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Hard working leader
On the weekend I had the Girl Guides over for a dogsled clinic/rides and there was a newspaper reporter here as well. There are supposed to be some pics coming out in next week's paper, but here's a shot he emailed me. Lightning is certainly getting into his role as leader, but Rain looks a bit distracted by the reporter, she's looking right at him and not pulling up as hard as she could.
Photo by Matt James/Minden Times
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Aw look at Lightning certainly looks the part (or he was showing off for the camera ) Great job Lightning
Will give you some nice press for upcoming races too & maybe bring a few more people out to see your runs and sign up for the clinics/rides
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Cool pic . You will have to post the article when it comes out .
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For sure you have to post the article!!! How exciting!!!
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Great shot, yup, waiting for the article now...
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I'm dieing of jealousy over here, all of you look like you're having such a great time.
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Gail you are going to Cannington right My daughter was there last year, she said that there was only the one border collie team there, which means we have pics of some of your guys She will be going again this year, I might just tag along with her.
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Great pic, man that looks like a whole lot of fun for all.
The girl guides most have had fun learning about dog sled clinic/rides.will be waiting to see the article. |
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Hopefully that article will be out in next week's paper and I can post a link to it. Last year there was a big double page spread done about my daughter and her racing, I wish I had bookmarked the address of the online article. Of course I have paper copies of it, but I should have bookmarked it too. I've searched for it but now I can't pull it up. Today I took the team out on a local lake for a run and met up with a friend. Also introduced my physiotherapist to skijoring. She met me there with her dog and I loaned her my belt and a harness. Both her and her dog seemed to really enjoy it. I think I've converted another one
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Are you going to be at the Kortright Centre races? I'm hoping to be there to watch and take lots of photographs It's the only race that seems fairly close to me.. I can't wait for it! I'd love to do sledding/skijoring one day, but I need a dog that can actually pull me. Cody is getting up there in age, and Nova only weighs 25 lbs.
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Nova's only 25 pounds now, but how old is she now? She is still growing isn't she? It's surprising how hard the little ones will pull sometimes. Rain's my little girl in a pack of bigger boys. I haven't had her weighed in a while, but I'm guessing she's around 40-45 pounds. Lightning is around 61-62, Thunder is a couple of pounds less and Storm is around 50-55. Rain looks tiny beside Lightning but man does she dig in and pull. I tried running her back in wheel one time and she was pulling up overtaking Lightning in lead and getting tangled in his lines. She really wants to run beside him.
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She's 10 months now, I haven't weighed her in a while, but I don't think she is anymore than 30 lbs - she was 24lbs last time we weighed her. She's a small little thing! I'll have to get her weighed soon, but I don't think she will be getting much bigger size-wise. Maybe more fur and muscle at least. The people I train in flyball with are getting someone from Ottawa to do a dog sledding seminar on Feb. 8th... Pam Casselman is her name, don't know if you know her or not
I wish I could go to the seminar, but I don't really know how old dogs should be before even attempting to pull. One of the girls is bringing her smallish BC to the seminar, and she's not much bigger than Nova is - but her dog is at least 3 years I believe.
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Oh, that is such a great pic! I would LOVE to see you in action someday!
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I'm familiar with the name, I'm not sure if I've met her or seen her or maybe just read the name in race results, or maybe even somewhere else (herding, disc etc.)
I've started my pups lightly anywhere from 8 months and up, depending on the time of year and the weather. Rain's my smallest at about 40-45 pounds, but she was around 8-9 months when I started her. I can't remember what she weighed at the time, but it was probably around 30-35 pounds. The harness she wore then is too tight on her now but it's a good fit on Dru who weighed in at the vets on Monday at 35 pounds. As for how much more Nova may grow it's hard to say, but at 10 months she'll definitely still have some filling out to do. I remember ordering Lightning's harness at 11 months of age, he weighed 52 pounds at the time. He's now around 61 pounds of lean hard muscle with no extra fat. He's been up to around 64 or so when he wasn't running as much, but I changed his diet and began bringing him back into condition in the fall and he's pretty much in perfect shape now. I switched from feeding a large breed adult food to a smaller amount of a high energy food. They're getting a higher fat content now but they're burning it off working and they've all trimmed off some extra summer flab and are looking good. I weighed Flurry this week at the vet's too and he is 58 pounds of nothing but bone and muscle. I've been actually feeding him extra to get him to gain a bit, he's only 14 months old and still filling out. He went through a very boney looking phase but he's gained back just enough to not look too thin now. Maybe if you're ever up this way to watch some races. I don't think I'll be at any in the US, I don't travel more than a couple of hours away from home. It's too hard with the livestock and other dogs at home to look after, plus my dogs are "sled pets", they're spoiled housedogs that sleep on and around my bed, not outside in houses or a dogbox. I haven't so far come across any accommodations that A: would accept 4 or more dogs or B: is within my budget. Most of the other mushers just need to find a place for themselves to stay, their dogs are all nice and snug in their boxes since they're used to living outside.
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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 |
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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.
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So do you know Natasha and Trevor with his "Bubba" from Superdogs? Quote:
She said that maybe she will take Iggy to Cannington with her and try to "pimp" him out I have an album under my profile with Iggy pics if you would like to look. He is tall and lean and lanky like OC Spirits new boy Skel exact same build. |
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wow, thats looks like alot of fun!!!
what good puppers you have!!
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Chris - to continue the off-topic temporarily, I do know Natasha. She is at flyball training every Tuesday. Saw her tonight with her BC Epic
I'm really considering trying out the sledding seminar they have at Superdog Central... It looks like so much fun. Some of the others have their BC X JRT dogs pulling sleds, and Nova is taller than them. Maybe I'll give it a shot for fun! I'll let you all know what happens
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The article came out in the paper today, here's the link: http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1407290
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Cute article Shame that all the pics in the gallery had "PREVIEW' printed across them though.
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