News 2011
30.12: Hooray! On her first possible oppertunity,
little miss "Tara" (Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails, co-owned
by Lisbeth Engevold) won excellent 1, ck best bitch CC
and a NEW NORWEGIAN CHAMPION! She has been on a roll.
She started taking her first (big)
CC at her first show only 9 months old, has taken
several since, and became a champion at the first show
possible. We are proud of you, sweetiepie!
BOB and also a new Norw.Champion was Matabichi Fahari Zola :-)
Tara N UCH Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails becomin a new
Champion, Tara with her co-owner Lisbeth to the left.
The boys Kairo
Kingwanas Handsome Kairo Of
D'Guard and
Haki Kingwanas Happy
Hunter Of D'Guard
were also shown, and this time Kairo beat his brother,
handled by his owner Sissel who entered the ring for the
first time and recieved excellent and winning the class!
Hakis young owner Matheo also entered the child/ dog
competitions with Haki, and they did a great job!
Matheo showing his medal to his partner ( & Kairo).
Kamar
Kingwanas Into The Wind
was also shown, and he won BOB puppy once again with a
great critique. It was a huge gruop (I counted 18 pups
in the group), so I did not have huge expectations, but
little Kamar placed himself BIG3!
28.12: The pups are growing fast!
Mille giving one of the many washes a day.
More pics of Sindre with the pups in Sindre &
Magnus' winter album.
26.12: We have puppies! I have always had easy
deliveries witout ever needing veterinary assistence,
but not this time...
Mille gave birth to a beautiful black/white boy with
absolutely perfect drawings and of good size (240 g) on
Dec. 22nd 11.15 AM. It was an easy birth, and everything
went smoothly.
Mille with her newborn son, only an hour old.
From the X-rays taken prios to birth we knew that Mille
had two pups.
However, after the first boy, Mille seemed totally
finnished. She layed down in a very relaxed manner
nursing and taking care og her newborn son. 1 hour went
by. 2 hours. 3 hours, and not even a sign of a single
contraction. If I didn't know there should be
another one in there I would have thought she was
finnished.
3 hours after the boy was born we took Mille and her
newborn son to the vet. clinic. A new set of x-rays
confirmed: There was still a puppy in there!
We tried acupuncture, oxitixin shots, calium shots,
massage etc. Mille did not have a single contraction,
and we were certain the pup was dead, and that was the
reason as to why it did not come out. Just to make
sure, we took ultrasound.... and guess what we saw? A
little heart beating quite clearly!
We really did not want to take a C-section, so we wanted
to try one more thing: I was sent home, and gave Mille
some rest, peace and quiet for some hours. That didn't
help either. We were not sure if the pup would survive
until the next morning, so in the late evening/ night we
went back down to the vet, where Milles beautiful baby
girl was born with C-section! She was tired, but very
much alive! She weighed 170 g, so quite a bit smaller
then the male.
Milles gorgeous baby girl!
To me, the male is PERFECTLY drawed. The bitch is not "perfect",
but I LOOOVE her drawings! So many funny little details,
like "Tre's kiss" on her head, a split- head (the collar
and blaze are joint), and a lovely large white collar
with a black "snake" going in. There are no-one like her
<3
They will get their individual pages with more photos
shortly.
Sindre & Magnus are enjoying having pups here agian!
12.12: We wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Ours
will be very exciting with puppies around christmas eve
sometime :)
12.12:
Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard
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03.12: We can confirm that Mille is pregnant. We have not been to ultrasound, but it is quite visible now :-) We will have her x-rayed next week so we will know more. Only 3 weeks left!
02.12:
Dag's parents, my in-laws Aud Jorun & Helge Lie, Leeland
Shetland Sheepdogs, were awarded with the Norwegian
Kennel Klubs HONOUR PRIZE for breeders for their
outstanding job for the Shetland Sheepdog for the past
40 years. The award were given out in the main ring at
the Norwegian Winner Show in Lillestrøm this weekend.
Not many breeders have achieved this honourable award.
We are of course were proud and inspired!
Read more here:
Aud Jorun & Helge Lie.
02.12:
At the Norwegian winnershow last weekend, our
Kingwana-team did a great job.
JWW-08 N u Ch S u Ch Kingwanas Exhausting Federal Xpress)
was 2nd in championclss and was 4th best male.
In the girls classes, Krona (Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight)
went 2nd in intermediate with Excellent, and Gudrun
(Kingwanas Fabulous
Unicorn)
was 3rd with excellent in the same class.
In open class Tara
(Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails)
won with excellent. It was
also great fun to help kennel Doberguard win the
breeders group. All of the offspring were descended from
the semen I imported from "Sunny" (Gr Ch Afrikenji Hot
Sumaknight).
Sunnys offspring did very well all over :-)
Handsome Haki, pic. by Marie Aaberg.
14.11: At a show in Kongsberg Kamar was once
again BOB puppu with a wonderful critique once again.
Still not one negative remark from the judges on this
handsome little fellow!
Kamar
(Kingwanas Into The
Wind) 5 months old.
13.11: Dennis' daughter Wazin Red Gimbaya is running
her fathers footsteps and has gained her LC licence in
Denmark! Congrats!
06.11: Huge congrats to "Otto"
Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard & owner Amalie
Hindsdal for going BOS in
Herning Int. show, Denmark today, thus gaining the title
Danish Winner-11 and BASENJI OF THE YEAR IN DENMARK!
He is only 11 months. We are very very proud.
He comes from our Doberguard litter, they proove to
be a handsome bunch as hoped :-)
DV-11 Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard
05.11: Huge congrats to "Otto"
Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard for going BOB in
Herning Int. show, Denmark!
07.11: Last weekend, we had another wonderful
show-weekend in Letohallen.
On saturday Kamar
(Kingwanas Into The
Wind) was BOB and BEST IN GROUP puppy! Zia (Kingwanas Hot
Shadow Of D'Guard)
(Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight)
got excellent 1 and 4th best bitch.
Kamar with judge brenda bansbury at left. Lisbeth &
Zia at right.
On sunday,
Kamar
(Kingwanas Into The
Wind) was BOB once again. Zia was not shown, but
Sissel & Terrie brought
(Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight)
got excellent 1 and 2nd best bitch with CC.
Thank you all once again for a great weekend!
Kamar in the BEST IN SHOW final. Pic by Camilla
Soppen.
Krona was also borrowed away for the child and dog
competitions and won in huge competition!
The BIG ring was soo cool,with tents and lighting
over the prizes. Kurt & Dag with their
team did a great job!
Kamar on sunday. Pic. by Jeanette Strand.-
24.10: Mille & Tre had a succsessfull mating on
thursday!
Pups expected on
December 22nd!
23.10:
23.10: At NMHK's nat. show today, Kamar
(Kingwanas Into The
Wind), had his show debut, and with great style! On
saturday he went went BOB and BIG-2! He had the
following critique:
It was also great fun that the BOB adult winner also went BIG-1 and BIS-4!
Congrats Rambo & Jeanette.
On Sunday Kamar did just as nice, and was BOB +
BIG-2 once again with the following critique:
Kamar BIG-2
Sindre training with Kamar (or was it the other way
around?)
Thank you all for making this such a
great social weekend, and for Kamar's co-owner Anette
for training him so well!
Magnus had a great time too. He had a date! More pics in
Sindre & Magnus' autumn
album.
09.10: Kingwanas
Illusion Of Fire
Stella & Gabby
09.10:
It has been a while with no shows for us personally, so
I was quite redy to show some dogs today! We had 6
Kingwana dogs entered to NKK Hamar INT, with 23 entered
basenjis in total.
Kingwanas Hot
Shadow Of D'Guard
Kingwanas Gentle WinterKnight "Kasko"
Kasko & Anette in the big ring
Our basenjigroup among some of the other breeders groups.
Myself with Haki, Terrie with Kairo
Sindre & Levi had a great time at the show too!
08.10:
We had another lovely walk, beoing in the woods with
kids and dogs half the day, making a fire and making hot
dogs etc. Pics
in
Sindre & Magnus' autumn
album.
Duna & Sindre making hotdogs on the fire.
06.10: New health results, Kingwanas Duna O'Kande "Duna" : Thyroid- normal, Tgaa neg. Kingwanas Entertaining Story "Mille"- Eyes: All clear (yet again!)
They are both fanconi clears, both with excellent thyroid values, HD excellent/ good.
We are very much looking forward to puppies this autumn!
06.10:
We had a lovely time at a Bever-safari hosted by DNT in
our local invoroment yesterday. We brought Duna and the
boys, and had a lovely walk looking at different
bever-ponds. We even saw a bever!
