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19/11 I have
finally made a
Gallerypage
for the Rohan-litter. (Ronny and Hanne helped them to the
world:) They are 3 weeks now and still living
inside thanks to the large cage in the kitchen. A very cute
bunch:) At the moment the male puppy is available.
We have a mild fall this year, no snow. I don`t miss it actually,
since I always fear the blue ice covering everything if it snows
too early. At the moment the Dyck cart is out of order waiting
for major repairs and yesterday my faithful car stranded with
some expensive repair comig up...its a hazzle to be without car
living in the countryside. I have a bundle of ehadlamps but now
hardly anyone work again. House its chaos but slowly getting
there. Oh well. Thats life.
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30/10 We
participated in the last rigrace of the season, Haloween race,
6,6 km at Mangen. Soscialble event and I brought the 3
youngsters to get some soscialisation, but boy even with few
trips out in the world, those 3 are very peopleloving and
soscial by nature! Since I now has destroyed my third
Canon Ixus by having it in my pockets without cover, no photos
from this event. Since Ravn has problem with keeping up
speed in long downhills, alternative leaders was Nayak, Haidi
and Znoke- Lost time when Haidi and Nayak did not listen
very fast in a crossing and Znoke bolted from the speed in
the hills back down. I had to stop and go very slow to get her
going again...But Nayak ran like crazy:) But she is NOT good at
standing straight ahead when we stop, unless she has a steady
leader beside her. Rest of the team was River, Dingo,
Bark, Graabein and Myrull. Viggo J had fastest
times with his 4 dog teams and Erik Greger beat me with 47
seconds in 8 dog class this time:)
Its very warm at the moment. I don`t mind because I allways
fear the first snow that allways turn into ice and make it even
harder to train. We had some hazzle with the Dyck cart this
fall, it is eating brakepads. Guess its getting old. Ronny has
gotten good at changing brakes-we also changed caliper but
brakefluid is still leaking and it is still eating brakepads. We
will now change wheel bearings to see if it helps.
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29/10 Tamsin
and old Isi got 4 females, one grey, one
black and two black splash coats and one dilute black male! A
bit suprising colours as I expected greys only! They are doing
fine at the moment. A gallery will be put up soon!
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20/10 I am a
bit stressed now due to the upcoming racingseason. I have
not raced for two seasons so feel we have to show something this
one. As long as you breed pups I think you ought to race
regularly. But seems like bad planning can make it another
non-racing-short-race season. The first two weeks on my
holliday I used while having pups in june. The rest was taken
out in september and renovating my living room was finally
due. New roof, new wallpaper and adjusting lower part of steps
with new ones and a wall...... and man it is a bigger project
than I feared. It`s living in chaos for weeks and weeks....I
have a large livingroom, so I have furniture, TV and PC in one
small part and renovating the other before I switch.
Hopefully I can finish at christmastime....Luckily Hanne and
Ronny are good helpers, Hanne being carpenter as good as anyone:)
On top of that Tamsin got her litter- not the best part of the
year, since it makes you dependent on puppysitter if you leave
for trainingweekends, and they also take up a lot of time.
Well, time will tell as they say. My main goal is to enjoy life:)
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10/10 Weekend
was spent in NSHK `s fall camp in Ål. Nice weather first
days, and first snowfall sunday! Deliscious italian dinner
saturday night:) We lived in the bottom of a large
campground so felt a bit unsoscial at times and time
allways fly too fast. I don`t like to leave the dogs unatended
at stakeout so takes time to get them all in and out... Rigrace
as usual saturday- me with 8 and Ronny 6 with the slower ones
and females in heatI He had some leadertrouble underways. Nayak
ran good in my team again while Ravn had some trouble with speed
downhills Got beaten by Johanne and Cato with a few seconds. My
team was Nayak and Ravn in lead, Znoke, River, Myrull, Dingo,
Graabein and Tvilling As allways good training for
the youngsters. The 3 Sikpok/Ravn pups got their first 2 tries
in harness. No hesitation. We also tried their brother Nansen in
the team but he thought it was scary. People left early sunday
due to the lousy weather.
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25/9 First
rigrace of the season, at Sessvoll. A muddy and fun 10 km run, but
a bit hot. Not many SH teams entered. Nayak ran in lead
with Ravn and did a good job speedwise, but she is not perfect
on comands yet. My team was Ravn, Nayak, Sikpok,
River, Dingo, Znoke, Myrull and Skarv. I have faster
dogs than Skarv, but he makes so much noise when left home that
he had to come:) Rigraces are allways soscial for people
and dogs
I put out a
Gallery from the event
Results here
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20/9
Weather
just keeps on being SO miserable this year. Rain is just
pooring down, soaking everything- day after day. Makes
dogtraining a hazzle sometimes. But also some fun. My dogs get
well used to wet conditions- But on this film even Ravn bolted
once and made a mess.
This
film is from an evening were we got even wetter than normally
Enjoy!
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20/9 Took a
trip to the swedish SH Spescialty in Idre last weekend.
Wonderful sunny weather for a change:) Entered only pups Falk
and Svale and Nayak.Hauk came along also, the 3 of
them needed some traveling and soscialisation. Pups
behaved well and were happy and soscial- both ended in the
middle of their classes with HP. I was more ecxited about
Nayaks showdebut after her injury. She ended as nr 3 with CK
in an open class of 30 dogs!
