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Originally Posted by Chris21711
OK Gail, so we have pics of your friends BC's on the comp. This year it will be yours 
My daughter would like to get Iggy involved, but she just has the one dog, do you know if it is possible to hook-up with someone who is a dog short....yah I know a long shot. She emailed Superdogs Central about a course that they were starting a couple of times, but never heard from them. We are in the Newmarket area, if you could provide any info it would be appreciated  |
The pics you have would have 3 black & white BC's and a blonde right? The blonde in lead would be Ginger and the dog running beside her is Nikki. The two wheel dogs are Jessie and Gypsy. They should be there again this year, assuming she doesn't have any trouble getting the weekends off work to race. She's a student with a fairly new part-time job so she hasn't had as much free time these days but I know she is planning to race.
Do you mean hook up Iggy with another dog to race, or just for training? People do often lend/borrow dogs to make up teams, but they are already trained to pull so Iggy would need to learn what it's all about and to work in a team. I've hooked other dogs with mine several times for training runs, Lightning is a good lead dog and will run well beside another dog so he could show Iggy the ropes, it would just be a bit of a drive from Newmarket. But, I do have a nice groomed trail
. Hey, if your daughter gets busy training and Iggy takes to it well she could run in the Novice class at Cannington, on their website this year it's not called a 2-dog class, it's a 1-3 dog class so she could go it alone with just one dog.
If you want to try to find more mushers closer to you, a great resource is
http://www.sleddogcentral.com There's tons of information on there and a forum where you could post asking if there's anyone in your area. On the main page I seem to recall there's also a link to a list of mentors.