The Family
Year 1996 was a BIG year of changes for me. I got married and moved to Italy. My husband, Francesco Cochetti, I of course met in a dog show as he was in dogs too. He was born in a "dog family" as his father was a judge and his mother bred Dwarf Poodles. I was so lucky as Francesco fell in love with the Chihuahuas too!! Now infact he has bred some litters of Chihuahuas under his prefix "DiSan Gimignano" and is actively involved in showing our Chihuahuas! He is a FCI judge of all the 9. and 4. group and most of the 3. group (see more under judging). Needless to say he loves to judge Chihuahuas!

Sofia - Our horserider! She is born on 25.2.1997. She actively partecipated in the dogcare from when she was a baby. Her first word was "Bart" (Multi Ch Misty Meadow's Bart Simpson was her constant companion) and second word "hiljaa" ("silence" in finnish). Only the third word was "mamma"!

After trying all kinds of activities and sports (scouts, theatre, volleyball, dance, swimming etc.) she fell in love with horseriding! She has at the moment her own pony "Divinita's Djain" with whom she competes in dressage, showjumping and eventing!

Year 2000 was born our second daughter Sara. She had to adjust to our doggyfamily and she did it actually too well... When she was small she love to eat the dog's dryfood and if she ever had problems in eating her own food, we just put her plate on the floor and she ate it well without hands. She also like to be baited. She loved ham given as titbits! She still helps alot at home with the dogs. Hopefully she is going to be our future doghandler!

Sara too enjoys the ponies and likes to ride, but no competitions yet! She has her own pony, Welsh Mountain Pony, "Honey".