Besides ( hopefully ) compeeding in the Polardistans Race with 2 six dog teams in the 160 kms class,
 I have decided to attend 1 middistance race: the Polarhundsmästerskab in week 5.
I will attend this race with a six dog team going 2 x 50 kms.

The New Nordic Open is also tempting, but I think it´s too close to my arrival to Sweden, and my dogs will not be ready for a
Middistance race - maybe next year :)

Departure is still getting closer - I hope to leave muddy hot 'n' humid Denmark in a few days :)))

LONGING FOR THIS SIGHT!!!

X-ray of Axia´s Baguette´s chest showed enlargement of her heart :(
This means  lazy indoor relaxation for the rest of her life and medication to support her heart.

Today India da Casa das Thuyas went to her first exhibition.

She got:
Excellent with CK - Best Junior Bitch - Best Bitch with Certifikat and was BOB  - BIS 3 Junior

:)))))))))))))))))

I HATE MUD !!!!!
This november has been the worst, I can remember!
The dogs suffer from the hot and humid weather, and I find it VERY hard to be fond of training my dogs in DK!
My Axia´s Baguette has had two incidents now - tumbling over very soon after start - in deep trouble!
- we will examine her on monday with focus on heart failure :(
I have retired her now, and she has moved indoor living together with Huskygaarden´s Rani - and she really really LOVES it!!

© Henriette Linde
PHEW - IT´S HOT HOT HOT!!

I am speeding things up now and hope to leave Denmark as soon as possible for my winter stay in Sweden :))
I will stay up there till the end of march, so MANY things have to be done before leaving....

HAPPY HAPPY 8. BIRTHDAY TO MY THREE WONDERBOYS:

IGAIS Tassar Callisto, IGAIS Tassar Isidore Polaris and IGAIS Tassar Deimos

All three are VERY good dogs - Callisto being my best male and the two brothers among my top 5 males!

I HATE danish weather - the humidity is mostly too high for sleddog training - seldom below 90 %....
This november has been extremely rainy - mudwrestling is what we do during training!
I do my best to ensure the dogs well-being.
We still go short distances - take a lot of short brakes and let the dogs cool off during the trip.
But all the same it´s very very demotivating, and next year I plan to do it differently!!
STAY TUNED :)

My new Danler Flexmax 180 has arrived :)

This is my third Danler sled, and I must say, that Ernst Danler as always has exceeded my expectations!
It is a really sublime sled - so many breathtaking details - so many brilliant ideas put into one sled!

My " Pink Panther-Girlypower-Traileating-Racingmachine"  :)

Jan went to Sweden this weekend to finish the dogyards  :)

My two Frost 'n' Fun pups are VERY good in harness!
Frost 'n' Fun Jubilee Jewel ( BLING )	Frost 'n' Fun Juice

They are both small, lightly build speedsters - future super-leaders ??  :)

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS IMPRESSIVE SIGHT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFP28ANXLLA

WOW AND ONCE AGAIN: WOW!!!!

I have 23 dogs in training this season................
This is a VERY hard task, if one has to do it alone - but this season I have two brilliant helpers - two "doggie-girls" with the right touch for dogs, and with a brilliant ability to learn and cope with this quite odd way of dog-life :))
 - and during my 3½ month stay in Sweden 6 - 7 helpers will join me and help me train and tend my dogs for the Polar Distans :))
I feel very very lucky!

This is the first season for my pups: Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox,
Yaz´Yarkova´s Flickering Firefox, Frost 'n' Fun Jubilee Jewel and Frost 'n' Fun Juice.
All 4 cope well and seem promising for the future - and as I expected and hoped for:
Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox is nothing less than brilliant!!!!
She has allways been a very special girl, and it by now clearly looks like she has inherited her mother´s fabulous abilities
- her mum being my best dog of them all: Yaz´Yarkova´s Zavarinya
- happy happy lucky me!!!
 

For nearly one week Jan and I have been working Our butts off to build new dogyards in Sweden.
We have chosen to build traditional dogyards instead of the elements I got stolen up there.
It´s so much bigger a job, but allso so much more difficult to steal - hopefully....
We brought with us the indoor dogs: Coverdale´s Karima, Ailicia´s Graceful Galina,India da Casa das Thuyas,
Malou at Yaz´Yarkova and Huskygaardens Rani.

We didn´t have the time to complete the job, so Jan will go up there in a few weeks time to do so....

