kennel ABSOLIUTI IDILĖ

We live in a small village near Lithuanian summer resort Palanga. We live with two small children and our dogs. Dogs take very important part in our lives. They are companions for us being at home, walking at the forests and going to the seaside.

More about me and about our start

 My childhood I spent in Palanga, every summer, the international dog shows were taking place in our town. I was impressed so much, so I became a great fan of dogs, but my parents could not let me have my own dog. From these days I knew, dogs would be a part of my future life.

When I was 12 years old, my older sister came back from her practical work at the farm, bringing a dog with. It was a small red mongrel bitch “Lape” (eng.  fox). My mother wasn’t happy with it and she was thinking over keeping Lape at home or not. Finally she had agreed with and Lape became a member of our family. I loved her all my heart, she was the part of me always and everywhere. I stopped thinking about dog shows, concentrating only on my dog. Lape was very nice dog to adult people, but not to children. She died when I was 21 years old.

 Time passed and we took another mongrel bitch named “Pupa” (eng. bean) - very similar to Lape. Strange, but she also did not like children. She lived in our family for 7 years.

After I have graduated the university and got married, me and my husband Sigitas started looking for a dog breed that would justified all our demands and requirements: friendly to children, of average height, elegant, beautiful, short-haired dogs. We were choosing a breed among many breeds some years, before we have discovered Whippets! Both of us liked the elegance, speed and friendliness of mentioned breed.

The first Whippet was black bitch “Carmen” Avangardo BERENIKE. I began participating at the dog shows with great enthusiasm, but after while I realized that not all dogs are suitable for dog shows. It was very sad. Anyway, our Carmen is our lady number one!

I decided to create a personal website “Sigra's whippets”.  We realized:  we want one more whippet... And then “Saule” (eng. Sunny) BE PRETTY CELESTINE Dominija – beautiful beige girl became a member of our family. Until now, we are extremely grateful Asta Simonelyte and kennel Dominija for such great features in this dog.

 Today we own one  more lovely girl “Meda” (eng. Honey) HER MAJESTY Dominija, she is making many people smiling.

Also we co-own three bitches - COCO MADEMUASELLE Dominija, CELEBRATE UNUSUAL Dominija, GODETIA GRACE Dominija and two males - GERANIUM MAGNIFICUM Dominija and GLAUCIUM PERSICUM Dominija.

When we have started building own house, we began to think about dog-guard. We have thinking about strong but very gentle breed without aggression to our family, children and our pets. We were thinking that it is not possible, to have all these features in one breed, but in dogforum proposed leonberger. We have begun collecting information about mentioned breed and made visit to the kennel "Honey Bears from Kleisti" in Riga and have a look at six leonberger dogs!. We like this breed. We made decision to have leonberger dog in our family and at moment we own long awaited first leonberger Knockando's WINTHER IN SANCERRA "Amber". 

We are choosing our puppy-owners with great enthusiasm and care, because each puppy is almost a baby for us. We believe, it is important to build up a good relationship between us and you as the puppy-owner, so that we can stay in touch with them for a long time.

Our first two Whippet litters have been registered in Dominija kennel, and Asta Simonelyte did the great selective job.

In 2009 we registered our kennel ABSOLIUTI IDILE (eng. absolute idyll for our dogs) FCI Nr. - 63/09. And we have great future plans!

Best wishes,

Ramune Balciuniene and kennel "Absoliuti Idilė"