At the end of the trip we had a fire and had hot-dogs on
the fire. Duna had some too:-) It was a magical feeling
walking through the forrest in the pitch dark with
flashlight, smelling like wood fire, under the stars
with the basenji, your family and some friends!
Some pics from our trip. More in
Sindre & Magnus' autumn
album.
06.10:
New picture of
Kamar
(Kingwanas Into The
Wind), 3. 5 months old. We are very much looking
forward to his show debut!
Pic. by his co-owner Anette.
05.10:
Gabija (Kingwanas
Illusion Of Fire) has arrived safely in her new home,
and has made a new best friend with her new basenji
sister:
Thanks for the pics and updates, Jorji & Stella!
02.10:
Rio and Lise in Avignon. Pic be Basenji Terres
Des Oceanes.
02.10: Yesterdaay morning, I was so sad as this was
the last morning with our little "Lykke". We
were going to drive to meet her new owners who had flewn
all the way from Lithuania to pick her up. They will
name her Gabija, or Gabbi for short, wich is the goddess
of fire. Suits nicely to her pedigree name Kingwanas
Illusion Of Fire!
It was sooo nice to meet her new owners Jorji & Stella!
They even brought us LOADS of presents! We are not used
to this, it was so unexpected and very nice!
We got a delicious HUGE Lithuanian cake, some very nice
liquor, a whole bag full of treats and toys for the
boys, a lovely book about Lithuania and warm welcomes to
come and visit them (we hope to do so!) not to mention a
BEAUTIFUL canvas printout of our elements-litter, with
the words "Kingwanas Basenji" written with black and
yellow rocks at the bottom. Soo nice!
It will get a nice place in our livingroom! Sindre was
very proud holding it in the nice autumn weather. We
also had a little walk and took some pictures of Gabbi
with her new owners. More pics can be seen on Gabbis
page (link above).
Gabbi & Stella.
22.09: Dag was working at the nat. show in Moss
last weekend. We had no Kingwana dogs entered, but we
practised with Gabija (prev. Lykke)
(Kingwanas
Illusion Of Fire) after the show, and
judge Dagmar Klein agreed to practise with us and give
us a written critique. She
wrot fell completely in love with her, and wrote the
following:
"Excellent
type.
Beautiful
head. Feminin
expression.
Perfect
proportions
of
head.
Excellent
elegant
neck.
Correct
topline.
Perfect
angulation
behind.
Very
stabil
correct
pastern.
Correct
front.
Beautiful
underline.
Excellent
attractive
elegant mover.
Outstanding
nice
temperment."
Kingwanas Illusion Of Fire, 3.5 months old.
We have also added several photos to Sindre &
Magnus' autumn album!
20.09: "Otto"
(Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard)
had his junior debut in Denmark this weekend and went
BOB with CC! Congrats Karina & Otto!
19.09: Sweet sweet
Bambi on one of our trips, 8,5 years old at the left,
Duna at the sam trip on
the right.
09.09: Last
weekend,
we were at a national show
in Drammen.
Even
though the weather was awful, we had a lovely time as
usual. Thank
you
all for making it so
nice!
On
saturday
I
showed
Zia (Kingwanas Hot
Shadow Of D'Guard)
in
puppyclass,
and
she
was
4th
with
a
lovely
critique.
Tara (Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails
)
was
2nd best
bitch
with
CC in
the
adult
classes.
On
sunday
I
showed
siblings
Zia (Kingwanas Hot
Shadow Of D'Guard)
and
Haki
(Kingwanas Happy
Hunter Of D'Guard)
-
on
their
9
month
birthday
and debut in
the
adult
classes.
I
was
thrilled
both
of
them
got
excellent
and
ck!
Zia
was
2nd best
bitch
with
res. CC and BOS
jr,
while
Haki
was
4th best male and BOB jr.
Pic
by Sissel.
Thank
you!
Jorunn & Loke (JWW-08 N u Ch S u Ch Kingwanas Exhausting Federal Xpress)
were also
present, getting excellent, ck and 3rd best male both
days.
Fogo (Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro) got excellent and 4th best
male on saturday, and excellent 2 on sunday.
A
special
congrats
goes
out
to Jeanette
Strand who
was
Best in show
puppy
with
her
beautiful
Rambo!
Zia was 2nd best bitch with res. CC and BOS jr, while
Haki was 4th best male and BOB jr.
Magnus at the dogshow (left) and a greeting from Xena (Kingwanas Image Of Earth)
to the right.
29.08: Some pictures of the pups. A greeting from
Sniff
(Kingwanas Ice Crystal)
(left), Gabjia
(prev.
Lykke) (Kingwanas
Illusion Of Fire) in the middle and
Kamar
(Kingwanas Into The Wind) at
right.
Thank you Mia for the pic of Sniff, and Ane for the pic
of Kamar (under). Marie Aaberg has taken some of the pic
of Kamar on the frontpage and some of the new in his
album. Thank you!
Lykke also had a puppyvisit from a DSG named Bea, and
the two of them had a blast.
Lykke & Bea
Bea & Lykke at the left, Duna (Kingwanas
Duna O'Kande) at the right. Duna is here with us on
a two month holday before she moves after to her family
who are moving to a very exotic place!
We have also added several photos to Sindre &
Magnus' new autumn album!
29.08: We would like to congratulate the daddy of
our I-litter, "Karma" with CC; Cacib, BOB ---> New
Nordic & Norwegian Champion in NKK Tromsø this weekend!
He is now NORD U CH N S FIN U CH FINV-10 Bulldobas Catch
The Wind. Congrats Helena & Breeder Tipi!
Karma on the left, Safguards Dora Bulldobas at right.
She was BOS and also new Norw. ch.
25.08: This issue ofthe Norwegian Kennel Klub's magazine
"Hundesport" included an article I wrote about the
basenji on behalf of the Norwegian Basenjiclub. It
includes a lot of pictures, both taken by me and others.
I have attached the article as a PDF file:
Article about the basenjibreed written by Liv Irene
N.Lie.
You are allowed to share the atricle where you'd like as
long as you refer to the owner "Hundesport" and "Norsk
Basenji Klubb" as well as the author. Hope you like it!
I have also placed the article under "Basenji- Basenji
information". It is only available in Norwegian.
20.08:
"Tara"
(Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails)
trotted all the way to
BOS
with
CC &
CACIB
at
NKK
INT
in Oslo
today!
This means she is also qualified for Crufts 2012!
Congrats
to Taras
co-owner Lisbeth
Engevold.
Tara BOS with CC & Zola BOB.
Tara & Faizah competing for best bitch
Taras siblings did a great job too - Fogo
(Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro)
got excellent, ck, and was third best male, Gudrun
(Kingwanas Fabulous
Unicorn )
was beautifully handled by a friend of mine (Marie) and
got excellent. Roxy (Kingwanas Foxy Femme Fatale)
had
a minor injury, resulting in her only getting a very
good this time.
Kingwanas
breeders
group
(with the above mentioned dogs) were BOB
with
HP,
but
we
didn't
stay
for
the
finals.
Congrats
also
to Kristin
Svendsen for
BOB
with
Zola
:)
Thanks
all for a
lovely
day!
Marie & Gudrun
Fogo
on
the
left,
Roxy
on
the
right.
Tara
19.08:
Sweet
little
Gabjia
(prev.
Lykke) (Kingwanas
Illusion Of Fire) is
growing
up
nicely.
A video will
come
shortly
too.
18.08: New pictures of
"Otto"
(Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard).
Thank you so much Karina Westergård!
14.08:
Amalie & "Otto"
(Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard)
did it once
again! At their last puppyshow, a double show hosted by
the Danis "Spidshundklubben", Otto went
BOB and BEST IN SHOW
puppy
both
days!
This
is
their
4th BIS
-puppy.
In
addition
they
have a BIS all ages and
two
BIS 2nd's!.
What
a team :-)
Will
be
exciting
to
see
how
they
do in
the
adult
classes
shortly.
13.08: Greetings from "Sniff" (Kingwanas Image Of Earth) who has settled very nicely in her new home.
08.08: Huge congratulations to Amalie & "Otto"
(Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard)
attended a show in Denmark and were BOB puppy and Best In Show -2 puppy under
judge Birgitte Schjøth!
He got the following critique:
"Incridible wonderful puppy, extremely well built
over all and moves superbly from all sides. Very nicely
cut head, strong correct bite with a full set of teeth.
Well set ears. The eyes should grow a bit bigger. Good
neck and topline. Well set tail which curls upp
perfectly. Excellent coat.": Birgitte Schjøth, BOB;
BIS-2, DKK 07.08.2011.
Amalies daughters also entered in the ring with him in
the "child and dog" competitions, and 6 year old
Victoria won the child under 8 year competition, and
Philippa went 3rd in the class for the ones over 8 years!