Today I went to Nørre Sundby to pick up the fence for my new dogyards in Sweden.
I brought with me Coverdale´s Karima, Ailicia´s Graceful Galina and India da Casa das Thuyas - we had
invited ourselves to visit my friend Jytte and her three borzois.
We had a really nice afternoon up there - Indi meeting strange borzois for the first time in her life....
She was sweet and friendly towards them - and they on their hand were very kind towards Indi despite her strange apperance.
 

This weekend I went to a VERY fantastic seminar with the Norwegian wolf ekspert Runar Næss.
The subjects were puppie development and dog-language.
Runar Næss is an incredibly skilled person when it comes to dog issues, and besides that he is a very entertaining lecturer.
A really really good way to spend a weekend!!

Today I held a lecture at FOF Århus about the wonderful sleddoglife :)

 Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox, Flickering Firefox, Zavarinya, Tacky Toffee and IGAIS Tassar Callisto came with me
- all doing a splendid job representing the breed in the best way!

The temperature is beginning to look promising now - this is the forecast for the next week:

It looks very very good - the temperature will lower 5 - 10 degrees compared with this week, so HOPEFULLY this tendency
is here to stay, so I can start training my dogs  :)))))))))
The farmer has finished working on the fields around our property, so next week I´ll prepare the track - setting up 200 poles to
guide the dogs ....
 

It seems, that I´m always the last musher in DK, when it comes to start of the training season....
Our climate changes rapidly, and when I started training my dogs in the middle of the eighties, we usually could start in August.
This is absolutely impossible today - start of the season gets later and later, if You wish to ensure the dogs health and well-being.

All the years I have been in this wonderful sport, I have tried to train my dogs according to two simple rules:

1 : Never train a polar sleddog, when the temperature is above 15 degree celcius.
2: Even when the temperature is below 15, Never train a polar sleddog, when the temperature added to the humidity exceeds 80.

These two rules have been aknowledged by serious mushers thoughout all time as very good and simple rules, when it comes to
training polar sleddogs in hot and humid parts of the world.
These two rules have one very simple goal:To ensure the dogs health and well-being.
If the dogs are trained neglecting these two rules, they are very prone to overheating, which can ruin a dog for life.

Within the last 24 hours we here at my place have had temperatures and a humidity according to the two graphs below:

This graph shows the temperature during the last 24 hours. Temperature on vertical axis and hour of day on horisontal axis.

This graph shows the humidity during the last 24 hours. Humidity on vertical axis and hour of day on horisontal axis.

If You add the numbers, You will get a table looking like this:

What was meant to be a short, relaxed time in my little Swedish paradise, turned out to be something very different....
Thieves had stolen 1/4 of my dogyards, and as I strongly believe, they would return, I decided to pull down the rest and
take them with me back home to Denmark.
It seems that one have to build second-rate dogyards up there - anything else is too tempting :(

Now I´ll install a sensor based alarm system up there, and hope this will prevent further thefts.

Besides that I had a nice week up there.
I brought with me my couch-potatoes: Coverdale´s Karima, Ailica´s Graceful Galina, Huskygaarden´s Rani,
Malou at Yaz´Yarkova and India da Casa das Thuyas, who now is old enough for the travel to Sweden.
IGAIS Tassar Polaris, Sassicaia´s Moonlight Magic, Braveheart and Snowfall´s Million Dollar Muffin also came along.

Something´s missing ( not very SH secure .... )

Malou at Yaz´Yarkova - my little extra something :)

Karima and Indi in a quiet mood

..... COUCH POTATO :)

How does one know where the chewingbone ends and the couch begins ??? I mean: they are both made of cowskin .... how on earth can one blame a doggie-girl ????  ;)

Allthough Indi ought to be a rough ´n´ tough guard dog roaming together with her flock of sheep in the
Portugese mountains, she REALLY enjoys the lazy Danish life including chewbone consumption on a leather couch.
She is beginning to show her inner toughdog - getting more and more watchfull.
I have seen her angry once - not a nice and peaceful sight!
Buying a dog with the internet as sole guidance can be a risky thing to do, but in Indi´s case it has been
a success so far.
She 120 % lives up to my expectations - sweet and social with her family, and with a  watchful but healthy
attitude towards strangers.
 

