Ehana Finnish Lapphunds

15/06/2025

This! Just last year we had Diaz sustain a groin tear after slipping on the tiles coming out of our bedroom before we had a chance to put our hallway runners down.

Good traction is paramount for dogs and I always cringe watching dogs slide around. Imagine trying to navigate your home with oil on your feet, no doubt you’d do yourself a mischief too.

𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗝𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘

Slippery surfaces in our homes are a guarantee for injuries, and often injuries you'll have no idea of until they get so bad they can't hide them anymore....but some go unnoticed permanently.

There will be slip zones in your house, and these are often the path a dog takes to race to/out of a door, to a kitchen, or perhaps a window. These are areas that need to have non-slip mats to prevent slipping.

One thing we really need to do is stop throwing toys for dogs on slippery surfaces - watching them slip and slide makes people laugh, but all it's doing is causing stress and strains on joints and stabilising muscles.

👉 Increase the risk of cruciate strains and ruptures
👉 Increase the risk of knee cap instability, predominantly in small dogs.
👉 Increase the risk of serious back injuries in long-backed dogs, especially if they're jumping down off furniture onto slippery surfaces.
👉 Increase the risk of hip-flexor strains which can cause pain and stiffness in hips, knees and backs and then over time compensatory issues in the front limbs and neck.
👉 Performance and show dogs who rely on sound movement for good performance should never be allowed to slip and slide where possible.
👉 Old dogs often need non-slippery surfaces when their strength and mobility starts to give out.

Rugs aren't always pretty, but neither are what ongoing doggie rehab services or surgery costs will be to your wallet.

13/06/2025

Little photo/video dump from our time in bundy.

As Diaz and Vader were in season, we didn’t do much exciting…lots of downtime and brain games as well as pool time. There are a lot of stray dogs in Bundy, and my family live quite close to a reserve that almost always has dogs taking themselves on adventures…we didn’t need any extra help to advertise they were hot to trot 🤣.

The girls are also not particularly interested in galavanting around during their seasons either, they are more interested in hu***ng each other, or crawling inside me.

And what perfect timing they had, wrapping up their seasons just before we got home to Ryker, saving him the heart attack and 2 weeks of screaming 🤣

Pip made friends wherever she went, nearly going home with my aunty, and my dad, and anyone who would give her smooshes. She’s a chaotic ray of sunshine 🤣.

01/06/2025

Azula (left) with her mum Marceline (right) at the Victorian Dog Lovers Show 2024.

26/05/2025

These two smashed it out of the park over the weekend!

Wendy and Teyla are such an awe inspiring team and are such a joy to watch work together. Wendy is phenomenal with her dogs, and it shows with her other lappie Eva still competitively competing and happily bouncing around the trial rings at almost 11 years old!

Teyla earned the honour of highest scoring Lapphund in Rally at the recent Working Dog Club of Victoria obedience and Rally trial, with two second places and scores of 96 and 99 respectively! She has honestly been on a roll these last few months with her Rally, and the icing on the cake was earning that last Quallie needed for her Rally Excellent title!

Teyla - Ehana Anastacia (AI) JX RE* SWN TK.N SPD SD ADX GD

I’m beyond proud of you both ❤️❤️❤️. Such a superstar team and I feel so honoured to cheer you guys on. Aren’t these pictures just adorable!

*pending dogs Vic approval.

22/05/2025

If you’ve been within 3 Instagram scrolls of me, you know I’m feral for freakshakes. The dogs would sell their balls and ovaries on the black market for their morning wets.

So naturally we’ve teamed up with the legends at Norm for the next few months to help release their new line of technicolor slurp bombs. We were even lucky enough to get our grubby paws on a few of them before the rest of you….for the research of course.

TONIGHTS THE NIGHT! 4 new flavours…one including bugs (“FINALLY Gourmet!” - Pipsqueak, probably) along with a revamped kitty friendly option for the cat people in your lives. We see you. We judge you. But we see you.

Launch Party kicks off at 7pm. Your dogs (and/or tiny feline overlords) will worship you for it.
https://normgetwild.com.au/?ref=EHANA

20/05/2025

Morning snuggles with the golden child.

17/05/2025

Vacation Vader strikes again…eyeing off that sweet sweet pool.

14/05/2025

Day 3, the final leg. We spent the morning having a mini family reunion, both humans and dogs. Caught up with my sis, brother in law and nephew, as well as Revy from our Atlantis litter.

Revy is Vaders first born from her first litter, and Diaz is Vaders last born from her last litter, so the two of them meeting for the first time was lovely ❤️.

On our way out of town I saw a giant R2D2 statue but had already driven past and was so upset I couldn’t get a picture with the dogs (pic from Google). We got 45 minutes out of town driving on dirt roads only to find it was flooded, and had to double back to town and find a different way. I think we spent the first 3 hours of the drive on dirt roads full of gnarly pot holes and corrugations…boy was I happy to see bitumen again 🤣.

After the chaos of animals, dirt and flooding, I decided it was probably safer to drive the extra few hours along the highway rather than risking more back roads.

6 hours and 7 towns in to my trip I FINALLY found a roadhouse at Gore that sold my iced coffees, so we had a quick break and a leg stretch before continuing on.

Driving through scenic rim always makes my heart happy, feels like home with all the beautiful hills and scenery and gave me the boost to get through the last leg.

Got through brissy, had another leg stretch at Caboolture before continuing uneventfully on the newly finished Bruce Highway all the way to Bundy. I’m still catching up on sleep but I’ll be good in a day or two. Dogs were happy to finally be out of the car.

13/05/2025

Day 2 on the road saw us pack up camp, explore the cricket captains walk in cootamundra then head up to a tiny little country NSW town. We drove through Parkes, Forbes and Dubbo and had some nice stops along the way.

We saw emus, foxes, wild horses and goats, a couple of pigs and more cows than you could moo at. Regional Aus has livestock without fencing, so it’s not uncommon to have cattle grazing all over the road…which significantly delayed our arrival 🤣. A few highway closures didn’t help either.

We drove through sawn rocks which was a precipitous mountain drive signposted at 100kms (no WAY you would do that speed…you’d be lucky to hit 40kms!) with tight hairpin turns, in the rain and dark…it was a white knuckle ride, that’s for sure!

We finally arrived at around 8pm and likely woke up the whole town as the dogs greeted each other in the only way lappies know how.
🇦🇺

10/05/2025

We’re on the road. Yesterday we drove from Vic all the way to Cootamundra. There were some detours along the way, some unexpected traffic and just on dark some silly roo’s who were hell bent on unaliving themselves…but we made it.

Set up camp, heard screaming cats all night along with car horns but managed a bit of shut eye. As you can see from on the pics, it was a wee bit chilly 🤣

The girls did their first show this morning and Vader earned herself a Veterans CACIB, along with Bitch challenge and runner up best of breed.
Diaz earned herself a CACIB and reserve bitch challenge behind her mumma bear.
Pipsqueak had her first go on a ramp and earned a baby bitch of breed, behind a handsome little fluffy lad.

We have an open show this afternoon then a nice relax ready to hit the road again tomorrow.

04/05/2025

Vader is still trying to recruit a new apprentice…one day the sith legacy will be fulfilled.
May the 4th be with you!

01/05/2025

Same blanket, same pipsqueak, same judgement.

Photos 5 months apart.

This golden girl will be heading on her first big family adventure up to sunny qld soon so if you’ve been thinking about adding a pip to your life or looking to meet some Lapphunds, let us know…perhaps we’ll be stopping in a town close to you 😉