| Archive for The Brittany Forum For all friends of the versatile Brittany |
| PaiviK |
My short introduction...oh well, not so short...A big hello to everyone I've been visiting this forum for a while and going to do it also in future as you have some very interesting conversations! This does good to my vanishing english skills too... I'm 27 years old Finn, originally from an little island called Hailuoto but nowdays I live nere there in Oulu which is largest city in Northern Finland. My family, hunting areas and also my heart are still staying at Hailuoto so I spend a big part of my time here.
First breton came to our family when I was a little girl in 1990. "Kata" lived 15 years and was very beloved family dog and used hunting but was not very well trained for that. Next one Midtvejs Uxelle aka "Vila" was already an adult when she moved to me. Such an sweetheart and very birdy dog, passionate hunter, eager retriever...In november 2008 I said goodbye to her, she was over 14 years old.  Because of these two dogs i have got deeply involved with this breed and I am active member of Finnish Breton Club, puppy advisor ect. Right now I don't have breton, have had bad luck with purchasing puppy  But i do have a russian hound (unknown breed outside of scandinavia, baltic and russia). Our pack includes also another russian hound and working labrador puppy, we have some kind of "shared custody" to our dogs with my brother and sister-in-law... Our webpages: http://www.paivik.net/koirat/ Only in finnish (Lauma = our dogs, Huoltojoukot = we, Muistio = my blog, Galleria = my neverending picture gallery).
With bretons we do hunt every kind of birds, mainly black grouses, willow grouses, capercaillies, waterfowls, but also pigeons, woodcocks ect. Hounds are used hunting foxes and hares, but sometimes they do also help finding birds when waterfowling. We have very nice hunting opportunities here, right now hares bouncing on garden and gooses yelling on backyard and we are really waiting for hunting season to start! My hobby is collect pictures of bretons to my website, so if you want to see finnish dogs: http://bretonigalleria.paivik.net/ Tails, tails, tails.. some of them may be pretty weird looking (...not only beacause of tails...). 
Old ladys Kata and Vila, gone but not forgotten! 
Me, my Vila and our basset friend 
Vila and our hounds |
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| Waldo |
Welcome to the forum, just had a brief look at your gallery, gee you have been busy.
Cheers, Waldo |
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| guy |
welcome to the forum. What an interesting site http://bretonigalleria.paivik.net/ is. I found the 'all dogs' bit most interesting - particularly the way the pedigrees are populated by pictures of most of the dogs.
I look forward to reading more about your dogs. |
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| doganjo |
Welcome, and thank you for such an interesting introduction. I hope you will enjoy our conversations - and maybe understand some of our humour (it can be strange sometimes  )
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Especially if it's from Scotland 
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| doganjo |
As you can see, someone from EnglandSHIRE is always sniping at m - mostly in fun - hope you understand that Paivik 
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| glynis |
Hi Paivik, welcome to the forum.
best wishes Glynis |
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| glynis |
Gosh Paivi, just had a quick look at your photos, they are brilliant! are you a professional photographer? Looking at them all is going to keep me occupied for a bit!!
regards Glynis |
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| johnhod |
Welcome PaiviK. Haven't had a chance to look at you web pages yet but It looks as if they are certainly worth a visit from comments made so far.
John |
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| Patricia |
Welcome and "happy reading"
Like Guy, I trawled through the " all dogs" section... Found many imports, one of the latest being a brother of Carex du hameau de Sorny? Also a brother to Rocky de St Tudec... Plaines dauxeeenes, Kerveillant etc...I liked Euz... Have you some American dogs in all that lot? I am glad personnaly we can still dock though! |
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| Nuray Besbudak |
Welcome PaiviK,
your site is now in my favourites!!!!. I also like to collect EB pictures. |
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| PaiviK |
I'm happy you like my website, thanks for everyone! I'm just an amateur photographer :-)
Finns have a great sense of humor (or at least I do, haha), our humour is often weird, dry and sarcastic... maybe i can get along with yours
If i can remember correctly, all imports until 1988 were Norwegian lines and these dogs had some AB's in background. Of course they have left their mark to our stock. Later there has been imports from many countries, danish Midtvejs and Odinvejs dogs have had big effect, also dogs from Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway (yes, AB lines), Italy, Netherland, Czech, Greece... Some goods ones, some disappointments... Only two pure AB imports in mid-nineties, they had one litter, but line won't continue. If you want see more data about finnish bretons, we have wondeful breeding database for that purpose, thanks for Finnish kennelclub! All registered dogs and results are added there. It provides information from 1950's or so and is updated every weekday. All registered litters, health results (in Finland it is compulsory to check hips and also eyes if one wants to breed his breton!), show results, trial results, imports, champions titles, statistics... Database is not available in english right now but it will be some day. You should see english titles here: http://jalostus.kennelliitto.fi/frmEtusivu.aspx?Lang=en&R=95 but they will change to finnish ones when you click links. Code "&Lang=en" to the end of addressline should change them to english ones again... English version does exist but for some reason they don't make it work... |
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| Dave A |
Hi and welcome to the forum, that is probably the best and most informative introduction we have had, well done.
Dave A |
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| doganjo |
Hi PaiviK
I am hoping to run a Forum in Scotland in a few months time, could you email me some action photos and also standing ones, to use on a slide show for over the lunch break? I like to have a selection of dogs from different countries. I have some from Norway when I judged there in May, and I have quite a lot of French ones already. Thanks Annie |
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