She was not placed in winner class, but her littersister Ice
living in Sweden was nr 3 winner bitch with Cert. So that
was great fun!
Nayak was flirting with all females around her. Also her sister!
I am so proud of her/us, she have come a long way since last
years unfortunate incident. She now runs in the team and also
ran smooth in a show ring. I was awake all night
listening to locals burning up and down the mouintans with their
trucks- so too tired to take a lot of photos at the show. Even
went home before finished, to get some sleep. Took a chance on
the gastanklight and ended up waiting for 1,5 hours along the
road for NAF and diesel. Blærgh... Sunday it was time for the
annual HSHK dogmushing seminar- allways nice and also a chance
to burn some money for shopping:)
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12/9 Big boy
Kaylo have participated in a film/photoshoot for
artist Noah
Alveberg. He behaved sooo well in his role and I think
not so many of my dogs could have done it. Can`t wait to see the
final results in the spring. The evening out in the dark forest
caused quite a lot of laughter and some pretty wet and cold feet
as the location was on an island in a little pond. It is not
often I go out in the water and espescially not dark creeks with
yakky scary slick bottomsurface..Kaylo was carried out and
swimmed back to shore after) .Anna and Blote came with me,
Blote as stand in in case Kaylo would not cooperate, as
Blote were more welltrained. That was last time I saw Blote,
next day he was kicked by an attacking moose as Anna walked the
dogs and had to be put down.
Moose are some scary animals sometimes:(
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5/9 Rain rain
rain- that sums up the summer--wettest one for 110 years they
say. Not so cosy in the dogyard when its wet all the time. In
the pens, they live on concrete tiles, but the big pen is
covered by grass and decomposted grass on top of the gravel and
that makes everything yakky:(
The pups are growing big- pretty energetic youngsters. I
still have Hauk here, was thinking of harnessbrake him
before I try harder to sell him
Nansen and Gaisà visited recently, they are both well buildt and
racier looking than my 3.
I have been out quite some times with the cart, during summer
and in august, but often its too humid and hot too when training
is planned.
Good thing is that Nayak is back in the team:) How far
she will be able to run without problems its too early to say.
She runs 9 kmtrs in good speed with ease and no limping and
stiffness afterwards so it looks good.
Here is
a recent film from a typical late night training run (with
Nayak in lead)
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10/7 We have
been out with the cart a few times but lately it has been mostly
very humid air besides hot. Meanwhile the dogs are just roaming
the pens....Every year I think I am finished with fixing
dogyards for a while, but every year there are new projects.
After the snowy winter I got new climbers so have to
climb-secure more yards. I also plan another entrance out of the
yard and to the sledtrack on the fields that might be more
practical.
Will also tear down the roofs over the 3 yards and replace it
with nets. It gets too smelly under there
somehow. Good one never get time to get bored....
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10/7 As planned,
Ylva the dark female stayed here til she was 3 months and
have now left for Bergen. Falk and Svale are staying here for
sure but I will most likely sell Hauk. He is a
tailwagging, happy, talking guy. All the pups have settled well
in their new homes, they seem to be stirdy and smart
personalities. Me and Anna took Ylva and Falk to Lillestrøm
at 4 th of july celebration. Must say I was impressed how they
tackled it. They were petted by loads of people, wagged their
tails and were not at all afraid of all the noise and things
going on. But they slept hard afterwards!
Hauk
Svale
Falk
Pups talk like Ravn
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10/7 This is
Bark, Haidis brother. He went with two pups from Nayak and
Jeni to a friend of mine, but has shown totally different
(lacking)
attitude in workingsituations than the other two. So
I have him here to try him out in a new environment. He is a
very sweet and spescial boy with beautiful build and type, but
very *soft* in temperament.
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10/7 Nayak was
at the last cheque with the surgeon Peder Haaland 3 weeks
ago. Things are as well as they can be under the
circumstances now. The tendant that was operated back in place
is stabile where its supposed to be. She can play, run and work
and the limits are what she can take without having pain. As a
result of the large wound to the bone, the skin on the hock is
unflexible scartissue witch make her not stretcing out the toes
completely. I have replaced half of the fences in her yard with
bars so that she cannot climb along the walls either. Last
month inside she has been destructive when home alone so good to
be able to put her in the pen now and then:) She is also
intergrated in the pack again after being *outside* for a year.
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7/6 As usual,
time fly. And the puppies are ready to leave for their new homes
this week.
It is a very nice and soscial gang of pups. Exept for two short
croups they look very nicley buildt too. I am keeping the light
female, Falk (stripegutt2) and also Jerven(who reminds the most
of Ravn besides Stripegutt1) . I possibly sell one of them
later. Here is finally
a video
of them too
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25/5 Nayaks
wound are now history, she is getting more of a rascal inside
Have appointment with the surgeon for cheque up in 3 weeks.
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25/5 Pups
are 6 weeks today-and starts to demand much more. They are a
great bunch:) It is still not set who goes where- I wait as long
as possible. Sikpok has recovered well after the pyometra, but
she is not as patient with these as her last litter...I put out
new pics regularly on Gallery. Will try to make a film soon.
