11.06.08 I have constantly been asked about situation report, so here it is:
The Animal Protection Society lawyer has helped us to end the contract of Elvis. So Elvis belongs again to us. From other party we get all the time every kind of accusations against us which we withstand. These days were also very emotional for us which we only now are able to look from aside. In conclusion, I myself think it all is a very regrettable event especially since the real sufferer in this case is the poor dog. And I personally believe if a human being has got so many accidents and problems with so many different dogs maybe the ability of handling dogs should be improved before taking another dog.

03.06.08 Elvis came back home!

I would like to thank all the people living in Maxniemi with great help they give us for finding Elvis, without you I could not have succeeded!!!

Written during the emotional days while looking at the suffering Elvis:

It is just unbelievable how people can lie about things trying to make them look the other way around. I dont like writing things like this but I can not let other people to tell lies about me. It seems like the other side thinks that the more mud they throw on me the cleaner they itself look in other people eyes. The truth is that I went to Finland where Elvis was living in the forest on 30th of May and I was there until 3rd of June when I finally found Elvis. Petra lost Elvis in Finland and went itself to Sweden leaving the poor animal into the forest. I saw Petra there only once during all those days I was there and it was on 2nd of June about 2 hours. Other breeders are telling me that while I was in the forest looking for Elvis Petra had time to write other people questbooks. Believe me, there was no internet in the forest and no one would have time to write other people questbook while itself searching the dog in the forest.  

 

Driving to Maxniemi is for us the same way as driving to Poland to find a dog which its new owner has lost during first day it has got the dog. I have apx 1000 km and Petra has about 350? km (at her web page she even tells that 250 km only). Elvis was lost by his owner that could not take care of the dog proper way even at the first day and was also not able to find the dog and told me that I must search for Elvis otherwise Elvis would die. Yes, ofcourse I did it and drove 1000 km to the Finnish forest to search for Elvis thinking how crazy a person, like me, can be. When I found him finally I took him with me because I felt obligation to do everything in my power Elvis would survive and to provide him safe place to stay. When I told to Petra I have found Elvis I was immediately announced to Police in Finland as a dogs thief and I was told by Petra to bring back the dog or she would give me to the court! When I did put up those pictures how Elvis looked when I found him, which actually shows how good care took Petra of him, Petra finally told she does not want the dog anymore. And I have lots of people to prove my words. Now I have been told by my friends that Petra writes in her blogg lies about me. Which I simply can not understand how can a person do such thing? After all, when other breeders told me not to sell dog to Petra I was foolish and trusted Petra. Now 7 months later I got everything other breeders warned me about on my shoulders.

Additional to all this Petra has taken pictures about Elvis that belong to me and put those into her web page and her blogg without even asking from me! Which is also called theft!

 

Yes, I kept the dog for 7 months because Petra was begging me to do that since she wanted a puppy. When I got my Herakles he was also 7 months old and he also did not come when was called and lived his own life. But I really did not let him run free before I was at my own home and I knew it was safe. It's the way how it is when you get a dog with such age. And I would really never leave my dog somewhere in Latvia after lost him and then called to Herakles breeder telling that she must come from Holland to go to catch Herakles in Latvia  because she knows him better. It's just, the things don't go this way! We are responsible of our dogs whenever and wherever we are. If we leave the dog and give the responsibility to the others we have abandondend the dog and not worthy to have the dog anymore. The question is would we be really worthy in this case to own a dog at all?

Right now it is told that the dog, Elvis, is bad, I am a bad person and did everything wrong, all the Swedish breeders are bad and telling lies against her but the one that actually could not take care of the poor dog is a good one.

 

If the dog would have died in the forest what would have been then? Who would have been responsible then? Would we then just cry that accidents happen? How many accidens? To how many dogs? When will that finally end? Shouldn't we humans be responsible enough to take care of our beloved ones whether dogs or another animals? Or is our life really only endless race for the money? 

 

I really dont think dogs are to play with or to achieve something at the same time making their lives miserable! 

 

In my mind there is no place which would understand how can a human being act like this at all!


One must look with the heart...
"The Little Prince"
Antoine De Saint-Exupery


I really Thank You all the good people from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Brasil and Germany that have given their support to me in this case! I am very thankful because without you I would feel myself very miserable!

 
 

29.05.08 In Finland was lost our bred dog Born to Win White Elvis that was with his owner Petra Andersson on the way to Sweden!  Elvis lived with us since his birth until the rabbies blood test waiting for approval to go to Sweden. Elvis left our home 28.05. morning and was lost in the evening in Finland Kemi. Elvis was last seen in Maxniemi in Kemi Finland. Unfortunately, I am not able to reach the dogs owner who left back to Sweden and does not answer my calls but I know that Elvis is still missing and is in Finland. I am actively searching Elvis with help of our Finnish friends to find him. If you Petra read this please contact me because we MUST find Elvis!

 

 

Elvis after when Petra  took him

 

 

 

Elvis when he was together with me one day before he got lost!

 

 

 

 

I am really thinking whether I want to continue the breeding because of what has happened. I am blaming myself and thinking what could I have done otherwise. On the other hand I get e-mails from all around the World telling me that I did a heroic thing and not many breeders would have been able to do it. Maybe I take too much responsibility all the time? Yes, I am crazy about my dogs, but hey, without them I would not have the life I love...

"Then you shall judge yourself," the king answered. "that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom."
"The Little Prince"
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

 

After long time thinking I decided: I can blame myself only in one thing that I did not listen to other breeders when they were telling me not to give the puppy to Petra but listened Petras promises and gave her my puppy.

 

 

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
"The Little Prince"
Antoine De Saint-Exupery


TO BE A MAN, IT MEANS TO BE RESPONSIBLE!

To be a man is... to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery