Welcome to kennel Kvarkin -homepages

Welcome to kennel Kvarkin -homepages We are Mia and Tomi Laamanen from Lohja, Finland. We have been married since 2001 and we have have at home our five dogs, 10,5 years old border collie bitch Aino, 6 year old border collie bitch Win, 4 years old border collie bitch Spice 2 yearsold border collie Sun and 1 year old bordercollie bitch Peak. My 4 oldest dogs have died, 15 years old Finnish Lapland dog bitch Epi died in December 2005, 12 years old Finnish Lapland dog bitch Likka died in May 2006, 10,5 years old border collie male Flint died in March 2009 and 12,5 years old bordercollie male Wäinö in July 2010.

Tomi is working as strategy professor in Institute of Strategy and International Business in Helsinki University of Tehnology. We have together our own company Stratwin Oy and I'm working in there.

I started agility with Epi in late autumn in 1991. With Likka I started agility 1996 and she competed in class 3 before retirement. Wäinö retired as a Finnish and Swedish agility Champion. Aino has retired from agility in class 3, she is also the Finnish Obedience Champion. I also competed with a Danish-Swedish Farm dog female Lillan several years ago. I have been an agility coach since 1992 and obedience coach since 1994.

I have also been responsible for organizing agility competitions since 1994. I graduated to become an agility judge in 1997. I have judge in 19 different countries and I have judge the Agility World Championships 2006 in Basel, Switzerland. Nowdays I judge in agility only 5 to 7 competitions per year because I'll try to find time to compete more with my dogs. I have worked also as flyball judge and now I'n also a herding judge. With Epi, Likka, Wäinö, Flint, Aino, Win, Spice, Sun and Peak Tomi and I have trained agility, obedience, herding, working trials, water rescue, canicross and flyball.

From these pages you can read about us, our dogs, our hobbies and you can also find some agility courses.

My other hobbies are reading and working in different assosiations. Tomi and I also do jogging and mountain biking. Together we travel a lot and we also love wine tasting and cooking.

Photo by Aino Pikkusaari

We hope you´ll enjoy our homepages!

Mia ja Tomi Laamanen
Alituvantie 65
08700 Lohja, Finland
e-mail: mia . laamanen (at) allk9sports . fi
Phone: +358 50 321 2864