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25/5 NSHKs
spescialty show was held last weekend with large entry.
Since I organize, I did not show last two years but this year I
showed a couple also.
River got a Very good, Tvilling got excellent, CK
and nr 4 winner bitch. Her sisters Tella and Lilletusse
both got excellent and Lava Zima got best juniorbitch
with CK Nay-La-Chee got HP and won breeders class.
Tvilling and Tella joined Arctic Soul Vytoks studdogclass and he
got HP also.
Very nice and soscial weekend with good weather. I brought Nayak
and Haidi for soscialisation, Haidis first *camp* And as I
feared, she brought on the *wondervoice* that she use in harness
when she was tied up outside...Here is a
Gallrypage
from the show
Tella-Lilletusse-Zima
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6/5 Finally I got
the cart out after the snow melted....Hopefully we will keep
them going over the summer, even though I said that every year
and it never happened. Nice to train while birds are singing!
But mosquitos are also singing allreaddy... Hopefully we will
train with other teams too. I have many youngsters that did not
meet many other teams. First try yesterday went really fine,
noone did mind the passing team allthough the passing team
minded us:)
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6/5 Puppies
are 3 weeks now and a funny bunch. I handfed them with meat
since they were 2 weeks for an experiment- so they are allreaddy
climbing my lap and wagging their tails. Sikpok got also sick in
easter, her face and feet swallowing up..she was drinking like a
madman. .turned out she got pyometra, but it has passed since
she got Tribrissen. Cannot get stronger medicine because of the
wheening pups. Hope it do not return, Knock on wood....I put out
new pics of them today in
Gallery. Seems I have one male and possibly a female
available at the moment.
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6/5
Nayak is progressing fine- we are walking everyday(good for
me too) and she steps much better on her foot than before
operation but still limping a tiny bit and not supporting it
100%. The wound she got on the hock again, is very small now and
I expect it to be closed next week. Bye bye bandages hopefully.)
We been through some this past year...Nayak is such a kind girl,
she behaves inside even when left alone when I go training the
others. Right now she very much want to be with Sikpoks pups but
Sikpok dont agree. I will soon buy new fences for her pen with
bars, so she cannot climb the walls. Nayak got sick in easter-I
had given her chickenbones and I think she swallowed one without
chewing- I got the biiiiig scare- after all we have been through,
would she be killed by a chickenbone I was stupid to give her?
My relief was BIG when she turned back to normal after 2 days
and from now on she will bark in vain when I eat chickenwings....
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15/4 Sikpok/Ravn got 9 fine puppies yesterday! 6 males and 3
females. 6 are dirtyface black and agoutis, 1 male and 2 females
are grey. Not sure exactly how many are available at the moment.
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29/3 Wonderful winter this year also, still running on the fields
today! Have put up some videos lately on Gallery page
Ps: 31/4 was last run from home...It was crust ffor many days,
so we could run all over the fields and train new leaders on
navigating.
then some more days with play in the slush before spring mud
take over for a period.
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28/3 Nayak was operated the 25/3 and here we go again
with bucket on head, medicine and rubbercover on bandaged foot.
The hock was not a pretty sight inside the surgeon said. The
tendon was split in 3 but intact lenghtwise, the bone it is
resting on was damaged and the tissue to hold the tendon too,
but its stitched back in place and we will hope for the best.
She will be better than she is now but he cannot forcast how her
sledding career will go
Video of
Nayak
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7/3 Spring
weather is arriving here now. We had another good, cold winter with
lots of snow. Like last year I stayed in the neighborhood...its
just sooo convinient to train from home even the landscape is
not exotic. And its short runs mostly, so this winter and last
we did not cover any large amount of trainingmiles. Not that we
ever did, but usually more than this....People train a lot these
days:)
I am trying out new
leaders at the moment and running the 3 youngsters as much as
possible. There are some prospects, but no one have the talent for reacting instantly to comands in whatever direction
I want to go, like Ravn. He is 6 years now...I dread the day he is
not there.
He is now expecting his first offspring with Sikpok, due in
beginning of april:) Sikpok is confirmed pregnant.
I have recently bought a video camera,since I find
filming fun. A Canon Legria HF R16 and also got
upgraded with tripods. The Gorillagrip tripod is funny
and kan be stuck to many things, also the sled. But my computer
harddisk was almost full recently, even before I started filming
with new camera or using raw files:( Trying to tidy up in
all the pics...and using external hard drives. I plan to film
and take pics at VM at Hamar- since there were no racing for me.
I have put out some new albums at the Gallery page.
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7/3 My dear
Nayak is due for operation end of march. And the prognosis
to become a sled dog again was said to be good:) We have been
waiting to get apointment with a spescialist and the
judgement was that her injuried bones are stabile- so there is
no need for inserting a metalpiece to stiffen up the hock like
they originally suggested could be needed. But her problem
is a main tendant that is dislocated since the tissue that
should hold it in place are injuried. So the operation is for
getting this tendant back in place. Laying like now it might
snap so I dont let her loose in the yard any more or try running
her. She is so crazy when she cannot run so its hard....
