"Very stylish Liver White of 9 months. Masculine head with lots of substance. Pleasing expression.
Good depth of body and forechest for age. Excellent rib. Short coupled with strong quarters. In lovely coat and condition. Moved well with enthustiasm"
Sylvia Bunting, UK. (Henry was best male with CC)

Henry's moving picture gallery, taken by Mikko Hovila in October 2007

Updates 13.10.07

Henry, the puppy who was not meant to keep ourselves, developed little bit differently than I am used to, and there were "ugly duckling" times in March - April -07 when I thought oh my god, I really don't want to show him at all, and I have to cancel my plans to show him in Swedish club show and everywhere else this summer. He was then shown only twice as a puppy. With mixed feelings I arrived to Fin Springer Club show in the end of May, Henry being still a bit wet after morning bath just a moment before he should go in to ring. I asked Antti Hokkanen to run a round with him just that I see how he does he look like..he did run and then I could again see we will certainly have a fun time with this boy in coming shows..and so we really did!
Henry has won so far 7 CC s, and he seems to be at his best in prestigious Specialty shows; so far he has participated in three, and done extremely lots of winning in them. His biggest win so far is to win Best of Breed and BIS-3 in prestigious Finnish Spaniel Club's Main Specialty Show, where ESS entry was 107 and Spaniel entry over 600. And he did this win only at 13 months age, being youngest ever ESS to win BOB there. Breed judge was breed specialist Bob Jackson, UK, from well known Mompesson kennel.
Henry has been a special favourite of the boys of our family and he is a lovable easy happy family dog, making lot of funny jumps and other funny things along the days. He can also give you big grins or smiles; looking just like one of mum's favourite actors Harrison Ford then;-) While waiting his turn in the ring he often makes sudden visits to people sitting ringside, just to say hello them and give a kiss. He has developed with Sophie and they play with each other at home nearly all the time..the only time I have seen Henry not so happy is when Sophie is in season and they are separated; Sophie is the real love of his life!
Future will tell how he will be when really grown-up, but at least at the moment so far he has given us much more than we could have dreamt about.

The original story

Henry was born in a litter of 9 (!!) males and one girl. I got the idea about to do this certain litter just in the beginning of July 2006 suddenly while driving home from job. Immediately when the 'click' idea came, I sent a text message to Windy's co owner Marja to ask if her summer season already had gone. Heard that it had just begun at midsummer night, so then I called Pablo's other owner Jaana (Baskethill's kennel) to ask her how does my sudden plan sound for her. Little did I guess about becoming record amount of male puppies when I was driving the long way to mate Windy to Pablo on a sunny summer day. There were dreams to get many girls and and so, but so was not the case..I must admit I was little bit embarrased over first week when all the boys had become reality.

The little Henry was among my 3 favourite male puppies from very early beginning. I thought he is a quality puppy and tried to offer him to some show homes, but he did not seem to fill exactly any puppy buyers hopes and when I put the advertisement of promising male puppy for sale on web main page, nobody with show/breeding interest even asked.. so he just remained in our house longer, because I was too stubborn to sell this promising boy to a pet home only.
Soon I begun to notice he seemed to be a very special boy to my husband Mikko, and he took a special care about him. When friends asked if Henry still is for sale, I used to say 'active selling time seems to be over', but still thought we dont want to keep a male yet but only a couple of years later. One day I realised he was even named by our boys: "Henry". I was wondering where did the name come from and one theory is that from a Finnish comic TV serie 'Kummeli', where is a funny silly person called 'Little-Henry'. One day soon arrived football magazine 'Goal' and boys where showing me the main page, where one famous Henry was starring...so even I was then convinced of that it was just correct name for this boy.

One day I realised that Henry does have so many such qualities I myself would need in my future breeding programme and he still looked like a show promise too. When he runs on the fields along with Sophie it is food for my eyes. Henry's character has been irresistable so far, he just will charm and please everyone he meets, and he begun to 'smile' very early. He has been developing very nicely in every way. His favourite friend #1 is Sophie, with whom he would like to play all day long. Fingers are crossed for that he could continue to develope this way and would be one day hopefully a lovely addition in our show team and also in our breeding programme as well..as of now he does fill our own hopes and we are very pleased with him.

Photo Sanna Kavèn

Photo Sanna Kavèn

Photo Sanna Kavèn

Photo Taina Kaleva

Photos Taina Kaleva, Sanna Kavèn and Jaana Heiskari

Photo Taina Kaleva

Photo Jaana Heiskari

Photo Sanna Kavèn

Photo Johanna Isola

Photo Jaana Heiskari

Boys of the family are football addicts and when they decided Henry must stay in our home, they came to show me this magazine cover.."biggest, best and the most beautiful"....well, at least good to see now our Henry did not come biggest though as he is an ideal sized young male!

Photo original Taina Kaleva