26/12/2024
CH Shefaro Mielikki Ebn HaSannah ROM
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Kyra was my second borzoi. I had purchased another puppy from her breeder, only to lose her to Parvo a month later.
What are the few kind things her breeder did (amidst a lot of nasty things but that’s a different story ) keep her till she was five months old and had all her shots. I was absolutely terrified to bring a puppy home to my house. This dog? Is part of why I am so adamant about temperament.
She had not left her breeders property before I picked her up, yet she was absolute bombproof. She was not at all bothered by the lack of socialization. A week after I picked her up, we went to a fun match. A month later we were at our first show. She took everything in stride. Nothing affected her. And that is what I strive for. I don’t always get it, we have a wide variety of temperament in this grade. She was referred to as a labzoi by Bonnie Dalzell, because she loved everybody.
Her breeder convinced naïve me to breed her way too young for her first litter, but I’m glad I did because it brought out the true colors of said breeder. And I cut ties with her.
Kyra was my first in many ways. First national ( where she placed fourth in a huge 12 to 18 month class), my first specialty win (RWB Canada national), my first group placement under respected breeder judge Dick Meen
She taught me a lot of lessons. She was my training wheels. I had never shown a dog before. And entered her in way too many shows prior to her being ready just so I could learn and enjoy dog shows with friends.
She picked up her first major from the 12-18 month class, Picked up her second major. With aWB/BOW at a supported entry at 2.5,  and then I got frustrated because we couldn’t get those last singles. Because I was just wondering any dog show. I wasn’t doing my research. I was living a part of the country, where a certain type was prevailant, and I needed to do my research. Once I started doing my research and paying attention to judges, she finished rather quickly.
Her first litter was sired by Am/Can Ch Abidhjan’s Diamond Sabre JC CD and gave me five puppies. Three of them went to the cobreeder, one stayed with me and one went with the dog owner.
am /Can Dc Mandolin Mielikki the dance S.C. CD was an Irish mark pseudo Brindle. Silly goofy boy, he went on to be my first best Puppy in specialty. My first and only CD, my first and specialty show, this one from the bred by exhibitor class, and so much more. Funny concerning the cobreeder in Texas said he would never amount to anything because of his color.
One boy with soul to Ohio, he was American Canadian champion Shefaro treasure of sinbad. Who was my first group placing Puppy, and I saw him for the first time after I had sent him to the cobreeder, he knocked ass over tea kettle in the hotel room so happy to see me 😂 had a very successful career, was bred a few times but unfortunately, there is nothing out there
Another boy was sold to SA: Chilean CH Shefaro's Ace de Espadas. He was bred a 10 lines, and he can be found behind a rare pedigree here and there mostly in South America.
The girl I kept on, went on to be Mielikki sweetest Taboo. Her name came from the fact that the ex told me it was taboo to bring another dog into the household. I didn’t bring her into the household. She was born into the household.😂.
Unfortunately, she did not inherit her mother’s rock solid not afraid of anything temperament, but more the father side of the pedigree and so when she was attacked at just over 12 months at a dog show, it affecte her mentally. It took a long time for me to work through it with her, to get her confidence back, and we had just gotten to that point and she had picked up her first point in the ring, when I lost her in a yard accident. 😞
Prior to losing her, she did have one litter, which gave me my first BbE CH: CH Mielikki twilight eclipse.
The last bitch? Was bought back from the co-breeder by a friend of mine when I heard she was trying to dump her. I placed her in a loving home who loved her till the end of days
It was Kyra’s second litter that really put me on the map. Sired by DC Silkenswift Blaze of Chaos, SC, CD, SORCII, LCM4, SGRC, ROM , nine lovely puppies were born. My queen litter. My first two LCMs, first SORC & SGRC, with a total of 12 titles (not including the JC, SC, etc., real point titles ) on 5 puppies
Every dog, I currently have goes back to at least one of three siblings from that litter. Races, Mir or Dei.  that litter really did put me on the map.
Kyra with the joy to live with except for her appetite. That dog was on a diet her entire life. She could walk by the refrigerator and gain 5 pounds. I had to put bananas in the microwave, Crisco behind a door on the top shelf, and she could not be loose in the house.
One visit to my friends, the box or the stove to inhale the leftover spaghetti while we were outside for a moment😂
I came home one day to find she’d gotten out of the dog room, knocked the 50 gallon trashcan over that had dog food in it and gorged herself. She was laying half in the garbage can half out of the garbage can, and didn’t have the decency to get up and run back to the kennel. She lifted her head, said hi, and went back to sleep.😂
She stole a 5 pound roast out of a boiling can of water on the stove
I loved her
She was a good girl otherwise until the end. I was going through a nasty divorce and she took the choice of putting me down away from me by going to sleep after eating a big dinner and not waking up at over 10 years old. I put down one of her cats that day, I don’t think I could’ve handled putting down another animal. She was a good girl.
I would never recommend her breeder as someone to buy a dog from, but I’m thankful she sold me Kyra. That dog taught me a lot.