I took her out with a team once- she was sooo happy and ran like
the wind, but limped afterwards so we did not dare to try any
more. We are counting days and cross our fingers and toes...
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27/1
Cheque out Tore Hunskårs new webpage
Nordfjella Sledehund Kennel ! He is at the moment the
leading siberian racer in Norway.
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27/1-2011
Not much big news from NLC. We got a trail at the fields
couple of weeks ago. 2 days with plus weather made everything
quite hard and kennel icy but good to be able to train from home
again. Anna and her two sibes are staying here for the
winter. Dogs had little training last month, both due to
kennelcough and lazynes. But we hope to get them in better shape
for some nice runs rest of season. Marita Pettersen visited, and
ran a siberian team for the first time (she used to have
alaskans) Also nice to see Kachym and Katerina at these
longitude:)
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27/1
Jana Lovette Henichova and Rodney visited and I got a bunch of
Manmat harnesses and collars to try.
The collars with woven reflex in it are very nice, I have
one from before. The dogs look fancy now:) Harnesses are much
improved since last I tried a Manmat, this model are lightweight,
padded and with narrover neckcollar. And with pretty webbing
also with reflecting parts.
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31/12 Happy
new year all! On four and two legs...
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9/12 It has been cold
temps between 12-20 - celcius for weeks now. Not a lot of
snow and still no anchorhold, but sure wintery! And very
beautiful when lanscape are covered in frostroses:) Got some
nice shots of the gang of 3.
Tvilling went to Dogs4All internasjonal dog show
with Hanne...Even if she is my most moderatly buildt dog, she
did stick out in the company of showdogs as racy. So guess we
should be happy with a red ribbon after all! What is
better, is that she had some tries in lead now and seems very
focused and forwarded on the task:) All and all Tvilling has
developed in a nice direction in many ways.
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6/12
Since I fear the winter roads and driving with dogtrailer I have
bought brand new spiketires for it, in place before going to
NSHKs camp at Syningen...Even went out on the motorway
evening before departure since we have been delayed many a time
because of tire-trouble on trailer...
Oh well, setting out at 9 05 (record early for Ronny and me) we
only got a few kmtrs out before we heard strange sounds and a
cloud of sparks and a tire jumping out on a field could be seen.
Two tires were off at the same side....We waited allmost 3 hours
for NAF since I wanted to know if this was my fault or I got the
wrong bolts at Sharif. Turned out it was me trusting the
electric bolttightener too much that was the fault...Moral is:
allways use the manual tightener for closing!!!! I sure learned
that now. It ended well after all, the loose tires did not harm
anyone, the trailer did not brake and we took off quite delayed
with the old tires. Took wrong roads many a times, was stopped
once by UP, and arrived at 20 30 in GOL.
Rest of weekend was very nice with cold sunny weather. I made a
video
from the weekend, you can see it
here
I also put out a
Gallerypage.
Mostly portraits since the Eos is not so handy to bring on the
sled:)
Portraits are Jeni/ Sepps s kids Gihli and Goshe
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2/12 New
girl on the kennel is Ulveheias Ulva. As Ulveheia kennel
was closing down, I went with Svein and Irene to have a look
since two NLC `s, Bjørne Whity and Bjørne Brea (Kvikk x
Vargteams Crazy) is behind many of their dogs. Since Nayak is
out, I see the need of a fast frontrunner and Ulveheia has been
selecting for open class sprint. Had to decide fast since many
people was interested, so Ulva went home with me. She is mostly
zero/igloo pak lineage and Brea is her grandma. Quite
small and moderatly build with a lot of attitude. Exept for the
ears, she don`t stick out around here:) She compete with Haidi
about ugliest voice on the block:) But since she has settled
down fine, I only hear it wen its training time.
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22/11
Winter has arrived- record early! First sledrun at 13
november. Of course no anchorhold, but still- first run on sled
last year was 4th of december. I run 2 x 6 dog teams so training
takes time and distance are limited.
Nayaks leg are a bit wiggely. Discovered that the large
tendon on front side of hock is not normal. It must have been
partly broken or overly stretched during the accident. This is
her main problem right now. I am unsure how this will end. Have
ordered a Back-on-track- hock support, maybe she can run short
runs in harness then. But she runs like the wind playing with
the pups, is up and down the steps to 2. floor again and also
jump into my bed (high one) and sleep there like before the
injury:) She have started to sleep in the dogyard when I am
gone-but I don`t think she appreciate it:)
Funny thing is that after having her pups and growing new coat,
Nayak suddenly got waves in her neck. Myrull is wavy and also
his brother Silver has this loong, wavy ruff:) Don`t know where
this came from!
Kaylo, who had problems with tense upper-thigh (gracilis)
muscles that made him only pace last year, is back to trotting
and galloping after stretching and massage. Crazier and stronger
than ever:) At age soon 6 he has started to bite both lines and
peoples butts!
Today we visited friends in Rakkestad with 3 of this years
pups, they looked mighty fine.
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10/11 Finally got
to harnessbrake my 3 puppies, Znoke
was as expected the most energetic one. Will be exiting to see
how they develope. Most of the pups from this years litters are
harnessbroken now and seems eager and happy to work.