This weekend I have attended a massage course at the Danish Kennel Klub.
Saturday I brought with me Malou at Yaz´Yarkova, and sunday Ailica´s Graceful Galina acted as playmate for me
-  both were VERY sweet and patiend with my fumbling :)
It was a fine course - I learned a lot, and hopefully I´ll find the time to massage some of my competition-dogs.
I have no doubt, that it would do a difference - but it takes 1 hour pr week pr dog.
The coming season I aim for 12 dogs in competition ( two 6 dog teams at Polar Distans ) and it is quite naive to think,
that I can find 12 extra hours pr week....
 

They say that bad luck always comes in threes ....
Yesterday IGAIS Tassar Callisto - today Yaz´Yarkova´s Zcirocco II :(

My bitches are in heat, and this morning IGAIS Tassar Ziggy Stardust
 removed 1/2 of Zcirocco´s right ear in one gobble through the fence.
As the amputation wasn´t the most perfect seen, we anæsthetized Zcirocco and made it a bit less ugly.
I decided to let him castrate while sleeping.
His joint-popping-toe might give him so much trouble, that I´ll decide to retire him
 allready this season, and I have no doubt, that he will cope better with this as neutered.

Not THAT pretty anymore - the left ear was snipped several years ago by Lonyo, and at that time I thought it
looked really really bad ....so what´s to say now?

Hope they are wrong and that bad luck only comes in twos....
 

The bad news is that IGAIS Tassar Callisto is sick :(
- the good news is that it´s a condition, we can do something about :)

He has had blood in his urine on and off this summer, and today we examined him thoroughly.
His prostate is hugely enlarged - a condition a substantial number of intact male dogs get, when they grow older.
Earlier on you would castrate such a dog, but today it is possible to give the dog medicine.
Callisto is my best male ever, and it is impossible for me to even THINK castration in his case, so hopefully
the medical cure will do the trick!

Now I need to ensure, that I won´t get into trouble in a doping test - waiting for an answer from the producer....

Today Yaz´Yarkova´s Flickering Firefox went training at Lone Greva´s place - GOOOOOOOOOOD BOY !!
 

This weekend Indi and I went to a tracking seminar.
The instructor was Kaare Dalslet - a policeman who has trained police dogs for many years.
He is very experienced and only uses positive, soft training methods.

The seminar was splendid - I learned a huge amount of new stuff - Kaare does thinge VERY different from all
the other instructors I´ve met ....

Indi coped very well - she was a bit timid at times and sleeping in a tent was VERY spooky. I believe it
reminded her of the dreadfull enclosure she experienced on the plane, when she flew to Denmark 4½ months ago.
But she finally gave in and slept happily for 9 hours :)

I have accepted, that Indi really doesn´t see any reason in obedience training - not even with a clicker ....
But it seems, that she enjoys tracking  - so hopefully this weekends kick in my but will encourage me to
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ;)

Unfortunately one of the other participants brought with her a very unstable male dog, who THREE times
made an aggressive attack on Indi :(  - shame on the owner!
This took some of the joy out of the weekend - I DO NOT want this to happen to my 8 months puppie!
 

My dogs are so totally allowed to be on my furniture - so quite often I buy new ( used ) leather couches.
This is always a HIT :)

Galina totally enjoying life in a leathery manner....

Lure Coursing today with Karima and Galina.
One splendid run for Karima - unfortunately Galina´s co-runner ( a huge male borzoi ) found more pleasure in
chasing Galina than the "hare" :(
Galina was quite spooked by this, and as the machine wich pulls the hare broke down soon after this incidense, she did not have the chance for a nice run afterwards - not good.

Next time I´ll let my two girls run together to ensure that Galina has some good runs!

Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox alias Sloffy started at clicker training today - I chose her of all my huskies, because I have high hopes for her as a future lead dog, and this training will be a huge benefit for me in this matter.
 

Today Indi started training at DcH.
She has not changed even a tiny bit during summer holidays - stubborn and unfocused as usual :)
 

Lure Coursing today with Karima and Galina.
They were thrilled, and both had 2 very fine runs.
Galina showed her best ever - I believe that her daily wild playing with Indi makes a huge difference.

I have started training both on bicycle now to give them ( and me ) a better condition.
 

Today I celebrate the birthday of Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox and her brother Yaz´Yarkova´s Flickering Firefox.

One year has passed - it´s very hard to believe ....
I am very happy with the two - they have not been tried in harness yet, but I believe they will fullfill my hopes and expectations :)

Summerholidays are now at their highest, so I work in my dog hotel from 7 am to 11 pm every day, and have done so for 4 weeks now .... talk about tired !

