Íslandssólar Grímur- Best Male at the Iceland Sheepdog Club Show today

Hello Folks,

I am so excited, the first time I saw a photo of this male, I loved him, then when I found out who he was, I understood why I liked him so much, Grimur is my Folda's half brother two years younger, they both have the same dam.. and he is also half brother to Tofra Dalla on the sire side, both being International BIS Ch Hektor Offspring.

Grimur had never been to shows that I was aware of, and he finally went this weekend and in a large class of ISD (over sixty at the show in total), he took Best Male, the friend that shared this info, I regret left before the final judging, so I will have to wait for tomorrow to see if he got Best in Show. I will update as soon as I have more info..

So happy for Grimur's owner and also for Bibi his Breeder!.. Also for those interested, Grimur is having his first litter of puppies in Iceland due next week!.. Can't wait to watch them grow up.

Barks

Show Update on New "Ch" Belglen Riddari

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New win photo of Ch Belglen Riddari coming soon, till it arrives, I am using the win photo from Ontario taking two weeks before the first National Booster event for the CISC and Icelandics.

Riddari was finished in very limited shows, three weekends in total, taking Best of Breed Five out of eight days of shows entered. Ch Belglen Riddari had earned six points in ontario, and finished his Championship in style in Calgary at the first Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Booster, by taking Best of Breed for a five point win. Congrats to Sharon at Belglen Kennels for showing him in Calgary as Breeder/Owner/Handler.

He went on to take Best of Breed on Sunday of the show, and also on Sunday his Litter sister Belglen Risna took BOS, and they are both Littermates to Ch Belglen Runa of Greenstone, the first female CKC Champion in Canada. Risna is a international Champion as well. It is fair to say that the litter has done very well indeed. For those interested in the bloodline, Ch Belglen Riddari is the father to the two current Greenstone litters on the ground and Ch Belglen Runa of Greenstone is going to be breed this winter for a coming litter. Two puppies are still available for reservations at this time, and we are taking reservations on Runa's planned litter to be.

He was not at the AKC show on Monday, as Sharon needed to head home, but with two Best of Breeds over the weekend and high placement on Friday, he had a very good weekend indeed.

Barks

Belglen Riddari- Upcoming litters at Greenstone..

Hello Folks

Wonderful news, Belglen Riddari's formal OFA results have come in, He was OFA-Fair as a prelim, and now is offical adult rates are in.. OFA -Good.

This is wonderful news for the coming litters at Greenstone Kennel, Also Belglen Risna (full-litter mate to Riddari and Runa) also just got her OFA-Good Results back, so that means that the overall family index on HD-Free hips just keeps going up and up on the the stud dog on our current litters.

Greenstone Icelandics had Belglen Riddari out to the Kingston dog Show for three days and he was amazing, a huge congrats out to Sharon for raising such a wonderful dog, and he went best of breed on Saturday for a two point win.. Riddari will continue to be shown in July working towards his Championship and he will be heading to the big Icelandic Sheepdog Calgary Dog show in Alberta and then home to his breeder and owner Sharon.

To see Riddari on the go around in Group Seven click below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpL-f0qT9hc

To see him do the down and back, see the link below, sorry that its a bit blurry but it does show his very easy movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQhA2LaWCS0

We are planning our first Ultrasound for puppies at the end of June!

Barks

New Tofra Puppy Photos so cute!!!

Hello Folks

I just had to share these ever so cute photos of Freyja, Bista, and the puppies.. The older female, is grandma Frayja(who is also Black Pearls Grandmother, and who Freyja was names after) and the younger female is Bista, momma to this colorful litter and my Tofra Tobba's little half sister.. and to make this litter even closer to my heart, Daddy is Hector, which is my Tofra Dalla's father so theses sweet little babies are half brothers and sisters to Dalla, and Aunt and Uncles to Greenstone AJay, Zander and Ada LOL

Enjoy the puppy photos, I can't wait for my own, .. well I have to wait but I am so excited!! puppy breath, soft little tiny baby puppy feet and shiny and o so kissable little forheads.. ahhh

I might have fly to Iceland and steal Karma out of the puppy pen and give her a snuggle! LOL What do you say Monika, can I have a little Karma for myself :)

Barks

http://www.tofradogs.com/english.htm

In Honor of Piper and Kim Cooper

Hello Folks,

Most of you know that I do most of my Dog training at Best Friends School of Dogs and while I like and train under most of the trainers there, I love training under Kim Cooper, she is fair, and funny and can give you a hard time in the nicest way but still let you know that you messed up..

