Once upon a time, when I was a child, I've read a story written by Rudyard Kipling about domesticating the wolf, which became the dog.
The wild dog, attracted by the smell of food, comes close to a cave where a woman is cooking meat, and asks her to give it some. She gives it a bone and the dog gobbles it up. Then, not satisfied yet, the dog asks for another one, but the woman makes a condition: "Wild creature, coming from wild woods, if you help man in hunting, and if you guard his cave, then you'll have all the food you desire." The dog, won by the promise of food and by the woman's voice, leans its muzzle on her lap and accepts the offer.
I am owner of two huskies. One older, Ledi's, and a younger, Lana's. Living with them made me change the story of my childhood. I would start it somehow like this:
One day the wild dog comes close to the cave. He sees the Woman crying. He goes next to her, and asks her what the problem is. She answers: "I'm so lonely, the others don't understand me many times, hunting and guarding the cave is so hard, I need a friend to help me!". The wild dog feels sorry for the woman, and says: "I, the wild creature, coming from wild woods, I will become domestic and I will stay with you. I will help you hunting and guarding, and I will be your loyal friend either in good times or bad times. In change I'm only asking to share your food and home with me, so I can be with you all the time." The woman, won by the promise of the dog, let him lean his muzzle on her lap, and accepts his offer. From that moment she is not lonely anymore...
I was thinking about what I should tell about my dogs, what can I highlight, and how can I show their caracter. Then I realized, that the best would be to tell you what they mean to me.
When I took Lana from her mother, she was so little. She bore it very bravely and she would cry only in the evenings. Everybody told me that I should leave her outside, and ignore her crying, and in a few days she would get used to it. I couldn't do that. I went outside and I sit next to her. When she saw me, she came to me squeakily. I was sitting on her little blanket, while she was lying in my lap after circling a little circle. She fell asleep in the twinkling of an eye. I was burning the midnight oil, watching her sleep, and was thinking about how naked, how fragile she is, and how much she trusts me: if I am there nothing wrong can happen to her. I think it was the first time I felt that from the moment I took her from her mother it's me being responsible for her. She tought me what it is like to be worried for somebody every moment of the day if she is next to you, or kilometers away.
Now, as I'm trying to catch my thoughts, and I'm looking for a story about them, about how consoling their friendship is, I realize that from the moment they are by me, I am not sad. It is not because I hadn't couses to feel blue... it is because the love that I feel when I look at my dogs. It cleans up all the sadness from my heart, and it smoodges the bad memories. The fact that they wake us up every morning with a lick, making our day, or when they put their head on my chest when I'm watching TV, and sometimes look at me with the look "I'm here, I'm here only for you" makes me only grateful. When she is with me on our long walks, never leaving me, and coming back whenever I'm asking her to, well, that makes me feel I'm valuable to her, and I'm a good person because she is able to love me. All this makes me belileve I am a better person, makes me behave like that, and live like that.
This is what my dogs mean to me...
(This article was published in Nordi 2007/4. XI evf.)
Our kennel story:
My dog-story has begun a lot of years ago. We lived in a flat and didn’t have a chance to keep a dog, but I was fond of every kind of animals, especially of dogs.
My dream came true in 1996, when we sold our flat, and we moved to our new house. I got Ledi in that year, my first Siberian Husky. I was 13 at that time. When you are 13 years old, and you live surrounded with people, who do not go to shows, don not know what the breeding is, and do not have money to travel more than 100 kilometers to participate in competitions, you think that everything is as it has to be. I had never heard about these things, it was only one thing I knew from the beginning: something is by me, it's always meant to be by me, and that my life has changed.
Since then I lost my sweetheart, she left us in 2008. She was phenomenal, she taught me a lot of things, I wish she could be with me forever!
She was the first dog being on a dog-show with me. Nobody told me to go, or that I should go... it happened only because I thought that my dog is the most beautiful one on the whole world, and I wanted to show her to others. She was elected as the nicest gyp, and young Siberian Husky. I was so proud of her. We have never bred her, luckily, because as later turned out, she had bad hips, and she was spayed in 2002.
