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March 2012

It´s been a long time since we updated our homepage. Now it´s looking a bit different. We have new pages
with more information about Melvin and his offspring.

In september 2011 we went to Ĺland and their Internationell Dogshow. We entered Melvin for
judge Nicola Ruigrok, Ireland. Melvin ended up as 2nd best male.

Next show ain´t until may 2012. Then we will be at the Swedish Kennelclub Show in Stockholm.

I can´t be anything but proud of Melvins offspring so far. His first litter has had very big success in the showring.
The latest is that Applegrove Bechamel became BOB, Groupwinner and BIS-3 at Lithuanian Winner Show.
In the second litter we have Red Rhythm´s Chilling And Jazzing. He became Latvian Junior Winner and ended up
as third best male, only eleven months old.

For more information and photos of Melvins offspring please take a look at Melvin's litters.

In january I flew down to Hungary to bring Jazza home with me. I had been in contact with Mr László Tóth,
kennel Garden Star for some time. I was curious about "purple girl" as she caught my eyes when I saw
photos of her at the homepage of Garden Star.
László's intention was to keep that girl but he was willing to sell her to me if I promised to show her.
And that we will do.
She is a joy to live with and she is very easy to have around.
Thank you so much László for this lovely girl.

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March 2011



Soon we will be in the end of this summer. It always passes by to fast and it´s a pity that the weather is so up and down.
And for me it´s far to cold.
We have been to a whole lot of shows in a few weeks and only one show remains in Sweden for us this year.
Here are the results:

SKK Österbybruk SKK Vallentuna SKK Borĺs ISF Smĺland SKK Tvĺĺker SKK Tvĺĺker SKK Köping SKK Ransäter

2011-05-28 2011-05-29 2011-07-02 2011-07-03 2011-07-15 2011-07-16 2011-07-23 2011-07-30

Judge: Alenka Pokorn, Slovenia Judge: Angel Garach Domech, Spain Judge: Thomas Bradley, USA Judge: Jeremy Bott, UK Judge: Jose Haro Haro, Spain Judge: Gerda Halff-Van Boven, Netherlands Judge: Henrik Fryckstrand, Sweden Judge: Luis Pinto Teixeira, Portugal

Exc, CK, 3rd best male Exc, CK, 4th best male Very good CK, 2nd best male Exc, CK, 4th best male Exc, CK Exc, CK Exc, CK, 3rd best male

The last result I want to present is from a show held by the Irish Setter Association of Sweden. It´s only a unofficial result
but for us it counts very high.
The judge this day was no one less than Mr Jeremy Bott, kennel Thendara. He is a A-listed judge from England,
a breedspecialist who also has been judged the Irish Setters at Crufts.
Melvin ended up as 2nd best male this day with this lovely critique:

" Beautiful presented dog with a wonderful coat. Very stylish on the move. Well constructed with a lovely body.
In great condition. Nice short hocks. Kind expression. Head a little heavy for me and a different type.
Finnish of the croup could be better, but a spectaculare dog both moving and standing. "

This result together with the critique made us very proud. The fact that such a respected man as Mr Bott could see
and appreciate Melvins qualitys despite he is of a different type, meant a lot to us.



Finally we also got the confirmation from F.C.I that Melvin now is an International Show Champion (CIE).
He is only three years old but he is CIE, Nordic Winner-09, Estonian Winner-10, Lithuanian Winner-11.
He has also been winning the breed and the group in four different countries.

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March 2011

All of our lovely kittens has moved to new fantastic homes. It´s such a joy to recieve all emails from their new happy families.


Photo : Kicki Thenberg

One of the babies has already made a grand entrence in the show-world. Nutmeg Time Out Of Mind made her debute in a two days-show and she became
Best In Show both days. A couple of weeks later she entered another show and then she became Best In Show-2.
Big congratulations to "Mindy's" owners Ronny and Jens.Link to their website




Melvin has just turned three years old. We took him on a trip to Lithuania and their WinnerShow. We had some fantastic results.

saturday 19/3 BOB, CACIB, Lithuanian Winner and Groupwinner judge: Nijolé Zieniené
sunday 20/3 BOB, CACIB and placed 2nd in the group judge: Jelena Kruus

Finally one year and one day has passed since Melvin took his first CACIB. Thanks to the results in Lithuania we can now apply
for the C.I.E- title. What a great start to this year of showing!

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September 2010

The autumn has arrived and with it comes the every day routines.
We went away one week to a Swedish Island, Gotland. We rented a beautiful house there and had a lovely
week full of fun and adventures. Of course we combined it with a dogshow...
As a matter of fact we have been on three shows since last update.

SKK Eskilstuna SKK Visby SKK Sandviken

2010-08-21 2010-08-29 2010-09-04

Judge: Ronnie Tolson, Ireland Judge; Henric Fryckstrand, Sweden Judge: Dorota Witkowska, Poland

CK, 2nd best male CACIB, Best Opposite Sex CACIB, Best Opposite Sex

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August 2010

Melvin made is debut in Open Class in May. His results so far
has made us very proud. Here is a summary of the shows from May-July:

SKK Larv SKK Hässleholm Estonian Setterclub Estonian Winnershow Swedish Winnershow World Dog Show SKK Borĺs SKK Köping

2010-05-09 2010-05-23 2010-06-05 2010-06-06 2010-06-13 2010-06-26 2010-07-03 2010-07-24

Judge: Jelena Kruus, Estonia Judge: Inga Siil, Estonia Judge: Ronny Blomme, Netherlands Judge: Jelena Kruus, Estonia Judge: Rune Fagerström, Finland Judge: Eeva Rautala, Finland Judge: Mark Johnston, Australia Judge: Rainer Vuorinen, Finland

CK, BH-2 CACIB, BIR, BIG-3 Exc CACIB, BIR, BIG-1 Exc, 4:th open class CK, BIR, BIG-1 CACIB, BIR, BIG-1

With this fantastic results he now has five CACIB in three different countries.
Unfortunately it has to be atleast one year and one day between the first and fourth CACIB to receive the International Show Champion-title.
So we have to be patient and get a new CACIB after september 30th this year.

If you want to see more pictures of Melvin you are welcome to visit his site on Exclusively Setters.

We also have a lovely, big bunch of kittens. Our beloved Selma gave birth to 9 kittens in the end of July.
There are 5 boys and 4 girls. The colours are black, black/white, chocolate and chocolate/white.
They may also be with silver. For more information please visit the ''Present Litter'' page.
Also take a look at our plans.

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