Category: Dogs

The lead teams in the Yukon Quest will cross the finish line in downtown Whitehorse in a few hours, and I hope to be down there with my camera. Yesterday I volunteered to take 3 checkpoint volunteers up to Carmacks and Pelly Crossing, and the photos below are from...

For the past week, Cathy and I have been babysitting 2 dogs while my son and his partner prepare to move. It’s made for a very busy house! Yesterday morning before heading to the cruise office, I took them all out for a walk/play to put them in a...

Monty loves Spring as much as I do. He’s been digging a bed into the soft, aromatic dirt in what will some day be one of the flower gardens, but one of the rapidly-growing snow-free places out in the forest is a good place for an afternoon nap, too....

Yesterday was the start of the Yukon Quest, our 1,000-mile sled dog race that runs from Whitehorse to Fairbanks. This was a particularly exciting one for me, mostly because it’s the first time since 2003 that I’ve been able to attend (in previous years I’ve been out of town...

Back in the Fall of 2003 I met a strikingly handsome but “thrown-away” husky named Monty at the Whitehorse shelter, and we adopted each other. He had a very, very difficult time as a youngster (you can read his story at Everything Husky), but our relationship has deepened beyond...

We don’t actually live in igloos as many folks Outside apparently think, but check out this photo of one of our transit buses. I didn’t make this up – it’s a screenshot of part of yesterday’s Whitehorse Star home page (thanks to Smells Like Yukon for pointing out this...

I’ve just started rebuilding my badly neglected Everything Husky! site, and came across these photos that Cathy shot during the 2007 Yukon Quest race. I’ve missed a lot of the races the past few years due to being out of town on bus trips, and I’m really looking forward...

Monty and Kayla know that what’s really important is getting out of the house at least twice a day regardless of the weather. As soon as it gets light and then again about 7:00pm, we make a loop around the property, which takes 10-15 minutes depending on the number...

During a Yukon summer it’s easy to just sit back and enjoy the benign Nature that surrounds us, and even that is easily overshadowed by the rush of “things to do” that most of us have. This time of year, though, Nature is tough to ignore – she bites,...