...Ross...
US, Swedish & Finnish Champion
YARROW'S JUNGLE JIM
"ROSS"
(Ch Yarrow's Mighty Joe Young ex. Ch Yarrow's Maid To Order)
born: March 5, 2003 bred by: Beth Sweigart/Letisha Wubbel, USA
"Ross" pictured by Lillemor Böös after being placed 3:d in Group at SKK Norrköping, August 2006
UPDATE October 17, 2008
*Today's piece of news is that Ross now lives with
Anita Andersson, kennel Terrietype,
who is also co-owning him with kennel Airescot.
*As I realize that I haven't made any individual Updates on our Affens
since June
I'll try to cut out from the main Updates the news which concern each dog.
"Ross" has been shown only once this year, at the Swedish Affenpinscher Club
Breed Specialty,
which was earlier reported on as below:
UPDATE August 6
The Swedish Affenpinscher Club Unofficial Breed Specialty was held last weekend, August 3,
judged by Cindy Pettersson, Sweden. She had an entry of 50 Affens, nine of which were puppies.
Just like at last year's Specialty Ross was Best In Show, this time handled by Anita Andersson.
Second Best Male
and Best Swedish bred Affen was his son, our
Airescot
Peer Gynt, handled by my ex-husband Petter Fodstad,
who as usual had made an excellent job with all our Affenpinscher coats.
Third Best Male was our Winterkloud Hector,
handled by me, Nenne.
Just like last year our Winterkloud Frejya was Best Bitch and BOS, as usual handled by me.
No doubt quite a family affair to be proud of!
UPDATE May 4, 2008
Here is a brag
about the first Champion sired by "Ross".
From his first litter after his arrival in Sweden, ex. Ch Anzolas Tiril, the
bitch Terrietype I'm The Last Puppy
was sold to Alfred Hove in Norway. Only a couple of weeks after her second
birthday in March
she won the qualifying CC for her Norwegian title at the Norwegian KC
International show in Bergen,
and today at the International KC show in Kristiansand, Norway, she was BOB of
12 Affenpinschers,
judged by Christine Rossier, Switzerland.
This bitch was bred by Anita Andersson, Sweden, and is a litter sister to our
Terrietype I'm Jane Airescot,
the dam of our "Christmas" litter.
UPDATE April 21, 2008
Yesterday at the Swedish KC National All Breeds Show in Västerås near Stockholm
Ross' young son
Airescot Peer Gynt (ex. Schnaffentangens
Gimmi Gimmi) made
a flying start to his career by gaining his first CC and BOS.
He was beaten for BOB by his kennelmate Winterkloud Frejya,
winning her seventh CC.
Breed judge was Gunnel Holm, Finland.
UPDATE December 17, 2007
Yesterday at the Stockholm International and Nordic Winner Show in Stockholm
25 Affenpinschers were entered under Swedish judge Patric Ragnarsson.
"Ross" was again BOB, and also Nordic Winner Affenpinscher male 2007, which
qualified him for Crufts 2008.
Just as in 2006 he finished the year as Sweden's Top Winning Affenpinscher
BOS to Ross
yesterday was our British import Winterkloud Frejya,
last time out in Junior Class, as she is soon 15 months old.
Again we must thank Petter Fodstad for his help with presenting our
Affenpinschers so nicely.
UPDATE August 21, 2007
The past weekend
was one of the craziest of my doings so far,
but luckily also very successful and thus worth all the struggle.
As
Ross, our American Affenpinscher, has a docked tail there
are not many countries
in which he can be shown to get qualified for his International title.
So far he has 17 CACIB's in Sweden, one in Finland, only thanks to the
dispensation
for docked dogs given at the European World Winner show last year.
In the Baltic countries dogs with docked tails are still allowed to be shown,
so Friday evening
Ross and I flew to Estonia and the International All Breeds show in Tallinn.
We arrived a couple of hours after midnight, and after very few hours of sleep
at a hotel facing a night club
we went to the show, where Ross won the CC, CACIB and BOB and was thus qualified for his International title.
As our flight back to Sweden was in the late afternoon we couldn't stay for the group judging,
but got home reasonably early for some more hours of sleep, before driving off at 6.00 a.m.
to the Swedish KC All Breeds show in Nyköping, to which show Ross
and our 11 months old Affen bitch Winterkloud Frejya were entered and were to be judged first in our ring at 9.00 a.m.
