Last summer I became Swedish Champion, a few weeks after my second birthday. I don't like exhibitions that much. So my dad Frodo says, that now I don't have to go any more of those. It's good enough to be a Swedish Champ.

Here's a picture of me when I became Champion:

It's me to the right.…

Hello everybody!

I am a two years old Cardigan girl, called Tina. I'm now "blogging" for the first time in my life - in a foreign language as well - but will do my best to write.

So I think I will start by introducing myself and my family.

I was born in Finland together with two sisters and one brother. My father Frodo (and Petra) brought me to Sweden, when I was 10 weeks old.

My real name is Geestland's Tintomara. Tintomara is a boyish girl - or maybe a girlish…

This I have been told, because it happened long before I was born:

Petra had a very nice and intelligent bitch, Sunga. She got Sunga when she lived in the USA. Sunga was a mix of Australian Cattledog and German Shepherd,

When Petra returned to Sweden, Sunga came along.

This is Sunga;

Sunga had a habit of collecting lost cats and dogs and bring them home with her. One day she brought a German Shepherd home. Petra found the…

When I was a little puppy I had big "bodyguard". He was a German Shepherd called Maxen. Sadly enough he became very ill and passed away a year and a half ago. Then he was nine years old.

He was rescued by Petra from a bad family when he was three years old, and he was very grateful for it. And as long as he lived he watched over his Cardigan family - first Frodo and then Saga and me as well. He loved my daddy Frodo as though he was his son.

Here we are, my bodyguard and…