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January 29 2012.Winter walk in the Netherlands we had an lovely walk it was cold but dry

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Thank you Monique for the pictures.

https://picasaweb.google.com/sussexspaniels2/Tilburg#
Thank you Adri for the pictures.

In September 2011 the SSSi gathering was held in the Netherlands in combination with FCI Centenary European Dog show in Leeuwarden.
Report of the meeting you can find in Newsletter nr. 8.(newspage)

Autum 2010 the Dutch organized a Sussex walk on the beach at Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

In August 2010 the SSSi gathering was held in Wales, United Kingdom.
This year the SSSi got a official status because of the affiliation to the Sussex Spaniel Asociation. The gathering was organized by Chris Wakefield & Ifor Williams. All took place at the show ground at Builth Welsh. Four days of fun, showing and also a lot of learning. Grooming, Hunting. For dinner Fish & Chips and at the last day a fantastic BBQ.

Follow this link for more photo's

https://picasaweb.google.com/sussexspaniels2/20100826173020?authkey=Gv1sRgCOyY0svyxsOZTA#

Spring 2010 Sussex walk in the south of the Netherlands, Limburg.
Also the Belgian Sussex owners John Fordham and David & Kaija Braid were present, we had stunning weather.

In October 2009 the Dutch Sussex spaniël friends organized a walk on the beach at Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

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http://picasaweb.google.nl/chrissaa54/SussexWandeling20091010?authkey=Gv1sRgCM-lge7n3JfRFA&feat=directlink#

http://picasaweb.google.nl/sussexspaniels2/20091010181039?authkey=Gv1sRgCPzclbfMrs_9bg#

The first, historic training camp for Sussex Spaniels outside of Great Britain was organized in Finland 12.-13.9.2009.
Training place was a hunting cottage in Elimäki near Kouvola. The Camp was organized in co-operation with Kymen Spanielit (A regional Spaniel Club) and SSSI. Kyme Spanielit organized the training place, one shooter and game birds. The trainers, other shooter, interpreter and accommodation for participants was organized by SSSI. The trainers came from Danmark Anne Lydeking and Svend Willumsen. On the first day some lessons of how to handle and breed dogs was on the programme; especially concerning hunting and also personal training for every dog (all the dogs were young). Anne and Svend told all participants what they could do with their dogs. This was possible because we had an interpreter who translated Anne's and Svend's presentations straight from Danish to Finnish.

On the second day the shooters came and we moved to a hunting area. Svend is very well known as a Judge in Danmark for all kind of Spaniel trials. He was also here as a Judge. First Anne showed with her dog Avelon how the hunting will happen. After that every participants tried to find a bird and after shooting retrieve the bird . Svend gave his statements and evaluations to everyone personally. The participants were very satisfied with training and also Anne was very proud of being in such a historic situation ; as a first hunting trainer for Sussex Spaniel outside of Britain.

In August 2009 the SSSi gathering was held in Lessines, Belgium.
The gathering was organized by Kaija Braid. The first day, saturday's the meeting, lots of stuf to do and a great BBQ. The weather was fantastic! A interesting meeting several things were discussed also health issues. The second day was the Dog show at Antwerpen.

Follow these links for photo's.

http://www.esnips.com/web/SussexMeetingLessines23-08-2009
http://picasaweb.google.nl/chrissaa54/SSSILessines20090823?authkey=Gv1sRgCPPe7LuKmriLDA&feat=directlink

Thanks to Marieke Weijer, Frank en Suzan and Chris Van Saarloos for these photos.

The first Dutch Sussex Spaniel Walk was on May 30th, 2009 at "the Loonse en Drunense Duinen", the Netherlands.

Thanks to <	Chris Van Saarloos	for pictures. See more at <	Her Picasa Web Album
	Herman Mulder		His Picasa Web Album

The SSSi was founded November 28, 2008 in Zandvoort, the Netherlands.
The first SSSi meeting was held in combination with the Winner show, Amsterdam the Netherlands. At that meeting and at the Winner show Sussex spaniëls and their handlers from several countries were present. Also a big Sussex parade was held in the main ring at the Winner show.