The beginning of Kennel Another Story -
a presentation of Yvonne


October 2002 - mother & daughters
"Cilla" (SBIS Swed Ch Baldrey Fairy Story) - 9,5 years,
"Tessan" (Swed Ch Another Story Tess Durbeyfield) - 4,5 years &
"Nellie" (Nord Swed Norw Fin Ch Another Story Magic Moment) - 7 years


June 2004 - siblings
"Nellie" - 8,5 years, "Tessan" - 6,5 years &
"Norton" (Swed Fin Ch Another Story Jay Gatsby) - 6,5 years



"Skinny" - Gulds Tricky Treat

My name is Yvonne Karlsson and I live together with Peter Hultin in Karlstad, Sweden. We started with Greyhounds in 1985 - that´s when "Skinny" - Gulds Tricky Treat was born. He was blue - for me, at that time, the most beautiful colour in a Greyhound. Later, he was followed by "Michael" - Swed Ch Baldrey Lucifer for Molecats, a white and black gentleman from England - a dog with the best temperament I have yet encountered.

When "Skinny" was gone, the raven-black bitch "Cilla" - SBIS Swed Ch Baldrey Fairy Story, entered our lives. "Michael" and "Cilla" were both bred by Mrs Jackie White, Baldrey Whippets & Greyhounds, England.

I started thinking about breeding "Cilla" and our first litter was born in November 1995, as the result of an insemination with frozen semen from the U.S., by Eng Am Ch Hubbestad Double Magic, JC, born in England, but living in the U.S.. The result was the red brindle bitch "Nellie" - Nordic Swed Norw Fin Ch Another Story Magic Moment.

"Cilla's" second litter was born in February 1998, sired by the handsome Int Swed Ch Hickory's Nauticus (later exported to France). From this litter I kept two blue brindle siblings; "Norton" - Swed Fin Ch Another Story Jay Gatsby and his sister "Tessan" - Swed Ch Another Story Tess Durbeyfield. Their black brother "Oliver" - Another Story Oliver Twist, went to live with my sister Annika Karlsson.

In May 2002, our third litter was born - "Nellie" was bred to the red dog Sobers Zacchary. From this litter I kept a bitch, "Ofelia" - Norw Swed Ch Another Story Miracle Moment, who is owned in partnership with Siw Tonje Bjerkelund. "Ofelia" lives with her in Norway.

In the summer of 2005, we had two litters. The first one - with a singleton puppy - was born in June out of "Tessan", by the young red brindle Finnish male Fin Est Ch Kimsar Feel The Fire.

Our fifth litter was born in August by his sire, BIS Int Am Fin Est Swed Ch FinW-02-04 NordW-03 BaltW-06 Windrock Fernando. The dam of this litter was "Ofelia" and the litter was born and bred in Norway at "Ofelia's" co-owner Siw Tonje Bjerkelund's. She and her partner Bjørnar Westmo, did a fantastic job. From this litter I co-own "Klara" - Another Story Lyin' Eyes, together with Siw. They also kept the red dog "Chico" - Another Story New Kid In Town, that Siw and Bjørnar co-own.

Siw and I have known each other for 10 years and since we have always known that we can work extremely well together, the idea was born, that I and Siw would form a "real" partnership across the Swedish-Norwegian border, and in January 2006, it was decided that Siw would be a full partner in the Another Story kennel. And since Siw is already a breeder of Portuguese Water Dogs, this breed will also be part of the kennel prefix Another Story. So now we are Another Story Greyhounds & Portuguese Water Dogs!

Up to date (3 September 2006) we have bred two PWD-litter under the prefix Another Story; our Begin-liter (dob 4 March 2005) and our recent Paradise-litter (dob 29 August 2006).

Since I am not physically well, I have no longer any real possiblities to keep many dogs and litters at home, so co-operation suits me very well. I co-owned "Michael's" daughter "Bailey" - Nordic Swed Norw Dan Ch Rhetsgis Tell Another Story. She was born in 1996 and she lived with her breeder, Gisela Balz, Rhetsgis Greyhounds & Whippets.

I co-own "Bailey's" beautiful daughter by "Norton" - "Betty" - Swed Ch Rhetsgis Telltale (born in June 2000). She lives with Anna-Carin Falk, Telltale's Greyhounds, with whom I co-operate closely.

As from July 2002, I also co-own the American import, BIS Int Am Fin Est Swed Ch FinW-02-04 NordW-03 BaltW-06 Windrock Fernando - "Nando" lives with my very good friends Kimmo Saarinen & Seppo Tanninen, Kimsar Greyhounds, in Finland. We have always worked closely together and I have known Kimmo since he had his first Greyhound.

