| Born: |
February the 28th, 2002 |
| Breeders: |
Marjo-Riitta Keveri & Teija
Ohvo, Järvenpää, kennel
Pices |
| Sire: |
NO SE Ch
JWW-98 NordW-98 NOW-99,-00
Moving Lost In Space "Nelson" |
| Dam: |
CIB FI SE NO LV Ch NordW-99 Khaos Black Rose "Rosé" |
| Siblings: |
4 brothers and 3 sisters |
| Owners: |
Terja & Pyry Koivumäki, Vantaa |
| Status: |
Active, when she wants to :)
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Felicia at the HVK Specialty 2007
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Felicia is truly the result of Scandinavian co-operation - having a
Norwegian father (from Swedish/Norwegian lines) and a Swedish born
mother living in Finland (from Swedish/Norwegian lines with a touch of
old German), and being herself born here in Finland!
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| A very typical and beautiful
silhouette of Felicia, taken in 2006 |
Felicia finished her Finnish Championship pretty easily with
altogether 5 CAC's (3 needed) soon after her second birthday, along
with two Best Of Breeds. She also has a CACIB (with BOB) and a couple
of reserve-CACIB's, too. Her Swedish Championship she gained at the
perstigious Bosjökloster Sighthound Specialty already on Saturday
(and would have gotten another CAC the next day, too, at the Swedish
Afghan Hound National, but was then already a Champion, of course).
Despite the nice success, she herself is not very keen on the show
rings and would prefer staying in the tent with us. When she wants she
can show her beautiful construction to her advantage, but we have
learned to respect her wish of showing veeeeery seldom. To keep the
fun in it. Nowadays she has mostly been seen in the Working class - to
all the judges' amazement - "a working dog with all that coat?!?"
- due to her success at the lure coursing fields that qualifies her to
participate in that class.
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Photo: Ella Niinistö
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Felicia loves lure coursing
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Lure Coursing is something Felicia just loves to do! And she also has
a Track Racing licence but doesn't compete there much. She is not very
fast, but boy is she serious!! At the coursing fields, her advantages
are the fast starts, the superfast turns - even 3 x 360° is possible
in full speed (if needed, ha ha) - and the seriousness, which is why
she has never stopped a race or gained a disqualification! That's
also probably why so many people have told us they'd wish their dogs
to be paired up against Felicia, at least they would have a fair-play
friend. One of her "life missions" has also been to help
many of our Afghan friends gain their Track Racing licences. Whenever
someone needs a friend for the test runs, we try to be there! That's
also one way to enjoy the hobby!
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Our silly girl sleeping
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At home she's a very happy dog
who loves to sleep on the couch with her legs up in the air. Yup,
nothing special there if you happen to know Afghans, but
her specialty is that this position often makes her feel so good that
she starts to wag her tail vigorously even during the sleep! And then
she always wakes up looking a bit irritated when she has to stop that
wagging tail with her nose... Such a funny girl she is!
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Kuva: Kari Peltonen
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Felicia & Tuuli at the Agirotu agility
breed relay competition
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Felicia is a very clever girl in learning and together she and I have
trained some tricks and for example agility. The clicker is a perfect
tool with her, since once she realizes what she is supposed to do, she
will not even try to offer anything else. The agility tire jump is a
perfect example of that. It took me only a couple of clicks to show
her the right place to jump through and after that she sees no other
alternatives. Once at the training the tire jump was positioned so (my
fault) that she couldn't see properly because of the low sunset coming
to her eyes, so she just put her one foot on the tire and started
complaining to me "I know I'm supposed to jump through there but
I can't seeeeee....". Any other dog would have just "forgotten"
the whole jump or gone through the sides, I think!
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Photo: Kari Peltonen
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Photo: Terja Koivumäki
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Felicia at the Agirotu 2006
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Felicia winning the Suzi-Cup 2009
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Felicia with her newly graduated owner Pyry
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