Wahya in a good shape again...

Wahya is totally recovered and she is back in her old shape - if I look at the pictures I see a lot of similarities between Tova and her favourite occupations.
Biting into furniture:
Biting into other dogs:
Actually biting into everything:But she is beautiful!

Great picture of Tjalve

Arn visiting his birthplace

Unfortunately I did not have the time to drive up to Värmland again last week. But instead Arn and his family visited us yesterday on their way back home to Germany.
They had a wonderful time in the midst of a wolf-territory (yes, they even heard them howl!), but only one week in Sweden is always to short...
So the last bigger stop in Sweden was a certain highlight for the dogs again - Arn enjoyed being on known territory, playing with his sister and his fellow Kaya... The videos show how much fun they had:



But also Skadi was involved in this rampage around our house - no matter if with her offspring or youngster Kaya - she was behaving almost like a pup herself.Skadi looks a bit terrible at the moment - after the stress with the rearing of the pups and especially the Tova-Monster she lost a huge part of her coat - the summer heat is doing on last thing... She has nearly no black or darker colored dorsal hair left which makes her kind of strange looking unicolored.For us it was a weird feeling to see our Arn in this familiar surrounding again - the following picture is a good example - I remember him like yesterday, standing there with 4 or 5 weeks...
And now he stands at the same place, in the same pose but a lot bigger - strange and beautiful feeling!
Stefan and Annika, it was really a pleasure that you visited us - Thank you!!!

Update on Wahya

Wahya is now entirely convalesced, recent blood samples show normal values again. The terrible disease which threathened her young life was a case of a Klebsiella infection. Klebsiella is a bacterium which usually can be found in the gastro intestinal system. If it's quantity explodes (for whatever reason) it causes this serious infection in the stomach and the the guts.
She is very hungry now and devours between 1 and 1 1/2kg daily!
Wahya is very active again and plays a lot with her Retriever-friends.
The picture above shows her sleeping in the office of her owner and was taken yesterday.
We are pretty eased to know that she is fine again!

In the footsteps of his parents - Tjalve the digger

Our pups are very aware of traditions it seems. At least Tjalve is following in the footsteps of his parents and obviously aspires a career as a digger!

Tova's first night away from home... Camping in Värmland

For our visit in Värmland we had to stay one night up there and we chose a camping place with small huts for this purpose. This was the first time for Tova that we didn't sleep at home - so a completely new experience for her. But actually she seemed to like it after a short time of wariness. The next morning I even had the feeling that she would love to stay there for a whole holiday... But we had to leave to meet her brother Arn and that's another story.

Arn visiting Sweden

Arn and his new family is in Sweden right now, they stay for one week in a little cabin in northern Värmland. This is of course absolutely great for us and we took the chance to visit him yesterday. We spent the whole day there and it was a big fun for us and the dogs who also enjoyed the reunion a lot!
I will probably go up to Värmland again this week and take only Tova with me. Then there will be more pics!
Arn has become a very,very nice dog - my breeder's heart is full of pride I must admit. He looks great and has a wonderful character as well. A very charming and open dog that everyone has to fall in love with immediately!


More pictures can you find here: Arn visiting Sweden - a small family reunion in the north