Bella Volpino Volpino Italiano by Pia Kristiansen Interviewed by Anne Tureen
BIS: Tell us about yourself and how you first got to know the Volpino Italiano? P.K.: In 2007 I was looking for a small family pet dog, and a colleague of mine showed me a picture of a Volpino on the internet. She was going to get one from from breeder in Sweden, so I had her help get one for me too. I knew absolutely nothing about the breed. I got a male Volpino, who later became the 3rd Volpino in Denmark. I had wanted to try a dogshow, just to see what that was about. Italian judge (don’t remember the name anymore) I went home with a nice judgement, and thought i might try it Again..... So step by step i got more and more in to this “Volpino thing”. I took 2 different dog breeder educations through the Danish Kennel Club and got my Kennel name in 2010. Kennel Bella Volpino. After going to a lot of shows, both international, Club shows and unofficial shows in Denmark, and doing a lot of ring training and Handler courses, I tried to go to a show abroad for the first time in 2010 (Germany... just across
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the border, slow start. Now all of Europe was open to me. I could spend 3 weekends every month going to shows all over Europe. Getting a lot of titles, including National Champion Titles and International Champion titles. My first big important show, was the Euro dog show in Geneva in 2013. I only went with 1 Volpino, but she got best junior and Junior European Winner 2013. In 2015 i went to Italy for a show... the World dog show, without any expectations other than meeting the Italian breeders. So I was over the moon for the results I got. My red Male became Italian champion and the White female I entered, got the title UMAVI Champion 2015. (Now in 2018 this title was given to me again, this time it was her daughter, my own homebred girl who won BOS in Porto Viro September 16th.) In 2016 I got the BOB and European Winner in Bruxelles (The junior Winner from 2013). In 2017 the BOB and World Winner 2017 was a Young male breed by me. In 2018 in Amsterdam the BOB and Junior World Winner was my homebred 17 month old boy.