The 60:ies
Riesengardens Xo was shown in sept -67, mostly because we thought it
would be nice go get a critique on him from a judge, and he did.
He won the youth class and went on to BOB.
Next show was a Speciality in Gothenburg in feb -68 where he got his first
cc
and again BOB and went on to win the Working Group. Then it all happened
very quickly,
3 cc´s in a row together with BOB and several group placings. The
highlight of that year
was his BOB at the big International Stockholm show under world famous
schnauzer judge and
authority Elina Lehtinen and ended up group 2:nd under the equal schnauzer
specialist
Mr Hans Lehtinen. Xo continued in the same style for a couple of years
which you can
read more about on his own page. The thougts automatically went on to
getting a bitch
and have a Giant Schnauzer litter. At shows I had met Mrs Mona Bengtsson,
Gråskäggs kennel,
who, apart from her Miniature Schnauzers, also had a Giant bitch from
Finland, Ch Teri,
and she was eventually coming to my home and was the foundation bitch
of the
Maximin Giant Schnauzers.
As mentioned Mona also had two Miniature Schnauzers imported from England,
Ch Eastwight Sea Frolic and Ch Lichstone Catrina.
And a small one just as pure company would be nice to have! Ch Gråskäggs
Johanna arrived with train
on a cold winters day in the beginning of 1970 and when she, completely
unbothered by a long jorney
and snow and cold, stepped out of her cage one already knew there were
probably more of those small
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The 70:ies
The first Giant Schnauzer litter was born in March -70, the prefix Maximin
was registered about
a year later and the kennel was owned by myself and my mother, who had
most of the hard work with it
as I was still in school. We co-owned it until she died in 1984.
We bred some show champions and also obedience champions.
(Maximin) Otte was exported to Miss Sylvia Hammarström, Skansens
kennels in USA.
We imported a dog from Germany that was a complete mistake and, one of
our top bitches
Ch Myrkarby Dorrit never got any puppies and so on! The success in Giants
never really got there
even if we made something for the breed when looking back on it.
The breeding continued until 1978 when our last hope,
Xo:s last daughter, later word famous Eng, Norw Ch Guldmansbuktens Wenche
of Nenevale,
got her first and only litter in Sweden. There were 8 dog puppies!
No bitch, nothing to continue with!
Jenny Harrison-Smith had wanted Wenche when she visited the year before
and now she got her,
a decision I never regretted. She was exported to the Nenevale kennels
in England
where she made her own place in the breed history, probably the biggest
thing we did for the breed at the Maximin kennels.
The years with the Giants were hard work and lots of disappointments as
well as good moments to remember,
and there will always be a special place in my heart for the breed.
The Miniature Schnauzer breeding started in 1972 with the bitches Ch
Gråskäggs Johanna
and Ch Rownhams Eastwight Sea Melody, imported from Miss Morrison-Bell,
a contact that during the years established an unvaluable friendship and
help.
Later also the dog Ch Eastwight Sea Magic was imported from her.
The Eastwight lines and type is still what I personally put as being the
very best in the breed ever.
Also, from Mrs Marianne Fürst-Danielson we bought Jidjis Min Artemis.
Never shown she was to be a great corner stone in our breeding, combining
Continental and English lines.
By the way our first two litters were sired by Mihan dogs from Finland
as the owner of this world famous
Standard Schnauzer kennel also had Miniatures at that time.
Ch Maximin Ibert was our first home bred Champion and he was followed
by many more.
In 1978 we imported Ch Barclay Square Maximin Midas and Ch Barclay Square
Maximin Minx
from Dale Miller in USA. They were a perfect complement to our English
and Continental lines
and got there own place in the kennel history and you can read more about
them on their own page
which you find in the picture gallery.
Also, the Standard Schnauzer Ch Curbits Huckelberry lived here. He was
bought as a puppy from word famous breeders Curt and Birgitta Cederskog
and by Mihan Tahvo out of Int Scand Ch Minaco Inki. Hacke won a lot as
a youngster, including BOS at a big Schnauzer speciality where his mother
Inki was BOB from the veteran class, all under word famous Schnauzer specialist
Marisa Brivio-Chellini. As Hacke did not feel well being a kennel dog
he continued to live his life as a family dog in a private home for many
years.
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The 80:ies
The Miniature Schnauzer breeding continued and many top-winning dogs
were bred here,
among them Scand Ch Maximin Smiling Yankee, the first Swedish bred Miniature
that went BIS at an all breed championship show. He also was runner up
in Toy Dog of The Year in -81 and Schnauzer/Pinscher of The Year. Several
dogs bred here got the title Schnauzer/Pinscher of the Year
which was very pleasing.
Quite a few bitches were sold as foundations for many different kennels,
a thing I always appriciated highly
and our dogs were frequently used at stud.
The Maximin lines is represented in all Scandinavia and in England
where I bred a litter during my stay in 1978.
A dog from that litter was later exported to Norway as an English Champion.
I was also - together with among others Anne Wallin, kennel Fixus - involved
in the foundation of the Swedish Miniature Schnauzer Club (Dvärgschnauzerringen)
and we arranged the first ever speciality show for the breed in Sweden
and were very please to have Miss Morrison-Bell (Eastwight) as our judge.
That was a great event and success.
You will find more about the 80ies in the picture gallery.
In 1989 Sweden got the tail docking ban, and due to this and some other
personal reasons
the breeding stopped. The remaining bitches and dogs were old and no litters
were bred
or any new dogs was bought in to continue the work.
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The 90:ies
In the beginning of the decade, just three old Miniature Schnauzers were
kept until they passed away,
then 1992 and 1993 there were no dogs at all.
In 1994 the Smooth Fox Terrier Swed Norw Ch Rottrivers Look Sharp at Maximin
arrived.
I was judging a Rottweiler show the year before and the famous Rottweiler
breeder Krister Ohlander
had a 4 months old puppy with him, that was outstanding and later became
the world famous
Multi Ch Rottrivers Snow Record.
Some nostalgic thought crossed my mind as I had a Smooth in 1960, and
I decided to have a new one
and booked a puppy from Krister.
So that is how "Felix" came here. He was a successful show dog,
won 18 cc´s
before his qualifying one in Open Class.
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2000
Someone said "once Schnauzers - always Schnauzers" and I guess
that is true.
With or without a tail, 8 years without a Schnauzer is 8 rahter empty
years even if there always have been
contact with the breed and breeders. In the spring -99 i took over the
Miniature bitch Visions Extra Deal
from my brothers breeding and the plan was to breed a litter carrying
the old remaining Maximin lines
to get them started again.She was bred and missed, then bred again to
the in my own opinion
best Miniature Schnauzer I have ever seen Multi Ch Ulf v d Havenstadt
owned by the Fixus kennel.
We had great plans but it all ended up in bad luck and there were no litter.
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