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Our family consists of me Elena, my fiancé Jani, our daughter Alina -who is born at the end of year 2008, son Eetu, born at July 2011 and 5 dogs, 2 cats, couple of aquariums and rabbits and few chinchillas. Our house has been under construction since 2005, hopefully Jani is saticfied into houses current size and appearance so that we wouldn’t have to make changes all the time. At year 2009 we started to built carage building which contains also room for the dogs and special built fenced area to Ronja. She has a way to escape from every fence so we make this, smaller one just for her. Home We moved into village called Räihä 2003 when we had 2 dogs; Topi German Shepherd born 2002 and Tibetan Mastiff Tessu born 2003. Remu came to us at very dark January evening 2005 and Ronja came to us after a long waiting at March 2006. PR was born here and he stayed at our place.

Why the Tibetan Mastiff?
German Shepherds have been into my life for a very long time, but I wanted to have a dog that is weatherproof, who manage outside and doesn’t require so much activity that GSD does. Because my work takes my time a lot I don’t have so much free time to train dogs. Also I don’t like dogs that dribble so that narrowed those big LGD dogs into minimum. So I decided to Tibetan Mastiff which said to incorruptible guardian, loyal to it’s family and rather healthy. Also it’s primitive nature was fascinated and the fact that not every one had same breed.

Having a Tibetan Mastiff at our family has brought many surprises into our lives. All of them had not been so nice surprises; like nightly barking, running away from 2 meter high fence, scaring neighbours, holes at our back yard etc. When you live with tm you should take relaxed, laugh and have patience. The patience is something what we try to fix every day. :)   Goals and ideals Tibetan Mastiffs are very primitive animals, which has it’s own will. They aren’t suppose to be active, too energy, sore, nervous or aggressive. All of these things are quite revealing, so character is propably the thing that spokes people at the most. On my opinion Tibetan Mastiff shoud be stable, primitive and a guardian that know it’s own value. It’s not fit to everyone and all people are certainly not fit to Tibetan Mastiffs –to the emperor.

The ideal Tibetan Mastiff is quite robust, agile, strong boned and has good angulations. Dog also needs to have good weatherpfoor middle lenght coat, bristle and “trousers” are longer coat. At the summer time dog drops almost all of it’s coat and looks then more or less mongerel. Slightly narrow, bended eastern eyes are common to this breed. Tail sets to the back rather spongy, although I like better tight tails.

The ideal Tibetan Mastiff is healthy what comes to it’s character and physics. Dog lives at the family where it’s prized on it’s own being and can carry out it’s natural instincts be guarding it’s own yard. This is a thing that many people cannot understand nowadays and unfortunately Finnish laws also limits these dogs working possibilities.

Hobbies
There isn’t so much free time after work and dogs. Jani has his own endless rally car project and he doesn’t pay attention to dogshow etc. Jani builds houses for his living so it’s good to have someone at home who knows how to fix up places and everything useful. :) I’m a co-owner at pet shop called Lemmikkitalo Reporanka at Jyväskylä. Here is a link to the pet shop.

Other pets

Topi -our german shepherd
You can meet our Topi here. NOT READY

Cats
You can meet our cats here, the boys are called Matti and Teppo. NOT READY

Aquariums
Here are some photos of our aquariums and I must tell you that I collect plecos and other bottom fishes so the aquarium is very harsh and there aren’t so many plants. NOT READY

Rabbits
I breed dwarf lop rabbits and you can enter that homepage from here (sorry only in finnish).