My own dogs are VERY patient with me - I keep telling them, that accepting this period of neglect will be fully rewarded
the coming year !

Planning for the next VERY exciting season in full progress - I am so excited with the thought of going longer
distances from now on.
I will have a track a home, as soon as the farmer has harvested the crop - here I´ll do most of the training.

All dog obediense training is on summerbreak, but we start again in august - nice nice :)
 

Indi and I went to the Danish Kennel Klubs yearly event in the Tivoli Friheden in Århus today.

A huge amount of different dogs were present, and Indi had so much fun there.

My sweet teenager Indi

 I just returned yesterday evening after 10 nice days containing nothing much but full relaxation in my little
house in Sweden :)

I brought with me my Borzois, Malou and the T-litter bandits.
I also brought my ATV and took some time exploring the dirtroad possibilities for autum-training - hopefully this will
be possible this autumn....

It´s always SO nice up there, and my little house was well and cosy.

Yaz´Yarkova´s Tasty Titbit looking cute

Malou exercising her favourite position :)

I have decided to make a very far-reaching change in my sport.
I have been training my dogs for sprint distances for more than 20 years now, and the time has come for changes.
Week 10 in 2010 I hope to be at the starting shute for Polardistans 160.

This means a completely new way of training and even THINKING sleddogs....
For the time being, I can´t comprehend HOW different this will be for me and my dogs!
This first race will have one goal only: to participate and finish with all the dogs happy and well.
I really have NO idea as to wether my dogs and I will be capable of this task....

I have started to purchase all the different stuff allready now.

First and very important:

My longdistance-sled.
Naturally a Danler FlexMax :)

My decision unfortunately also means, that I have to wait a year to buy my Dyck cart :(
But it will be VERY expensive to participate in this race, so I have to choose.

Second:

Cloathing for the dogs:

Yaz´Yarkova´s Flickering Firefox alias Æffer attended juniordog class today.
 

Allmost every day I train basic obedience and different tricks with 1 husky from each dogyard = 9 huskies.
This I do to give my dogs mental stimulation and satisfaction - a task wich is very difficult to fullfill in a
multidog kennel like mine.
It allso gives me a stronger bond to my dogs, wich obviously is a huge benefit !
Up till now I have only worked with traditionel guided operant methods with my huskies, but I have now decided
to condition them on the clicker, and try this wonderful method on them :)
 

Frost 'n' Fun Juice alias Juicy went to juniordog training today.
 

Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox alias Sloffy went to juniordog training today.
 

Indi started clickertraining at "Hund og Træning" today - seems very promising :)
 

Again today I went to the eyespecialist with Yaz´Yarkova´s Flickering Firefox.
He had asked permission to examine him again, and this time compare him with his sister
Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox .
This comparison unfortunately showed, that Æffer´s sight-nerves are a bit too small :(
The veterinarian thinks that Æffer has normal eyesight by now, but he will always be at a bigger risk of becoming blind....
 

Braveheart has a very seldom disease: Lucoid Lupus Erythematosus :(
I have treated him with huge doses of Corticosteroids for 3 weeks, and his symptoms are nearly gone.
Hopefully I can keep his disease under control in the future with lokal treatment!

Indi went to training at Dch today.
She worked very well - I actually believe I saw her in 4. gear for the first time :)
 

Indi went to training at DcH today.
Not our usual training session but a special one my trainer arranged for me and Indi to introduce track work
in the korrect manner.
Indi has tried it a few times before, and she is happy and works well on the track :)
 

Frost 'n' Fun Jubilee Juwel alias Bling went to juniordog training today at Hanne Kornerup´s place.
 

Yaz´Yarkova´s Flickering Firefox alias Æffer attended juniordog class today.
Working very well all in all.
 

Indi went to training at DcH today.
She was VERY speedy and unfocused today - but brilliant in micro seconds :)
 

Frost 'n' Fun Juice alias Juicy went to juniordog training today at Hanne Kornerup´s place.
Hanne´s boyfriend Henrik Sørensen took these nice pictures - THANK YOU :)

	Now WHO said, that a Siberian Husky can´t koncentrate....????
Learning to be close together with dogs of every kind.	She is SO sweet and beautiful :)

 

Today Jaranga´s Ask died.
He has been living for several years at Pia Lykke´s kennel.
He was a very sweet dog - the only reason I let him leave my kennel was, that he could not cope with
my other dogs high speed.

