My family consists of me and my two sons Markus 11 years and Sami 9 years, and of course our dogs. Nowadays  we have two english springers spaniels at home. We live in Northern-Finland, in a little village called Oulunsalo. Nearest town is Oulu, about 15 km from here. Dogs are my main hobby, but close to my heart are also horses and riding.  I like to read a lot, do handicrafts and many other stuff also when having some extra time.

With my dogs we go to dog shows, sometimes also some tests too. I have been also participating to dog-organisation work before, as a hobby for several years. We don't have any separate kennel facilities, our dogs live with us in our house taking part to our daily life. My breeding has been in little scale and as a hobby, so it will be in the future too, we have litters just occasionally.

This is how it all begun...

I have always loved animals. When I was a child, we always had animals in our home. Cats and dogs, I even had a guinea-pig for myself. Somehow it was so obvious, that when I move away from my parents home, I will have my own dog in my new home then ;) Well... for the start I had just one dog, a golden retriever Eetu Sentimental's Edinburgh. Eetu was my sisters breeding and soon as my studies ended in Kuopio year 1995, Eetu moved to my home! With Eetu we tried many different hobbies, but also back then, most of all we went to dog shows.

This is me and Daffyday's Golden Glitter "Miska", Golden Retriever Club
Special Show -97. Judge Agneta Cardell (SWE).

Golden Retriever is as a breed very lovely, but I had always admired english springer spaniels as a breed and so I purchased my first springer year 1996. Riku Wine Valley's Coxy Co-Star, he was a great personality, although maybe too active. Few times when we got back home from work, he had made some "renovation" in our home. He wasn't a showstar, but more reliable in hunting tasks! For our deepest sorrow, Riku got very sick under age of two and we had to say goodbye to our dear friend all too sudden.

For furthermore I had a dream, to be able to have such a springer, that it would be nice to participate to dog shows and other dog-hobbies too. I contacted to Tarja Hovila (Kennel Adamant's) in August 1997 and I made inquiry of upcoming litters. Tarja had a litter in her kennels later on in October 1997. And so Elvis Int & Nordic Ch Adamant's Elvis Presley moved to our home just before christmas. With Elvis I have been mostly going into dog shows, he is the most lovable springer-gentleman that I have seen. This rockstar has gained a line of titles before his unforgettable name.

Year 1998 I completed a degree of breeders-course arranged by Finnish Kennelclub and requested my own kennel prefix, Brooktree prefix was approved in the FCI 9.9.1998. But but, You cannot begin your breeding, without a suitable foundation bitch, so I started to "search" a possible combination to get a bitchpuppy from. Year 1999 I contacted kennel Barecho in Sweden with a puppy inquiry. Helene had one very interesting litter coming later, from that upcoming litter I made a reservation for a bitchpuppy for myself. Fanny Int & Fin & N CH Finnish Winner 2003 Barecho Future Fashion and her litter mates was born in January 2000.

Photo: Sari Eskelinen

Fanny had her first litter and my kennels too, at the first day of January in 2003. The mother of BIG-family, delivered 14 puppies and 11 of them survived. Fanny was the queen in the house. We miss her so deeply... :( She left us such nice puppies and her spirit lives on with them.

From our first litter, F-litter I kept myself Sissi, Brooktree Flair For Style. Also at home we have Mailis, Brooktree Mayfair Mist out of M-litter.