eyes: 2b
teeth: 1aB
body: 62 / 62 cm
Dandy della Cadormare Avik
11/08/1996 - 30/01/2005
Slovenian Klubsieger + BOB
International Champion
Slovenian Champion
Croatian Champion
Austrian Champion
Hungarian Champion
Yugoslavian Champion
HD: B1 (Austria)
SchH 1
 
Avik was my first Boxer, first dog. After wanting a Boxer for several years, I was finally able to buy him - with my first salary as a high-school student. I did not know much about this breed, so I was very lucky to have known the right person (a family friend), who helped me to get a hold of this wonderful puppy. There were 3 males in his litter and I was choosing 2nd. It was love at first sight.
After a few months, I joined a local Boxer Club, where they introduced me more to this breed and where I met first Boxer people. A lot of learning had to be done in short period of time - 1st puppy in the family...! Avik was growing very quickly and before I knew it, he was already a big dog.
Shows did not interest me much, so the first one we went to, was only at 17 months of age in Junior Class. The next one was few months later when we achieved a grand success for new-comers like us. It was an Annual Klubsieger Show in Slovenia, with Mrs. Brigitte Müller judging. She was the first one to have recognized Avik's potential and gave him a Klubsieger title and BOB in competition of 53 Boxers. It was a hit "out of the blue" for us and it opened a new era in my life. After that I got more and more involved in this wonderful breed. Wanting to learn things, I started to visit shows more regularly, passed SchH training with Avik and was welcoming first bitches to matings with him. All this was not very easy for me / us. A lot of hard work, hours, days, months spent on learning for both of us.
Years went by and number of Avik's cups was growing. We finished 5 national Championships and an International one.

Avik will always have a special place in my heart. He's the one who taught me everything, the one to carry me to my new life. Life after him was never the same and I can't imagine my life without Boxers now - just because of him. Things were not always easy, people not always happy for us... But Avik was always there for me, never letting me down.
Avik, you are special to me and everyone who knew you, knows why. Such a tender heart, personality, courage and pride, my sweetheart, my best friend.
Avik died at the age of 8 years and 5 months. It was a beautiful sunny winter morning; we went to walk like every day. He died of Cardiomyopathy, after few months of treatment. We knew this time was coming but when it came, it left big scars on us who loved him. We are thankful and happy that he lived a healthy, full and happy life and that he left with honour, without suffering and with us beside him - to a new journey, over the rainbow bridge.
We will never forget you. Thank you for everything. We will meet again one day.

I would like to thank all of you who expressed your condolences and thought about us when he died and to all of you who helped me and Avik.
 
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