Here are som recent pics of the pups
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1/11 Finally,
Nayaks pressure wound has closed, after almost 3 months!
Hanne was almost as happy as me, as it have taken a lot of time,
money and frustrations...Amputation was an option for a while.
Her progress walking with less and less limping is steady, but
still we need one last cheque with surgeon to rule metalsupport
in or out. I hope we can make it without operation...
One last rigrace last weekend too, NSHK and NAMK had a
race at Mangen wich was very soscial. Close race between
the 8-dog teams! Track was steadily up one way and downhill
back, Ravn had big trouble keeping up the pace so had to brake
for him this time.
Results here
Haidi, Tamsin/Iverdaughter is developing really nice.
From looking not so impressive as small , she is now very nicely
buildt and her overbite has decreased to just a tiny one. Looks
like her bite will be next to normal at the moment! Soon time to
harness my 3 pups, and if Haidi do fine in harness I will keep
her myself.
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28/10 Amount of
training is moderate these days. I think I will never get
competitive unless I move. And to move is some big step for me
due to working conditions etc. .And I just do not have the
inspiration to all the travelling in order to train
enough distances anymore (not that I ever did it to full extent).
I do not have enough will power to get out training when weather
is extremely lousy and pouring rain makes everything disgusting
either.. No good raceteam comes out of laziness.---
Sprintracing was never an option either, but since trainingareas
are limited, that is what I should aim for actually. We will see,
hopefully there will be some middle distance races this winter.
I should have a descent 8-dog team (12 in training all and all)
Anna just left for Sweden after som days visiting, and we have
been walking with Nayak and her dogs and she accompanied me on
rigtraining.
Pictures from
a nice, moonlight late run here. I expect Nayaks wound
to be closed in a few days now.
To my dissapointment, the hounds from hell-team with
Silenoz of Dimmu Borgir was not used in the
Abrahadabra-booklet after all (only wolfs) but picture will be
used in some other occation. But at the consert in Oslo, I found
this t-shirt with Tvilling and Ravn!!
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12/10 Another
rigrace 9/10 - on Skjelbreia with flat forestroads this time
Even with faster members at home (River and Tusse) they had a
good run
Lot of kids helping out at the turning point:) Good
soscialization for the dogs as allways these rigraces.
Results here
Changed Nayaks bandage today- small wound has closed, big one is
quite small now- so we se an end to it very soon!
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6/10 Rigrace again-
41 teams this time ploughing through the puddles. Cooler weather
and my team went 9 minutes faster on the 10km than first time.
Ravn and Graabein in lead, Dingo, Skarv, Tannik, Tvilling,
Sikpok and Kaylo was running this time. Since I took
pictures first, we got no passing training but ran all alone.
But do not have problems with it anyway, but good for the
younger dogs that did not meet other teams much yet since I
trained mostly alone from hom last winter. Sosciable evening
as usual for people and dogs.
Results here.
Gallery
with pics from rigrace.
River has had stitches for 2 weeks, what a clever boy who did
not remove them himself:) He must wait a little bit more before
running in team but he kept his toe intact! It looked really
ugly. Its good when the dogs are used to some indoor life, makes
it easier when things like this happens and they are not
supposed to have wet feet...
I am buying a large, welded cage to have permanent inside
in the kitche now, same type I have been borrowing from Lena
Haugen (thax a lot to Lena!). Out goes the furniture only chairs
left and top of cage as table. Doggyhouse??? ehem
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27/9 I have
been missing out Swedish SH spescialty (had entered 4
dogs but it got too stressful for me to get going this time) and yearly
huskyclub fallcamp and seminar in Hakadal I missed due to
workweekend. 3 events I usually look forward to in the fall.
I entered one show last year and so far none this year. The few
shows with judges one can show for, I miss out on the
entrancedates anyway.
Just changed Nayaks bandage again today, now its really
closing fast. About time after all this weeks...I can see an end
to it. When it is closed we will
go for swim training to regain muscle. She have allreaddy got
some muscle back in leg after being only bones and skin for
weeks and weeks. Scary how fast muscle dissapear in limbs not
used.
A week ago River split a pad rto the bottom during
training and have been stitched up. He has been living
inside for some days and are a really good boy, but is now
thrown outside since Nayak is in heat and its dry weather also.
I have surely used some meters of bandage this summer and some
money on wound dressings
I have now 6 females in heat (iao all of them) and I dont
train them much then since it means I have to bring
dogboxtrailer to haul them. Its a hassle to get the cart on top
and down 4 times when I train alone. Usually I get the 12
dogs in car and have the cart on a small trailer. Of course one
wish for possibility to train from home everytime fall arrives.
And as usually, the young boyz are idiots(and sometimes the
older too) and one feel like castrating them with bare
hands sometimes:)
But good to get finished with all females at once.
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27/9 Haidi has
spent the weekend with a family and behaved very well! She is
very contactseeking and sweet so this means it would make things
easier when she goes to a new home. Right now she looks really
nice and wellbuildt too. If it was not for the overbite, I would
have kept her. But if she DID not have that bite, she would have
been in another home anyway as young
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19/9 I was
planning to go away with the lavvu and all dogs this weekend,
but since there had been graveled with sharp rocks all over the
places planned to go, there were training at Gardemoen instead
Together with the same gang as yesterday + Hanne. A bit hot but
a nice day.
