Rissas Reporting

Friends

Mika — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:22:00 +0100

Most precious friends are those whom you can trust. When Cami had to visit Munich on weekend, our friends Kerli and Maire from Estonia came to take care of the puppies; both of them have extensive experience of dogs. Ciara and her puppies were in a good hands. THANK YOU!

Ciara's puppies 1 month old

Cami — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:17:00 +0100

Happy Valentine's Day!

Cami — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:00:00 +0100

Valentine's Day is a perfect day to meet friends and make new frends. We had some visitors, who took these lovely pictures by mobile phone on sunday: thanks Mervi! By this photo we would like to send our Valentine's Greetings for all of our friends!

Meanwhile Mika was skiing in Kitzbühel Alps where he took these video clips: Bärenbadkogel IIand Rettenstein

Basenji Ciara's Litter Was Born

Cami — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:08:00 +0100

Ciara gave birth to 2 handsome boys and 3 beatiful girls. Everything went smoothly and Ciara takes care of her first litter like a professional from the beginning. More Information: the Kennel pages

January in Finland

Cami — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:47:00 +0100

It has been very cold (-15 Celsius or more) in Southern Finland and snow about half meters. Actually now it is very typical weather of January. The good side of this cold weather is that there are ice over the sea, so one is able to walk over the ice quite safely (like Simba in the photo). Simba-corgi turned 9 years old on 3rd January, Ciara increases waistline (expecting lot of puppies) and Nala is leading the gang.

Joyful Christmas 'N Happy New Year 2010!

Cami — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:54:00 +0100

Under the tree the gifts enthrall,
But the nicest present of them all
Is filling our thoughts with those who care,
Wanting our Christmas joy to share.

To you, whom we're often thinking of,
We send our holiday joy and love.

By Joanna and Karl Fuchs www.poemsource.com

Long Weekend in Alta Badia

Cami — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:01:00 +0100

We continued the skiing season in the snow proof Dolomiti Ski area with more than 1200 slopes between altitudes 1500-3269 meters. This time we had company of our Finnish friends Mirja, Jukka, Pertti and Leena. We made excursion of the famous Sella Ronda (the ski circuit) for both directions. Last evening we found "The" Apres-Ski place called L'Murin near by our hotel.

Mika also loaded some videos by car of Passo Gardena: the west side and the east side.

Skiing season started in Austria

Mika — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:00:00 +0100

We had a few days of downhill skiing fun in Hintertux and Kaprun glaciers in Austria, both about 2,5 hours from Munich by car. Mika managed to fix an HD camera to a tip of a ski and a ski helmet, see the attached picture from a truly unique perspective and test video footages uploaded to Youtube: an HD video camera fixed to a tip of the ski (the video camera drops from the ski at 50 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRmtnTnRS0 and the HD video camera attached to a ski helmet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLwumiu6H6s

Basenji Puppies Expected 23rd January 2010

Cami — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:42:00 +0100

Kennel Aittakankaan (FIN) is expecting basenji puppies for our Ciara (MultiCh Liljeborg's Dan Galina Of Phoebus) and her boyfriend Ruben (MultiCh MultiWin Faraoland Xcuse Me Desmond). The puppies are ready for their new homes by Eastern holidays 2010. More information in the near future...

Ciara in Castle Linderhof Garden

Mika — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:25:00 +0100

Ciara is posing in Castle Linderhof Garden (Bayern). We made a 15 km walk in order to stimulate Ciara's heat to begin: did not help! We enjoyed afterwards meal of duck and deer in a local restaurant in Ettal village.

The weekend was sunny (+15 C) and we enjoyed training agility and relaxing afterwards in Finnish sauna in Oberammergau. Ciara loves more relaxing in the sauna than training agility. Is this a typical basenji behaviour?

Finland vice versa

Cami — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:17:00 +0200

While Mika was spending a week quality time with Nala (photo hereby) in Finland, Cami & Ciara had visitors from Finland in Munich. The weather was equal bad for both visitors.

Ciara running in Ahornboden

Mika — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:54:00 +0200

Ciara's 1 meter high jump in the photo was caused by freerun after a couple of rainy days staying inhouse. First sunshine and over 15 C and we drove to Ahornboden, which can only be reached from south Bavaria. It is the biggest nature reserve of Austria and Tyrol (730 km²). There are over 500 years old maple trees, which colors are magnificient on Autumn.

Autumn Holidays at South-Tirol Alps

Cami — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:07:00 +0200

Only 3 hours drive by a car (Cami & Ciara) and a motorcycle (Mika) we achieved the Italian Alps called Dolomites. The whole week was sunny and warm, so we spended plenty of time outdoors. Cami & Ciara enjoyed the most of Tiefenbrunner wineyards, while Mika loved the excitement of curves of Dolomites.