Of the18 Affenpinschers entered Ross was again Best Dog, Frejya was Best Bitch winning her second CC from Junior Class,
and then she was BOB over Ross and later even pulled out in the Group!
She is the second bitch ever to have beaten Ross for BOB in Sweden. Our breed judge was Svante Frisk, Sweden.
UPDATE August 1, 2007
At the Affenpinscher Specialty almost 50 Affens were entered under Swedish Breed Specialist Siv Jernhake.
We had the most
fantastic day with "Ross", Ch Yarrow's Jungle Jim,
winning Best In Show,
and our British import Winterkloud Frejya, winning Best
Opposite Sex from Junior Class.
From Intermediate
Class our "Micki", Terrietype I'm Jane Airescot,
from Ross' first Swedish bred litter, was fourth Best Bitch.
Go to Micki's page to see a couple of pictures of her and Petter Fodstad.
Again I must thank
my ex-husband Petter for helping me make our Affens so well presented,
and this time he was even there himself to give a hand with the handling.
UPDATE July 16, 2007
At the Swedish Schnauzer-Pinscher Club Specialty in Borås, June 30th,
Ross was beaten for BOB by the only Affenpinscher who has so far beaten him in
the breed in Sweden.
the lovely bitch Ch Comon Blomma, bred, owned and handled by Helena Norling.
Breed judge was Paolo Dondina, Italy. BOB and BOS pictured below by Ingunn
Axelsen.
At the two Swedish KC All Breeds shows at Tvååker July 13 and 14
Ross was BOB both days and was placed fifth and fourth resp. in his huge group.
Breed judges were Ann Horan, GB and Diane Anderson, US,
group judges Marit Sunde, Norway and Diane Anderson.
During the group judging the snapshots below were taken from ringside by Kristina Jerlin.
UPDATE May 28, 2007
Ross has been to a few shows this Spring and is so far unbeaten in the breed, in spite of good competition.
At the Swedish KC International show at Österbybruk May 12-13 he was BOB
judged by Hans Almgren, Sweden,
and then Karl-Erik Johansson placed him second in Group.
At a Swedish Schnauzer-Pinscher Specialty yesterday Anita Whitmarsh, Sweden,
chose him for BOB
and Torbjörn Skaar, Sweden, made him BIS-2! Helena Norling, Comon Affenpinschers,
took the picures below.
UPDATE April 9, 2007
Earlier Updates about Ross this year have apparently not reached this page,
so we have to start with his first shows this year:
the two Swedish KC All Breeds Shows in Gothenburg in January, one International
and one National,
where Ross was BOB both days, and was Group 5 day one and made the cut of 8 day
two.
His next show was not until the Swedish KC International All Breeds Show in
Stockholm
yesterday, April 8, where Ross again won BOB with CACIB, this time judged by
Swedish breed specialist Siv Jernhake.
Saturday evening Ross was shown in the most prestigious competition of the
year, Champion of Champions,
to which the top winners at the previous year's Swedish KC shows are invited.
We are very proud that Ross was the first ever Affenpinscher to be invited,
and he was one of only five from his huge group.
We just received the picture below of the two puppies in Ross' latest
litter,
bred in Norway by Grete Hansen and Frank Torkildsen ex. Ch Schnaffentangens
Nille,
now three months old Schnaffentangens Rossa Lita (left) and S. Rosso
Zorro.
UPDATE August 28, 2006
At the Swedish Affenpinscher Club inofficial Specialty outside Stockholm
Saturday
"Ross" was for the first time since his arrival in Sweden in January beaten for
BOB and was very happy with winning BOS.
The BIS-winner was a lovely young bitch, Comon Blomma, by the British import to
Norway Ch Konishiki Blackberry Way
ex. the Finnish bred bitch Seibrin Extra Export. Blomma was bred by Helena
Norling in Sweden
and is co-owned by Helena and her mother Kristina Gunnarsdotter, Urax
Affenpinschers. Congratulations to all involved!
The judge was Barbara A. Gresser, breeding Affenpinschers in the US with the
prefix Black Forest.
There was a very good entry of 10 puppies and 39 grown-up Affenpinschers.
We are often praised for the nice presentation of Ross, and the skillful
hand with his coat between the shows
belongs to my ex-husband Petter Fodstad.