Otto and Victoria won the child & dog competition, and
Otto was BIS-2 at the puppyshow!
07.08: Greetings from Kamar (Kingwanas
Into The Wind) who is enjoying spending time with
his new family, included his new buddy "Pøbel" the
flatcoated retriever!
04.08: New pictures -also individual-of
the pups on
their pages. They are 8 weeks tomorrow. Man, how time
flies! These pups are amazingly sweet, tailwagging,
confident and happy. As I have been used to considerably
larger amounts of pups at home, plus the fact that these
are here in summertime, and are able to spend a lot of
time outside, it's hardly been any work at all. I will
be very sad to see them go- as will Sindre, who has been
sooo clever with them. It is just touching to watch him
handle them.
However, I do know the owners are very much looking forward to get their
new family memeber home! Snute & Kamar will leave today.
Sniff will leave on tuesday. We will fortunately be able
to have Lykke a few extra weeks as she is going all the
way to Lithuania!
Lykke, Snute, Kamar &
Sniff 8 weeks old.
01.08: At the nat. dogshow in Moss on Saturday,
judged by Leif Herman Wiberg, I showed 3 Kingwana dogs.
I brought the girls Zia
(Kingwanas Hot
Shadow Of D'Guard) and Tara
(Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails)
while Sissel & Terrie brought Haki (Kingwanas Happy
Hunter Of D'Guard) (The also brought his brother
Kairo, but he wasn't showed today).
Haki ended up Best Of Breed puppy out of the 4 entered
basenji pups. Zia was 2nd best bitch.
In the adult classes, Tara won of the females and ended
up best bitch with CC :)
BOB was the very handsome "Fanto" Shahrans Phantom Of The Opera.
Congrats to Hakis owners Sissel & Terrie (and thanks for coming!)
and Tara & Zias co-owner Lisbeth for great results!
Thanks to all basenjipeople there for the lovely company.
I wish for more sunny show-days like this one!
Tara going BOS with CC! Pic. by Sissel Heier.
Haki gaiting.
Haki going BOB puppy.
Pic by Sissel Heier.
01.08:
At a double show at Karmøy, Loke
(JWW-08 N u Ch S u Ch Kingwanas Exhausting Federal Xpress)
went 2 x BOB amnd 1 x BIG-3! Huge congrats to owner/handler
Jorunn!
01.08: Greetings from Kasko (Kingwanas Gentle
WinterKnight) who is veeery comfotable in his owners
arms:
29.07: New pictures -also individual-of
the pups on
their pages. We have also released their names and
owners. All the pups are spoken for. We have chosen to
go with a theme of the elements; Earth, Wind, Fire and
Water, aswell as the letter I, of course.
We also went to the vet today, where they got their
vaccinations, ID chip and health-sertificates, and they
are all as healthy and vital as a pup can be :)
26.07: We visited Utøya today, which is only
about a 40 min. drive from us. It was very special to
see, feel and cry looking out at the same place the
horrible massacre happened only a few days ago.
I placed the photos in
the same album as our trip to Oslo.
Sindre with Utøya in the background.
24.07: I do not have many words to explain the
events of July 22nd in Oslo and at Utøya. We have been
to Oslo to express our sympathy and love. I think one of
the surviving youths from Utøya explained it the best.
"If one man can show all this hatred. Imagine
how much love we can show together."
A picture says more then a 1000 words. You are welcome
to have a look in our album showing our visit to Oslo on
July 23rd. Though no Basenjis came with us to
Oslo this day, I really want to share this with you as
it is the one thing on most Norwegians think about these
days, and
my blog does not seem to be working.
Together we will create a safe world for our children
with democracy, tolerism, empathy,and love.
22.07: The one
who could be a litle puppy in times like these. Without
a single worry in the world, and able to fall asleep on
a broomstick.
Snute
21.07: New pictures -also individual-of
the pups on
their pages. They are getting to darn cute. They are
spending a lot of time outside if the weather is nice,
and have tremendous joy smelling the flowers, chasing
insects and running & playing in our yard along with
Mille & Luna (My mum is watching our Bambi while the
pups are here).
You can also see a video of the pups playing outside
this morning
here.
Lykke, Sniff, Kamar & Snute
It has also been decided that the tri boy previously
known as "Tassen" will be co-owned by us and live with
friends at Gjøvik. His new name will be "Kamar".
Kamar means "Moon" in arabic. His mothers name is
"Luna", which also mean Moon. If you swap his fathers
name "Karma" around, you'll also ge Kamar. Ideal name,
right?
Kingwanas Into The Wind "Kamar" 6 weeks old.
The names of the girls will be revealed once we know
who is going where, but they are all decided.
One girl is still looking for a forever home.
Co-ownership can be discussed.
20.07: I forgot to say, but Dennis (Int
Nord DK U Ch NV-08 Kingwanas Dinari) beautiful
daughter "Wazin Red Gambai" WON the big open class at
the WDS in Paris! She sure does look a lot like her
daddy! Huge congratulations!
Wazin Red Gambai at the WDS. Can you see the
resemblance to her daddy? Even the markings are there.
Gotto love her!
17.07: Would like to congratulate "Fogo" (Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro) who was at the nat. all breed show
in Våler this weekend, and got excellent, 2nd best male
and CC yesterday and Excellent, best male, CC and BOB
today! Congrats Vibeke, Jørgen & Fogo!
17.07:
On friday, Jorunn & "Loke" (N
u ch S u Ch JWW-08 Kingwanas Exhausting Federal Xpress)
was at a big INT. dogshow in Tvååker, Sweden with 28
basenjis entered. Loke went all the way to 2nd best male
with CC and res. Cacib! This made him a Swedish
Champion!! Huge congrats are sent to Jorunn & Loke :)
N u ch S u Ch JWW-08 Kingwanas Exhausting Federal
Xpress
16.07:
New pictures -also individual-of
the pups on
their pages. One of the major advantages of
having summer pups is that they get to spend time
outside in the lovely weather!
Snute enjoying time outside
14.07:
Added new pics to "Rios" (Br Baby Ch Br jr ch
JWJ-11 Catatau
Itapuca) page. He was one of only 4 allowed to
compete for BEST OF BREED at the WDS in Paris.
Rio is the 3rd from left as one of 4 in the BOB
finals.
13.07: We are just enjoying summer!
New pics in
Sindre & Magnus summer album.
12.07:
New pictures -also individual-of
the pups on
their pages. They are roaming around, and their ears are
starting to come up! They look awfully cute at the
moment. Two with both ears up, one with both ears down
and one who has got one ear up, and one ear down.
10.07:
New pics in
Sindre & Magnus summer album.
09.07:
At the World Winner show in Paris, our "Rio" (Catatau
Itapuca) got excellent 1, BOB jr and was a new JWW-11!
Thank you so much to his breeder/ handler Savio Steele!
Rio will stay with basenji breeder /handler Lise Durlot
in France for some months and be shown in Europe before
coming home to Norway.
Savio & Rio in Paris!
09.07: New pics in
Sindre & Magnus summer album.
08.07: At the championat de France show, in
connection to the WDS in Paris, our "Rio" (Catatau
Itapuca) got excellent 1, and was best jr. male! We are
keeping fingers crossed for tomorrow!
Rio with his breeder in Paris.
08.07:
Video of pups 4 weeks old
08.07: Look what came in the mail today! This
gorgeous Basenji bed! The pups do like it!
06.07:
New pictures -also individual-of
the pups on
their pages.
They have also gotten their preliminary nicknames, named
by Sindre.
05.07:
Sindre
is exctatic about having the åuås home with us. He is
very gentle with them, and it is quite obvious he knows
how to handle pups and dogs. He is very caring and
loooves to sit with them (unnder supervision of course)
patting them carefully and sings for them (!!!). Luna
loves the attention too, and Sindre is careful to pat
her just as much. Here Sindre had placed the pups
carefully on his lap himself, and called me while saying;
"Mummy, come take a photo!" Individual pics of the pups
will come tomorrow.
Sindre & Magnus summer album
is updated with pics from our little vacation to
Hunderfossen.
At "Barnas Gård"
Driving Il Tempo Gigante
04.07:
The pups along
with their mummy Luna and "auntie" Mille are now home
with us! They have grown quite a bit, are walking
carefully around, and have setteled nicely in their new
home. They slept the whole way here- didn't hear a peep!
I took the pic below before departing from Ellen & Lars.
More pics will follow within the next few days!
Lunas pups 3 weeks old (+)
04.07: We have been on a vacation to Hunderfossen/
Lillehammer. The boys' albun will be updated shortly!
30.06: Yet another pic of the pups with their
eyes open. Hello little ones. Aren't they just
adorable??
Pic. by Ellen Kvernmo.
