Kasvatuksen ideologiaa 

Tavoitteenani on pienimuotoinen, korkeatasoinen yorkshirenterrierin kasvatus kotioloissa. Haluan kasvattaa sekä psyykkisesti että fyysisesti mahdollisimman terveitä, iloisia ja rotumääritelmän mukaisia yorkshirenterrierejä sekä näyttely- että kotikoiriksi. Koiramme kasvavat meillä rakastettuina perheenjäseninä, joista kanssani huolehtii avopuolisoni Petri.

Koirien kasvattamisen ainoat hyväksyttävät syyt ovat rakkaus koiria ja rotua kohtaan sekä rodun parantaminen, johon haluan osaltani olla vaikuttamassa positiivisesti. Saavuttaakseni asettamani tavoitteet tulevassa kasvatustyössäni, ovat pentueeni tarkkaan harkittuja sekä ajalla ja ajatuksella suunniteltuja.

Olen käynyt Kennelliiton kasvattajan peruskurssin syksyllä 2006, jatkokurssin keväällä 2007 sekä allekirjoittanut Kennelliiton kasvattajasitoumuksen. Olen Suomen Kennelliiton, Yorkshirenterrieri Ry:n ja Suomen Kiinanharjakoirat Ry:n jäsen. Toimin Yorkshirenterrieri Ry:n hallituksessa 2007-2008. Harrastan koiranäyttelyitä ja toimin aktiivisesti rotua harrastavassa kerhossa Yorkshireterrier Club of Finlandissa. Meillä on myös pienimuotoista koiratarvikkeiden myyntiä Fifit toiminimellä (Y-tunnus 1631249-8) Fifit Boutique verkkokaupassa. Vapaa-ajallani harrastan myös koirien trimmausta sekä otan satunnaisesti yorkkeja hoitoon kotiimme.

Toivon että kaikki kennelissämme syntyvät pennut tuottavat omistajilleen yhtä paljon iloa kuin omat koirani ovat meille tuottaneet. Pitäkäämme yhdessä huolta pikkuisistamme sekä samalla tämän upean, pienen ja valloittavan rodun tulevaisuudesta.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

 -Roger Caras

About us

My love with Yorkshire Terriers started with our first Yorkie Jessi (born 1995) I inspired about the breed and with my second Yorkie Nuppu I totally started to dream about breeding one day. That time I was an active member of the Finnish Yorkshire Terrier Society, Member of the Board, studying a lot about the breed and graduated from Finnish Kennel Club breeder courses. And finally, after going to dog shows, meeting with other breeders and after getting my first dog as a Finnish Champion, our first Yorkshire Terrier litter was born in 2008 under the prefix of Tiny DeWill`s, which was registered at FCI and Finnish Kennel Club couple of years earlier.

Today we have three female Yorkies and one Chinese Crested female, owned by me and my fiancee Petri, living in our house. We are situated in Vantaa, only about 10 minutes from Helsinki-Vantaa airport.

I have also a Yorkie Shop called Fifit Boutique in web selling quality grooming products, pet apparels etc speacially for Yorkies and other tiny breeds. Nowadays I am also working as a webmaster for Yorkshireterrier Club of Finland, which was established 2008 by me and some of our friends as a free club and non-profit organization for breeders and pet fanciers who are dedicated to this breed.

A high quality Yorkshire Terrier is the combination of the health, the character with right temperament and an appearance of the breed standard. My goal is to produce the best quality, not quantity, so we breed yorkies only on a small scale and have puppies occassionally available for approved, loving homes. Thank you for you all supporting me in my loving hobby to find the right way and the key to success in my breeding!

May you always have success to make you proud,
challenges to keep you strong and
enough of life's treasures to keep you happy.

-Unknown

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

-Colin Powell

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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

-William A. Foster

20 principles of Breeding Better Dogs

1. Remember that the animals you select for breeding today will have an impact on the breed for many years to come. Keep that thought firmly in mind when you choose breeding stock.

2. You can choose only two individuals per generation. Choose only the best, because you will have to wait for another generation to improve what you start with. Breed only if you expect the progeny to be better than both parents.

3. You cannot expect statistical predictions to hold true in a small number of animals (as in one litter of puppies). Statistics only apply to large populations.

4. A pedigree is a tool to help you learn the good and bad attributes that your dog is likely to exhibit or reproduce. A pedigree is only as good as the dog it represents.

5. Breed for a total dog, not just one or two characteristics. Don't follow fads in your breed, because they are usually meant to emphasize one or two features of the dog at the expense of the soundness and function of the whole.

6. Quality does not mean quantity. Quality is produced by careful study, having a good mental picture of what you are trying to achieve, having patience to wait until the right breeding stock is available and to evaluate what you have already produced, and above all, having a breeding plan that is at least three generations ahead of the breeding you do today.

7. Remember that skeletal defects are the most difficult to change.

8. Don't bother with a good dog that cannot produce well. Enjoy him (or her) for the beauty that he represents but don't use him in a breeding program.

9. Use out-crosses very sparingly. For each desirable characteristic you acquire, you will get many bad traits that you will have to eliminate in succeeding generations.

10. Inbreeding is a valuable tool, being the fastest method to set good characteristics and type. It brings to light hidden traits that need to be eliminated from the breed.

11. Breeding does not "create" anything. What you get is what was there to begin with. It may have been hidden for many generations, but it was there.

12. Discard the old cliché about the littermate of that great producer being just as good to breed to. Littermates seldom have the same genetic make-up.

13. Be honest with yourself. There are no perfect dogs (or bitches) or are there perfect producers. You cannot do a competent job of breeding if you cannot recognize the faults and virtues of the dogs you plan to breed.

14. Hereditary traits are inherited equally from both parents. Do not expect to solve all of your problems in one generation.

15. If the worst puppy in your last litter is no better than the worst puppy in your first litter, you are not making progress. Your last litter should be your last litter.

16. If the best puppy in your last litter is no better than the best puppy in your first litter, you are not making progress. Your last litter should be your last litter.

17. Do not choose a breeding animal by either the best or the worst that he (or she) has produced. Evaluate the total get by the attributes of the majority.

18. Keep in mind that quality is a combination of soundness and function. It is not merely the lack of faults, but the positive presence of virtues. It is the whole dog that counts.

19. Don't allow personal feelings to influence your choice of breeding stock. The right dog for your breeding program is the right dog, whoever owns it. Don't ever decry a good dog; they are too rare and wonderful to be demeaned by pettiness.

20. Don't be satisfied with anything but the best. The second best is never good enough.

Raymond H. Oppenheimer