For a tie in to all Greenstone Puppy Owners, Kim Cooper is who gives all my temperment tests to all Greenstone Litters and helps me go over each waiting family to make sure that I am thinking clearly on how should get what temperment on what pup etc..

Well, Kim's amazing girl Piper passed away and this is her memory page from the current Dogs in Canada.. I just wanted to share it with everyone. Piper touched the lives of everyone who knew her, she was such! a special dog.

Barks

Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Club Breed Booth

Hello Folks

So a few thank you's need to go out, first thank-you to my hubby, who took friday and monday off work to hold down the farm, and make sure that I feel that I can go off to the show with my dogs! A huge thank-you to Scott/Laura for their hard work with regards to booth bunny duty and help thoughtout the weekend in many ways, plus it was lovely to get to have a good visit and for our nice dinner out together on Sunday evening.

A big thanks to my handler Linda Thompson, who got to meet Freyja or Fray-Fray for the first time, and who was very surprised to find out that she was a black tri, was expecting that it was a chincilla, but fell in love with her.. and was very pleased with in the show rings. Can't wait to see what she thinks of Zander now that he has another year to mature, she loved his brother last year but felt that Zander needed at least another year to mature, so he comes out this year, and I think that the black tri pair, one med and one long should just be stunning together.

So it was a long drive down, taking just over ten hours on Friday, but I took the express route home(paid toll road) and was it worth it, getting home in just over eight hours.. The show itself was lovely, the flowers were stunning and the plush red carpet in the rings just added to the show. It was so nice to see the ladies and gents all dressed up in their suits and dressed on Saturday evening but it sure was a long day, I was up at 6 am and at the show by 8 am and we did even get into group saturday night till after 9 pm, so a very long day for a young pup, and then there was a nice wine an cheese gathering after the best in show, then back to bed and the rings started again at 8am the next day, thankfully the Icelandics were not in that early, and so I was able to get to the show by 10am to start running the breed booth. Scott and Laura were driving back and forth, so they got in closer to noon on sunday an after that late of night and drive, who could blame them for getting a bit more sleep in the morning, plus I was only ten min away, so it made alot more sense for me to get there early and give them a bit more sleep time.

There were many folks that remembered us from last year, and came to say hello, and there for even more that had read about the breed but never meet them in person before that were interested in learning more.

The color photos were a hit, and it was great that we were also able to show colored photos of the breed faults for everyone to be able to learn them right from the start.

Everyone have a great day, just doing some laundry catchup from the weekend, and will start training and prep work for the next show in April.

Barks

Greenstone Black Pearl -A six month old Icelandic Sheepdog Puppy, Black Tri Long Hair, and Belglen Roskva a 16 month old female Long Hair Red/White Icelandic Sheepdog.

New United States Litter on the Ground

Hello Folks

As you can imagine, I am friends with a number of other Icelandic Sheepdog owners and fellow Breeders across both Canada, North America as well as Iceland and Europe.

I am so pleased to annouce that we have a couple lovely new male puppies born in Western United States.

One of my friends is Maragret from Valhalla Icelandics Kennel, and she is one the proud owner of Kersin's Odinn CGC, who is shown here in this photo, a nice Red/White Med Icelandic Stud.

To learn more about Odinn and the rest of the Valhalla Icelandics, feel free to check out her website.

www.valhallaicelandics.com

The litter is out of Hannah Glora Fra Dyggur owned and bred by Kathy Engstrom, to see more about Hannah, please check out the litter page at, puppy updates to come.

http://www.valhallaicelandics.com/montanalitter.html

If you are looking for a lovely little male puppy out of healthy (both parents have their CERF and HD-Free rates) pair of Icelandics, then this is a good litter to be looking at.

Barks

Icelandic Sheepdog Group Placements-Richmond May 2006

Hello Folks

Thought you might like to see this photo as well, we thought it would be a good idea to try and get a photo of BOB BOS and Best Puppy. It was plus 30 and at the end of a long three day show weekend.. the dogs were melting and so were we..

Its not a bad photo by any means :) but it sure would be great if we could have tweeked the dogs a bit LOL.. me and my fussy nature.. I look and wish the one leg was a tiny bit back or that runa's head was level etc, much harder to get three dogs all looking good at the same time, then one dog.

Enjoy the photo, I think its a good one.

Barks