Pictures in the
Gallery
Afterwards Hanne and I cleaned Nayaks wound since she had bitten
a hole in bandage (it itches now that it grows good!) and we
both were very happy to see that it finally decreases fast and
look much better. Picture on news on 18 is when it was at
it worst, this one is from today.
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18/9 Rigracingtime- this time at the area I
usually train. Wet, humid and warm...longer and heavier trail
than usually on rigraces but good training. Brought the pups for
their first experience of being chained in noisy, hectic
environment. I ran Ravm, Graabein, River, Sikpok, Tusse, Dingo,
Tvilling, Tannik and Tamsin, Svein borrowed Kaylo.
We also train with other teams sometimes, witch is allways nice.
Fall is here! Not a depressing time for dogmushers....
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18/9 Last two weeks things are heading in
positive direction for Nayak. Her pressure wound finally
covered up enough for her to feel comfortable using her
injuried leg again. Its been 9 weeks now and
normally she should have used the leg much more, but the ugly
wound down to the knuckle has prevented her. Progress is steaddy
now though The cheque up last week with a surgeon at
Vetrinærhøyskolen showed that the injuried area is
stabile so far. These two weeks she don`t need to be
drugged for cleaning and changing bandages anymore. I am very
happy. As you allreaddy have figured out, I adore that dog.
But such an incident is difficult ...the thought of being
selfish and put an animal through suffering because it feels
unbearable to let them go. It gives me a lump in the stomach
when I se her beautiful face looking out of the window when I
load the other dogs for training.... But all and all animals
have the ability to make the best out of life and Nayak seems
mostly happy.
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18/9 Puppies are growing like weed. I have met several of
them lately. Seems that they are doing well in their homes, and
it is not so long now before we can harness them.
My pups are doing fine too. Myrull looking funny with curly coat
(my first curly SH, but I have seen some around) Znoke is
ekstremly agile, energetic, noisy and a whirlwind. Haidi has
developed nicely buildwise and now look much better buildt than
as small. She is coming into teethchanging now, so interesting
to see how her bite will develope. She is a friendly, wiggely
girl (impossible to take stackphotos of her)
Upper left: Myrull (and Ice behind), Znoke, Haidi, Haidi and
Znoke, Goofy, Ice, Tucker, Racer, Gihli and Goshe, Zima, group
of my pups, Ice and Racer
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31/8 Nayak and I send a big High Five to the very kind
Rizzi-Anzelini family on Alpen Hotel Corona
in the Dolomites, for sponsoring another Nay-La-Chee dog, this
time Nayak (River and Tvilling are adopted!) You guys are soooo
sweet!
And also to my veterinary sister Hanne who make it
possible for me to keep it up with Nayak. She have used quite
some time with Nayaks leg.
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30/8 Finally team Nay-La-Chee got going with the fall
training too. Ronny and I was out with the dogs in
harness for the first time since spring. Once the first
run is done its easier to get going. But at this time a year,
one allways wish it was possible to train from home...
As expected Nayak was quite stressed and upset when the others
were loaded. I knew this was going to be a hard part. But if I
go back inside after the others are in the car and quiet, and I
sit there for a while she calm down again so guess thats how we
gonna do it.
I have 12 dogs in training this fall, divided into two 6 dog
teams and the Dyck cart. Those are Ravm River, Sikpok, Kaylo,
Graabein, Skarv, Tamsin, Chasey, Dingo, Tusse, Tvilling and
Tannik. Jeni is still with Svein and Irene, but I might have to
take her back since Nayak is out and Tesslin is placed in
Rakkestad. Meanwhile Tusse and Tamsin is trying out lead
position some more, and some others will be tried too.
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30/8 This weekend we had a dog/peopleparty when Jana
Henychova from Tchekkia and Arnt Jensen From Alta met
here (I live near the airport) so Jana could get pup
Arnhild.
Arnt have Ivers sister Luna
and we have not met since he picked her up 12 years ago except
on Facebook that is:)
Also Hans Olav S with family from Stavanger turned up
seeking shelter from the pouring rain in Oslo. Quite funny,
my very few puppybuyers that have the same musictaste as I
(metall!!!!), one from further north of Norway, one from as
south as you can get, turning up here at the same time:) Nice.
Johanne S and her puppy Sapian also showed up so all and all it
was a soscial saturday for both people and dogs. Nayak were so
kind to the stranger puppies, she shared her toys even:) Good
girl!
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28/8 It`s been 8 weeks since
Nayaks accident.
We have found our routine living together 24/7. Status right now
is that the pressure wound is the biggest problem, so we stopped
using the rail a bit earlier than planned. Its hard to make the
wound-dressing stay on the wound since nothing can be tightened
very much and the rail and movement makes everything slide
downwards. As the wound was getting better, a dressing slid down
and teared of the flesh down to the bone and we are not back to
that stage before now.
But Nayak seems mostly happy, and are off painkillers. As
soon as wound is closing more, we will take a new x-ray to see
how things look. Her fractures are not the problem but the bone
without tendants. But while I thought only alternatives were
operation or put her down, I know now there is a possibility
that scartissue etc stabilize the leg so we dont need metal and
screws in there.
