Getting a Thai Ridgeback was not planed ;-) I was searching for a Xoloitzcuintle and while doing so on the Internet I found Sunee’s litter per chance. I do liked the breed, but I’ve never seen a black one before – I felt in love at the first sight. So 4 weeks later Caroline Thai Bellijess joined our family. As I thought she should have a Thai name, I named her “Sunee” which means “good thing”.
Sunee is not easy to handle. She’s a typical primitive type dog: very alert, sometimes nervous and needs a lot of exercise – for both body and brain!
But she do is well educated. She likes to be on the training ground and passed BgH A (a mixture of good citizen dog test and obedience trial for beginners) with 90/100 points and “very good” – heelwork is not her thing, so we missed 10 points ;-)
We also had a bout at Agility and Dog Dance and I want to work more in this parts when we have more time beside puppies and shows ;-) But training is not as easy like with another dog. It’s only possible with positive reinforcement Pressure is the very wrong way!
Even when she’s my best trained dog and I can control her in most situations, I can’t when she wants to hunt! So she need to be leashed in the woods.
Of course she’s a Beauty Queen! Her first qualities are her beautiful head and her very symmetric Arrow-Crown-Ridge. She has a quite long coat, what I do prefer in the breed, because it looks healthier and very shiny. She made it to Slovenian Junior Champion and 2nd place Best of Group before she was 1 year old. And also 2006 was a great show season: She finished the Champion of Bosnia-Herzegovina and nearly finished 3 other titles (A, SLO, HR) and she also got some winner titles and main ring placements. Great finish was the winning of the title Austrian Show Winner ’06 as best Thai Ridgeback, but also with 1st place in FCI group 5!