Once every year in the spring, the danish forests invite people to come and hear about all the activities,
that takes place the year around in the forests.
I sometimes find time to participate with my dogs, and today I went bringing 8 huskies:
 Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox, Flickering Firefox, Zavarinya, Zaffaraya, Zcirocco II, Tacky Toffee,
IGAIS Tassar Callisto and Axia´s Baguette and Indi.

It´s a huge experience for the dogs - lots and lots of people of every size, sex and age have patted, cuddled and
hugged my dogs for 4 hours.
The arrangement lasted 5 hours, but in the end my dogs were SO tired, that I put them into the car.

My friends Christina and Pia were there assisting me - THANK YOU GIRLS - I owe You !

Today I went to an eyespecialist with Yaz´Yarkova´s Flickering Firefox.

His eyes have always been lying quite deep in his head, and his 3. eyelids are partly covering his eyes
- all in all it has allway looked as if his eyes are a bit too small for him ....

He has a condition that´s called Microphthalmi - small eyes.
The reason, I went to the vet, was to get an opinion as to wether his eyes are unnormal in any other way.
This condition is often related to other problems in the eye - but in Æffer´s case the eyes are normal
besides the size :)

So the conclusion is, that his eyesight is as good as a falcons - allthough a very small one .... ;)

To make the days misery complete, we took an x-ray of Indi´s hips.
She makes a clicking sound when she walks, and besides that she has a very rolling way of walking ....
Her hips were not super - but I find it quite difficult to estimate the severeness of them.
She IS very young and not at all finished in her development, and I have never seen pictures of an
Estrela puppy´s hips before - so I will not put anything into it yet.
But all the same I´ll start adding supplements to her food - Glucosamine and Chondroitinsulfate.
 

Indi and I started training at DcH today :)
She worked VERY well - my daily work with the clicker during the week surely payed off !
I´m still thrilled about this Club and it´s trainers - they do a splendid job !!

Frost 'n' Fun Jubilee Juwel alias Bling started juniordog training today at Hanne Kornerup´s place.
WOW an airy spirit she is!!
I NEVER let my huskies loose without a loooong rope at training - most of them would probably not run away,
but I most certainly believe that she would !!
She remembered everything from puppy class like her sister - impressing.
 

Coverdale´s Karima and I went for a walk arranged by the sighthound club today.
The most beautiful scenery round a small lake - nice!
After the walk Christina Pape ( my kennel assistant in the winter 2007 ) held a small lecture about dog massage.
A nice arrangement - thanks folks.
My friend Pia also came with her German Shepherd Nando.

A hot hot day.

I went to an all day theory and practical session in the lokal DcH club today with Indi, and I feel SO lucky!!!
One of my trainers is totally hooked on clicker training, and she fully supports me in my wishes for Indi.
Besides that she is one of the best dog trainers in Denmark, when it comes to the Nordic Programme, wich
is what I would like to compeed in ( if ever indi agrees ..... )

This is really great, and I feel like I have won the lottery :)

The other DcH club I visited 14 days ago was much more reluctant towards these modern methods,
and besides that the foremann has stated, that he did not want a Lone Greva student in "his" club ................
An opinion, that he shares with nobody else, but all the same, I will not bother to go further into the matter.

I have found a WONDERFUL DcH club, and that is all that counts !
 

Indi and I payed my good friend Pia a visit today again-again.
She is educated at Lone Greva´s school, and besides that she has taken a lot of courses in clicker training.
So she helped me getting started with this way of training Indi, and it turned out, that my little girl is very bright
and learns very fast.
She IS allthough a dog with a very quiet temperament, and this must never ever be mistaken for stupidity!!!!
She demands very much patience of the owner, and she is SO different to work with than any
other dog I have ever met - a huge challange and so much fun.
Maybe she can even lower my blood pressure :)
 

Indi went ALL day with me to Lone Greva´s place.
Once a month I go there for teaching, and often we bring our own dog.
Indi is a VERY special dog - normal training methods does not work very well with her it seems - she is
VERY independent and often choses to TOTALLY ignore me and my intentions.....
This caracteristic IS described in various descriptions of the breed - but one thing is to read about it - a very
different thing it certainly is to face a 4 month young puppie who wouldn´t give a rat´s ass !!!