28.06:
The pups are
growing and developing very nicely. They are all gaining
weight, and are now all well over 850g, getting close to
1 kg. Their eyes have started to open, and they are
wabbling carefully around in the puppypen making awfully
cute noises.
We will get them here on Monday, and I am very excited!
Can't wait to have small pups running around in our yard
in summer. We have no big plans except hanging around
here with the kids and pups. Sounds like a great summer
to me!
Ellen & Lars are doing such a great job with the pups at
the moment. They have all had their claws cut a few
times already, and are as I said gaining weight very
nicely looking fit and healthy.
Ellen sent us this photo taken yesterday. More will come
once the pups move home to us!
28.06: Summergreetings from Haki
(Kingwanas Happy Hunter Of D'Guard)&
Kairo
(Kingwanas Handsome Kairo Of D'Guard)!
Such handsome boys...
Kasko (Kingwanas Gentle
WinterKnight) is also sending a greeting:
19.06:
The pups have
turned 9 days old, and we had a very nice lunch together with Ellen, Lars, Milly,
Luna and the pups today. Even though they were cute enough to eat, Hot Dogs were
not on the meny. I am after all a vegetarian. More pics on the pups pages!
12.06:
An amazing weekend has come to an end. It has been
such a wonderful weekend- consithering both the arrangement, the social aspect
and result-wise on our speciality show 2011, judged by Mr. Glen Dymock. There
were approx. 80 basenjs entered (30 pups and 50 adults) alltogether.
The results of the adult Kingwana team:
"Fogo"
(Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro): Excellent 2, ck, 3 bhk, res. cert. 2nd best red/white coat
color.
"Krona" (Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight):
Excellent 4, ck. Best eyes.
"Roxy" (Kingwanas Foxy Femme Fatale)
Excellent 2, ck. Best tail.
"Tara" (Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails) Excellent 2,
ck. Bests child/ dog competition with Thomas.
"Mille" (N u Ch Kingwanas Entertaining Story)
Excellent, 3rd best ears. Best in child/dog comp. 0-10 years with Sindre.
Sindre & Mille winning the child/dog competition.
Vibeke handling Fogo to 3rd best male!
The results of the puppy Kingwana team:
"Haki" (Kingwanas Happy Hunter Of D'Guard): 1,1
BEST IN SHOW, Best
head, best gait, 2nd best eyes, 2nd best ears.
"Zia" (Kingwanas Hot Shadow Of D'Guard) 1, 2 2nd best
female. Best black/white coat/colour, 4th best ears.
"Santos" (Kingwanas Hopeful Knight Of D'Guard) Not
placed. Best ears, 3rd best black/white.
"Kairo" (Kingwanas Handsome Kairo Of D'Guard) Not
placed. Best red/white coat/color, 4th best eyes.
I have to thank Helen Veless once again, for so many things. First of all for
letting me buy Sunnys semen- it has truly resulted in some wonderful basenjis!
Secondly for coming to visit, I've REALLY enjoyed your company, and hope to
visit you sometime in Australia, or at least to meet you again. Too bad we live so far apart! Secondly for
doing such an amazing job with the handling of your "grandkids". It is a
true joy to
watch you handle them!
Helen with Kingwanas Happy Hunter. Best In Show at the Norwegian Speciality 2011.
Owned by Sissel Heier & Terrie Miller. Haki also won
Best Head & Best Gait In show (allages) - And he is only 6
months old...
I also want to thank all of our puppybuers who came to show their
dogs and be social. You do such a great job with them!
Thanks also to the co-breeder of our D'Guard litter, Jeanette Strand for letting
us use Giza. I think we can agree that the result hit our excpectations.
The last thank goes to the entire "working crew". This show has been so
wonderful, and I know the amount of work that is behind it. Thank you to
everyone who contributed, especially my husband Dag Christer, our ringsecretary
Kurt Espeland and Jeanette Strand. I know you have been working your "asses"
off- both before and after this show. THANK YOU! - And thanks to everyone else
who contributed 
I have as usual made a picture album of the speciality.
It can be seen here.
I have also made a video of Haki winning BEST IN SHOW.It can be seen here. .
A big congrats is sent to ALL winners, especially of course to the BIS adult
Ch Doberguard's Maya Mssterpiece- also a Sunny daughter, BOS & new
norwegian/nordic Ch Zahleke Emilie Emilion. New N u Ch Karimbas Molly Moon and
the BOS puppy Moyomena Zelda Waridi.
10.06: Lunas puppies are here! She had 1 tricolor boy and 3 red/white
females. They all had a birthweight of excactly 200g, so quite an even litter.
They are all healthy and beautifully marked. Luna is a super mummy just like the
last time. They will live with Ellen & lars for the first 3 weeks, and then they
will move here. They have gotten their own pages.
08.06: We have got a lovely visit from Helen Veless of Afrikenji Basenjis/
Australia!
She will be joining us to the speciality where she will be able to see many of
her beautiful boy Aus Gr Ch
Afrikenji Hot Sumaknight's offspring. We are thrilled to have you
here!
After the speciality she will also visit Jeanette and Erling at
Doberguard.
07.05:
New pictures in Sindre& Magnus' summer
album!
07.05: Congratulations Sissel & Terrie for coming both in 1st and 3rd in the
Basenji Photocompetition held by Pia Palmblad Wright each month!
Kairo was the winner (left) and Haki was the 2nd runner up!
Haki & Matheo.
02.06: "Otto" (Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard)
attended a show in Denmark.
The show was a bit different from what we are used to as the puppy winners were
allowed to compete altso with the adult winning dogs in the end. Otto ended up
being awarded as the most beautiful dog there- regardless of age- and he has not
even turned 6 months of age!
He was first BOB baby Basenji, then he went all the way to BEST IN SHOW Baby.
After this he competed against the BOB winners if ALL ages and went BEST IN
GROUP.However, his winning strike didn't stop here. After his BIG (all ages) win
he went BEST IN SHOW all ages!! It was quite a big show with over 200 entries.
We are so proud of you, Amalie and Otto! Breed judge was Birgitte Thielman and
BIS BABY, BIG and BEST IN SHOW judge Henny Andersen.
Otto in the spotlight, winning BOB, BIS baby, BIG (all ages) and BEST IN SHOW
(all ages!)
Video of
Otto can be seen here.
02.06: Ottos brothers
Kairo (Kingwanas Handsome Kairo Of
D'Guard),
Pocus
(Kingwanas Hocus Pocus
Of D'Guard )
and Haki (Kingwanas Happy
Hunter Of D'Guard)
were also stars today. However, not at a show, but at NKK's new promotion video!
We will hopefully be able to show you the result in the end of the summer. I
have some videoclips myself aswell from the day, but I am not allowed to publish
them just yet as they might be used in the film. You can however get a sneekpeek
at some of the pics:
In between the scenes.Pic. on the right is taken by Sissel/Terrie.
Pocus waiting for his turn
It can be comfortable to wait. Haki waiting and his youngest owner
Levi in the background.
Many stars in the film, getting drilled.
First scene of the film. You can spot Haki and Pocus's ears....lol
Kairo the moviestar!
We have moved to the second location of the day, Norges Varemesse, Lillestrøm
Getting drilled again ;)
Kairo getting a goodluck kiss from Terrie
Actor talk.
30.05: It has been a very nice show-weekend for the Kingwanas team!
On Sunday, we got up early, picked up Lisbeth and Zia and drove to Hadeland HK's
puppyshow at Lunner. Zia (Kingwanas Hot
Shadow Of D'Guard), who was a bit scared the last
time at a show was her confident happy self again, and really charmed the judge.
She got a great critique and was BOB.
Myself and Dag had to leave to get to my mums surprise 70th birthdayparty, but
Lisbeth handled Zia herself in the (big and jointed) group to BIG-2! Well done!!
Lisbeth and Zia with the BOB ribbon.
AT Støren HK's nat show,
Krona,
Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight got excellent 1,
ck, CC, and BOS under judge Terje Lindstrøm on saturday. BOB was Aboteres
Zharim, handled by Jeanette. He became a new Norwegian & Danish champion!
Congrats!
On Sunday, Krona got excellent 1,
ck, CC, BOB and BEST IN GROUP -3 under judge Kari Granaas Hansen! Congrats Krona & Ingrid!
Aboteres Zharim BOB & Krona BOS on saturday
In Tromsø, Echos daughter Bushongo
Chara Alula got Excellent 1, ck, CC and 2nd best bitch, and at "Hundens Dag" at
Skoger, Echos son (and Charas brother)
Bushongo Cosmo was BEST IN SHOW at their matc-show! Echo is so proud of his
kiddos! Congrats Kaja, Ida & Henriette!