UPDATE August 14, 2006
*We have forgotten to report on the latest achievements of "Ross",
so far unbeaten for BOB since his arrival in Sweden in January this year.
At the Swedish Schnauzer-Pinscher Specialty at Svenstavik August 5, "Ross" was BIS-4, and at the Swedish KC
All Breeds show the following day he was third in the huge group, to which he belongs in the FCI countries.
At the Swedish KC All Breeds show in Askersund August 12, he was again given an honourable 3rd place in the group.
Thanks to his great wins so far in 2006 he is currently Nr. 7 on the Swedish list of Top Winning dogs of All Breeds!
Quite amazing and unheard of for this breed in our part of the world, and thus worthy of bragging about.
*"Ross" has only been with us in Sweden for seven months, but has already sired 18 healthy puppies
from four litters, most of them bitch puppies! That is more than anyone could have dreamt of, and, in fact,
more than the Swedish Affenpinscher Club approves of. We hope to be able to introduce
a male with at least partly new blood to help up the situation.
From "Ross"' latest and, for the time being, last litter, born July 14th,
two lovely bitch puppies are still for sale. If you would be interested in buying one of them,
please let me know at nenne.runsten@telia.com and I'll forward your interest to their breeder.
The two puppies are pictured below at four weeks.
UPDATE 23 June 2006
Due to a very hectic May and June I have not updated this page as I should
have.
Since the Update below, May 5th, I have been travelling like mad to the
US, to England, to Norway and to Finland,
but in between I have managed to take "Ross" to four All Breed Shows in Sweden,
every time winning
BOB, followed by one Group II, one Group III, one Group IV and one Group V placement.
We also managed to go to the European Winner Show in Helsinki, June 10-12,
to which almost 10
000 dogs from 40 countries had been entered.
As "Ross" has a docked tail he cannot normally be shown in
Finland,
so this special show was his only chance to compete for a Finnish CC and CACIB.
And he won both plus the European Winner title plus BOB, judged by Soile Bister,
Finland.
Rafael Malo Alcrudo from Spain spent one hour on the pre-judging of the
unusually complete enormous group
with BOB-winners from as many as 53 breeds. All in all 2 252 dogs belonged to this group,
i.e. more than 20 % of the total entry at this show.
Thus it was a great honour, indeed, that Ross was one of the eight to make the final cut in the group,
and he was the only one of all the Schnauzer-Pinscher breeds to do so.
The winner of the group, the Newfoundland, later won Best In Show, judged by Hans Lehtinen.
UPDATE 5 May 2006
I'm very proud that "Ross" has been noticed in the rings
even when handled by myself.
As already reported in earlier Updates he won the Group at the Swedish KC
International Easter show in Stockholm
and the following week he was Group II at the SKC All Breeds show in Västerås.
Background and result of Ross' first two shows in Sweden
For many years I have been fascinated by the Affenpinschers
which I have seen at American shows and in the kennels of Peter Green and Beth
Sweigart.
When Geir Flyckt-Pedersen made me aware of the fact that I could become the owner of
"Ross"
I couldn't resist the temptation to try out this charming, different and
difficult breed.
And this little dog more than exceeds my expectations, both
for character and looks.
It was lucky for Ross and me that Andrew Green, who has known Ross since he was
born, Ross i.e.,
and has also handled him in the US, could come over and present him at his
Swedish debut
in Gothenburg, January 5-8, when the Swedish KC held one National and one
International
Show for All Breeds.
At the first show Torbjörn Skaar judged the breed and made
Ross his BOB-winner with CC,
which qualified him for his Swedish title. Group 2 was judged by Terry Thorn,
who chose
Ross as his winner, and in the strong line-up of 10 Group winners for Best in
Show
Göran Bodegård decided to give Ross an honorouble third place,
only beaten by two of Sweden's Top winning dogs of all breeds 2005 .
At the second show, the International one, Dan Ericsson
gave Ross BOB with CACIB,
Wilfried Peper gave him the Group (a nice surprise that a German judge
appreciated this German breed presented in an American way, not often seen in
Germany).
Finally Agnes Ganami from Israel made Ross BIS-4.
I have been told that Ross with these
great
wins has written breed history,
possibly not only in Sweden, but also in Europe.
Below is a picture taken by Andrew Brace of Andrew Green
handling "Ross"
at his first two shows in Gothenburg.
