Ever since I can remember I have loved dogs! The fist dog I got my nickname Siba after, was a mix breed female dog that I met on the way home from elementary school. We adopted her and she made me very happy with several broods of puppies that I extremely loved. One of the pups stayed in our family and started the “parentage” of dogs named Gipsy. The first black poodle came into our home from Germany in 1975. Two years later an apricot female poodle Suzy was bought from the kennel “Mali suncokret” (Little Sunflower, owner Dragutin Vukasović).
In 1980 I started practicing grooming on my dog, and soon after that I was grooming other poodles. Today, after years of grooming, I only groom and fix up my own dogs for shows.
On a World Dog Show in Brno, in 1989, I bought a white male dog Buby from the poodle kennel “Billy Crystal”, whose owner is my dear friend Jana Prochazkova. I won a lot of titles with Buby, the worthiest of which was the 3rd place on the European Dog Show in Budapest in 1993, as well as Croatian Young Champion and Croatian Champion. Buby had numerous offspring and has definitely left trace in Croatian kinology.
In 1990, at the University of Agriculture in Osijek, I defended my bachelor’s thesis titled “The Morphological Characteristics of The German Pointer’s Denture”.
I became a kinology judge on August 21st 1993. I stayed engaged in kinology and applied for the master’s degree programme in kinology, which provided me with the knowledge that helps me judging, as well as breeding today.
Today I am an international kinology judge for the FCI group 9, and am very delighted to judge and socialize with people who are in kinology because of their love toward dogs.
I live with my family in Rovinj and we have a private catering trade – a restaurant.
Kinology has always been and always will be nothing but pleasure and love, never a job.