Page 108 - Aussie Magazine no1, 2023

An Interview with a judge

Inga

Cerbule

Name: Inga Cerbule
Country: Riga, Latvia
Kennel: Sentikki
Website: www.sentikki.lv
Email: Inga@sentikki.lv

Inga is a long-time breeder of Aussies and a FCI International
Judge since 2017, she is qualified to judge FCI Group 1.

Dear Inga, thank you for taking the time to How it was possible that I never walked up to
provide us with an interview and answering the wrong dog and never got hurt? Some of my
our questions. I know you have shown and bred guard dog friends would run to my house and
Australian Shepherds since 1994, and you were look for me whenever they got loose. I have no
also the first person who imported Australian idea how they found me, but they did. I would
Shepherds to the Baltic States. Please introduce be walking to the food store, hand in hand with
yourself closer to our readers. my mom, and we would suddenly be ambushed
I have always loved dogs; I cannot explain why, I by a whirlwind of a large and happy dog, part of
just did. It is one of my earliest memories, as far the chain still swinging from the neck. I would be
back as I can remember myself. I was interested delighted, and my mother horrified. My favourite,
to the point that it was probably unsafe. When a bright red medium-sized shaggy dog named Photographs provided by: Inga Cerbule, Sentikki
I was little, we did not have a dog at home, and Sharik, had once gone on thin ice in the village
I always longed for one. So, I would walk up pond and the ice broke, and he fell in. I found
to chained guard dogs and make friends with him fighting in the water, trying to get out, but
them. I never once got bit. Thinking back now, the ice kept breaking. I got my elder brother and
it seems unreal. I wonder how nobody might together we got Sharik out of the pond. It was
have stopped me; nobody told my parents. freezing temperatures and I knew I couldn’t just

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