As I lay on the deck in the dog yard, (the deck is a piece of 4x8 plywood nailed on a 2x4 frame so the dogs and I have a place to sit or lay down that's not in the dirt), I get a different view of the dogs from below. I took the camera out with me yesterday to see what I could capture in a photo. Apparently Peat was not as interested in getting his photo taken, as I didn't get any of him. That's ok - it gives me a reason to go out and get some more pictures another day. Here's a few of the better pictures I was able to get.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Great Canadian Superstore 1 dog pull
This year at Rendezous the middle wight division (60-99lbs) had an amazing turnout. There is some untapped talent with a lot of the first time pullers, hopefully some of these "new dogs" will make it out to the Summer dog pull. As expected and very well deserved Asha took home first place, Sherpa snagged second place and the pound pulled per pound of dog (which I personally think is the top award) and Aklak place third and had a personal best pull.
The following images are from Michal Kozlowski of Geist
Nice form....slow and low
happy Aklak
He knows when he is done... "take this harness off and bring me fish"
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Is Rico a Rico Suave?....you tell us
Monday, March 2, 2009
My 1st Dog Race
Well my first race is finally behind me and it was GREAT!
My team of Peat (formerly of Drag N' Fly Kennel, now a member of Akeno Kennel), Sadie, Rico and Lucky hauled me over the 7km course at this years 4 dog Rendezvous race.
In lead is Sadie and Peat, with Rico and Lucky in wheel. Peat is the old man (and the real team leader) at 5 years old while the rest of them are our "puppies" at 11 months old.
I look forward to many more races with these fantasic dogs!
This is what happens when you bang your HEAD!
It started out as just another routine dog feeding until....BANG! I didn't duck down enough to clear the cross bar on the gate to the dogyard. The came the pain and then the blood....oh my did it pour. It seems that in construction of our gate we did not clip the fencing close enough and that left one extra long "scalp ripper" hanging down just far enough to open my head up. Heather wanted my to get stitches, which looking back was probably the smart thing, but for those of you that know me I would rather a scar over a needle any day!
The Backdoor
The bathroom sink
The Head
Nice....eH
The Backdoor
The bathroom sink
The Head
Nice....eH
Monday, January 19, 2009
The Cold Snap
So I'm a bit behind with the blogging again. The cold snap we had started about Christmas time and ended a few weeks ago. Since our cutoff for running dogs is about -30 degrees, we didn't run dogs for a while. During this down time, we took this opportunity to bring the dogs in the house as much as possible. Of course they would have been fine outside, but since we didn't exactly want to spend much time outside, we found them spending more time inside for visits. It was fun for all. We're happy to report that since we've been bringing the sled dogs into the house, Dust and Peat were officially introduced to the house dogs Aklak and Keno - and they've been buddies ever since! It's great that all 8 dogs can be in the house together without any issues. Here's a few of the photos we got when the dogs were in the house. Of course the best photo opportunities occurred when the camera was out of reach, but we're happy with the pics we got.
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