She's a smart little dog, figures out a lot of stuff, especially when it's about food and escaping to do some hunting on her own...she's a rascal!

Yes, you have to love the small dogs too...many of them don't realize that they are small. Espacially the small terriers think they are Dobermann Pinschers!

Here it's quite usual with small hunting dogs, most common for the roe deer and the hares, look at Christers' dog Dunder for example. And then there's the bigger dog breeds for moose, birds, boar and so on.

The name Assi has a meaning, but it will be very hard to translate...in Sweden we have a large forest industry company owned by the government, this company is named ASSI. It's short for "Aktiebolaget Svensk Skogs Industri" that means something like "the swedish forest industry company". The reason that she got that name was that we were joking about "of course the puppy must have a name that has something to do with the forest" and someone just came up with Assi - short, with "s" in it and easy to call for the dog (which I do a lot I'm afraid, she never wants to stop hunting at the same time as I do)