Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Dragi moji prijatelji,

leto je okoli in spet je čas voščil, lepih želja in obdarovanja. Kaj naj vam ob tem zaželim? Najbolj od vsega vam želim seveda zdravja, ljubezni in lepih trenutkov z vašimi najdražjimi, veliiiiiko dooooolgih sprehodov, norčavosti in igre.....naj bo prihajajoče leto bogato z vsem, kar imate radi in kar si želite.

Vaša Nesska z Bojano, Igorjem, malim Nejcem in Niko in vso ostalo družinico :-)

My dear friends,

yet one year is ending. It's time for greetings, beautiful wishes and gifts. What should I wish for you? The most of all I wish you good health, a lot of love and happy moments with your beloved ones, a lot of looooong walks, siliness and playing....I wish the coming year will be rich with all that you love and what you wish.

Your Nessa with mommy Bojana and daddy Igor :-)

Say: aaaaaaaa...

.....and take a look of those beautiful babys of Jekyll and Halka Barte Prim. I'm a little bit jealous though, but they are soooooo cute:-) And they are in all 3 colours as I told you in post before. In that litter was: 6 blond girls,1 black and ten girl, 1 black girl, 2 blond boys and 2 black boys.

Blond, black and ten and black fight:-)

Why must we sit here?All 3 colors :-)Well, enjoy in those pictures untill it's my turn:-) Hopefully;-)
Kisses, Nessa

Me, Jekyll and puppies :-)

Dear friends,

thank you very much for congrats and for nice words about my husband to be:-) But as I can see, there is some confusion about that:-) Blond hovi looks a lot like golden retriver and a lot of people are mixing them. So I better explain a little bit about me and Jekyll and stuff :-)

As some of you might know by now, hovawart can be in 3 colours: black and ten as I, blond as Jekyll or black as my grandpa Jumbo.

My handsome Jekyll :-)

My grandfather Jambo from Germany

My grandmother Conquita from Austria and grandfather Jumbo....
...muuuahhh, big kiss to them:-)

The normal percent in one country is: 75% black and ten, 15% blond and only about 10% black hovis. Mixing all colors is alowed. It depends a lot of what your background is. The most frequent combination is black and ten - black and ten. Also is very popular black and ten and blond combination. Very rare nowadays is blond-blond combination becouse colour of those puppies can be darker and of course all puppies from that combination are blond. That's the reason some countries are not alowing that combination.

In some special litters there can be all 3 colours, but that is veeeery rare. In Slovenia there was no 3 colour litter untill now! But let me tell you: my Jekyll is from such litter though :-) And he is already a father of 3 colours litter, so maybe I will have such luck too:-)))
But it's veeeeery toooooo soon to talk about that. At first we must marry:-). But cross your paws for me and him, please:-)
Your bride to be Nessa :-)

Great weekend on show in Amstetten, Austria

Last weekend me, my mommy and daddy went to Amstetten, Austria on 2 days event. On Saturday there was a tournament in obidience and on Sunday there was the biggest Hovawart show in Austria. This year 127 (!) hovawarts came to this event. Most of them were of course from Austria, but some of them came from Germany, Slovakia, Italia, Czech republic, Poland and Slovenia.

We went on a road on Friday with the motorhome along with my brother Nash and my best friend Alessa. We came to Amstetten late in the evening and soon we went to sleep, becouse all 3 of us attended the tournament next day. So here is how it went:

Part one on a leash

Walking forward and showing left and right turn
Circling in a group of people without smelling them..sigh!

Going out from group of people
Starting the part two without a leash
Doing again the whole procedure but without a leash
Laying down on command and wait
Recall from the laying

And a result: 91 points from 100 and 2nd place. My mommy was very proud of me, especially because we didn't go to school for quite a long time. I've done my BBH exam more than a year ago and I had only 4 trainings before tournament, so I guess I can be proud of myself too :-).

But guess what: Alessa was even better than me. She won the tournament with 95 points. I'm very happy for her. Nash was very funny though. Instead walking with leader at the end he rather went to Regina (who was Leader of Tournament and translater to English) and jump on her. Yipieee! He had some fun, clever boy!

