Sunday, December 31, 2006

Free running and Good News! and Porcupines :(


First, the good news!! We think we have a handler coming for the winter, a young woman from California who is interested in sled dogs. More on this as it happens! Wow, will be great !

We're enjoying my daughter and granddaughter right now, wish the weather were better for them, but nice to have them here.

Free running is the only way for fun right now as this snow looks 'good', but it is wet and has an underbase of ice and mush. It's good to be a dog in this stuff as humans need Yaktrax for the hidden ice. It has prettied up the pens a bit if it doesn't all melt (which at the moment it is doing). This is Medio, in lead, Zoom, Kiddo and Sherpa . Lillen and Yo are looking on.

No sleds yet, wow, very late! No ATV either as too slippery. The dogs are running in families and they love it. Of course this is a 'training' that they can get out and run free. This will require some retraining once we can run hooked up again.

Another drawback is that Evalina ran off and met a porcupine yesterday. Just 5 quills, we were lucky, as I was able to remove them, whew! Not a good weekend to have to call a Vet.

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