According to Lone I have to work with 100 % operant conditioning on her ( clicker training ).
So I have whiped the dust off my clicker - and hopefully I´ll succeed in convincing her the benefit of
cooperating with me :)
 

Frost 'n' Fun Juice alias Juicy started juniordog training today at Hanne Kornerup´s place.
I´m very impressed of the amount of things she remembers from her puppy class training.
She is sweet, SPEEDY and great fun :), and she is VERY good with other puppies no matter size or breed - this actually
goes for all the 4 youngsters in my kennel - NICE!!!!

Indi went ALL day to the puppy training at FOF in Lone Greva´s regie.
We did this to give her loads and loads of positive, happy experiences - and I must say, we managed :)
She was a spectator in the morning hours, and in the afternoon she participated in puppy class.
Everybody just loves my little girl - dogs and humans with no exceptions!  
                   

Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox alias Sloffy went to juniordog training today.
A little less concentrated than I´m used to - I think she might be coming into her first heat soon.
Her mother has just started - her first heat since she gave birth 8 months ago - and maybe she will
drag her daughter along.
Æffer is VERY unhappy being separated from his mother and sister for the first time in his life :(
 

Yaz´Yarkova´s Flickering Firefox alias Æffer attended juniordog class today.
He is VERY eager - almost too eager - and very hard to calm down to a level where he can consentrate.
But all the same it´s great fun :)
 

I went to a theory evening at a lokal dog club under DcH ( a huge national club offering obedience training
for family dogs of all breeds ).
This spring I will attend puppy training with Indi in DcH regie in two different lokal clubs - and after summer holidays
I will continue in the club, I like the best.
 

Today I took Indi, Yaz´Yarkova´s Zavarinya, Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox,
Yaz´Yarkova´s Flickering Firefox, Axia´s Baguette, Frost 'n' Fun Juice,
Frost 'n' Fun Jubilee Jewel and Ailica´s Graceful Galina for a visit at kennel Frost 'n' Fun.

We had 10 Siberians, 1 Borzoi and 1 Estrela playing together in their garden.
All having GREAT fun, and Indi was completely happy and confident with all the other dogs.
She is SO WELL socialized with other dogs and strange people - VERY impressing - and I must praise Pedro for
doing such a good job!!

I had a VERY nice day together with Lotte, Peter, Nicole and Michael.

Pictures taken by Lotte Frost ©

I truly admire You Auntie Galina	Junior whispering sweet things to Indi
Not always THAT much fun posessing the ball..	My two Frost 'n' Fun beauties :)
Oh so many wonderful dogs	Galina is a wee bit surrounded.... ( find Indi :))
Eating goodies on the grass without quarrelling	My sweet little lapdog Indi

This  wonderful spring afternoon, we took Indi and IGAIS Tassar Zorba Sundance for
a walk in the woods :)
 

Indi and I payed my good friend Pia a visit today.
Pia has two sweet German Shepherds Ollie and Nando and a very qute Jack Russel Terrier Fifi, who
has two 4½ weeks young puppies.
She has horses, donkeys, a goat and cats, so it was very very good socialization for my little Indi.
She was calm and laid back and took everything in beautifully :)

I attend puppy / juniordog training several times each week - at Lone Grava´s place and also at Hanne Kornerup,
who is educated at Lone´s school.

Today I brought Yaz´Yarkova´s Slithering Slowfox alias Sloffy.
I am SO impressed with her willingness and her constant attention.
She is a very nice puppy to deal with - extremely smart and a very fast learner!

Apparantly Galina was injured during Lure Coursing saturday :(
She showed no signs what so ever during her run, and she walked completely normal, when I walked her after her run.
But when I took her out of the car at home, she was limping on her right hind leg...
Today we chose to x-ray her, and luckily there were no broken bones.

Malou broke a toe in january, as some of You might remember.
This fracture has given us a hard time being quite unwilling to heal, and finally today we took of the cast for good.
She has been an absolute darling never ever touching the cast :)

Indi started puppy class at Lone Greva today - a bit timid but all in all coping well.
 

Karima, Galina and I went to Lure Coursing today.
The Danish Sighthound Club has decided to begin offering this wonderful activity here in the western part of Denmark :)

My girls were VERY happy and eager!

Indi is growing happier each minute now, and I teach her new stuff every day - it´s a bit different living here in Denmark,
 and she has a LOT of things to learn!!
Walking on a leash in one of these new things .....
First time I put it on her and tried to lure her with me, she took one loooong look at me - turned 180 degrees and sat down on her behind totally ignoring each and every attempt from me to catch her attention :) - what a funny girl!!

