I spent my chilhood with dogs. My grantparents had Great Danes and bred some litters with prefix av Olkis. My mothers father owned many hunting dogs and my father had Énglish Setters. My first own dog was a cairnterrier Irina of Kinrara. I asked skyeterrier puppy, but when my father called to Terrier Club´s secretary, I got a Cairn! The lady had just puppies and obviosly she was a good speaker... Irina got 2 CC´s but no puppies. I tried twice without any result. She had a marvellous life with my granny after retiring from show rings.

I met Riittä Seppänen with a golden Tibetan Terrier at early 70´s. I loved that dog at a first sight and after awhile I got my own golden puppy La-Jun Benedicte out of Riitta´s male. I showed her only few times, because her coat was not a best possible.I bred her once and got 2 puppies, one of them became champion. Start wasn´t very succesful but there were more to come...

AMERICAN COCKER SPANIEL
I bought my first ´Yankee´ from Ms Anna-Liisa Heikkinen, prefix Mistyway  in 1980. Mistyway September Song, a little black bitch out of famous Multi Ch Mistyway Saucy Red Tiger. ´Dolly´ got nice puppies with Beringens Wigmaker and Mistyway Imperial Red. I bought Mistyway Imperial Red when he was 7 months old. He had good show carreer and  was also a good stud dog. I got also nice puppies out of Dolly´s bitch puppies. It was a pity that when I got married, I stopped in the breed.  Thanks  to Anna-Liisa - what a pity  that you don´t breed Yankee´s anymore!

TIBETAN TERRIERS
I got my first TT in1974, La-jun Benedicte. After having her I started to make friends around TT ring. Mrs Anna-Liisa Paasio, Millan prefix, asked me, if I was interested in showing her dogs 1975. Her kennel was at that time one of the leading TT kennels in the world. I was so proud. My second TT was CH Matinsuon La-Ma, small dog, who unfortunaly died in car accident. He had also Lens Luxation. My third bitch was a success, Fin & S Ch, Nordic Winner-80, Finnish Winner-80 Millan Bait-Su-Ba. ´Susa´ was TT OF THE YEAR 1980 and she was also multi BIS winner. Unluckily she got PRA and was just a great show dog. Ch Millan Sandylei was a BIG-winner, in my opinion´Sandy´ is still maybe the prettiest TT I have ever seen. Only bad thing was that she hated shows!

I met Tarja Jantunen, later known as Salo, late 70´s when she bought her first TT from Anna-Liisa Paasio. Few years later I was interested in buying a bitch puppy from Mrs Tuula Plathan, Karamain prefix. When visited her kennel to check puppies, I saw a stunning black and white male. I couldn´t take a male, but Tarja wanted also a good show dog, so we bought Teddy, Multi Ch, WW-92 FIN W -85-87-91 Karamain Jarkan-Dharma "Teddy". He was BIS at Helsinki International 1988, Finlands biggest show and TT Of The Year -88 and - 91 . Teddy was full of himself, great showdog and dear pet for Tarja, who took care of him during his life.

Later we bougt another dog together with Tarja, when Kennel Sadi-Ya´s bred their bitch to Teddy. That´s how we got Multi Ch Sadi-Ya´s Just A Real Joy. ´Beda´ made lovely puppies to Tarja´s prefix Fabulous Teddy´s. One of them was a Multi Ch and Multi Winner Fabulous Teddy´s Amazing Willy ROM. I got also nice puppies from ´Beda´ out of my American import, AM Ch Atisha´s Magic Midnight Sun. ´Sunny´ had very succesfull puppies with Sadi-Ya´s bitches, BIS winners Int Ch Sadi-Ya´s Magic So Much and Int Ch Sadi-Ya´s Magic Superstar.

At the moment I just love to wach Tarja´s dogs by the ringside and I try to help her with her breeding program. Mrs Tarja Salo is one of my dearest friends, always helpfull and she treats her dogs better than many their children.

Maybe one day if I found a golden bitch I might have a TT again! You never know! I´m so happy that I had such a great teacher as Mrs Anna-Liisa Paasio. Her knowledge was so huge. I`m honored that she treated me like her own child.

