.

New pictures of the puppies 5½ weeks stacked, and their first time ever on a table!
Go to this gallery to find their pages.

The pups have their own pages now and are also named! Go to gallery, where there are lots of new pictures of the pups outside playing with the older dogs.

Here's a picture from our great weekend on Gotland, look at all those Vipers!

No it wasn't for good...we have had more problems with our Internet and especially e-mails, it's working today so I'll update now.

I took Stavros and Bree to an all breed Kennel club show in the south of Sweden last weekend and they both did well.
Stavros won BOB puppy and competed in the big ring for BIS puppy but was not placed.
Bree won BOB and gained another CC, but is still to young for her Championship. She went from there to win the Sighthound group, and ended up 4th BIS!
Breed & Group judge Åke Cronander (Albicans) and BIS judge Svend Lövenkjaer.
It was a long day but with those results completley worth it, the long drive home was so easy that day! I hope to be able to publish some pictures from this but I didn't bring my own camera with me since I was traveling alone, I could have chosen a better day to leave the camera at home I guess......

I will hopefully get pictures up of the pups with their own pages next week, IF our Internet is WORKING!!!!!! They are growing and doing fine, they have opened their eyes and can hear now.

This coming weekend we are doing something NOT dog related for a change. We are going to the beautiful Island Gotand, east of Sweden for a Christening of our niece Paulina.
And my husband Krister is joining up with what turned out to be the largest Viper meet-up ever in Europe, some 35+ Vipers in one place! They have rented the new built race track Gotland Ring and we are all staying at the same hotel over the weekend and just enjoying ourselfs. But it will be very strange not having any dogs with us, we have a dog/house sitter coming over to take care of the gang!

My dear husbands toy, a Dodge Viper.....

Finally we are back online! We have have had serious Internet problems here for a few weeks and last week it went completely down, so they sent out an technical expert today and fixed it. (we hope for good!)

So now I have put up some pictures of the pups in their gallery here.

Stavros father Mike gained his Champion title this past weekend, we send our warmest congratulations to him and his owner/breeder Tone Orre, kennel Farytail in Norway!

Lacey had her puppies yesterday, May 3rd!
4 boys & 4 girls.
5 of them are Brindle with different amounts of white trim and 3 of them are Red with different amounts of white trim.

Bree 2nd BB at a Kennelclub show in Västerås April 20th.
Lots of new pictures of Stavros & Bree on their pages.

This weekend the Swedish Whippet club had a speciality show in Gnesta. Judge was Whippet breeder Tamara Howarth from France of kennel Taraly. 101 whippets were entered this year.

We had a very succesful day, Bree winning Best In Show! Stavros won puppy class 6-9 months. Tiger was 3rd BD and Hugo 4th. Bree's father "Latte" Ch Mac Bells Citizen Kane was BOS, quite a family day.
New pictures on all the above dogs pages, some older ones put up aswell.

My dogs have been fortunate at this show earlier years too. Sotis won BIS 2005, Steffie 2006 & Bree 2008! I was attending the AWC Nationals in Kansas City 2007 so we couldn't contend that year.

Former years BIS winners relaxing in bed yesterday with this years winner...Bree, Sotis & Steffie.

We went to the vet today who confirmed that Lacey is in whelp!!
The puppies will be born in the beginning of May and will be ready to move the first week in July if all goes as planned. Go to Puppies page for more info on the parents!

Sotis was at her last check-up at the Animal Hospital yesterday and they were pleased with her progress. So now she doesn't have to go back there anymore and we are ALL happy for that!

And a new picture of Bree on the table at Crufts.

Several new walking leads, you will find them on the Koppel page.

Finally some pictures of Bree from Crufts. A huge thanks to Wendy & Nick Jones for sending me these pictures, I really appreciate it!
Bree did very well placing second in Open class, a big tough class against several champion bitches, we are so proud of our young girl.

And pictures of both Steffie & Bree from AWC Kansas City 2007 that I haven't published before, scroll down a bit on Bree's page. Also a few new pictures on Lacey and Stavros pages.

Hopefully we shall have puppies in the beginning of May here at Burnt Sienna. Lacey has been bred to Rhetsgis Lord Calvert. Lots of pictures of him in his own gallery, click on his name.

New pictures of William & Quincy.

Will soon have pictures of Bree from Crufts put up!

Several new walking leads, you will find them on the Koppel page.

Several new walking leads, you will find them on the Koppel page.

And a few new links.

We started the new year with going to Gothenburg for a few days of showing.

Tiger was Best male and received a CC at the Sighthound show, so now he has 2 CC's.

Steffie was 2nd best bitch with R-Cacib on one of the days.

Have put up a few pictures of Stavros at 14 weeks.

I took Sotis to the Animal Hospital yesterday again for another check up and they were very pleased with her progress.
She is slowly walking on her front left leg again, looking a bit strange but we don't care, we are so happy that she is moving forward!

Here is an X-ray taken yesterday, she won't make it through airport security without a written note from the vet in the future, look at all that metal inside her!