Bushongo Cosmo BEST IN SHOW handled by his (co-) owner Kaja.
24.05: It is now confirmed that Mille is not pregnant. We will repeat the
combination this fall, and make sure we come to Tre in time.
Luna is however VERY pregnant, and pups are excpected
June 15th! Pics of pregnant Luna will come shortly!
24.05: Another pic of our precious, lovalble and strange little
Bambi:
23.05: New picture of Kairo (Kingwanas Handsome Kairo Of
D'Guard)!
Thanks Sissel/Terrie for the pic! You are getting professional!
23.05: Mum turned 70 years old today, and some new photos are posted in
Sindre & Magnus' spring album .
22.05: Geno (Kingwanas General Hits The Target)
was at Hasselholms nat. show in Sweden, under judge Marie Petersen, where he got
an excellent critique and excellent 1 with ck!
You can watch a video of Geno at the show here:
Video of Geno in the
ring. Thank you Christina for the video!
Geno gaiting, pic by Shahrans
21.05: Kasko has been trying bloodtracking! Look what he found at the
end of his track...
19.05: New pics of Rio, his winning pic. from last weekend
achievements:
17.05: Happy birthday Norway! We had a lovely celebration. Pics can be seen
in
Sindre & Magnus' spring album
11.05: Last weekend,
our
Handsome
Brazilian man Rio (Catatau Itapuca)
was
shown 3 times in Rio De
Janeiro with
the
arrager
The
KC
Fluminese with
the
following
results:
Mr. Ricardo
Saldanã
- Mexico - Best
of
Breed,
2nd Group
Junior and Adult
Mrs. In
Coelum
Perdigão
- Brasil - Best of
Breed,
2nd Group
Junior and Adult
Mrs.
Ikuko
Nagasako
- Japan/Brasil - Best
of
Breed,
3nd Group
Junior and Adult
He has now achieved 6 junior/ adult BOB's -having been placed in the group EVERY
time, and is now
Brazilian
Junior Champion!
Thank you so much breeder/handler Savio Steele!
08.05: At NKK Int. show in Kristiansand
under judge Jens Ramsing (DK) Roxy
(Kingwanas Foxy Femme Fatale) was 2nd best
bitch with excellent, ck, CC and res. Cacib! This is young Roxys 3rd Big"
(international) CC and 6th CC alltogether! Loke (JWW-08 N u Ch Kingwanas Exhausting Federal Xpress)
won the championclass with excellent, but didn't get the ck. Cobgrats Annika &
Jorunn!
Roxys critique (translated):
"Medium sized, harmonic built, correct proportion, correct bite, well set and
carried ears, excellent neck, topline and angulations. Corecctly carried tail,
free, paralell movemenst front and rear. Excellent temperment. "
01.05: At the show in Letohallen, under judge Annette Bystrup, there were
8 pups and 6 adults entered. The judge had a judge student as well, and I loved
the way our judge of the day handled and treated the basenjis and my heart
leaped with joy to hear the things she explained to her pupil, expecially the
fact that one should never pull out a a basenji tail! KUDOS! If only all
basenji judges knew...
First out today was the puppy males. Harriet came over with Pocus (Kingwanas Hocus Pocus
Of D'Guard )
and Terrie brought Haki (Kingwanas Happy
Hunter Of D'Guard)
and Kairo (Kingwanas Handsome Kairo Of
D'Guard.) Jeanette also showed her lovely male
"Mike" (Dobergurad's Master Of Miracle). The
judge had a tough time deciding, and said this was a "pick from the top shelf"
as they were all of superb quality, which was reflected in their wonderful
critiques.
Haki on the table
Haki won and became best puppy male, with Mike 2nd, Kairo 3rd and
Pocus 4th. Thank you Erling/ Netti for handling Pocus and Kurt Espeland for
handling Kairo!
Haki BOS at his first show. The BOB bitch was a nice moving girl from
Moyomena.
A special thanks goes out to Terrie and Harriet for bringing the boys. Hope you
enjoyed your first time at a show! It is always so nice with new faces around
the ring.
In the puppy female class, I showed Zia (Kingwanas Hot
Shadow Of D'Guard) she is such a sweet girl who yodels
and wags her tail to everyone, but for some reason she drops her tail on the
table and screams when touched on the back (the front is fine). We will
have it checked out to see she is not in pain and train her a bit. She was
placed 4th in puppyclass due to this.
Lisbeth and Terrie (holdong Tara) at left and Harriet with Pocus on the right.
Pics by Jeanette Strand.
In the adult class, I only showed Tara
(Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails) she won her class
with excellent and ck over her sister Gudrun (Kingwanas Fabulous
Unicorn) who also got excellent and ck! In the best female class, the
judge had a very tough time deciding who to place for best bitch, but finally
decided on the junior bitch, making Tara 2nd best bitch with res. CC and
Gudrun 3rd best bitch.
Sweet Tara!
Fogo (Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro ) was shown by Vibeke who had
her show debut in the basenji ring this weekend and did very well, being placed
as 3rd best male with excellent and ck. Well done Vibeke!
Congrats also to all winners!
BOB both days, and BIG-2 on Sunday, Shahrans Phatom Of The Opera.
01.05: At Sør-Rogaland Brukshundklubb/ Orre,
Roxy
(Kingwanas Foxy Femme Fatale) got excellent
under judge (?).
01.05: At Sunndal HK's show, Krona,
Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight got excellent 1,
ck, CC, BOB and BEST IN GROUP -2! Congrats Krona & Ingrid!
30.04: At Letohallen
under judge Carl-Gunnar Stafberg,
Zia (Kingwanas Hot
Shadow Of D'Guard)
was 4th best puppy bitch. Fogo
(Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro ) won his class with excellent
and ck- and was finally 2nd best male with ck and res. CC. He was beautifully
handled by Vibeke. Great job on your show debut! Tara
(Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails)
wasn't this judges type and for the first time ever she did not get her ck. but
got Very Good.
Vibeke and Fogo.
25.04: New picture
of Pocus (Kingwanas Hocus Pocus
Of D'Guard ). Pocus has been on Easterholiday with
Erling and Netti, who took this picture.
We are looking forward to seeing him and several of his siblings and other
basenji pups on their first show next weekend!
Kingwanas Hocus Pocus Of D'Guard 4,5 months old
25.05: New pics of
Rio (Catatau Itapuca)
winning BOB + BIG-2 in Brazil!
24.04: Yet another easter trip with pics in Sindre & Magnus'
spring album This time we went to the Oslofjord. I took this years first
swim in the ocean...
Nothing is better then wet sand between your toes!
23.04: "Otto" (Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard)
became
BOB and BEST IN SHOW-2
Baby in
Danmark! Breed and BIS judge Diane Anderson, USA. Huge
congratulations to owner/ handler
Amalie Hindsdal.
Otto got the following critique:
"Lovely baby.
Balanced and elegant.
Amazing
movement for
the age.
Excellent head.
Should have a
very
exciting
future!"
Diane
Anderson, 22.04.2011, BOB and BIS-2.
Otto relaxing.
22.04: Easter greetings from Santos (Kingwanas
Hopeful Knight Of D'Guard)
22.04: Yet another easter trip with pics in Sindre & Magnus'
spring album!
Sindre & Magnus
21.04: New pictures of Rio (Catatau Itapuca)
on his page.
Rio, 9 months old.
21.04: We have updates Sindre & Magnus'
spring album with pics from one of our easter trips in Oslo. This time at
Bogstad Manor.
Sindre on his bike
17.04: Once again, Roxy
(Kingwanas Foxy Femme Fatale) became BOS with
CC, while Loke (JWW-08 N u Ch Kingwanas Exhausting Federal Xpress)
went all the way to BOB an group-4 today at the all breed show in Rogaland. This
time under judge Mona Selbach. Congratulations Annika & Jorunn! Roxy has now- at
the age of 15 months 5 CC's (where of 2 "big" CC's) and a CACIB after only 7
shows!
Lokes critique from saturday:
"Very typical, full of quality, beautiful head, corr. outline. Excellent level
of chest and ribs. Nice angulations. Moves sound. A champion who deserves the
title"
Maria Decaristou, 16.04.2011, BOB, BIG, BIS-2!
Roxys critique from saturday:
"Very, beautiful and typical, feminin head, friendly and allert exp. Compact
body, exc neck and topline and tailset. Exc ribes, moves balanced ext. under
drive".
Maria Decaristou, 16.04.2011, Excellen1, CC, BOS!
Their critiques from sunday were just as good!
17.04: At a dogshow in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, our Rio (Catatau Itapuca)
went BOB x 3 and also went 2nd best in group in the junior finals! Now he only
lacks one BOB to became a Br Jr Champion. New pictures will come shortly.
