AIRESCOT PEER GYNT

(US, Fin S Est Int Ch Yarrow's Jungle Jim ex. Schnaffentangens Gimmi Gimmi)

male, born: June 5, 2007      breeder/owner: Airescot

Pedigree

Peer Gynt at 10 months pictured by Carl-Emil                  

Peer Gynt moving at six weeks and at 13 months

2009

September 25

A month ago two bitch puppies arrived from Australia, bred by Gish Lesh, the owner of Peer Gynt.

Strongfort Koala and Strongfort Kui are by Peer ex. Gish's top winnng bitch Grand Ch Strongfort Der Die Das.
They were born May 12th and arrived in Sweden together August 11th.

One of them was supposed to go on to kennel Oceanwild in Norway, but it has been very difficult to choose between them.
The choice has now finally been made: Koala is staying with the Airescots and Kui has just gone to Norway.
Alfred and Rita were here to pick her up a couple of days ago.

Before leaving for Norway Alfred took these pictures of the girls.

Strongfort Koala, 4 months

Strongfort Kui, 4 months

June 10

 Peer Gynt has now gained his Australian champion title and has just won his 4th All Breeds Best In Show.
He is also the sire of two litters down under, one of them ex. Grand Champion Strongfort Der Die Das.
She had two dogs and three bitches, one of which will hopefully come to us in Sweden.

March 15

*More good news from Australia. Yesterday Peer was shown again at an all breeds show up in the mountains outside Sydney
where it was only 20 degrees Celsius. Peer enjoyed the cooler weather, showed even better
and won another Best In Show! Fantastic!

*Here in Sweden we can only brag about being awarded prizes for the Top Winning Affenpinscher 2008 (Ch Winterkloud Frejya)
and for the Top Winning Swedish Bred Affenpinscher 2008 (Airescot Peer Gynt).
The prizes were given out yesterday at the Swedish Schnauzer Pinscher Club's Annual Meeting.
 

March 12

Great news from Australia, where Airescot Peer Gynt has started his show career in Sydney in high style.
At his first show March 1 he was #2 in the Toy Group.

Last weekend there were two all breeds shows. Saturday he WON the Toy Group.
Sunday was the Blacktown Kennel Club show where he again won the Toy Group and finally BEST IN SHOW!

This is the first time ever that an Affenpinscher has been awarded Best In Show at an all breeds show in Australia!

The Toy group Sunday was judged by Mr L Butler, BIS by Mrs Beryl Hession, who had judged the Toy group Saturday.

Congratulations to his owner/handler Gish Lesh.

The photos below were taken by Frank Pieterse on Friday before the shows.

We also just received the BIS-picture below, taken by Peter Gaylard "The Puparazzi"

     January 30

At last we have managed to take a couple of snapshots of Peer Gynt's puppies by Frejya, six weeks old today.

The boy Airescot Merry Christmas and the bitch Airescot Happy New Year.

"Merry"

 "Happy"

2008

December 21

The day before yesterday, December 19, Frejya without any problems gave birht to her litter by Airescot Peer Gynt.
Disappointing to all who were hoping to have a puppy from this litter, as there were only two of them, a male and a bitch.

In these days of Christmas Greeting cards they have been amply named
Airescot Merry Christmas (the boy) and Airescot Happy New Year.
They are very well taken care of by their proud mother,

and as you can see on the picture below they are fat and shiny.

UPDATE  December 8

Yesterday Airescot Peer Gynt was released from his 30 days in Australian quarantine,
so at last his new owner, Gish Lesh, Strongfort kennels, didn't have to leave him again as she has had to do until now
every time she has been to say hello to him. Visits to the quarantine are allowed twice a week, so Peer and Gish have already
become very good friends, but it's wonderful to know that Peer is now a "free" dog
and, of course, very happy to play around with his new Affen friends in Sydney.

Gish has been breeding Terriers for most of her life, but is now concentrating on Affenpinschers,
of which she has already bred several generations. One of her bitches is just about to become a Grand Champion,
which is very difficult in this breed as 1 000 points are required to qualify. Gish is an allrounder judge
and a good friend of Lee and Frank Pieterse, Statuesque kennels, our Whippet friends since many years.
They are now breeding top Griffons in Australia, and Lee is also the owner of a Strongfort Affenpinscher bitch.

UPDATE October 17

Winterkloud Frejya has at last come into her long awaited season and was yesterday successfully bred to Peer Gynt,
so we hope for a litter by medium December. For both of them it will be their first litter,
and as for Peer it will be his last in this part of the world as he is off to his new owner in Australia in the beginning of November.

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. Here is what Peer Gynt has been up to during the Summer.
 

Update September 16

September 13-14 the Swedish KC held its International two day All Breeds Show

in the beautiful Sofiero Castle Park and the Swedish Schnauzer-Pinscher Specialty a few miles from there.

