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Hi!

I am Karolinka and I am 24 y.o., from Czech Republic and one beautiful green city – Hradec Králové.

I have just finished my university so right now I am actively and mainly mentally getting ready for the adults’ life and its trubbles.

So I was really surprised when Jinn asked me to write about my dogs, how it can be interesting? But you know what, I’ll share our story with you!

Because I admit, three dogs can be to someone already a little too much and maybe we’re already some of those curiosities.

So hopefully this story will attract and inspire, to achieve your wishes and dreams and that no one should be afraid to be happy no matter what.

But enough talking (maybe more writing), we’re starting!

AND straight from the beginning in 2003!

Our family was always a dog lover! My mum had a dog when she was a little and her father was growing up with shepherds, mutts and pointers!

When I was 6 and my sister 3 – Our mum fell crazily in love with Hungarian VIZSLA. Everyone was discouraging her, telling she is mad to bring a dog with ADHD to 2 little babies.

But my mum resisted and one day in June 2003, she finally brought her beloved vizsla and at that very moment I felt in love with dogs as well – because suddenly there was a ginger fluff ball running around. And for another 15 years till 2018 she became my big friend and protector.

Chara with my mum was involved in hunting trainings, passed several exams and became a proud representative of her breed.

That’s just one dog, right? Just hold on!

In 2016, my sister got into a veterinary high school and decided she wants a SNAKE as a part of her studies, so she can take it to school with her easily.

Just hearing the word snake, everyone was fainting at home, so we tried to reach a compromise.

And we did!
We all agreed to get the second dog, but tiny little inconspicuous mouse so can go to school with my sister.

Final decision went to a Prague Ratter – so here we go in May 2016, we were coming back home wit a dog no. 2 – a little black mouse wit a tan, which we named Mia!

Well… do you still remember we almost got a snake instead? So we got it at the end anyway because Mia is such a sneaky little bitch, which plays hardball and within her 4 kgs she bosses around the whole universe!

I always longed to have my own dog – 100% only mine.

But those two years when we had Chara and little Mia beside us. The third dog was totally out of a question. So I just dreamed of my own dog ​​and imagined what breed I could choose, it was all in the stars.

In June of 2018, Chara died at the age of 15.5, and so I started slowly planning when I could make my dream true. I had already chosen the Czechoslovakian Wolfhound, which I planned to get in 2019, so at least a year after Chara’s death.

But the best things come unexpected, and not even two weeks after I scrolled through Facebook, where an ad – rescued puppies for adoption from gypsies’ colony in Slovakia, popped up at me.

And there he was !!!

Among all the coloured puppies, one all-black, one that looked completely different, and I knew I had to have him right away.

One day I had decided and two days later I drove from Slovakia with a little black package of love and cuteness in my arms. It was July 2018 and I named him Argonaut (detailed story about Ary and me down below :-)).

He is an adult now with 15 kg and a look like a black Australian kelpie. However it is a crossbreed with everything, all of his siblings looks completely different and his mother looks like a black and white border collie.

For me, he is the most gorgeous dog in the world.

And where’s the third one, right? Wait a bit!

Even though my mum and little Mia are as inseparable as the Siamese twins, she still missed a big dog around.

And with her love for pointers, we had decided for the third dog! After all the proves and consequences from the universe to take another dog – six months of waiting,

July 2021 – with a speed of a rocket, there was another ginger vizsla puppy running in our home! Little Ebertus aka Bertíček, who turned our whole life upside down and became another precious member of our family!

Well, that’s a short story how we got from one dog to three. So we have a very active life full of dogs’ sports such as agility, canicross, running and in general our time and life is based on the needs of dogs.

They are not just animals for us but family members and honestly? If I would ever have to decide whether from the burning house to save myself or a dog…. dog for sure. 😀

Life with them is more complicated and difficult for organising when it comes to planning vacations, trips or even just moving from point A to point B.

But honestly? It’s a hair better with them than without them. And if a hair better, then literally about that hair (or maybe more) because you will find them at our house REALLY ANYWHERE. Once I found my dog’s hair in an unpacked package of cookies: D

Having dogs is a lifestyle. You will find that once you are without them, you do not know what to do in your free time.

Beside that, you don’t even think about going out with them 5 times a day – that you have to “sacrifice” time for long hours of walking, that you must not forget to feed them etc..

All these things are so normal that once someone suggests a trip, you automatically think about for how many days you have to pack their dog biscuits. :-D.

I have a lot of people around me, who do not understand how I can be willing to devote so much time to my dogs and so little for myself. But I don’t feel that way. For me, it is about being lucky to spend my life in a nature with my dogs, at dog events, races or even just the whole day lying with the dogs in a bed watching movies.

Give my time to my dogs is currently my biggest priority and these are the moments when I live my life to the fullest and enjoy every single second. It’s a passion and my mum’s as well, so thanks to that we can spend time together as a family and it’s priceless.

I definitely understand that it might be irrelevant to someone, but do you know why life is so special? Because everyone can choose their paths of happiness, which can be even 180 degrees completely different from each others.

For somebody it may be travelling and exploring new places, for someone it may be meeting friends in restaurants and bars. For someone, for example, it may be just sitting at home most of the time read books and for someone like me, the greatest happiness is being surrounded by dogs, spending with them my time, observe their joy in life and share it with them. And that’s so beautiful in life! That everyone can do what makes them happiest!

Therefore, do what brings you joy, do not miss your happiness and DEFINITELY don’t look to see if anyone thinks you’re crazy. That’s their problem, not yours! 🙂 And we won’t have another life than the one we are creating right now, so let’s not waste time!