The position of Webmaster for the Kennel Al-Dahná is available immediately. Kennel Al-Dahná has a very rich database-driven Web page that is quite demanding in terms of updates and maintenance, but one of the most exciting kennel websites in the world.
The web site is specifically designed for Kennel Al-Dahná, it is in this respect extreme in that one can not just go online to find help to resolve any problems. One must have good knowledge of php4-5, mysql, html (xhtml), CSS, in addition to being fluent bilingual in English and Norwegian. It is also advantageous to able to use photo processing software, as well as being a competent photographer.
Unfortunately there is no admin pages on the site, so almost everything must be done directly in the database.

If you are interested in this challenging and exciting job, please contact Torill Knudsen at Kennel Al-Dahná, or call telephone: +47 33 33 85 86 or mobile: +47 97 08 49 46

Shahib sends his siblings a somewhat late birthday greetings on their 7th birthday. The lateness obviously lies with the webmaster that completely forgot about this important day.

Al-Dahná's Shahib Photo: Morten Gundersen

Al-Dahná's Xerxes is looking for a forever home. If you are interested we ask you to contact Torill. The contact details are found our Contact-page.

Al-Dahná's Xerxes and his sister Xcellent Choice Photo: Eva Skogland

Al-Dahná's Xamirah, or Chica as she will be called, had visitors today. Her new human mum, Anette Lykkeslett, came to see her new daughter for the first time. It was a straight match from the moment they met.

Al-Dahná's Xamirah - Chica - Photo: Eva Skogland

Al-Dahná's Xamirah - Chica - Photo: Eva Skogland

Tommy sends his gratulations to his siblings on their 5 year birthday today 18th of March 2010.

Al-Dahná's Tirone - Tommy - Photo: Alf H. Refsum

Al-Dahná's Sheherazade "Suzi" left us for the rainbow bridge on the same day as "Brocklyn", Al-Dahná's Quickstep. Our thoughts go to Stian Tangjerd and Keino Hovland that have lost a truely good friend and companion.

Al-Dahná's Sheherazade - Suzi - out exploring Photo: Keino Hovland

Brocklyn, Al-Dahná's Quickstep, left us today 15th of March. With her we lost one of our kindest and most wonderful dogs at Kennel Al-Dahná. There was never any problems with her, she was never angry or quarrelsome, just nice and friendly.

Head study of Al-Dahná's Quickstep "Brocklyn" Photo: Alf H. Refsum

Belle Skogland with Reqitha, Al-Dahná's Reqitha SunshineFlower, continues their good streak and won BIS-3 Veteran at the Norwegian Kennel Klubbs International Show in Bø.

Al-Dahná's Reqitha SunshineFlower with Belle at Bø Photo: Alf H. Refsum

Rosie, Al-Dahná's Quincy Rose, left her beloved family January 22nd 2010. She is sorely missed. Rosie became 13 years and 8 months old. She was always had a beautifully groomed coat, even though she wasn't a showdog. Kennel Al-Dahná is proud and very grateful to have dogs with owners like May and Per Hansen.

Rosie, Al-Dahná's Quincy Rose Photo: May Hansen

Kennel Al-Dahná is very pleased to announce the arrival of the X litter. It arrived on February 25th 2010, slightly past 9 o'clock in the morning, by caesarean section. 1 dog - all black, and 3 domino bitches - very light to dark in colours. More information and pictures will be published on the page about the X-Litter. Be back soon.

The 4 pups in the X Litter right after birth Photo: Eva Skogland

Updates : The first pictures are now on the X-Litter page. The litter has also got their own Gallery Page. We hope you will like it.

An update to the website today, February 16th 2010. The Gallery is now up and running, but there are still a lot of albums and pictures to upload. The Gallery uses English in titles and descriptions. Numerous other errors were also fixed with this update. There will be more fixes and of course pictures added, so check back for updates and new additions.

Chiara with owner and handler Belle Skogland won BOS and CAC at Norsk Boxerklubbs show in Letohallen February 14th 2010. BOB went to Ch.Caravan Xorret De Cati "Jesus".

Afghan Hounds of Norway has published the following results for Kennel Al-Dahná in Afghan of the Year 2009 competition

Bitch of the Year:

10. Al-Dahna's Vitae Victoria "Victoria"   3 shows   34 points

Breeder of the Year - 2009:

7. Kennel Al-Dahna   143 points

Veteran of the Year - 2009:

Al-Dahna's Requita The Sunshineflower "Requita"   2 shows   23 points

The complete results for 2009 can be found at this Afghan Hounds of Norway page.

We took Victoria, Tommy and Reqitha to the Norsk Grand Danois Klubb show at Exporama. Results were very good for us. Reqitha won BIS Veteran, Victoria won BOB and CAC, and Tommy won BOS and CAC. And Belle Skogland did a super job as handler for us.

Al-Dahná's Reqitha SunshineFlower - Reqitha and Belle win BIS Veteran at the show Photo: Alf H. Refsum

Al-Dahná's Vitae Victoria - Victoria, BOB + CAC and Al-Dahná's Tirone - Tommy BOS + CAC Judge Valerie Hutton Photo: Alf H. Refsum

Headstudy of Al-Dahná's Vitae Victoria - Victoria from the group ring Photo: Alf H. Refsum

We took Victoria, Tommy and Reqitha to the Norsk Schnauzer Bouvier Klubb show at Exporama. Results so and so, but Reqitha won BIS-3 Veteran. Belle Skogland, was handler for the day.