It was double Slovenian succes

Next day, on Sunday, was Club winner show 2009. There was very strong competition in my "Open class" - 21 beaches and I was almost the youngest with 28 months. But I was not nervous at all and a strict Judge, Mrs.Eveline Hohmann, who is also German breeding referent for Hovawart, was very happy with me and she judged me with an excellent rating. Hurray!!

Showing my teeth to Mrs.Evelin Hohmann

A diploma for me :-)

But something else was veeeeery important!!! I've met my future husband there in live! It was already everything arranged for our wedding, but this time I've seen him in live. Woooow, what a boy. His name is Jekyll Royal Safe, he came from Slovakia and he is an International Champion!! He also won in "Working Class" in Amstetten too!! I was instantly inloooooove!! And I think he was too. Cross your finger for May next year when our mariage will take place in Slovakia!

Are we great together or what?

Well, that's all and it's not so small :-) I hope you enjoyed reading,

Kisses and hugs, your pal Nessa

P.s. All pictures were taking again by Tea Pavišič. Tea, big thank you to you!

Nessa has breeding licence I.

S ponosom objavljamo krasno novico: Nessa je 5.9.2009 opravila vzrejni pregled pri g.Janezu Plestenjaku in telesno oceno pri sodnici Dušici Bučer, ki sta ji prisodila odlično oceno in 1.vzrejni razred. Nessa ima tako vse pripravljeno za paritev, ki jo bomo predvidoma opravili prihodno pomlad, ko bo stara 3 leta in popolnoma odrasla in dozorela za tako pomembno nalogo. S kom? To pa naj ostane še sladka skrivnost....:-)

Hello everyone, Nessa's mommy here. Since Nessa doesn't like to brag herself I would like to tell you something. After a while we are coming back with great news: Nessa has done her breeding exam, got an excellent grade and breeding rang 1.

For breeding licence in Slovenia hovawart must have:
- at least one excellent evaluation of slovenian judge
- exam B-BH
- hipps evaluation
Nessa has all that: 3 excellent evaluations from Slovenian judges, she has done B-BH exam last year and has done her rtg/hips exam in Tierklinik Kreuzbergl in Klagenfurt, Austria. Her hips are A1/A1 with no sign of displasia. Since she had all prepared we decided to go to breeding exam. That's how it goes:
At first there is running, where judge can see and evaluate dog's moveing...
Then comes measuring dog's height, lenght and chest...
After that judge exam doggie from head to tail:-) He exames dogs teeth, eyes, lips, ears, strenght of it's back, legs, lenght and wearing of tail, quality of coat, colour, pigmentation...and beside that dogs character....well, everything:-) Nessa was despite long and stressfull exam acting very friendly untill the end of it:-)At the end comes general evaluation. Nessa was very good girl and we are very proud of her.
Then next good news is that her brothers Nash and Nelo got breeding class 1., too. We are very proud of the fact, that from litter of 8 doggies, 4 of them are good show dogs (others owners are not thrilled about the shows) and 3 of them are now available for breeding with excellent evaluation. Look how pretty they are:
Naslednja čudovita novica je, da sta Nessina brata Nash in Nelo na isti dan pri g.Plestenjaku opravila vzrejni pregled in si ravno tako prislužila vzrejni razred 1. Prav ponosni smo, da so - od 8 kužkov v leglu Srečka in Mire Novak - 4 dobri razstavni psi (ostali lastniki niso navdušeni nad razstavljanjem), 3 od njih pa imajo sedaj tudi vzrejno dovoljenje. Tole so naši krasni kužki:

Nessa's brother Nash/bratec Nash
NashNessa's brother Nelo/bratec Nelo
Nelo
Nessa, Nash and Nelo with proud "owners"

Beside us there was also Nessa's, Nash and Nelo's half brother Lar Časova. He is too young for breeding licence but he had also excellent body evaluation. He will be great male when he will be fully grown up.
Poleg nas je bil prisoten na oceni zunanjosti tudi naš polbratec Lar Časova, ki je sicer še premlad za vzrejno dovoljenje. Dobil pa je odlično telesno oceno s strani sodnice Dušice Bučer in se prav gotovo razvija v čudovitega samca.