My Greyhounds all live indoors, and at night it's a bit crowded in our bed, since they - all - insist on sleeping there!

On our Greyhound homepage www.anotherstory.nu , you can learn more about our Greyhounds and study their pedigrees. There are also several more photos to look at - photos of our Greyhounds, but also of many of their ancestors and other relatives and Greyhound friends.


The thrill of the chase - "Michael" & "Cilla"


Summer 2001 - Yvonne and dogs
"Tessan", "Nellie", "Cilla" & "Norton"


Summer 2001 - Peter with "Tessan", "Nellie" & "Norton"


The thrill of the chase - "Tessan", "Nellie" & "Oliver"


Yvonne with "Nellie" on her 9th birthday in November 2004


Summer 2006 - "Nellie" - (11 years) & her granddaughter "Klara" - Another Story Lyin' Eyes (11 months)

Daughter & sire:
"Bailey" (5 months) -
Nord Swed Norw Dan Ch
Rhetsgis Tell Another Story & "Michael"

Yvonne with "Nando" - BIS
Int Am Fin Est Swed Ch
FinW-02-04 NordW-03
Windrock Fernando
photo: Kimmo Saarinen

Yvonne with "Ofelia" - Norw Swed Ch
Another Story Miracle Moment - 2 years
photo: Siw Tonje Bjerkelund



Daughter & sire: "Betty"
- Swed Ch Rhetsgis Telltale - 4,5 years
& "Norton" - 6,5 years


Yvonne with
"Klara" - Another Story
Lyin' Eyes - 11 weeks
photo: Siw Tonje Bjerkelund

"Cilla" & "Michael"
SBIS Swed Ch Baldrey Fairy Story &
Swed Ch Baldrey Lucifer for Molecats
Photo: © Gro B. Henriksen


Sometimes I feel my life is all about dogs and especially about Greyhounds! I edited the newsletter, published by the Swedish Greyhound Club, for eight years and I constantly keep in contact with a number of Greyhound lovers all over the world, and I still participate in the newsletter with reports and photos. I have also, on and off, for 18 years (as long it has existed) been a member of the Swedish Greyhound Club Committee and play an active part in its existence.

In the past, I have participated in several foreign Sighthound publications. When you are really interested in the breed, there are certainly a lot of Clubs you simply have to be a member of. E.g. the Swedish Sighthound Club, the Swedish Greyhound Club, the Greyhound Club in Great Britain, the Greyhound Club of America, the Finnish Greyhound Club, the Norwegian Greyhound Club, the Danish Sighthound Club.

My new project will now be to learn as much as I can about the Portuguese Water Dog as a breed - luckily Siw is a good teacher! There will also be a whole bunch of new Breeed Clubs to be a member of. Well, I was already making Siw's homepage on the PWD's. Making homepages is another hobby of mine. I am an autodidact - by the "trial and error" principle. Apart from my own website, I have made the Kimsar Greyhound-website for years.

Another of my "crazy" hobbies is collecting Greyhounds in all shapes and sizes - china, bronze etc. My home is filled with paintings, figurines, post cards, stamps and all sorts of Greyhound stuff. I also have some Borzoi bits and pieces. Wherever I go, in the world, I always bring something with me back home for my collection. My favourite destination is London, a veritable Mecca for collectors.

You can look at parts of my collection on our Greyhound homepage, but I need to update on my photo collection - so I plan to show more photos in the future. A small part of my Sighthound collection was exhibited in Hundesport, the Norwegian Kennel Club Gazette and in Hundsport - the Swedish Kennel Club Gazette. The reports were made by Gro B. Henriksen, who at that time shot the beautiful photo of "Cilla" and "Michael".



October 2002 -
"Cilla", "Tessan" & "Nellie"

October 2002 -
"Tessan"

"Oliver" with his dam "Cilla" -
Another Story Oliver Twist & SBIS Swed Ch Baldrey Fairy Story



August 2004 - big contrasts in the heat -
Yvonne, "Norton" & "Nellie" playing in the snow at Färjestad's Hockey Arena
and directly taking a dip in the river Klarälven on our daily walking round



Yvonne & Siw with some Another Story-dogs in July 2006:
the Greyhounds "Nellie", "Ofelia", "Klara" & "Chico",
the PWD:s "Mythos" - James Brown, "Kala" - The Strong Will Survive,
& "Vanja" - Int Nord Norw Swed Dan Ch Dancing Queen
photo: Hege B. Ask Krogh

Photos: © Yvonne Karlsson & Peter Hultin

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