Hopefully she will soon be able to start walk on the leg again
and we will start with swimming to regain her muscles.
She is a darling dog for me and make me smile everyday.
Here`s an
album about Nayak
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26/8 This summer i
finally finished the dogyardbuilding! Unbelivable..Seeems
I have been building dogyards for 20 years... .I have reduced
number of dogs lately and made some new improvements that makes
things more practical. I moved the puppypens near the house
since I had such big horde of puppies this summer, and that was
much nicer than having them far away. I also enclosed another
part of my garden so that I have a fence outside my living room
with a new gate to the big pen inside that enclosure. It
was meant for easy access to puppypen/ bringing the pups inside
the house, but also got an unexpected use when Nayak got
injuried.
Besides its easy to take the dogs inside just letting them loose
in the big pen and open the gate.
I changed some old fenceparts and got a number of new doghouses
so now things are on track. Only thing missing is
to have light in the area.
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11/7 I am quite devastated right now. My most valued dog,
fastest, upcoming mainleader and spoiled housedog, beautiful
Nayak had a terrible and weired accident friday. She is a
climber and usually lives in a roofed pen, but have been
spending days in the larger pens with the puppies without
problems. Until she found out she would get to the window that
leads into my house and climbed a gate and her paw got stuck in
the gap between gate and gateframe as she launched over the top.
It caught her hanging on the other side with hock bent over the
gate in a very bad angle and it broke two bones and ripped
tendants in the hock. She has a cast on the leg and will most
likely have to have to undergo expensive operations and aftercare to
function in daily life. If she can ever run in harness again it
will be a wonder:( She is happy to be a housedog
again after the motherhood and sounds like a pirate with a
wooden leg. This was really depressing...Her very promising
sleddog-brother Dingo allreaddy tore a muscle from jumping and
landing akward last summer and I dont know how this will
affect him in the future.
Nayaks two pups Myrull and Znoke are some smart, enthusiastic,
energic pups that makes me crazy bathing away the water in every
kind of waterpen...
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28/6 Oh dear-time fly! Again... No energy to update here
for a while exept for the Gallerypages.- I finally got a new and
more advanced camera than the little Ixus, Canon Eos 550D.
I did not have time to go thorougly through the details of it
yet- but take a lot of pics and deleate most:)
Also had some other great equipment improvements during fall/
winter, a Lupine Wilma headlight and a Skunksled, both were very
welcomed indeed. The Skunksled were supposed to be a race sled,
but its tempting to use it since everything else I have seemed
so stiff and difficult to steer once I got used to it!
Heres a
video from this winter and the new sled
Guess Eveline K is right in her observation, people who are active on Facebook, get
kind of lazy to update homepages!
But some news under here from that period of time, for those NOT
on Facebook. I will try to update more regularly again.
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30/5 NSHK Spescialty: As last year I was show secretary and
could not show myself, but had a nice time at Frya Leir anyhow.
Me and Anne Kari picked up judge Mary Davidson at Oslo airport..
Worse when we left her there on the way home, got sms that she
was on the wrong airport! Turned out she got ticket back from a
different and far away location for the return but luckily got
home on stand-by!
Only Nay-La-Chees represented were Tokpok Lilletusse
and Tella from Trondheim. They did well, Tella was 1
juniorbitch with CK, Tusse nr 2 in the class. Congrats to the
winners!
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April 20 Puppies, puppies puppies! As you probably have seen
elswhere on this pages, there were a lively spring and forsummer
here. And I did not expect much pups at all after watching
Sepp looking totally uninterested in females in heat. The owners
claim he is bashful and maybe he is! Jenis litter
of 8 was a *gay-test* that lasted for a few seconds, when Nayak
was on the 16-17 day without him being interested. She was following him backwards almost, with tail bent for a week....He
finally bred her for a couple of minutes at 21 day. But there
were 14 very nice puppies after all. Tamsin did not want
nothing to do with the chosen male, but got pups with old Iver,
who was second choise. There might be one of her pups
available since she has a quite large overbite.
Exept for one, all pups have found nice homes with people I
know that mostly have dogs from me before. I kept two of Nayaks,
Myrull and Znoke and have one female on
breedingterm, Gihli, and a swop-pup male from Jenis
litter It has been a busy period, with loads of people
visiting the pups, they had different visitors almost every day
many times a day. It has been great fun with them, espescially
after they all moved together with the two mothers. No problem
to sit for hours and observe them (and cuddle of course although
14 pups have a lot of sharp teeth!
Nayak have been an impressive mum for the whole bunch! Jeni was
more tired of them. Jeni has gone back to Svein and Irenes
togehter with two pups, they will borrow her as leader in their
new little team, til I might need her myself.
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April An
entertaining afternoon when photographer Bjørn Ivar and Silenoz (Sven Atle
Kopperud) from Dimmu Borgir was here to shoot images for
the next Dimmu Borgir album. Ravn, Skarv,
River, Tvilling, Tannik and Graabein will appear as
Hounds from Hell, which they of course had natural
talents for at hookup-time:) Since
I opposed to most dogmushers, love Dimmu B music, I now
even more than usually look forward to their next album...due in
september.