LHASA APSOS
When I worked with Mrs Anna-Liisa Paasio, prefix Millan, at the end 70´s and early 80´s, I fell in love with this marvellous breed. No matter I showed some of her dogs succesfully. Tibetan Terriers were still  my number one breed. Years later, I met Mr Juha Kares, with prefix Chic Choix, in early 90´s. He showed lovely Lhasas and I was obsessed to get one of my own. Mr Kares sold me lovely particolour female youngster, Fin Ch Chic Choix Parti Gal Sal. ´Elli´ was multi BIG winner. I bought also another particolour, a male,  Fin Ch Chic Choix Hairy Hooligan. You can find those two dogs in many showstar pedigrees. Later Juha Kares bought Multi Ch Hylan Sho Tru Bye Bye Birdie from USA. She is the all time top producing Lhasa bitch in Finland. Lucky me I was the co-owner of that marvellous bitch. She lived 14 years and last years she spent with my mother living with style that suits for a special dog. I must thank Juha Kares for my success with Lhasas. He is one of those breeders who you can really say is a topbreeder! Year after year you can see great Lhasas coming from Chic Choix.

YORKIES
I saw Mrs  Leena Kaplas showing her Multi Ch Deebees Sensation and that was love at first sight. I visited  Cruft´s several times  where I saw  many famous yorkies that looked so beautiful with that steel blue coat and nice shades of tan.

My first ´Yorkie´ was from France Ermine du Royaume D´Argent. It was year 1989. Cindie was big brood bitch from Ozmillion and Sladesmark lines. I bred her with Multi Ch Debonaire´s Mini Snob. From that litter I got Fin Ch Bhanyanan Rosy Romance, lovely little bitch, owned by Mrs Silvasti. I bought two bitches from England, Sladesmark Stardust and Wenwytes No Regrets. Sladesmark Stardust got one litter and I never bred Wenwytes No Regrets because of her small size. Both dogs had lovely steel blue and great shades of tans. I met Ms Pascale Mark prefix de Majodian in World Winner Show in Spain 1992. Ooh, what a lovely´Yorkies´ she had! I was friends with Mr Markku Kipinä. I was lucky once again because Pascale fell in love with Markku and moved to Finland! I used Pascale´s males for my bitches and got very nice puppies out of Multi Ch Globe Trotter de Majodian. Breeding Yorkies is a challenge, it is so hard to get nicely structured dogs with excellent colours. I was very unlucky with patellas in my bitchline, so I stopped breeding. My Yorkies had nice lives with my dear friends.

Mrs Leena Kaplas, Poppoon prefix, teached me a lot!  She knows all about Yorkies!  Not forgetting Ms Pascale Mark, lovely lady with great knowledge of the breed. Ms Tarja Voutilainen, prefix Tavout´s, helped me also a lot. Mrs Wendy White with Wenwytes Yorkies had big influence to my ideal Yorkie.

POODLES
Mrs Else-May Ikäheimonen was showing her Multi Ch Miradel Magnus in 70´s. as I was showing my Tibetans. Many times we met in group finals. She told me many times that change breed, buy a poodle! But it was not the time for Poodles then... For many years I watched Ms Tiina Taulos winning with her poodles. I knew years before that when I was going to buy a Poodle, it would be from Canmoy´s.

Because my oldest son was allergic, I lived several years without any dogs in my house. When he became adult and moved I started to look for my first Dwarf Poodle. With the help of Juha Kares I bought Ch Canmoy´s Love On the Run. She is from excellent bitchline and in her first litter all three are CACIB winners under the age of two years. I kept the only bitch from her litter out of Multi Ch Tirkane All About Alfie at home. She is Fin JW-06 Canmoy´s Bhanyanan, multi CAC and CACIB winner. His brother,co-owned with Ms Claudia Papini from Italy, EUJV-07 Canmoy´s Shamrock is a Top Toy in Finland 2007 with several group placements and more to come.

My next poodle was Canmoy´s Lady Liberty, a Dwarf female. She is a classical poodle, with body to die for! From ´back door´ came Multi Ch Canmoy´s Wildest Dreams, superb toy with superb temperament! Everybody who knows her loves her! Thank´s Tiina for letting me have her! She has produced lovely puppies and we are looking forward to see them in the ring!I have interesting youngster at home...

I co-operate with Ms Tiina Taulos, Canmoy´s prefix. She had teached me all I know about poodles! I cannot imagine I could find a better person to work with poodles as Tiina is. She has all the knowledge and skills. She groomes my dogs to perfection and you can always trust her opinion. And last but not least, our vision about perfect Poodle is so similar.