17.04: We would like to share this pic. of the handsome
Haki (Kingwanas Happy
Hunter Of D'Guard), 4 months old:
Pic. by Terrie/Sissel, handled by Netti.
16.04: At a national all breed dogshow in Rogaland, Roxy
(Kingwanas Foxy Femme Fatale) became BOS with
CC, while Loke (JWW-08 N u Ch Kingwanas Exhausting Federal Xpress)
went all the way to BOB, BEST IN GROUP and BEST IN SHOW-2! There were 390
entries to the show, which means he beat 388 other dogs! Way to go Loke &
Jorunn! Our warmest
congratulations to both Jorunn & Annika. Thanks to Jorunn & Tatjana for pictures.
Loke BOB, BIG, and 2 BEST IN SHOW.
Roxy BOS with CC.
14.04: It has been some truly hectic days. It started on Monday when
Ellen took the mothers to be, Mille & Luna to the vet for a bloodtest to see how
far they were. Last time Luna was on day 15, and Luna on day 21 when they mated,
so we thought it would be excellent to test them when they were on day 13/14.
It proved right on Luna. Her perfect day was still day 15- the day we had booked
the flight from Finland. Phew! However, Milles levels were sky high- she was
MANY days after ovulation, and the vets thought it was way too late to breed.
However, I still had to try, and got in the car as quickly as I could, met Ellen
on the way, and drove towards Malmø/ Sweden. We arrived in the early night-time,
and managed a breeding with some help, but the vets seemed quite certain it was
so late, it will not result in puppies. We'll see if we can prove them wrong. If
not, we'll try again this fall. Pups expected June 13th.
In my hurry, I forgot my camera, but Christina took this nice pic of the (hopefully)
excpecting parents. Thank you for taking us in so late, Christina! It was also
great to meet Milles son from her last litter (Geno,
Kingwanas General Hits The Target) he is developing
nicely!
On Wednesday, the Finnish delegation of Helena Sarpola and Karma (Fin S Ch Fin
V-10 Bulldobas Catch The Wind) arrived. It was love at first sniff between him
and Luna, and pups are expected June 15th.
Afther the "marriage", the newlyweds celebrated with a honeymoon to
the quite famous
Vigelandparken in Oslo. They enjoyed the attractions like real
tourists:
You can see more photos of Luna & Karmas honeymoon
here. Thanks so much to Helena for
bringing him over to Norway (we weren't able to come to Finland, as Lunas rabies
bloodtest had not come back yet). It was so nice to have you both here for a few
days! Thanks also to Tipi for, well.. everything.
10.04: In Bergen Int. KC show, Roxy
(Kingwanas Foxy Femme Fatale) went BOB with
CC and Cacib under judge Arne Foss! She was also picked out among the 6 best in
the group ring in very tough competition. Congratulations Annika & Roxy!
10.04: In Finland, little Miss Alli (Kingwanas Greatest Story Of All)
was shown under judge Svein Helgesen, and was Excellent 2. She is such a
beautiful little lady!
08.04:
Because Luna started her season sooner then expected, we have not managed to
get her intended man "Renes" Hip result back in time from the finnish Kennel
klub. Even though the risk of him having anything but A or B' is minimal, we
just didn't want to risk anything. At least not when there was an obvious
candidate to use instead- who had all health results ready, and carried
the excact same genes, and is just as pretty and well mannered. We are going to
use Renes litter brother "Karma", Fin S Ch Fin V-10 Bulldobas Catch The Wind
instead!
Read more about it here.
Fin S Ch Fin V-10 Bulldobas Catch The Wind.
07.04:Greetings from "Tre" (Meisterhaus
Tail Of Intrigue)- The father of our F litter and
Milles future litter- together
with "Geno" (Kingwanas General Hits The Target)-
Milles son. Mille & Tre will be a couple- hopefully in next week!
Luna started her season only one day after Mille, so next week will be a
hectic one...
07.04: Have a look at this lovely article, where different basenjijudges
speak of their alltime favorite basenjis. I was thrilled to see many of them
shared my view, and two of them also mentioned the great Aus Gr Ch Afrikenji Hot
Sumaknight as one of their top 3 of all times. We are so proud to include him in
our lines!
Link to the article.
04.04: We have updates Sindre & Magnus'
spring album with pics from Magnus' baptism (dåp).
Magnus & Sindre
31.03: Greeting from Kasko (Kingwanas Gentle WinterKnight)
who has become a rider, getting more and more comfortable by the day.
Kasko & Lady.
30.03:
We have decided to have selective memory when it comes to having two litters at
once, and will breed BOTH Mille & Luna this summer. Mille started her season
today, and we suspect Luna is not far behind. We have thought about this and
have had the male ready for quite a while, but haven't been able to make up our
mind. However, when Mille started her season today, and we have a few buyers
very interested in her lines too, we decided to go for it. It will be nice with
summer litters after all!
Read more aboout our planned litters
here.
29.03:
"Geno"
(Kingwanas General Hits The Target)
&
Roxy (Kingwanas Foxy Femme Fatale)
HD results both came back as A (Excellent)!
28.03: I
would like to share this pic of
Bambi and Sindre playing together with Sindres car.
To tremendous joy for them both. Sindre has been giggeling sooo hard, and Bambi
Baroos, takes bows and spins around. Not bad for an 8 year old lady?
The point of the game was of course to have the car in the mouth for the longest
time. Sindre won, but Bambi was close behind and a very good looser. 
27.03:
Zia (Kingwanas Hot
Shadow Of Doberguard) came to visit, and I
must say she is developing in to a beautiful lady!
26.03:
More photo greetings!
Kairo, Sissel & Haki
"Geno"
(Kingwanas General Hits The Target)
Krona (Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight)
is being a wonderful playmate for the Miniature Pincher pups.
21.03: We
are proud to announce our planned litter for 2011!
20.03:"Geno"
(Kingwanas General Hits The Target)
was at an Int. show in Malmø/ Sweden, where he got excellent 2 and ck from
junior class. Thank you Christina for the picture!
Greetings from beautiful Roxy (Kingwanas Foxy Femme Fatale
):
Also greetings from handsome Loke (JWW-08 N u Ch Kingwanas Exhausting Federal Xpress)
15.03:
"Otto" (Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard)
became
BEST IN SHOW Baby in
Stestrup/
Danmark! There were approx. 20 other breeds in the BIS- ring! Breedjudge
Kresten
Scheel, BIS Baby judge, Birte Scheel. Huge congratulations to owner/ handler
Amalie Hindsdal.
Otto, 7 weeks old.
14.03: We are enjoying the remains of winter, and this time we brought the
camera with us to share some moments. More pics in
Sindre & Magnus winter album.
Out walking kids and dogs
We are flying the chopter, and the dogs are very interested.
Our darling Bambi (Zande Fedha) is getting grey haris. Our princess is
becoming a lady!
Perhaps we will show her in veteranclasses?
Full speed ahead!
10.03:
Greetings from Gudrun (Kingwanas Fabulous
Unicorn) & Esther (
Kingwanas Evidence Of Persistence) who has
function as ski-pulling dogs in Hemsedal. Looks like great fun!
09.03:
Two beautiful brothers!
Haki (Kingwanas Happy
Hunter Of D'Guard)
&
Kairo
(Kingwanas Handsome Kairo Of
D'Guard)
are enjoying their life together and I just love the photos of the superbrothers!
02.03:
We have goten a greetiong from
Anton
(Kingwanas Hot
Wrinkles Of D'Guard). He
has gotten a private page online. You can see it
here.
02.03: Photogreetings from Kasko (Kingwanas Gentle WinterKnight)
and the cats! I just love these photos.
Pictures by Anette Vindvik.
25.02:
All of our pups have now found their loving homes. Haki
(Kingwanas Happy
Hunter Of D'Guard)
will live with his brother
Kairo
(Kingwanas Handsome Kairo Of
D'Guard)
together with Terrie and Sissel who are thrilled to have him as a part of
their family.
Kairo & Haki. Pics by Sissel K. Heier/ Terrie Miller
Their brother
Pocus
(Kingwanas Hocus Pocus
Of D'Guard ) who lives will Terries mum,
will also meet them from time to time, so there will be 3 brother growing
up knowing eachother well :)
We also have plenty of contact with them and hope to meet them often!
Harriet with their big extended doggie family. Kaisa in front (a 12 year
old Irish Terrier)
and Pocus, Haki & Kairo on the lap. Pic by Sissel K. Heier/ Terrie
Miller.
21.02:
Sweet Haki
Kingwanas Happy
Hunter Of D'Guard
is still here, and is the
sweetest dude ever! We decided to name him "Haki" which is the Swahili word for
Justice.