Nessa's half brother Lar Časova

P.s. All pictures were taken by Tea Pavišič, our great young photographer and we thank her for doing such a great job.

Kisses and hugs,
Nessa and mommy

Swimming in lake

Hi my furry friends,

Sunday was great for me. My mommy and daddy decided to take me off from the hot city weather and take me swimming to a lake. We have two bigger lakes in Slovenia, Bled and Bohinj and we decided to go in Bohinj. It takes cca. an hour to come there. Early in the morning we could choose a private place of our own where I can swimm and not bother showering anybody hehe....just my folks ;-)

What do we have here?

It's a beautifull clean lake, surrounded with high hills. There are a lot of fishes in it swimming in shallows !! They were even bitting me while I was standing still...

Hmmm, let's see...

A bunch of fishes...wooow!!!

Did I get one?

And there were ducks too. Luckily for my mommy I didn't see them on time to play catch with them hehe...

What?
Ducks? Where?Behind me?Wooow, the duck family :-)I was swimming a lot, playing and catching ball and sticks...

I would be in a water whole day, so mommy made me rest from time to time like I'm a little baby...Sigh!

Me,resting..sigh!Was I resting enough, mommy, can I play now again, pleaseeeee!What a great day!

Kisses and hugs,
Nessa

Why do I love to babysit :-)

Yesterday I was babysitting Nika after awhile...and I was delighted. Why? Look at the pictures, they talk for themselves :-)

What do we have here?

Let's see...

Wooooow, cookies....

You want some, Nessa ?

Please, be my guest :-)

Do you want a whole box?

Nana, I'm not doing nothing wrong, am I?

Well, nana/mommy was not as delighted as I was, but since we all were having such a good time she let me eat a cookie or two :-) Burp:-))

Kisses and hugs
Nessa

Hovawart gathering :-)

Dear friends,

tuesday was very happy day for me. My friends Alessa and Bono came to visit me. Alessa is living in Novo mesto and Bono is living in Skofja loka. Since I'm living in the middle I was glad to be their host. They came early in the morning becouse it's very hot these days in Slovenia. Hovawart dogs don't like hot:-)

Alessa and I

Bono and I

We took a long walk in the woods where nice shadow was protecting us :-) After a while we came to beautifull meadow to play and take some photos...boy was I running again... to catch ball first, of course :-) I'm in excellent condition becouse of my running with Ron the whippet remember? But Alessa and Bono were running fast too!

Bono in action

Me and Alessa in action

Of course there was some posing to do...however we are show dogs and we are used to do this hehe...

Me poseing

And who was to thank for those most beautifull pictures? Alessa's big human sister Tea!!!She is 16 years old and already an excellent photographer!!She started her own blog and I'm sure something very good will come out of that :-)

Beautiful photographer TeaHere we are best hovi friends:
Alessa with Tanja, Bono with Nika and me with Bojana
Kisses and hugs
Nessa

HAPPY SUMMER :-)

I wish you all a lot of refreshing swimming, long walks,
beautifull sunsets, safe and not too hot
Summer 2009 !!
Yours truely:-)

Hello !

My dear friends,

it has been a really long time since my post :-( There were various of reasons why I didn't come along...at first - there were 5 birthdays in 1 month ( and a lot of birthday cakes hehe :-), than computer crashed for a week or so, then there were my shows (quite successfull ones, I might add :-))...

Me with my brother Nash waiting

for results on show in Klagenfurt, Austria

...and obedience seminar and classes....

...and number of other reasons. One of most important reason is that my mommy is still babysitting Nika (and sometimes Nejc too) almost every day and then she has no energy to help me posting hehe...

Walking with little ones on my meadow....

Never the less my mommy always finds time to walk with me in woods or meadows, where I can run freely.......and play my most favourite play - run and search for congo and bring it back over and over again...yeah!!! I'm never tired of it.Well, now I'm back now...I hope:-)

So, how are you? Did you miss me? I hope that you don't resent me coz' I didnt visit your blog for such a long time...I'll improve myself, I promise :-)

Kisses and hugs for all of you
Nessa