Arwen will be mated with Akhiro vom Altvilstal!

Here he is, the beautiful dog I have chosen for Arwen! His name is Akhiro vom Altvilstal, he was born in April 2004, he is 63 cm high, MDR1 +/+ and HD/ED free. http://www.akhiro-vom-altvilstal.de.tl/Home.htm

This guy is not one of the most famous stud dogs in Europe but he is a jolly good guy, better than a number of the more famous dogs. He will be a father with Apolena u Panaka shortly and we are looking forward to see what that will give.

I chose a stud dog that is not so common over Europe and he does not belong to a big kennel. He is a family dog, has done some shows with excellent results and is a working dog.

He works with different things such as obedience, tracking, and as far as I have seen from pictures, agility. Since we are agility freaks here that was no disadvantage at the choice. Agility demands so much more from the dog than traditional obedience.

He also "works" in school with up to 60 kids at the same time. That was important to me because I really aim for balancing Arwen's ideas that sometimes pop up in her mind not to make friends with everybody. But on the contrary, I use Arwen in my teaching in school every now and then too and then she is absolutely perfect in the contact with everybody there.

At this picture you can see Akhiro's good pigmentation and how white he is.

This boy reminds me a little bit of Aico,

who is an absolute favourite to me:

And how did I find him? Well, thanks to Aico. Elfriede have sent me the link to Akhiro's home page http://www.akhiro-vom-altvilstal.de.tl/Home.htm . She knew about this lovely dog and also knew I was looking for something extra for Arwen. Elfriede knows Arwen and thought this would be the perfect boy for her. Thanks a lot, Elfriede!!

Mating is planned to Arwen's next season (totally irregular) on the condition it will not be during September/early October.

From this litter I expect both long coated and short coated puppies that will be social, willing to work, good for shows and nice family dogs. The lines behind Arwen and Akhiro will hopefully be interesting for breeders. If you would like to know more about the litter, please contact me on charlotte.barvestad@glocalnet.net .

Akhiro up and Arwen below