Serendipity

On returning from Finland, Esteban and I were excited and inspired to make a closer connection to working rottweilers. We always considered ourselves ‘working dog’ sort of people with our high level of Agility competition with our rottie Sammie. She certainly has the drive, and a build that would allow for working. But of course – we’ve never done any Schutzhund with her – only Agility.

Now – having a pup from actual Schutzhund lines, we decided to join the USRC – United States Rottweiler Club. The ‘other’ U.S. club, the one not affiliated with the AKC, but the one that promotes the Rottweiler as a working breed.

This week – we got our first issue of the USRC Magazine. And imagine our surprise when we flipped through it and discovered a full page for a Manouman dog – followed by an article about the Finnish Working Rottweiler Club!!! The article is by Tina Finn – who owns an uncle of Gitta’s. It’s a strange feeling having just been there, having met Mikko (who’s featured in the article), and even having just watched Anu’s videos of her dog undergoing the ‘working qualities’ test that this article describes.

Footnote: I went to wikipedia to make sure the title of this post meant what I thought it meant. It does seem to fit and I thought I would share a bit here. I found it amusing that it’s suppose to be so hard to translate since this post will probably have a larger global audience

Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company.[citation needed] However, due to its sociological use, the word has been imported into many other languages (Portuguese serendipicidade or serendipidade; French sérendipicité or sérendipité but also heureux hasard, “fortunate chance”; Italian serendipità; Dutch serendipiteit; German Serendipität; Swedish, Danish and Norwegian serendipitet; Romanian serendipitate; Spanish serendipia ).