We are small Sheltie kennel located in Cornwall. Registered with The Kennel Club with prefix LAVIKA in 2007 which came from our names LAna, VInce and KAtya, we have already had a few UK litters of sable/white and tricolour puppies. One of our first bitches is my homebred Tricolour "Angie", she is our Ukrainian import. Others are English Ladies, one of them is "Tara" who is already Irish Champion and another - "Timey" started her show career with high awards CC, Res CC and BEST PUPPY IN BREED at CRUFTS 2008.
The first collie in our Ukrainian home appeared in 1990, when the dream of two small girls
came true (that time we, Natalie and Svetlana, were 12 years old)! We got
acquainted
with collies and from that time "Collie World" became a big part of our life: we
visited dog shows taking a vast number of photos of nearly all the exhibitors,
we acquired many
pen-friends and formed friendships with many collie lovers. From this point forward we
began accumulating literature, pictures and anything possibly "Collie Related".
Today we have a huge collection of literature and pictures and have an extremely
comprehensive history of Collies. Even now our collection of information on the
breed is constantly increasing!
Through dogs we have been able to travel the
World and form friendships with other "dog minded" people in many different
countries. Our first sheltie - "TINO" - came to us from Germany from
our dear friends Beate Alexander and Erika Heintz.
Thanks to them we visited Germany in 1997 and that marvellous trip became an unbelievable
miracle for us: it was the first time we had visited Western Europe, and the first
time we had attended a great
SHELTIE SHOW with more than 150 best shelties from all over the continent! And
to top it
all, our TINO became
BEST
IN SHELTIE SHOW!!!,
and we received a huge Best In Show Cup as well
as a Crystal Cup (for being the exhibitors that had travelled the furthest
distance to the show, in our case more than 1500 KMs). From that time every year we were in different countries visited the biggest and
the best kennels and greatest Shows in
Germany, Poland, Denmark,
England
and knew more collie-sheltie-lovers, a lot of beautiful and legendary dogs!
We finished school with extensive education in the English language and
graduated from University after studying Law and Economics with a Masters-Degree.
Lana
worked as a
main Tax inspector
at Khmelnitsky`s Tax Office for more than 3 years, Natalie during 1.5 years had a job in
an advertising
company.
Now we are at different homes, Natalia lives in our new big house in Khmelnitsky with her daughter Julia (born 2003) looking after our Ukrainian Shelties and carrying on showing and breeding our line.
Our kennel "Lovely Funny" is the most successful in Ukraine. "SHOPHIE" was the World Winner of the WW 2003 show in Dortmund, Germany. Many Shelties of our breeding have earned the title CH in Ukraine as well as in Russia, Byelorussia, Poland, Czech, Germany and Denmark. The several outstanding stud dogs from England and a selection of quality bitches of our own breeding including our third generation are flying our flag at shows.
Since 2002 we have been the editors of the specialised, independent breed magazine for Shelties and Collies in the Ukraine, namely the "Ukrainian Sheltie and Collie Handbook". The Handbook features Shelties and Collies globally and includes show results, beautiful photos of lots of exhibits, stories of collie & sheltie-lovers about their pets, kennels, trips abroad etc.
Since 2004 Lana and her family have been living in England.
For more pictures of our family and dogs please
visit our
Photo Gallery
Our website is updated on a frequent basis. Please visit us often to learn more about the Lavika Kennel in England and the Lovely Funny Kennel in Ukraine.
