The weather in Finland has been just beautuful since I came back. Powder snow & sunshine.

The boys love it too, of course.

Tomorrow we will go to the X-ray (hip & elbows) + check patella’s. The result will be official and recorded to the boys. Keep your fingers crossed that they are as heathy as possible!

Otto came for a visit on Monday evening and it seemed like he wasn’t himself. He was quite weak and did not even take the food I was offering him. So I let him take a rest without bothering him too much.

He was still here the next evening and did not want food nor drink. He hasn’t even gone to the toilet.

Late that night I took him for a vet with the neighbour (he is 60 kg’s, so too heavy for one person to carry) and it turned out he was having a heart attack. He was medicated and then we came back here and Otto stayed in my place. At 3 AM (3 hours later) he wanted to go out and let him thinking he would come back. He just kept going and did not came back.

In the morning I was looking for him because it was time for his nitro medication. It seems that he had disappeared. After 1 hour later he suddenly turned up waving his tail. I was afraid that we would find him in his last rest but he seemed to be back to normal.

This video clip is taken today, just couple of days after his heart attack. He spotted us going for a walk in the forest and wanted to came too. It was much shorter walk than usual because I did not want him to have another heart attack.

Yesterday I received two Gundog DVDs that I had ordered from eBay.

I am really looking forward to get more motivation to train my boys. To be honest, I have been pretty lazy lately.

The good thing is that there is time before the next trial season so hopefully these DVD’s help me to keep motivated and also give good tools to train the dog.

My first two flatcoats passed the first trial but Ella did not. She tried twice (before her sudden death). I have also tried once with Eddie but he was not too keen on crows which are often used in trials in Finland.

Crows are never shot in the real situation (who would eat them anyway) but since they are used in the trials, I need to do something to motivate both of my boys to crows.  Eddie was fine with ducks in the trial but they are only used in the water work part.

I also have a very good book about gundogs (by Sten Christoffersson).  I could not find this in English but if you see this book in your language, I recommend it highly.

I found eBay some time ago. We have similar place also in Finland called Huuto.net but since Finland is a small market area with our 5 milj inhabitants you do not often find what you are looking for. Of course I have heard about eBay long time ago but I didn’t think I would shop there. I was so wrong.

So far I have inversion table, MBT shoes and bedding duved set.

Today I placed bits for

• Gundog training DVD hunting/shooting
• James Douglas: Gundog training

As you can see, there is something useful for training your flatties too.

I’m surprised that a firm in eBay isn’t interested in selling their products to Finland. I saw this lovely set in eBay and tried to order it by PayPal. I couldn’t because I’m located in Finland. I sent two emails to the seller asking if it would be possible to ship to Finland. No replies. The products didn’t sell so the seller has now relisted them. I mailed again (for the third time) telling I would be interested bying the set, but still no replies. As soon as I find something as beautiful from somewhere else in eBay I will pay it.