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Finnrock history
Kennel Finnrock was founded some time in the 1960’s.
At that time a new dograce, staffordshirebullterrier, was imported to Finnrock have had 2 litters so far, both
staffordshirebullterrier litters. After Brinda my parents have had several
“staffies” and with those I begun also my carreer in training dogs. In time I
changed from stubborn fighting-dogs to stubborn pulling-dogs and can’t really
say whitch one is more challenging to work with. The main reason to change
race was my trekking hobbies. I needed a dog that could manage outdoors no
matter what the weather or temperatures. My mother was kind enough to give me her kennelname
after she didn’t need it anymore. This change was made year 2006. My first pet was actually a cat. I got Joonas the
cat year 1997. My second pet was also a cat… Eelis came 1998. Reason for that
was that we lived in a flat and could not take the right kind of dog. As soon
as we moved to an apartment year 1999 I got alaskanmalamute, Ruufus, that was not registered. We tried several hobbies
and competed a lot in obedience and agility. Got nice results too! Two years
later year 2001 I bought a second unregistered alaskanmalamute. That was a
two year old male Otto, who was from the same litter as Ruufus. So suddenly I
got two years old brothers. Who had nothing else in mind that fighting
together… It took more than a year
to get the guys manage to stand each other. After that things got
easier and hard trekking tours grow them up to be the strongest team ever.
Nowadays they can’t really manage without each other. With Otto and Ruufus we
did a lot of obedience competitions and agility, skied, carted, pulled a
sled, a pulka, swam, ran, travelled, did trekking tours walking and skiing…
Those big furry friends followed me everywhere. With a help of the breeder and Finnish
Alaskanmalamuteclub we managed to register Otto and Ruufus in Finnish
kennelclub and they become officially alaskanmalamutes. Afer that I had the
change to take apart in sledging tests and to alaskanmalamutes official
weightpulling test. At the same time I got interested in sled dog races, took
a part in one (rode 10 km race with my little team Otto and Ruufus), got
extremely poor result and totally fell in love with the sport. And after that
the well known result is the fact that one needs a few more dogs… First came alaskanmalamute
Agnes year 2003. What a cute little girl she was but not a competing pulling
dog. After all she suits better in her present owners pack than mine. Agnes
has been trained and tested in obedience and weightpulling. She has ran several sledging races with nice results. After Agnes
I was lucky to be able to borrow some of my frinds alaskanmalamutes and
didn’t have to buy so many own at once. It turn out
that I couldn’t find interesting enough combination in malamutes, so I made a
trip to Those dogs that have been training and competing in
my team has all got a sled dog test results, some of them all three: racing
test for speed, working test for suitability and skills in teamwork in a
dogteam and the weightpullingtest for individual will to work hard and pull
heavy loads. Dog shows are not so important for evaluating the
dog, but we take a part time to time just for fun. The work continues and it is allways interesting to
have new dogs in the team. Last two years I have had eaven siberian huskies
in use and it is a big challenge to make a nicely working team out of
huskies, malamutes and greenland dogs. |
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