Haki 10,5 weeks old
21.02:
We have recieved a bunch of wonderful greetings from our kids. A small
presentation:
Fogo
(Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro) at a visit at Kennel
Doberguard, flirting with the girls there and living up to his name. Pic by
Jeanette Strand.
Tara (Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails)
and her new "sister" Zia (Kingwanas Hot
Shadow Of Doberguard)
having a good time toghether. Pic by Lisbeth Engevold.
Santos (Kingwanas
Hopeful Knight Of D'Guard
) riding on his new best
friend.
Pic. by Joakim Røvik.
Otto
(Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard) enjoying
himself in his new home in Denmark. Pic by Amalie Hindal.
And then we have got a bunch of beautiful pics of the brothers Pocus
(Kingwanas Hocus Pocus
Of D'Guard ) and
Kairo (Kingwanas Handsome Kairo Of
D'Guard). Pics by Terrie Miller & Sissel K. Heier:
14.02:
Due to unforseen circumstances,
Kingwanas Happy
Hunter Of D'Guard is looking for
a new family. Please contact us for further
information!
You can read more about the entire litter
here.
Happy is looking for a new home.
14.02:
I would like to share this pic of our Bambi enjoying the beam of sunlight
through the window:
13.02:
At Norsk Wlch Corgi Klubb's show today, judged
by Anne Indergaard,
Fogo (Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro) got excellent 1, ck,
-best male, cc and BOB! he was once again handled by Netti. Thank you so much!
I handled Kee-Kee (Doberguards
Master Key To Kingwana), and she won her class with excellent.
Kee-Kee and Sindre playing ringside (left). Myself & Kee-Kee (right)
Fogo going BOB with CC for the second day in a row.
12.02:
At Norsk Boxerklubb's show today, judged by Marianne Holmli,
Fogo (Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro) got excellent 1, ck,
-best male, cc and BOB while his sister Tara (Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails)
got excellent 1, ck, best female, cc and BOS! Fogo was beautifully handled by
Netti- thank you! Thanks also to Vibeke for taking pics, and to you all (Netti,
Vibeke, Jørgen & Lisbeth) for lovely company and showing up.
Now we are waiting for the groups to start....
Fogo BOB & Tara BOS
Zia meeting Netti
Tara BOS getting a congrats kiss from her BOB brother Fogo
12.02:
At Ølen HK, Loke (JWW-08 N u Ch Kingwanas Exhausting Federal Xpress)
won Excellent 1, ck, best male and BOB! Congrats
Jorunn! Annika & Roxy
(Kingwanas Foxy Femme Fatale)
won their class with excellent. Congrats!!!
09.02:
Billy
was put to sleep yesterday. It all happened so quickly, it
has not really dawned to us yet- we are still in shock and mourning.
He has been slowly more
and more ill. We took him to the vet about 4 weeks ago as he suddendly had high fever and vomited blood. The vet thought it might be a normal
cough, and sent us home again with a subsription for anthibiotics.
His fever returned to
normal, and the vomiting stopped, but still something seemed wrong. Billy - who had always been our overly happy, tailwagging furball suddendly seemed depressed. He gradually stopped eating and became a bit careless. We tried huge efforts to make him eat, and it seemed like he wanted to- but he just didn't manage in the end. If he did eat- he would vomit it up again.
We took him to the vet again on monday, and the vet. examined him for over 2 hours without having come to a conclusion, and wanted him to come back the next day. On tuesday afternoon he was diagnosed with cancer. It was all over
his lunges and chest,
and the cancer was also pushing against
his
esophagus.
There
was
nothing
to be done.
We
asked if we could have him home just one last night to say goodbye, but the vet. adviced us not to, as poor Billy was in pain- so he was put to sleep that day. Rest in peace our sweetest bouncing furball. We will never forget your smile, your bark, your wagging
tail.
-Or
the
way
you
were to
our kids.
Both
the
ones
on
two and 4 legs.
We
will
also
miss the
way
you
warned us
when
the basenjis
were
mischivous.
Thank
you,
Billy.
For everything.
We love
you.
07.02: We have been on another national double dog show, hosted by Norsk
Schnauser Bouvier Klub on saturday, and by Norsk Lahsa Apso Klubb on Sunday.
Dag was hired as the technical chief for the Lahsa club, so we had a wonderful
weekend with the "crew" at Helsfyr hotel.
On saturday, the judge was the danish judge Leif Lehmann Jørgensen. From the
Kingwana team, Fogo (Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro), his sister Tara (Kingwanas Fairy Of Tails),
Krona (Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight) and
Kee-Kee (Doberguards
Master Key To Kingwana).
Kee-Kee has just turned two years, and was standing for her champion title.
Fogo was first out in jr. male class, and was excellently handled by Netti to
excellent 2 with ck and 3rd best male. I handled Tara in jr. females, and I
could tell the judge truly liked her. She won the class with excellent and ck,
and a marvellous critique. Krona gort excellent 3 in jk.
Kee-Kee was up next, and she won the open class with excellent. Even though
Kee-Kee was standing for her title, we felt Tara had a better chance at winning,
and there were other nice bitches with ck too, so Netti handled Tara in best
bitch class- and they won- earning young Tara her third CC. Kee-Kee was 3rd best
bitch. Tara ended up being BOS, beaten by Matabichi Fahari Zola who was BOB.
Thank you Netti for excellent handling assistance. I just love to see you handle
Tara. You truly bring out the best in her!
Tara BOS, Zola BOB both with CC.
On Sunday, we had a Canadian judge I have never shown dogs to before named
Fred Dewsburry. The same Kingwana team was present.
I handled Fogo today (thank you Jørgen, it was great fun!). Fogo is a real
teenager just full of mischief. He i a youngster sooo full of energy, and truly
lives up to his name "Kingwanas Flirting Figaro" as he flirts with EVERYONE.
Both people and animals. Such a lovely, lovely temeperd young man, even though
he might learn to take the playtime OUTSIDE the ring *lol*
Fogo flirting with Fila at left, and the Flirting Figaros head at right.
Fogo won the jr. class with excellent in front of yesterdays BOB winner Zola,
and was finally 2nd best male with res. CC.
Fogo winning jr. class
The females was up next, and in the jr. class it was almost reverse order as
yesterday. Krona won with excellent/ ck, and Tara was 3rd with excellent/ck.
Kee-Kee won open class with excellent again.
I glimpsed a hope of her earning the title, but she was beaten on the
finnishline by Krona (Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight), and ended up 2nd best
bitch with res- CC.
Krona has matured truly beautifully, and deserved the win. Congrats Ingrid &
Krona! They eneded up being BOS with young Kronas 5th CC!
Zahleka Emile Emilion BOB, Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight BOS.
Lisbeth & Tara and Astrid & Kee-Kee ringside.
Magnus ringside.
Thank you all for a lovely weekend!
I also got reports that little miss Alli (Kingwanas Greatest Story Of All)
was 2nd best bitch in a nat. show in Finland! Congratulations!
31.01: It didn't take long to find a wonderful new home for Pocus. He will
now live with Harriet, who is the mother of Terrie- one of Kairos owners. So the
two brothers will grow up knowing eacother, and I am sure they will have
tremendous joy out of it!
Kairo on the first day in his new home. at right. Harriet -Pocus' new owner on
the right. On this pic. holding Santos. Pics by Sissel K.H.
I'd also like to share these pics of Tara & Zia playing/sleeping together.
The two girls *(both co-owned by us) are the best of friends already:
Tara & Zia having a good time! Pics by Lisbeth Engevold.
30.01: All the pups have now left for their new homes, and it is getting
very empty here...
It is however great to get reports from all- and
even some pictures that they all are doing wonderful and has managed the
transmission to their new homes superbly.
Thank you so much for these reports!
Jeanette has come to the very hard decision that she will try to sell Pocus as
she has so many promising males at the moment.
So, Pocus (Kingwanas Hocus Pocus
Of D'Guard) is for sale- preferably to
a show home, but the most important thing is of course he comes to a loving and
understanding home. He is a very happy, confident and handsome dude! He is
pictured on the right.
You can contact us, or
Jeanette.
Otto at the airport with Amalie, and arriving with his new family in Denmark.
Santos on the day before departure... this can't be good?
Kairo with his new family before departure at left, and in their new home.
27.01: Three of the pups will leave today. Anton, Zia & Pocus.
Anton will be a hunting dog and live in Magnor. Pocus will move back to kennel
Doberguard and live with Jeanette & Erling, while Zia will move to our neighbour
Lisbeth & Tara (from ourr F litter) and be co-owned with us.
We will miss you all so much! But at least we will see Pocus & Zia quite often
both on our spare time & on shows.
Here is a little video of ou Doberguard H litter 3-7 weeks.