Wandering weekend in Austria

Cami — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:49:00 +0200

We made a hike to the Austrian Alps (Kitzbühel) where mornings were cloudy, but afternoons and evenings sunny. We walked downhill the second steepest ski racing course in the World called Hahnenkamm Streif. We met a lot of friendly cows by ski slopes

Holiday in Westcoast of USA

Cami — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:50:00 +0200

We made our holiday trip to the west coast of USA. After two days in cold and foggy San Fransisco we headed to the warm and sunny Napa Valley and visited there Beringer and Neubaum&Coppola vineyards. From there the journey continued to Palo Alto and University of Standford. The tire of the rental car emptied during the night in hotel in Morrobay. Luckily the village were full of helpful people and we got in 1,5 hours a new tire. Last days were spent in Beverly Hills of Los Angeles and Hollywood (see picture hereby).

Lure Coursing competitions in Estonia

Cami — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:01:00 +0200

We attended to lure coursing competitions on 4th (Ciara) and 5th (Nala) of July in an Estonian village named Hüüru (30 minutes from Tallinn). Ciara attended to an international lure coursing competition, where were basenjis from Finland, Estonia and Russia. Nala attended to the Veteran Lure Coursing Winner 2009 competition. Our dear friend basenji Flash (Faraoland Thunderflash to Ribessita) became EST LC VM-09. Congratulations! This was for these veterans the last running competition before their retirement.

Ciara in blue, photo by Jyrki Nikula

Veteran Racing Winner 2009

Cami — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:08:00 +0200

Nala attended to her final track racing competition on Sunday in Tampere. The Veteran Racing Winner 2009 title went to Nala's & Ciara's halfbrother Bobi. Congratulations!

Photo by Laura Valkama

Basenjis Succesful in Switzerland Dog Show

Cami — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:24:00 +0200

Liljeborgs Dan Galina of Phoebus alias 'Ciara' can add her 5th beaty champion title before her name and be called Swiss beaty champion (CH CH) as well. Faraoland Xcuse Me Desmond alias 'Ruben' was the most successful basenji in the Swiss dog show history: he became Best in Show. The dog show was held 16. and 17. May in St.Gallen. Congratulations!

Photos by Urpu Schlumpf

Visiting Prague

Cami — Sun, 10 May 2009 10:31:00 +0200

Mika leaded his gang (Cami & basenjis) as a guide through sightseeings in sunny Prague. Cami was amazed how beatiful the city was. Basenjis were pleased that they were served very well in the hotel of Savoy in Prague. On sunday basenjis attended to a track racing competition in Mlada Boleslav (55 km north from Prague). Picture left: Nala is standing in front of the Charles Bridge in Prague.

Visitors from Finland

Cami — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:50:00 +0200

Cami's parents came for visit from Finland. The whole week was sunny with average +20 Celsius temperature, so they saw the best side of Bayern. On Sunday they saw the Dachau concentration camp, then we made the city tour in Munich and visited BMW museum and Nymphenburg palace. On Monday they saw the first Ludvig II castle named Herrenchiemsee and in the evening we ate out by beer hall Hofbräuhaus. From Tuesday to Thursday they made a trip of their own by rental car to visit the environment of Salzburg Austria. On Friday we visited Olympia shopping center and Deutsches museum. On Saturday they saw the rest of Ludvig II castles: Linderhof and Neuschwanstein. We drove there by famous Oberammergau village (see picture hereby).

Ciara achieved France Racing Champion Title

Cami — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:37:00 +0100

Ciara (red) and Nala (blue) attended to an official track racing competition in Chatillon la Palud (near Lyon) in France. There Ciara achieved the certificate to become France Racing Champion (FR RC CH). Both girls got beatiful prizes. The day started with zero degrees, but on finals it was already +15 C warm. Merci beaucoup!

Nala & Ciara in Toscany

Mika — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:24:00 +0100

Nala & Ciara running free in a beach near Pisa, Toscany, Italy on January 2, 2009

Seasons's Greetings - Xmas 2008 & New Year 2009

Mika — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:18:00 +0100

It's Christmas again - that time when you eat and drink so much...
you don't see your toes until March!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Ciara become an International Show Champion

Mika — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:54:00 +0100

Ciara run from a titel to another. With her second try she became an international show champion (INT CH) from Austrian dog show.

I got a nice photo from past (summer 2007), where Ciara (blue) run with Masha (red) in Estonian Lure Coursing competition. Photo by Maialiisa.

Exciting breeding plan for winter 2009/2010

Mika — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:32:00 +0100

Basenji judges and breeders have asked me to use Ciara for breeding. The best males (MultiCh) from Sweden and Finland has already been offered as daddy candidates,
which to choose from the one who bring the most wanted qualities: health, temperament, utility and beauty. Because I'm not interested to become a breeder, only one litter will be made. Feel free to ask more