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updating appenzeller

April 22nd, 2009 * Comments(1)

wet dog
Hanibal on Krk island, photo by Janja Lebar

After a few years of status quo on appenzeller-sennenhund.si I finally got the ball rolling again with a few face lifts, liposuction and botox injections. In other words I changed the look, content and structure of some sections of the website to bring it up to date :)

//tech stuff
Notice the use of Vista C-fonts (if you have them), general adherence to HTML strict doctype (not all sub pages have been updated yet though) and an attempt to get the entire thing off unnecessary markup. We’ll get there eventually :) //

Things are bound to change further in the coming days and weeks but nothing major is planned for the immediate future. I am hoping to eventually transfer everything over to my own server and wordpress to make things just a smidgen easier but for now it stays basically as it is.

All new content is dedicated to Hanibal (since he’s now a fully certified stud) :p and we’re ready to start showing him off anywhere there’s a chance to see a concentration of lady appenzellers. Next stop IHA St. Gallen.

Frazier

March 15th, 2009 * Comments(0)

Frasier
Frasier on Zizokampos

I have recently learned that Frazier died of what seemed to be food poisoning on March 10th 2009. He was barely over a year old and is now buried at the new Archipelagos marine base in Ormos, Samos. He was by far the most lovable dog at the base and—unfortunately—one of the few things that kept many of the volunteer crew going.

The two of us didn’t have that many chances to spend time together but he sure made up for it. Our hike up Zizokampos and Ammoudia will remain a lasting memory, this little inbred mutt will be missed.

More photos and videos can be found in the memorial Facebook group.

See you little man, we’ll continue exploring!

IHA Graz 2009 show report

March 15th, 2009 * Comments(0)

Hanibal got his second show appearance at IHA Graz dog show and this time he won without much of a problem.

And so Hanibal adds another CACIB, a CACA and a best of breed title to his pedigree.

Judge’s comments (Uschi Eisner, AT) with translation:

  • Harmonisch aufgebaute Rüde (harmoniously built dog)
  • Sehr schoner kopf m. typ Ausdruck (very nice head, m. type expression)
  • helles Auge (bright eyes)
  • havanafarben (havana colors)
  • schön geformte Brust (nicely formed front)
  • kräftige Knochen (strong bones)
  • gute winkelung (good angulation)
  • gut getragene Rüde (well carried dog)
  • flottes Gangwerk (jaunty motion)
  • angenehmes wesen (agreeable character)

(note there might well be mistakes in the transcript that make even less sense when translated, I tried my best)

photos below by Janja Lebar

IHA Graz 2009

IHA Graz 2009

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