Rica says hi

[Rica]

Hello

Here is my promised introduction.
I´m Marilin from Estonia. Before posting I decided to read most of the forum, at the moment only "hot topics" are halfly read. I had so many time for that, because of the kneesurgery.
I study veterinary medicine in university and has 2 more years to go (it is 6 years of study). I have had my own dog since I was 10.
I have 3 dogs at the moment and youngest member of my pack is 18 months old female tervueren Melin Lee Dinryan Merell and that is why I joined to your forum  She is a showline tervueren, but we do lots of other things too. I choosed her based on chracter test at the age of 6 weeks. When to watch the litter at the age of 18 months, then I have to say, that the results are correct. Her breeder lives also in Estonia, but mainly breeds dachshunds and has one tervueren, Rica`s mother. Her mother`s side of relatives most of them comes from Finland. Rica`s father is from Russia (Vitou v.d. Hoge Laer X Asterra S Krasnoy Gorki).
I don`t know how many pictures is allowed to post, but I hope that for the first time moderators and admins forgive me 
Here comes our acitvities:
She loves agility


She is showlined dog, so we have been on some shows




She likes to be obedient:
Heeling


Laying down in a group


It`s fun to sniff, so tracking:




She loooves to do, what belgian is ment to do:




And ofcourse sometimes we are just "walking" around;




You can ask more pictures and different kind of questions, I´m not jealous.
Also I hope my english is understandable for you 

[Jenni]

Welcome, Rica!

And there were old lines behind! I knew it! Old Tuliturkin-lines don't actually even exist anymore... But welcome, those old lines I'll always cherish!

J

[Saskia]

Welcome here

Saskia

[Rica]

Yes, she has Tuliturkin behind her, you are right 
I wish I could some day in future watch on a dog and say things like that...

[Jenni]

I might be one of the last ones still having those old showlined dogs, in Sweden there are also still few. Most have changed the lines in new ones. It is really hard to find those old lined dogs anymore, and eventhough you'll find something, they are all mixed completely to new lines.
That's why I saw that, I am used to look at that kinda dogs  And as far as I can help it, I know, what I want to keep on seeing in the future!

J

[hunden]

Hi Rica and welcome!

I had a feeling this was a showlined doggy  I have seen many looking like that over here, I think she is beautiful. 

best,
hunden

[Rica]

Some news about us.

In this summer we ended our juniorclass and the result of it is - she is EST, LV, LT, BALT and BLR JCH  . It is amazing, because she has too much black overlay. My second dog (not belgian) is a showdog and I took Rica to the shows with us, because I had to go there anyway. I guess I will enter her to the shows again, when she is grown-up and out of coat  .

We have some health results too - HD A/A and ED 0/0. Unofficially we checked knees (everything OK) and back (clean too).

In september we did some tests like BH and AD and passed both.
And we had an obedience exam. It is national sport, similar to the IPO B part, but in three different classes. We did fist one (KK 1) and got 137 points out of 140. We lost our points because of chewing the apport  . Plans are in this autum to do also KK 2 and then in the spring start to compete in highest class of it (KK 3).