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Fun run in Hill, NH some clips

Day one:






Day two:

Hill, NH

team SnowRunner came in second at the 12mile race in Hill, NH.
not bad for the puppy team.

the puppies first encounter with a snowmobile

except of Waya the three other pups in the team (Wolk, Lobo and Lund) did very well when the snowmobiles passed.

tough training

we had a nice trainings run today.

the 4th in a row but today we had 8" fresh snow. good for muscle building.

8 dogs

first time out with 8 dogs. it's a bit different than with 4, especially when there are 4 puppies in the team ;-).
That was yesterday at the Devils Den.

rig training devils den, 11-29-09, puppy team

I slowly figured out how to upload a video in HD. what you can see here is maybe just one percent of the quality of the original video. the original is in 1080p and I'm telling the truth it is blu-ray disc quality! I hope I will getting better with those codecs and settings how to upload a footage in best possible quality. The position of the camera needs to be adjusted too, I know.


The three puppies are fast - they think they are sprinters ;-) that was a 5mile run. Pure Quest, the old lead dog cant keep up with them any more. But he still knows a lot more tricks.

bow hunter

two weeks ago I came across some friendly bow hunters while training the dogs on ATV

the pics are frame-shots from the helmet cam

there is a new dog in town

I named him WaYa (Cherokee for Wolf). now we have three wolfs in different languages ;-)
10 month old, never trained, heavily overweight for a pup, I give him to the end of the year to loose weight and to get harness broken. hope to get him to the same level as the other youngsters by mid February. very friendly to our kids
promising? according to the breeder YES, but we will see.

Here some pictures mostly of him in the big kennel run.

morning run on Thanksgiving day

click to see it in smugmug.

World Championship Dryland in Saguenay/ Canada

some pics:

blog format

somehow the format of my blog is screwed up. I hve no idea why and how. all the additional gadgets
are positioned always below the post. No matter if I use different templates.

If I cant fix it I will change to wordpress.

we tried out the new trail in Pineland, ME where the DESDC has a race next weekend - that trail is just great 15-20 feet wide, no real steep hills no sharp 180, the dogs loved it.

I went out with Luc on the bike, then with Quest, the old trusted puppy-trainer. He trained Wolk, Lobo and Lund on the rig , and than again with Luc, Kaillou, Chinook and Lund.

you see in the clip below how the puppies behave the first 300m, Thanks to Mark for un-tangle them.

Hopkinton 2009

the first little warm up for the season.

1dog bikejoring with Luc.


2dog bikejoring with Kaillou and Lobo.



Lobo created a little bit of a tangle the first 100m. He didnt really understand whats going on but then he was ok for a 10months old.


4dog rig with Luc, Kaillou, Lobo and Lund.
The old guys did their job, the two puppies where a little bit confused and run fast but didn't really pull of course. It was only to show them all of the excitement of a race atmosphere and for that purpose it worked well, good experience for the pups.

The surprise of the day was again Wolk. I did the 1k canicross with him and he not just run great, he did also some great passings. Good job for a 6month old.

puppies training video

a little video of last weeks run (1.5miles) with the puppies.
Lobo, Lund and Wolk.

Surprise of the day was Wolk, who was so excited and eager to run with the older guys.
with his 5.5 months he starts to keep up. no pulling of course but did well without any major tangle.
Don't be worry, the paved part is only 200m long.

resting

after a nice rainy morning run:

puppy training

some pictures from last week training up the "blueberry hills" behind in our backwoods. first time using the ATV.

and here now the first time out with all three puppies:

Quest takes the for a 1 mile ride. the puppies are Lund and his brother Lobo (8.5 months) and also Wolk (5.5 months)

the surprise of this very first trainings run on a rig is actually the little Wolk. he seems to be enjoy the run with the big puppies and the big boss - Quest, his grand grand cousin

more pictures here

Wolk

A week ago the latest member of team SnowRunner arrived at our kennel. Quest and Wolk are "related" they are grand-grand-cousins.


He is 4months old and comes from "Howling Spirit" in Wisconsin.



on a hike last Sunday at the Devils Den

Wolk and Lund

Together with Lund, Lobo and another pup from Germany he will build up the future team.

new kennel run

Two weeks ago, I finally finished a long time project and closed up the fence for an additional 1.5-acre enclosure.

Still I do not know how the solution with the fence going through the brook last over the seasons. We will see.

As for the first kennel, I used again the heavy-duty PP 7.5' deer fence. It is easy to handle and to staple/nail to the trees. I only have to run a couple of electric fence wires.

As you can see in the pictures below the dogs of course, love it in there. It is kind of free running. We let them in only once a day for one hour or so shortly before they are fed.

and also a little video:

new member of the team

team snowrunner has 6 members again:

His name is Lund, he is the brother of Lobo.
They are 6 month old now. He is adjusting nicely.

It took him a few days to warm up to us but he immediately felt at ease with the big dogs and then with Lobo. He is quite the talker and does not let up easily when he wants to play with one of the big boys.

Slowly he is getting used to the leash and we have been trying to take him for walks to see how he responds with the other dogs. It is great fun to see him zipping around the dog yard with the other dogs.

Lund and Lobo