SIC's Club Show 2006, Helsinki

We took a small trip to Helsinki today. We took Elvis to a dog show for the first time with us. It was SIC's (which stands for Italian Greyhound & Cirneco dell'Etna Club of Finland which we are members of) Club Show 2006.


The show started at 10a.m. and because we don't own a car and we had to take taxi, the train, taxi to get there - and the same back - we had to take a train departing at 6.30 a.m. *sigh*. It was a really beautiful morning and we had time to eat our breakfast at Töölönlahti, Helsinki which was nice.

The feeling at the show was family like. The same people seems to travel to different shows and they know each other. So it didn't feel the least a competition after all. We had the chance to meet all of the sisters to Elvis (the dog) and his parents as well. And he was excited about it, of course! The weather was hot and maybe a bit too hot for Riki, as you can see from the picture. Overall it was quite a nice experience!

Ok, so what was the outcome of the show and/or competition? Well, Elvis didn't qualify in his class. Although Elvis got some good comments from the judge, he felt Elvis was too unsure of himself. After all, he has a tendency to freak out of even the smallest thing, bicycles and trollies for example. So I felt he did ok after all. Here is what the judge said about Elvis (translated from Swedish to English):

"An elegant puppy. Beautiful skin, correct expression. Good eyes, thin fine lips. Excellent ears. Good angles (?) in front, ok breast depth. Good angles on the rear feet. Moves good from the side and back, although still a bit sloppy. Needs to be a bit more sure of himself."

So taken into account that Elvis is only soon 9 months old and this was his second or third apperance in a dog show, I think he did quite well! I couldn't see large differances between the dogs so I feel Elvis got quite nice reviews.

I set up a small collection of the photos we took at Flickr. Go see them by visiting this set.