During my childhood, there were a few dogs of different breed but only one at a time in our home. First one was a German Shepard called Celus, followed by a black Cocker Spaniel - Mambo, Irish Setter - Ronny, Bolognese Jollie and the last one was a black, middle sized Puddle called Athos.
I was not able to keep the same breed twice because in my mind, none could match the last one I lost, it was always so very painful having to part with each and every one of them ...

1970 at Prague airport, I had seen the first Cavalier, just passing by. It was owned by Lady Ambrahams who was visiting from U.K.and at that time I did not even know that the little cute spaniel was a Cavalier.
I realised that only 10 years later in Cairo - Egypt, where I saw a second Cavalier in my life, a B/T dog brought from U.K. by our friend Marja Kurittu.
I fell in love with the Cavalier breed there and then but I had to wait to get my own for another 10 years.
When the time finally came with a great help of the very same friend, our first Cavalier dog was found. We got Chester in February 1990 from Maurene and Jim Milton in England.

FONTELANIA Crest, a lovely tricolour puppy boy was bought as a pet and a family member to start with. It was love at first site .... and a year later, he was also the very first dog I ever took to a dog show, just for fun.

As it so happened, it was a big International, Top Dog Show 1991 in Turku - Finland, with over 90 Cavaliers present. I came about half an hour earlier to watch, what Chester and I were supposed to do in the ring.
Quite amazingly, Chester won his first CC there and the show was on!
One year later he became a Multiple Winner and Champion and finally in Valencia - Spain he was crowned by Pamela Stern-Cross World Winner1992.

With his outstanding character Chester was so much more than we could ever hope for. We are so gratefull to Maurene and Jim for letting us have such a special boy.

My first litter was born in 1993, sired by WW-92, CH. Fontelania Crest from which I kept his daughter CREST ESSENCE - Scarlett and finally decided to start my own kennel. Dame of the litter was Nina Enomaa's Anncourt Cheeck To Cheeck.

ANERIDEE kennel was established in 1995, based on Chester and his lines.
It is a small home kennel and all our dogs are family members.
My daughter Carolina joined in as a co-owner and breeder in 1997. Our first Champion - Int & Multiple Ch. ANERIDEE Christmas Star, was bred in the very first litter from Crest Essence and sired by CH. Space Mission via CHANTIZ .

Our love and admiration of Fontelania's and its breeders so close to our hearts, we developed a true friendhip. So very lucky we were to bring again to Helsinki from England, another Tricolour puppy + Chester's bride FONTELANIA Touch Of Class, in 1997. Chelsea was Carolina's first own dog.

Chester has left us in 1999 and he has been missed every single day.
He keeps living on in my heart for as long as I live and forever stays the Sunshine of my life ( Irena )
We have so wonderful memories and we can see parts of Chester in his children & grandchildren and they make us so proud of him.

At the end of 1999, 1 year old B/T puppy girl PENQUITE Sonata - * Dixie*
bred by Sue Newnes - UK arrived to Finland.

As Dixie was supposed to be co-owned but stay in Prague - Czechland, she made a trip with Irena from Helsinki to Prague few months later.
For few reasons, Dixie traveled back to Helsinki with Irena to be rehomed elsewhere in Finland but in the end much thanks to Carolina, Dixie found the best home possible = Ours :)
She became the wholecolour foundation bitch for our kennel and we are ever so gratefull to Sue for trusting us with Dixie.

In our small home kennel we bred 7 Champions, from which 4 are International Champions. We are still missing a Champion in Ruby colour.

Chester's & Chelsea's daughter - FIN Ch. ANERIDEE Queen OF Crest - *CHERIE* stayed home with us.

Some of our girls we continue to breed from live with our friends.

At the moment we share our home with the 2 beautifull Cavalier Veteran girls, CHERIE - 12 years + 4months & DIXIE - 11 years +7months.

In March 2010 we got back to keep ANERIDEE Cherokee Spirit - Orrine, previously living in Prague - Czechland with our aunt Jana

and our latest addition is again a Tricolour boy Rossi -
ANERIDEE Exquisitely Bohemian

* ROSSI *

For us - Cavaliers are PASSION for life .....

We health check our dogs regularly and we take a great care to place our puppies into responsible and caring homes. Aneridee dogs live with our friends in Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and as far as Argentina.