Sometimes visitors ask if each dog has a name. Actually each of these dogs is very individual... we know each dog's voice, of course each dog's name, their habits, their preferences, their fears.
They each respond slightly differently to situations. For instance, Medio, is spooked by people on the trail, so we're trying to get him into situations where people take photos, jump in front of us, etc so he won't have trouble in race situations. So far we're running into a few deer jumping out at us but they seem to know that' s more natural than people jumping in front.
Last year a large man with a long white beard (not Santa , but close), parked his car on highway, jumped out , ran over with his camera and Medio tried to crawl under his partner... took him whole run back to recuperate. Stella on the other hand, only ten months, and Sherpa, one year,
seem to take those kinds of things in stride. So right now we're in a conditioning phase... let them see all kinds of things that are different from our kennel trails.
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