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About us
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 Our family consists of Iza and Mirek (Arkadiusz), and four medium schnauzers:
2 boys -
Bastian and
Frodo, and 2 girls
Aisza and
Buba. We live in a small town in
Pomeranian (Pomorskie) province, approximately 35 km from Gdansk. Our dogs
have 1200 square meters at their disposal including the entire house (with maybe
the exception of the kitchen at dinner time). Other than dogs, Mirek loves
motorcycles, and those stupid computer games, and my passion is photography and
computer graphics. But I’m not going to write about us, after all, this site is
about our pupils J . I will only add that we never regret the decision of buying
the dogs, even though the beginnings were hard. They are incredible and bring a
lot of happiness. If you are interested to know how it all started I invite you
to read on, but I have to warn you, that I stretched it a bit, and that the
beginning is sad.
 Our
true big love for schnauzers began from a seven-week old, chubby puppy that came to
live with us in August of 2003 and changed our lives forever. As it usually is
with most people that are dog lovers, we always had dogs in our home, but not
one of them possessed our hearts as this chubby schnauzer.
Artax
was born on the International Children Day, and although he did not have the
certification, he had a white tie on his torso and a crocked tooth. But to us he
was perfect. He was the sweetest dog you could imagine. He awarded me and my
husband an unconditional love, love I have never received from another dog
before.
 Unfortunately,
on December 30th, 2003, when he was only seven months old, his innocent,
grateful, friendly heart stopped beating. We experienced tremendous amount of
pain, something that only people who lost a similar battle can understand. We
knew that the spark in his eyes that was worth all the treasures of this world
will never shine again. Eventually the day has to come, when your friend looks
into your eyes for the last time, and your love, no matter how strong, can not
change it. That is when we decided to buy a new schnauzer, to remind us of our
beloved Artax. Within two days we made a lot of phone calls to many different
breeders al over Poland. We had a lot of luck, there were only three new breeds
in all of Poland. We had to choose among Warszawa, Krakow or Szczecin. We chose
the last one.
 Bastian
(Aga-Ton Retman) was born on November 11th , 2003 and came to our home at three
am on January 1st, 2004, having spent the last few hours in a car and the New
Years at a gas station refilling the car. All the way home he did not sleep, but
he did not cry once.
He became our medicine for the pain and agony we experience after loosing Artax.
He is more crazy and wild and has confidence when it comes to strangers. But he
loves to sit on you lap, hug and look out the window. He enjoys long walks and
digging holes – just like a normal dog. Bastian is
growing to be a beautiful, smart dog.. He is very energetic, it’s difficult to
keep him in one place for even few seconds (unless he sleeps), and he is always
all over the place . It’s because of him, we have smiles on our faces again. I
love him how he stares at me when my attention is directed at “someone” else, as
if he was saying “I’ll wait, because I know you will hug me in a minute”. I love
him for truthfulness, for the way he treats his girls and for the noises he
makes when he goes to sleep.
 Aisza
was born on October 14th, 2003, and was almost four
months when she came to us. We never even imagined that we would have another
dog, but I guess it was meant to be different. Right after Artax died I sent an
ad to almost every available source, that I’m looking for a medium schnauzer,
and almost a month later I received an email with a picture of five puppies. I
looked at them and knew that one of them (the one sitting in the middle) was the
one that we were missing. He was so much like our Artax when he was little, that
we couldn’t think of anything else but when we would go and get him. We went,
not knowing anything, and when we got there it turned out that the puppy we
chose was actually a girl. She was gorgeous and we took her. On February 7th,
after 1200 km drive, Bastian had a little sister and we had hearts full of
happiness. Why do I love her?
 For
her individualism, that she is faithful to us and us only, and that she does not
express her love anytime, but when she does, it’s full of truthfulness and it’s
the biggest gift to us. Aisza is a lovely female, who always apologizes for
everyone else, and when she does, it’s in a way I can not describe.
Then we adopted Matyldzia, black and
white cocker spaniel. Unfortunately, we could not keep her. The schnauzers were
fighting with her constantly and even though we tried to make peace, it was a
war we could not win. We had to find her a new home. Does it hurt? Off course…but
we know that she is loved and nothing bad will ever happen to her again.
 It’s been almost a year since Artax
died, but the wounds would not heal. The memory of Artax’s love and the need of
that glare that he offered us compelled us to bring home another dog.
Buba
is
the only dog in our home that we spent the time to look for and research, and
that time since she was born to the moment when we could go get her seemed like
eternity. We were looking for the ideal partner for our Bastian, but it was
difficult to find a female schnauzer that did not have Baska, Lars or the rest
of his crowned family that was already in the certificate of Bastian. We were
looking for “different blood”. And so, on August 28, 2004, our Buba was born
in Czech Republic.
On October 18th, which
happened to be Mirek’ birthday, we drove across Poland to Czech Republic to take
our new puppy home.
We had an uneasy task of introducing
her to the dog members of our family, but Buba surprised us. Instead of being
scared of the “gang” she took a war like position and started barking at the
rest. All of them welcomed her without any problems.
 On June 24th, 2007 to our kennel was
imported excellent pup male from Russia - "Dronas'' kennel -
Frodo
(Dronas Jules
Verne). He is very promising young boy with excellent pedigree. Frodo has
wonderful, joyful character - is very busy all time and never boring - little
crazy boy :-)
And that’s about it. Now we all live
in our three bedroom home with and the huge back yard. Myself, Iza, my husband,
Mirek (Arek), Bastian, Aisza, Buba and Frodo .... and of course Artax who is protecting us and
will not let anything bad happen to us.
On May 17th, 2005 in Gdansk’s division
of the Kennel Association in Poland, no.2407/A our breed was registered under
the name of “Artax's Angels FCI”.
Our schnauzer's family :) Aisza, Bastian, Frodo & Buba
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