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Season 2009/2010:
It was a good one for me, even if I did not race. For the
first time since I moved here, we had plenty snow on the fields
from 22 desember til end of march! Not ONE single day of +
degrees or rain for that period!
As usual, when november and december comes with icy roads, and I
do have a problem getting longer distances on the dogs without
travelling,, inspiration drops... I cannot train all dogs in
front of the Dyck cart and there are nowhere within 50
kmtrs radius where I can train all in front of wheicle either
since it was put up a new roadblock at Holter. To turn around a
team of 14 in front of car alone on a narrow road is not an
option for me.
Anyhow it was wonderful (and economic) with a whole winter
driving sled from home. One could get used to it, just hooking
up outside the dogyard...The distances we had open (my neighbour
and I) is not so long, but you can take loops and its quite much
up and downhill even if its fields. Unfortunatly we had only one
day of hard crust. Had a number of people joining on training
small teams on the fields and also some passengers once in a
while!
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21/12 09
Another year is soon over. We had some real good old cold winter
weather lately, but no huge snowfalls. But possible to train
with sled. We changed our plans for the winter a while ago and
there will probably not be much racing after all. Maybe some
late season races. I have placed some dogs and have at the
moment more yearling and pups (9) than older dogs in
training (8) We will enjoy winter without stress, and hopefully
get some good training on different things with the youngsters,.
Skarv was at his 3. and last chiropractic treatment from
G Wiik couple of weeks ago and his pelvis/back is now declared
back to normal. He has completely changed gate from choppy and
cowhooked to more floating movements, which make me
believe he had this problem since puppyhood. ( he limped severly
for a few days as youngster) I thought it was his build that
made those movements.... He has so much energy and really enjoys
to get going in the team again.
Katja Petrell, dogfysio/ masseur spent some hours here
again and went over some of the dogs. Jeni has improved a
lot, Dingo is also back in training, he still has some
swelling in the tibia-area but it did not feel too bad she said.
Kaylo had some real tense, stiff muscles in his thies,
and need regular massage. He has changed gate from decent trot
and gallop to a stiff choppy pace. Comparing dogs
movements on videos can be useful, and I try to understand more
of the mechanics that give injuries and problems. Now we gonna
be busy massaging and stretching for a while...
hmm...no doubt who is taking Noias place... Nayak. Here with
Noias toy and cromes from dried bread she stole from the counter
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5/12-09 My very spescial dog friend Noia ( Nuch
Nay-La-Chee`s Cool Running Kenoia), the *queen* of my
kennel, left us today in her 15. year. Time was right, she did
not seem to have much pleasure out of life anymore . Luckily ,
with help of Hanne, she was able to pass over sleeping in the
couch like normally, not noticing anything unusual. RIP Noia,
you will be missed! It will be a while before I stop
looking for that familiar face around the corner...
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23/11
November
is on with its dark, wet and muddy days.At least the ice melted
again so its possible to train with the cart.. Last season we
were on sled 1. desember, so there is still hope.
Been a while since update here, I have been busy with a new
website for
Snørokk. Visit it here!
We have entered a couple of rigraces, Few participants opposed
to the years before
Results here and
here
Rigrace team was Ravn, Graabein, Nayak, Tesslin, Tusse,
Dingo, River and Sikpok
A visit to chiropracthor G Wiik sorted out the problems of my 3
injuried dogs:
Skarv have had for a while (don`t know english
terminology of these things) a locked pelvis. He is allreaddy
much better after 2 treatments and will be completly well. Rough
play(his spescialty) have probably caused it.
Jeni have had a injuried front leg which destroyed her
racecareer for two season. She did not limp yet this year, but
turned out her leg is very stiff compared to normal. She has a
biceps tendenitis, the most common injury in front of sled
dogs...Daily massage and stretching will most likely fix her.
She is in training with a shoulderwarmer on, and we run slow in
downhills)
The worst case is Dingo, my best yearling ever. He have
the habit of doing high kangaroojumps at feeding time and in
june he landed akward on one hind leg which left him screaming
like a pig. But since he stopped limping quite fast I was
relieved that it went ok. But as training got harder he
stiffened up in this side. He has torne a muscle in his tibia
according to Geir. This can cause scartissue and problems in his
back that can affect him later.
So now he is out of training and gets massage every 2. day:( I
really cross my fingers for him.
Tvilling and Tannik, 6,5 months had their first tries in
harness, and as expected they worked good and behaved bad!
Noia turned 14 in october. She is mostly sleeping and
looking quite old now.She is constantly shedding, so I had to
take her inside yesterday despite all the hair
Above is JJ Yana, who lives with Ingvild in Folldal. She
reports that Yana is looking promising in harness so far
and is an easy grl to have around. But she she is a
talker like many relatives...
A while ago we trained in Rakkestad together with
Frank, Nina, Lars, Camilla (and Nora) Kjell and a glimps of Jan
I made a film that have been out for a while, but
link here
We finally got to try the big lavvo, the lavvostove and I
tried my campingbed
and it all worked very well. And its NICE to have a lot of
space inside! (we get mobbed or the 16 personlavvo)
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