Club and Specialty Show 2026

My name is Jari Partanen, born in 1973 in northern Finland. When I was born my family had a cocker spaniel and later it was retrievers that kept our family company. First Flat Coated and later my very first own dog -Labrador. I passed my ring steward course in age if 16, so I had to wait 2 years before the official authorisation. Despite of my young age I was one of the driving forces to start the local retriever club. I learned to groom goldens and started showing them and later many other breeds. I have even bred a litter of goldens with several CC winners in it.

I wished for smaller size breed and by coincidence I saw a Löwchen and understood I had found my breed! The decision I have never regretted; this breed has totally stolen my heart. I have had them over 30 years, my partner started with the breed 2 years earlier.

Together we have bred or owned close to 150 löwchen champions, several speciality winners, and years’ löwchen in various countries.

Besides löwchen and my deep involvement with retrievers I have had Welsh Corgi Pembrokes. I was quite lucky with my start in this breed and got some nice puppies and several champions in my three litters. Löwchen has always been my main focus and after my life situation changed, I choose to continue only with löwchen. I missed the breed and today I have two Pembrokes in co-ownership with my friend.

My first-time authorisation was in 2002 in Finland, löwchen as my first breed.

Big life changing event was my move to Norway in 2007. Today authorised to judge all breeds as Norwegian judge. I judge around 30 shows a year.

I am member of Norwegian kennel club’s Judge’s committee and Show committee.

Jari Partanen

I have been dealing with cynology since 1971, and dogs have been my lifelong love, perhaps since birth. My first dog was a female miniature schnauzer pepper and salt, with whom I went to the training ground from the age of eleven. In 1976, I became an instructor for training dogs of service breeds. My breeding activity started in 1979 with medium schnauzers pepper and salt under my kennel Alké. I passed many performance tests with them, successfully participated in races and won the first championships at shows with them. In 1989, I was one of the first to import a female Malinois from Belgium, which I founded a very successful breeding. In 1993, the breeding station renamed to Bohemia Alké due to international recognition. I passed many other performance tests with the Malinois. I also bred Australian silkie terriers, Jack Russell terriers and chihuahuas. I continue to breed border collies and Havanese dogs to this day, and my lifelong goal is to breed healthy and standard-compliant individuals that will please their owners, which I carefully select. My breedings won many titles at exhibitions, including world and European champions of adults and youth, interchampions and champions of many countries, won 2 titles Top dog sk.3 and res. Top Dog sk.3, res. Champion of champions, 2x Champion of champions sk. 3 and res. Champion of champions sk. 9, Terrier of the year and Belgian shepherd of the year, BIS, several times BOD, many times BIG FCI sk. 1, 3 and 9, CAC Special National Elevage etc. In the field of work, multiple participation in the World Championship and European Championship in agility, passing many tests in various areas of cynological sport and successful completion of competitions. In breeding, Selectione France and CZ, Elite A and B, etc. Since 2001, it has been my pleasure to judge dogs at FCI shows and as an international judge at shows here and abroad (eg club show of Belgian shepherds in Belgium). In 2014, I had the honor of judging at the European exhibition in Brno. In 2019 I became a group judge of FCI group 1, in 2020 FCI group 3, in 2021 I received approval for the Junior Handling competition and in 2024 I was appointed judge of group 9. I regularly judge Belgian shepherds, border collies and Havanese dogs. I am a member of many breeding clubs, chief breeding adviser at the KCHHP, controller of litters of the Chihuahua Club of the Czech Republic and KCHBO, where I am an honorary member.