I have to take miniature steps in her learning - PATIENCE is the way.
She is now quite good at searching for her breakfast in the grass - her tail wagging happily all the time.

She is VERY social with other dogs of every kind, size and colour - meeting a lot of them through the fence to my playing area for the guests at my dog-hotel.

She is fully integrated in my indoor dog-flock - each and every one of them bidding her wellcome in the most friendly way :)

A huge day yesterday :)

I went to Copenhagen Airport to pick up my little puppy Indi.
She came alone on a plane from Portugal - a frightening experience, and she was really spooked and unhappy!
She is absolutely wonderful, and today she gets more and more bold and happy!!
 

 For quite a while now, I´ve been looking for a good guard dog, and yesterday I took the final decision :)

It has been quite task to find the right breed, as I have MANY criterias for this dog!

I need a very alert and vigilant dog, who at the same time has to be calm, laid back
and VERY sociale towards friends and my other dogs - quite conflicting characteristics!
A dog that has a NATURAL guarding instinct - capable to estimate the situation on its own.
A dog that will guard me and my flock as a natural task - no matter what species my flock contains of.
Not too big and not too small - not too short haired nor too longhaired.

Quite a puzzle !!!!

So here she is:

India da Casa das Thuyas

She is a CAO DA SERRA DA ESTRELA - a Portugese shepherd - in the past and present used as a guard dog
protecting the farmer´s sheep from wolves, stray dogs and thieves.

I will of course attend training with her to ensure that her watchfullness is formed and directed by me -
and nobody but me!

I have ordered a new Fritz Dyck training cart for the next season :)

Some time ago I put a danish add on my site, seeking for a training partner for the coming season.
One of my friends from the past suddenly emerged, and she convinced me, that SHE is the person I seek....

This way, I got a SPLENDID excuse for buying a new cart, as the ones I have aren´t that suitable for two persons...
I am interested in selling my nice three wheeled trainingcart made of stainless steel, app 65 kgs,  if anybody is interested...?

- contact me for further information / pics...:

Aint she cute ? :))) :

My macropups and micropups grow with incredible speed.
My camera is ruined, so unfortunately I can´t take pics at the moment :(
The three girls are just beautifull, and the boy claims that he also is working on becoming so ....
They have really really nice tempers - I go to puppy / youth training with them, and they are very well behaved!!
LOVELY LOVELY LOVELY PUPZ !!!!
 

Today I start on my new education as Dog-instructor - ( or rather: Dog-owner-instructor :) )
I have chosen to educate myself at Lone Greva´s school - a VERY well-reputed education based
only on positive reinforcement.
 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE FABULOUS 5

At the Swedish Polardog Klub Championchips Michael, Fox, Gibson, Rocket and Jack from Frost´n´fun
 won the 4 dog class !!!!
( need I say, that Fox is the father of my two macro wonderpups, and Gibson is the father of my two micro wonderpups ?? :))

Splendid job boys :))))

When I chose to breed Yaz´Yarkova´s Zavarinya and bought Frost 'n' fun Jubilee Jewel
and Frost 'n' fun Juice, I knowingly "spoiled" my winterholiday this season.
I can´t bring the pups into Sweden before bloodtesting them at 7 months, and I don´t want to leave
them for a significant amount of time :(
So I have just returned after 12 days in Särna - 12 nice days with relaxation and planning for
my future!
The sledding conditions were not the best - ice and running water, but all the same I enjoyed my
stay up there.
During my short stay up there Frost 'n' fun Jubilee Jewel
and Frost 'n' fun Juice had grown looooong legs, backs and ears :))
They attend puppy training at Lone Greva - just like my big pups did, and they are very fond of it!

Huskygården´s Rani now have permanently moved indoor, and he is allready a skilled bed-dog....

Having just celebrated Huskygården´s Lonyo´s 16 th birthday, his kidneys sadly gave up.
After two days of intencive treatment and loving care, I realised that this was a permanent condition and gave him peace.

This loving dog has meant SO much in my life.
Together with his sister - the increadibly sweet Huskygården´s Libra - he has given me my first
wonderful real sleddog experiences.
I love him dearly, and the loss is overwelming!

Today my beloved Huskygården´s Lonyo can celebrate his 16. birthday!

He is still VERY fit - he has his ups and downs, but wouldn´t we all at that age ? :)