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Gemelan Enchanted Star - "Mira"

Mira was born on 28th February at year 2006 and she was born in Alvettula village which is in Hauho. And she was born in the morning at 06.40. Mira is mustard coloured bitch. 

Mira got her name when she was only few weeks old. We knew what her kennel name would be and she was the biggest puppy in the litter. So a little giant at that time and she was "red". So our friend asked if we had ever heared about red giant stars called Mira stars. Those stars are also called as red giants. She first called her as "your Mira-star" and then she just turned to "Mira". And that was it. We also started to call her Mira. We picked Mira up when she was 8 weeks old - in Finland that is the typical age for that. 7 weeks is what our Kennel Club says is the earliest time to pick up a puppy but often puppies are 8 weeks old. 

Anyway Mira is very happy girl. She is almost always feeling positive, lively and seems to have quite a lot of energy. She is always ready to go for a walk or do something else. She is a kind of "wild child". She loves toys that make sound and she makes sure that we all know how much she loves the sounds they make! 

Mira has dozens of different kind of voices she is able to make herself and she uses her voice a lot. She is not usulally barking but her voices can be anything between squeek and jodling. She is master of making different kind of variations and sometimes she sounds like she would actually be talking. When she is overwhelmed she is screaming like some one would cut her head off....and only because of she is soooo very happy!
   

Mira loves people! Very very much and all and every one. Strangers, the one she knows really well...everyone! And especially children. :-) She wants to give kisses, jumps up and down and is screaming. She shows her love with a bit wild way so we often have to tell her to calm down a little. When she sees children se sees or hears nothing else! And Mira loves outing a lot. She is the first one to rush into the hall and trying to be the first one out of the door. And if door is not yet open she jumps up and down and runs backward and forward to make the door open quicker. For the first 50 meters we must try to tell her to hold her horses but then she settles down. When we come towards home she is walking really slowly...like a very very old dog. :-) No matter how long time we walk Mira would always like to walk more. She has really strong will to chase anything that moves. Birds, squirrels, hares....she sees nothing else when se sees those animals! Nowdays she quite often obeys the command "Stop!" but when she was younger she didn´t hear or see anythign else but the animal she was chasing at. She has never catched anything though. Not even a snigle mouse. She is not able to concentrate well enough but she tries to do too many things at the same time. 

Mira is sensitive girl who does not like hard handed people or people who are shouting. She can be stubborn and she often does first and thinks afterwerds but what she does she does because of curiosity. She knows what she should not do but yet she has to test a little sometimes. When we tell her to behave herself she goes to toy box and takes one of the squeeky toys and runs around with it. And she also makes a sqeeky sound herself like saying "It wasn´t me!". So she is gentle and sweet girl and easy to handle.

Mira likes all dogs and she does not hesitate to roll on her back if needed. She can very well act like a puppy if she thinks that it is the best way to do. She wants to say hello to all dogs we meet and she jumps towards them and licks them. Not all dogs like this kind of behaviour but somehow Mira can always make them to calm down and not yet once she has got scratches in these kind of situations. She is the lowest dandie in the ruling order of our pack but she is happy there and does not want to be the boss. She does not even try to test if she could be boss. She is not like that. The only situation she usually growls in is when boys come too close to her sensitive spots when she is not in the season. She tells them to stop immediately! And then she comes to us and tells us what she did to them by making sqeeky sounds and screaming. She makes us laugh about dozen times a day!
  

Mira loves to be cuddled. She comes to sit on laps and she loves to sleep over stomacks when we watch tv. She sleeps in the bed and she sleeps also over people if she is allowed to! Her special is to sleep sideways over waistline and she is not the smallest dog in the world! So if she has slept like this one will notice it in the morning when one is having an aching back.

Mira is so fond of cuddling thet she thinks it is worth begging also from people she does not know. She is rolling on her back and begging to be cuddled. She thinks it is always worth a try! She loves when her belly is cuddled. :-)

Mira loves food! Chicken is ABSOLUTELY her favourite and she also loves real bones. Meat is also tasty as well as sausage. But chicken.... mmmmm.........the best!!!!!

Mira´s nicknames are: Pirinen, Mirinka, Churry, Teenager, Sweetie and Little Mom (she has adopted a cat)

     
Mira´s photogallery
    
Mira´s health in a nutshell
* Mira is about 13 kg
* Slightly narrow lower jaw
* 5.11.2007 - eye & knee check done by a special vet Sari Jalomäki 
       Knees (patella) 0/0
       Eyes -   Does not show any symptoms of HC PRA or RD 
                   On the left side tear channel slightly narrow, on the right side perfect
                   On the left eye 2 PPM lines.
                   Mild ektropion
                   Distichiasis - 2 little ones / eyelid
       Gonioscopy - passed with changes in drainage angle: 
                   slightly narowed angles in both eyes and 1/4 part of the angles have ligaments 
                   (fibrae latae & Laminae)
       
Inbreeding and COI
Mira is linebred (which means that she has in her pedigree few dogs appearing more than just one time) very mildly. The dogs will appear more than one time
only when there is more then 5 generations pedigree available.

This is how the number of COI will look and where it comes from. COI is counted for both for 5 and 7 generations:

       
+ Parstone Principle Boy 0,024742%
+ Willows Myra 0,0403404%
+ Willows Mirage 0,0369097%
-------------------------------------------------------------   total
0,0000000%   5 generations
0,1019921%   7 generations
    
Mira´s pedigree
EUW-06 Fin Ch
Strike Don José Enchanted
Int Ch Nordic Ch NordicW-03 NW-01 KBHW-02
Strike A Tribute To Tristan
S Ch SW-99
Saredon Summer Rainbow of Hendell
S Ch
New Born´s Cissy Quick
Int Ch Nordic Ch
Ingnors Elevator Operator
S Ch
Charponel Hearty Henry
S Ch
Blaven Miranda
Carmilhan Eldent Elestren Fin Ch
Galbaras Minstrel
Int Ch Fin Ch Est Ch S Ch NordicW-97 W-98
Dunadan Fire Balloon
Fin Ch
Galbaras Cigne
Zimyrs Inca Dina ESTW-98 BALTW-98 Fin & Est & Rus & 
Int Ch
Galbaras Hiiohei
Zimyrs Gitty Lie

    

Show results
13.12.2008 Helsinki judge Pia Lundberg, Sweden - Open Class Very Good / 2 
8.7.2007 Porvoo judge Astrid Aas-Lundava, Estonia - JUN Excellent / 3  BB-3
26.5.2007 Helsinki judge Brenda Banbury, GB - JUN Excellent / 1, CC BOB
1.5.2007 Nastola judge Maija Mäkinen, Finland - JUN Good

    

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