Watercubs & Kivisilmän

working show-quality newfoundlands

Black working newfoundland litter planned for summer 2012

Expected to be born early July.

                    Sire:  Oukaya Forever Regliss Mint Panda "Panda"                                  Dam: Kivisilmän Monitoimikone "Ruuti"                       
               (On a Lucky Day de la Fee des Eaux x Grizzly Maple Tree)                  (El Oso Pardo von Baywatch x CIB-FI-SE Ch, EUVW-11 Larinkallion Brysselinblicca)
                      HD: A/A, ED: 0/0, heart healthy, cystinuria clear                                     HD: B/B, ED: 0/0, heart healthy, cystinuria free             

We are extremely excited about this opportunity to use a very special male for our girl Ruuti (Kivisilman Monitoimikone)
for a litter in summer 2012. We expect this litter to complement the good working dog temperament and structure of our lines.

 
Puppies of the Kivisilmän N-litter in 2009

A little about the sire:
HD: A/A, ED: 0/0, cystinuria free

The sire of the litter was born in April 2000, representing excellent viability, still being at a healthy active condition, able to reproduce at 12 years. This male has been worked in the water extensively (competing in the French 3rd class), with most of his offspring following in his footsteps in the water. He has passed on excellent health, temperament, as well as his strong boned, balanced structure to his offspring. He has been awarded trophies for best veteran at several national and regional speciality shows, and trophies for best conformation on a working dog. He represents traditional old breeding lines. More photos.

A little about the dam:    
HD: B/B, ED: 0/0, cystinuria free, heart clear echodoppler & ECG (spring 2011)

The mother of this litter will be our own girl Ruuti (Kivisilman Monitoimikone). She is one of our best active working dogs. Ruuti has a lot of stamina, she absolutely loves water, and she has an eager will to please and work with us. She'll be happy to relax at home on our busy days, but she'll be much happier out in the forest running and roaming around, in the water, or on the obedience fields working with us. Ruuti has the correct well balanced Newfoundland structure enabling her to succeed both in the show ring and at working trials. Ruuti has not competed much on the working side due to her young age (born 11/2008) and her previous litter (born 06/2011) taking most of last summer, but she has always succeeded well in tests we’ve entered her to, passing the UK (05/2010), German (09/2010) and Belgian (09/2011) waterwork level 1 and the UK draft levels 1 and 2 (05/2010). Ruuti has also dominated the conformation show rings; she has become reserve best bitch (with RCAC, RCACIB) several times at very large international shows, and has won several CAC's, also one CACIB.

Ruuti had a litter with Wee Lovett’s Island of Manitou (born 1984) in June 2011, producing three very balanced, active brown puppies. They are all structurally very promising, and showing great enthousiasm and drive towards working together with their handlers, epitomes of the Newfoundlands we aim to produce.

Why are we using a white&black male for a brown dog?

A dog is much more than just its colour to us. Any dog that we would even consider using for breeding must have a good balanced structure, an eager working temperament and great health. A good stud dog not only needs all these characteristics himself, but he must also be able to pass all these characteristics to his offspring. Panda fills all these criteria and much more, therefore we are extremely happy to be able to use him for Ruuti. 

All breeders should be consciously breeding for only breed standard recognized colours: black, brown, white&black. We have genetically tested Ruuti to make sure that she is NOT a carrier of white&black (allele s), allowing us to confirm, even before any puppies are born, that all the puppies from a litter will be black (or brown if Panda is a carrier of brown, of which he is very unlikely to be), with no options for brown&white puppies.

In the future all partners of any breeding dogs from this litter must be genetically tested before mating to be able to confirm that only colours accepted by the breed standard are produced.

Ruuti with her Kivisilman R-litter  (Rutikuiva, Rapakontaa and Rahtilaiva)

If you are interested to know more about our this litter or our future plans,
please don't hesitate to contact us (bettinasalmelin@hotmail.com).

(c) Salmelin