Seealp käserei

Finally some competition!

Animalia or IHA St. Gallen 2009 dog show saw 11 members of the local appenzeller family on both days. Quite unexpectedly some dogs only came on one day or the other so we actually saw more dogs in one weekend than on all the other shows together. To sweeten the deal there were also a few non-competing visitors running around, one of them showing off his guide (seeing eye) dog skills.

Hanibal finished off the weekend with a second (of 3) and third place (of 5) among dogs, sweeping in for two more CAC titles and a reserve CACIB with excellent grades.

comments by I. Huber (DE)

unfortunately the handwriting is damn near illegible which makes it impossible to decipher some of her comments. Best effort below…

• Harmonisch aufgebauter Rüde
• Korr. geschnittene Kopf
• Braune Augen
• Kräftige Hals
• Feste Rücken
• Korr. ausgesetzte & getragene
• Korr. winkelung
• Harmonisch Bewegungablauf
• Stehhaar
• Richtige Abzeichen
• Havana braun
• V1, CAC, res. CACIB

comments by judge Alenka ÄŒerne (SLO)

• 2 y.o.
• Good type
• Nice head
• Good front
• v.w. angulated in front
• a bit straight behind
• Nice mover
• Good coat color and markings
• V1, CAC

frisbee demo

We took the Saturday afternoon off to walk around Appenzell and up to Seealpsee so Hanibal would at least get to enjoy a small part of the trip. Nice views, spotted some sweet skiing lines off Säntis if I ever return in winter. There’s still quite a bit of snow up there, making it possible to ski almost to the lake with careful route choice.

On Sunday we took off as soon as possible as we had a long drive back. Rather than going around through Germany again we went straight (well, in theory) through Austria, with a diversion through Liechtenstein for 5min where we were stopped by the swiss border patrol for obviously acting suspiciously by driving around a roundabout one too many times :)

Säntis

But the real navigational achievement was that we managed to take a different road in and out of St. Gallen each time :) We approached or left it from nearly all possible sides. Ohh, and I must not forget the absolutely heavenly food at Gasthaus Forst located among orchards in Kressbronn am Bodensee. It’s a not-so-short drive away from St. Gallen but absolutely worth it for the food alone. Highly recommended!

young bulls, playing

More photos in the gallery as usual. Feel free to browse.

visually and mentally stimulating shorts I’ve stumbled upon recently

Fifty People, One Question: London from Fifty People, One Question on Vimeo.

It’s Your Ride from Cinecycle on Vimeo.

CHALK & CHOCOLATE – movie trailer from Jure Breceljnik on Vimeo.

Evolution – 1. slovenian freeski movie from Action Mama on Vimeo.

Hanibal on Krk island, photo by Janja Lebar

After a few years of status quo on appenzeller-sennenhund.si I finally got the ball rolling again with a few face lifts, liposuction and botox injections. In other words I changed the look, content and structure of some sections of the website to bring it up to date :)

//tech stuff
Notice the use of Vista C-fonts (if you have them), general adherence to HTML strict doctype (not all sub pages have been updated yet though) and an attempt to get the entire thing off unnecessary markup. We’ll get there eventually :) //

Things are bound to change further in the coming days and weeks but nothing major is planned for the immediate future. I am hoping to eventually transfer everything over to my own server and wordpress to make things just a smidgen easier but for now it stays basically as it is.

All new content is dedicated to Hanibal (since he’s now a fully certified stud) :p and we’re ready to start showing him off anywhere there’s a chance to see a concentration of lady appenzellers. Next stop IHA St. Gallen.