To these shows we had entered Airescot Peer Gynt and Winterkloud Frejya.

Breed judge at Sofiero was the Swedish allrounder and Schnauzer-Pinscher specialist Nina Karlsdotter.

From an entry of 17 Affenpinschers she placed Frejya BOB, winning her 17th CC and her 8th CACIB.
BOS to her, winning his 6th CC and his first CACIB having just reached the eligible age of 15 months, was Peer Gynt.

Saturday afternoon Nina Karlsdotter decided to give Frejya the group,

a terrific achievement by Frejya in this huge group and her first #1 , even if she has been close to it before.

At the Schnauzer-Pinscher Specialty the following day Leni Finne from Finland was our breed judge.

Both CC's were again given to Peer Gynt and Frejya, but this time Peer was BOB and Frejya BOS.

Before rushing back to the Sunday BIS finals at Sofiero we had time to take Peer Gynt into the Specialty BIS final,
where he was BIS #3, judged by Wilfried Lohmann, Germany.

Update August 20

Two SKK All Breed shows held only a few miles apart, one National, in Norrköping, one International in Nyköping
 August 16 and 17 , both days in pouring rain. A shame, though, that so few Affenpinschers were entered.

Svante Frisk, Sweden, judged Saturday. Sunday our judge was Howard Ogden, England.
 

Both days our Junior World Winner Airescot Peer Gynt won the CC and BOS, a few weeks too young for his first CACIB.

BOB both days was our World Winner Winterkloud Frejya, winning her 15th and 16th CC and 7th CACIB.
She will not be old enough to compete for her qualifying CC until the end of September,

but by then we hope that she will be in whelp to Peer Gynt. He will be off to his new owner in Australia
as soon as he has done his enjoyable duty with Frejya. Very sad to let him go, but hopefully he'll have fun and be useful downunder.
 

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 our Ch Yarrow's Jungle Jim was Best In Show, this time handled by Anita Andersson.

Second Best Male and Best Swedish bred Affen was 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 July 4

Two wonderful days for our Affenpinschers at the CC Breed Club Show July 2 and the World Dog Show July 3.

*At the CAC Breed Club Show 41 Affenpinschers were entered under judge Bo Skalin, Sweden.

He found his dog CC winner and BOB in Winterkloud Hector from Junior Class.

Second to Hector in Junior Class was Airescot Peer Gynt and he was awarded the reserve CC.

´Winner of the bitch CC and best bitch was Winterkloud Frejya from Open Class.

In the finals Hector was BIS-2 Junior, judged by Tamas Jakkel, Hungary.

*At the World Dog Show the following day Elina Tan-Hietalahti, Finland, had an entry of 50 Affenpinschers.

Her choice for Best Junior dog was Peer Gynt and he was thus Junior World Winner.
He was also awarded the res. CC and was BOB Junior.

This time Winterkloud Hector was second to Peer Gynt in Junior Class.

 World Winner and awarded the bitch CC, CACIB and BOB was Winterkloud Frejya,

thus winning her 13th CC and 5th CACIB in Sweden.

At both shows Frejya and Hector won Best Brace in breed.

Update June 15

Two shows to report from.

*June 7 at the Swedish Schnauzer-Pinscher Club Specialty in Gävle

Winterkloud Frejya won her 10th CC, BOB and BIS-2, all the way through judged by Öystein Eikeseth, Norway.
 

We now have two dogs to show in Junior Class and this time Winterkloud Hector stayed at home
amd Airescot Peer Gynt had a lovely day winning the dog CC and was BOS to Frejya.
In the afternoon he was BIS-Junior, judged by Sonny Ström, Sweden.

*The following weekend, June 14, Peer Gynt was shown again at the Swedish KC International show at Avesta
and won his third CC and BOB, judged by Britta Roos-Börjeson, Sweden.
BOS to Peer was Winterkloud Frejya, winning her 11th CC and 5th CACIB,
Peer, just having celebrated his first birthday, is still too young to be awarded CACIB.

UPDATE April 21

Yesterday at the Swedish KC National All Breeds Show in Västerås near Stockholm

Peer Gynt had a flying start to his career by gaining his first CC and BOS
at his first time out in Junior class.
He was beaten for BOB by his kennelmate Winterkloud Frejya.
Gunnel Holm, Finland, judged the breed. Group judge was Göran Bodegård.

2007

UPDATE 26 November

This is the first ever Update on Peer as this page of his own was not made until today.
We have been told that it's high time now, when he has been to his first show.

Yesterday, 5,5 months old, he made his debut at a Puppy show for All Breeds,
where he was BIS-2 competing with some sixty 4-6 months old puppies of All Breeds.
Peer seemed very pleased with himself when trotting around the ring, and we were very pleased with him!

The picture below was taken by Klara Helstad, and this was the only moment all day when Peer was stacked.