English setters, Dobermans, Borzoi , Podenco Ibicenco and Dandie Dinmont
Terriers - different breeds, but all very much loved!
My love for dogs started with my father’s
English setters, and continued with Dobermans when I seattled down by myself. Lady and
Lord was a great part of MY childrens childhood, and we loved them
deeply. But one
day they both had passed the Rainbow-bridge, and time was there to look around for new
dogs! In 1981 a white and black tornado came into our lives: Rozza, the
borzoi, with
the long silky coat and the long nose! She was just adorable and became the star of the
family until 2 other borzois entered the house: Invibes Dostojewskij and
Etjanova.
Suddenly we found ourselves with 3 big borzois and thought we were satisfied, but what
happened then?
One day I saw in a Magazin a photo of a dog called
Podenco Ibicenco. He looked at me - directly into my heart - and stayed there, forever.
This was my very first sight of a Podenco Ibicenco, but I felt, I just had to
have one,
I had never felt so much for any other breed! At that moment, back
to 1980, no-one could tell me anything about this breed - here in Norway it was absolutely
unknown. I called the Norw- Kennel-Club, but, "sorry, we don’t know,
try Denmark or Sweden".
Just remember, in this part of Scandinavia we were very closed
because of the quarantine, we could never go to a show abroad unless we had to put the
dogs in quarantine for 4 months with a cost of ca.NOK 20 000 and who could afford
that? Very few imported dogs, it all was too expensiv! Well, after a
while, and
thousands of calls around, 
I found a lady in
Sweeden who had imported a bitch from Sin’s Kennel in England, but, she had no plans
to breed from her for the first years. But then, in 1984, a litter were born, and Sinsline
Deby To Rosenhill was imported to Norway. The first Podenco in Norway - what a
pleasure!
In Debbie’s first year we had a lot of fun. We had to learn
everything about the breed, and we get in contact with Miss Diana Berry at
Sin’s who gave all the info and help we needed.
Let me tell you about Debbie’s first show: We entered her at a
junior-show, and very proudly presented our little beauty for the judge. The judge glanced
at us, at Debbie again, and then turned to me saying: " What kind of a bastard is
this??? ". I tried to explain, but we had to leave the ring. Outside the ring
a man from the newspaper were standing. He came up and said: "What a beautyful
puppy.
Why did you have to leave the ring?" And I had the opportunity to tell him about this
rare breed, about the ancient history etc. and guess what? The next day, on first
page, a
big photo of Debbie jumping as a podenco can, and with big litters
over: " The first podenco in Norway - and the judge think she’s a
bastard"!!!
Great fun.
Well, Debbie was our first podenco, but already the year after we
got a male,
Sin’s Golden Excelcior, (Ralf) a big
impressing male. More fun, showing the two of them.
. So again an import, Ozu el Gallinero
(Hakim) from Ibiza who had to stay in quarantine for 4 months, and then 2 bitches from
England, Sin’s Summer Rainbow and Summer Moonbeam.
In just a few years my dreams came true, I
had got 5 wonderful Podencoes!
Some years later we
were so happy to have beautyful Puljon Pink Panther from
England.
Of course I have to mentioned the sweet, brindle Greyhound,
(Misty) who followed us home after a trip to England in 1988. She never became a
show-star, but was a wonderful part of the family for almost 9 years. 
In 1985 our first borzoi-litter were born. Rozza was mated to
a tricolour sweedish male and in our Easter-egs that year we got 2 black and white
puppies - our Alba-litter.
Invibes Etjanova gave birth to our B and C-litters, while
Doztojewskij sired a sweedish lady named Vanessa. Out of this litter we kept a bitch, Vangoyescas
Arinenja. Nenja became a very good and solid stud-bitch, she
was later mated with frozen sperm from USA and gave us some wonderful puppies. Those
lines we still are breeding from..
Not before 1988 the first Podenco-litter were born. The sire was
Ralf, and the very proud mother was, of course, Debbie. When the vet did an ex-ray
on her the first time he could not find anything, an told me she had no
babies. But, Debbie desired that she had, and at the 2. ex-ray he turned out pale and
said: "Yes, there are 12 in the belly!!!". And then, August the 13.th 1988 the
Damascena-litter were born - all 12 sound and nice. Out of this litter
the most famous became Leda. 
Leda went to Denmark to Frontrunners as their first
podenco, and she has again given beautyful puppies, one of them is Love is The
Drug, living in Germany and A Song for Europe living in US.
Some years later, Hakim sired a litter to Rainbow, The Floribunda-litter.
Also this time a puppy went to Denmark, Golden Times, and also out of
this male wellknown litters has been born.
In 1992 we tried something new for the
Podenco-breeding. Frozen sperm. Lois Sutton in England had imported a spanish male, Clavel del
Gallinero,
and this was a very interesting mating. The mother was out of our
Damascena-litter, Bella-Donna.
And again we were blessed with some very nice babies, 2 males and 2 females. Out of this
litter, the Odoratas, one of Rosenhill’s most succesful stars
were born: Safrano. 
The Austin-litter,
some of those puppies also went far away, to Italy, Finland and USA.
Dandie Dinmont Terriers. A little clown
with big,dark eyes and a funny face jumped up on my knee, yes, I melted totally. I
didn’t say a word to the family, knowing they ment we had dogs enough, but when
little Penactive Secret Love (Ginger) arrived with the flight from
London, she simply stole everyones heart. She is our bed-dog and very
spoiled! Her first litter was born in 1990, one male and one
female, Villrose Morletti and Carolina.