Al-Dahná's Reqitha SunshineFlower - Reqitha, beautifully stacked by Belle, in the pre-judging ring for the BIS Veteran final Photo: Alf H. Refsum

We took Victoria and Reqitha to the Norwegian Berner Sennen Club show in Letohallen on January 17th 2010. It was a pretty successful show for us, as Victoria won the bitch CAC and Reqitha won BIS-2 Veteran. Belle Skogland, as usual, was the handler for the day.

Al-Dahná's Vitae Victoria in full drive. It is obvious that she likes this, and we are very happy with her development as a show dog. Photo: Alf H. Refsum

Al-Dahná's Reqitha SunshineFlower - Reqitha and Belle win BIS-2 Veteran at the show Photo: Alf H. Refsum

There have been a number of news items that should have been published since the last update. All those updates where put on hold while the site code was rewritten. Most of that work has now been completed, although with some outstanding issues. Among these are a number of pages that needs to be ported to the new format, which will happen before the next major update of the site in about half a year or so. The news item backlog will also be published as and when time permits.

Over the Christmas period the website was extensivly updated behind the scenes. The code that drives the site was changed quite a lot in preparation for changing the whole site to become database driven. A couple of the updates did not work, partly due to lack of functional support by our host provider and partly due to some errors in the website code. So if there are things that do not work, please have a bit of patience. They will be fixed, sooner or later.

Among the most urgent fixes are the new Gallery and the Articles that are linked in the main menu. The Gallery software will have to be changed completely, as the host provider does not support the one we intended to use. This work will unfortunately take a bit of time, as it is not trivial changes that are needed to get a gallery integrated properly with the site. The Articles page with be implemented reasonably fast, as it is just a holding page.

The weekend of August 15th and 16th 2009 became a fabulous weekend for Victoria. First she qualified for Crufts 2010, as best junior bitch at the NKK International Show at Bjerke in Oslo, under judge Richard Meen, and then she topped this by winning BOS (BIS-2) and cert, in addition to Best Head and Expression at the Afghan Hound Club of Norway Speciality under judge Dr Tesics György, in a very strong lineup of 13 champions that were entered at the show.

Al-Dahná's Vitae Victoria winning BOS (BIS-2) at the Afghan Hound Club of Norway Speciality 2009 BOB (BIS) Am. Can. N Uch. Agha Djari's Wilson Of Xenos Photo: Alf H. Refsum

Liz and Claire did a fantastic job with Victoria, everything from bathing, trimming, grooming to handling her in the ring for the two shows. They brought a suitcase full of brushes, shampoos, and other thingies, that were used to bring out the best in Victoria. This weekend has gotten it's own page that you will find on this link, with lots of new pictures and other stuff. There is one thing that we believe should be here though, and that is the critique she was given by Dr Tesics György:

One very promising young female, that in almost each part in the body is in standard. Perfect head. Scissorbite. Low set ears. Enough long neck, Good topline. Prominent hip bones. Well set and carried tail. Correct front and very good hindleg angulation. Excellent coat. Free, easy powerful movement. Excellent presentation.

More pictures and information can be found on the following pages:

• Al-Dahnás Vitae Victoria
• A weekend in August 2009
• Alouann: Victoria
• Alouann: On Tour
• Afghan Hound Club of Norways Speciality Show 2009 - results (Norwegian)

Liz and Claire Millward from Alouann in England travelled over to Norway to visit Al-Dahná's Vitae Victoria - Victoria, and show her at two shows; the Crufts qualifying Norwegian Kennel Club International show at Bjerke in Oslo, on Saturday 15th, and the Afghan Hound of Norway Speciality show at Linderud, Oslo, on Sunday 16th. Aside from the social part of the trip they also took resposibility of preparing Victoria for the shows. The visit and the trip has gotten it's own page that you can find here. The picture below shows the sisters hard at work grooming Victoria.

Al-Dahná's Vitae Victoria being groomed Photo: Alf H. Refsum

Al-Dahná's Unforgettable Uno - Uno Photo: Alf H. Refsum

Uno sends his siblings warm congratulation on their birthday. The U-Litter has turned 3 years old. We hope that all gets a lot of cuddles and good food.

We have the results from two shows that we have not published earlier. The results are from Stavanger Brukshund Klubb show in Orre at Stavanger, Norway, 01-05-09, and Norsk Rottweiler Klubbs show at Jarlsberg, Norway, 14-06-09.

The results from Orre

The judge was Ligita Zake from Latvia.

1-1 Cert. and BOS: Al-Dahná's Shahib - Shahib, owners Torill and Bent-Ove Knudsen, Stokke
1jr. 1jrkk. Al-Dahná's Vitae Victoria - Victoria, owners Alf Refsum, Elizabeth Millward and Torill and Bent-Ove Knudsen

BOB, BIG-2 puppy: Al-Dahná's Whitney Houston - Chiara, owner Greta Isabelle (Belle) Skogland, Sandefjord
BOB puppy: Al-Dahná's Wesley Snipes - Marley, owner Randi Olena Nygård and Øivind Eikeland, Stavanger

The results from Jarlsberg

The judge was Igor Selimovic from Croatia.

BOM, cq, Cert. and BIG-2: , eier Anita Andersen, Sandefjord
BOB, 1jrk.hp, cq, BB-1, Cert.: Al-Dahná's Vitae Victoria - Victoria, owners Alf Refsum, Elizabeth Millward and Torill and Bent-Ove Knudsen

BOB, BIG-2 puppy: Al-Dahná's Whitney Houston - Chiara, owner: Greta Isabelle (Belle) Skogland, Sandefjord

Al-Dahná`s Up to Date - Sesto Photo: Morten Gundersen