23.01: We have had loads of lovely visits from puppybuyers this weekend.
Terrie and Sissel came to visit their Kairo, Lisbeth & Thea came to visit Zia,
and "MiniGiza"s new owners came to visit. MiniGizas new name will be "Anton".
Thank you all for coming to visit. We are confident you will give our babies the
best possible homes :)
All the pups are now sold to lovely homes, but we might be looking for a
co-owner for a promising male in our area.
Sissel & Terrie with Kairo at the left, Thea with her lap full of puppies
at right.
Thea & Lisbeth with the puppies
Pocus wonderes who is coming to visit this time.
We have also had time to do a photoshoot, and had loads of good help:
Sindre and Billy helping out in the photosession. Zia is on the table.
Puppies run fast. Even for my camera who takes pis in the split of a second.
Some accidents turn out to be pretty cool nevertheless:
Treats
Kairo, Anton & Pocus
You can see the result of the photoshoot on the
pups pages.
20.01: We have had a visit of a couple of our puppybuyers with friends/
family again, and had a wonderful time playing with the pups, talking and eating
hot buns (which the adult dogs thought they should get waaaay more often).
Bambi proving she doesn't beg for food?
Sharing some of the pics:
Zia wondering what's up.
Sleepingtime
Wakey wakey time
What? Did you say there is an intruder there??? Where???
Let's have a closer look. Nope. Still don't know what you mean?
Buddies.
Joakim (Santos owner) with Happy & Zia
20.01: The pups have settled nicely, and we just LOVE to have them here.
They are just so amazingly sweet, and NOTHING can be compared to puppybreath,
puppykisses and puppyyodels! They LOOOVE to play with Sindre- and the joy is
mutual.
Sindre and the pups playing together.
Can you imagine a better sight to wake up to then this?
The rest of the names'7owners have been released on the
pups pages !
18.01: I picked up Amalie from Denmark at the airport, and we drove together
to Jeanette and boy had the puppies grown since I last saw them!
They were sooo playful and had matured in a very nice way. The hours flew by
with puppywatchin, picture taking and eating (Netti had made her wonderful
lasagne... delicious!). Amalie picked out her chioce of the litter- one of my
favorites: "Bukken" will from now on be called Kingwanas Hellblazer Of D'Guard,
Otto for short. He wil be showing his paws a lot in the rings, and we are very
excited about seeing how he does!
We are certain he will have a wonderful time with the Hindal family in
Denmark. Then it was time for us to leave. We had been careful to activate the
pups quite a bit before departure, so they slept the entire way home. It is so
great to have them here, and I am sooo excited about getting to know them even
better. Our adult dogs are behaving very well with them- and Sindre is exctatic
about having "Baby voff voff'er" in the house. I have to thank Netti once again
for the outstanding job you have done with these pups. You are truly one of a
kind. I will do my very best to continue your wonderful work!
One more puppy has gotten to know where his new home will be. "Halvdan Svarte"
will from now on be called "Kingwanas Happy Hunter" - Happy for short. He will
live in the south of Norway together with his family. He might show his paws a
bit, but will mostly be a family pet.
I still need a few days to figure out the remaining.... It is not easy!
The
pups pages have all been updated with pics, as has
Sindre & Magnus winter album.
17.01: Tomorrow I will drive to Gardermoen to pick up a puppybuyer form
abroad who is coming over for the day just to visit the pups. When we return
again, we will take the pups with us to Grua. I am sure our adult dogs here are
looking forward to some puppy socialization! We sure are! Jeanette (& Erling)
has done SUCH a wonderful job with them. I am certian a puppy could never have a
better start in their lives then with them- Jeanette devotes her entire time to
her dogs and makse sure they ALL have excactly what they need- of care, food,
love, socialization, training and playtime. Now we will try to follow up
her wonderful work these last few days/ weeks before the puppies leave for their
new homes.
I can't thank Jeanette enough for what she has done. You are a true friend!
The owners and names of the puppies will most likely be published here on
wednesday or thursday, so stay tuned!
Our 7 pups together with the 5 Doberguard pups. Such a wonderful sight!
We have also had a visit from Tara, and Sindre & Magnus' winteralbum is
updated.
Tara & Sindre.
11.01: Here is the video
of the pups, 5 weeks old.
09.01: On friday we visited Jeanette & the pups again, and met two more of
the puppybuyers. I am so pleased they are going to such lovely homes!
The pups are still looking incredible (completely objective of course...). We
managed to take some pictures and a short videoclip. However, my PC has resigned
and retired way too early- so I have had some major problems updating. I have
bought a new Mac (which is a whole new world for me), and my
homepageeditor and the Mac don't really agree on how things are done....
I have however (with good help of my husband and sister- thanks!) managed to
update nevertheless before the weekend was through- as promised. The video will
however have to wait a bit, but it will come!!
Enjoy the pics of the pups on their own pages.
Names and owners will be published sometime during the next 14 days.
The pups 5 weeks old
05.01: The pups are developing in express-speed, and we do like what we see.
They are all looking very nice, and are happy & outgoing with great appetite.
These are some pics Jeanette has taken this past week:
I will visit them again on friday together with some of the puppy-buyers, so
more individual pics- and also stacked pictures and a video will come during
this weekend.
01.01: Happy New Year to all of our friends!!
Can't wait to see you all again in 2011.
01.01: We ended the year with a Christmasshow in
Letohallen under judge Denis Kuzelj.
Ellen came down with her lovely girls
Mille (Kingwanas Entertaining Story) and
Luna (Bulldobas Be My Valentine) who are both
having false pregnancy and a bit chubby with boobs *lol*
Gunn came with sweet Gudrun (Kingwanas
Fabulous Unicorn) pictured on the right, Ingrid came with the lovely
Krona (Kingwanas Glory Of The Spotlight),
Jørgen came with handsome Fogo (Kingwanas
Flirting Figaro), and Anette came with Kasko
(Kingwanas Gentle WiterKnight). In addition Jeanette & Erling were there
with a lovely bouquet of basenjis, and there were a few other good lookers
entered too- all in all 11 basenjis. A descent number for a "small" show. We
shared basenji cookies and had a good time before the judging statrted.
The judge was very strict, sending out all juniors before me with a 2nd in
quality. I was quite nervous, as Kasko had never been on a show before in his
life, and we'd only had some 30 min. to train before we entered the ring. He
couldn't understand why the judge wanted to move his feet around like that, and
hurried to move them back, but was very sweet and well mannered nevertheless. He
gaited like he had never done anything else, and got a 1st quality! I was soo
pleased! All other juniors were sent out with a second, so he won the class and
got his Ck!
The champion male did not get the ck, so he ended up being BEST MALE WITH CC in
his debut- for a very strict judge!
In junior class, I got to handle Gudrun. She is a lovely little lady, and got a
1st in quality, and was placed second in her class, only beaten by Krona who won
the class with Ck. Krona has developed sooo nicely! It will be exciting to see
what the future holds for her.
From left:
Gudrun, krona, Kasko.
In open class I handled Luna who looked like a fat christmas bun ( a very cute
christmas bun, but still...) The judge just laughed and said that when she is
this fat it is immediatly a Very Good (2nd quality) even if she did look nice
underneeth her fat *lol*
Gorgeos Maya (Doberguards Maya Masterpiece) won the open class with Ck. In
Championclass Mille won with Ck. It is so much fun to handle Mille, as she gaits
like a queen 3 feet ahead. I just have to follow.
Mille showing her beautiful gait.
In the best bitch class, it was Maya vs. Mille & Krona. Maya won, with Mille on
2nd and Krona on 3rd. In BOB/BOS Maya won again, which means that she also won
the BASENJI OF THE YEAR 2010 competition! I think I was almost as Happy as
Jeanette.
Kingwanas Gentle WinterKnight BOS with
CC, Doberguards Maya Masterpiece BOB with CC & BASENJI OF THE YEAR!
We also showed a breeders group consisting of Mille, Krona, Kasko & Gudrun,
which was BOB breeders grop with HP and a great critique. Unfortnunately not all
could wait for the groups, so we did not compete in the BIS final.
Ellen
& Gudrun, myself & Mille, Ingrid & Krona, Jeanette & Kasko.
A fun fact is that of the 11 basenjis only 4 got ck (excellent) these 4 (Kasko,
Mille, Krona and Maya) are all either a kid or grandkid of Sunny (Afrikenji Hot
Sumaknight).
I have ofcourse got to thank all my friends and puppybuyers for coming with
their dogs. THANK YOU! And thanks to all who were helping out in the
breederclass :) A special thanks goes to Gunn & Ellen for help with the picture
taking!
Dag was the
show manager as usual, and Sindre helped out. Notice the text on his back (showmanager
jr.)
Kaskos beautiful head