In 2006 we decided with Laci to get another Siberian Husky. We chose a little girl from "Winds from the North" kennel. Aleksandar Vojinov, the owner of the kennel, is our good friend from that day. We had the opportunity to get the first pick puppy. When I saw the babies, I couldn't listen to my mind, only to my heart, so I decided to take Lana. Aleksandar beg me to choose another puppy, but I am sure that I made the right decision, because Lana is the most adorable and the most intelligent husky I have ever seen. She is not a show star, but for me she is incredible and sweet, and easily handleable. Her ancestors are famous dogs, her dad's line is based on Innisfree dogs, and in her mum's line you can find the biggest dogs bred in Hungary. Obviously, we took her to shows.
In the spring of 2007 I saw a beautiful Siberian Husky male. His name is CH Tovik's Law and Order. It was a love at first sight. Tovik had had a few offsprings in that time, and the puppies born from him are as successful on shows as in sports and as pets. I was so lucky to have the chance to meet this dog in the same year. I was totally enthralled by him. That was the first time I thought Lana could have puppies from this male. We wanted to have another husky, so why not have an own breed. When I asked Susan Marton (The owner of Tovik and Kakastavi Kennel) about my wishes, she agreed.
From that moment I have been consciously preparing for the arrival of the babies. I tried to get in touch with more husky breeders, I visited them to see how they are getting on with the dogs, how the the puppies are born, and how do they decide who can get a puppy.
Now we have arrived to a milestone in our story. If I want to have puppies, I want to have them with honor. They must have Pedigree, and they must have a Name. We were thinking a lot about our Name. We wanted it to be meaning. The standards providing country is USA, so it was clear, that the name has to be in English. We decided to name us: Northern Wind. Unfortunately it turned out that there is another Siberian Husky kennel called North Wind... so we had to change. We decided, that our name will be NORTHSPRING. Luckily FCI said OK.
Our Kennel's resident place is in Novi Knezevac (Serbia), but a little part of it lives in Budapest (Hungary).
In the same year (2007) I started to correspond with a known breeder Mirjana Prpic. She is the establisher and owner with her husband of Siberian Lady Kennel. I always liked her dogs, and the way she thinks about breeding, but never thought that I can be an owner of a Siberian Lady husky. Once she asked what if she gives me a puppy, Power Puff... I had no words, of course I wanted Quinny. I was always enthralled by her, but never dreamed about getting her. So on 21st of June in 2008 Quinny arrived to our home. And from that moment everything have changed in our kennel. We begun to pass on another passage..
After one year full of planning, we decided to breed Lana, we did every health test, preparation... it was quite a long two months, waiting for the arrival of our new family members. On the 2nd of January, 2009 seven beautiful and healthy little babies were born. Lana was a devoted and great mum, I love her so much! I must tell that the next two months were one of the nicest parts of my life. I have never gotten so much love than from these little creatures... We are really proud of every baby from our first litter, we got much more than we expected. All of the puppies have good temperament and a good build, they are trully "love-children". We decided to keep two girls: Sofie was on co-ownership with Ildiko Vadadi (one of my really good friends, since then we decided to give her to Ildi) and Elinor is in co-ownership with Emese Göllner. The idea of their names came from Laci who said we should name them after the seven days of the week... so they are the 7 Days litter. We follow their development and wish them a lot of happiness!
After those years trying to learn as much as possible about this breed we found the type of the siberian husky we like and we would like to breed. So we made a big step, we bought a boy who represents everything the Siberian Husky means for us, Indian Legend of Siberian Lady. His father is one of the nicest males I’ve ever seen, with bloodlines I really respect – CH Shadetree’s Hollywood Cowboy (bred by Catherine Gamble) -, and his mother is CH Misty May of Siberian Lady, one of the most beautiful females in Europe. We have big hopes with this little guy.
Of course our story doesn't end here.
Mirjana, We would like to thank for your trust in us, we are very grateful!
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Agnes Karl & Laszlo Domonkos
Northspring Siberian Husky Kennel
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