Category: Dogs

The Truth About ‘Brutus’

October 9, 2008
I got an email this morning that told the amazing story of Brutus: The K9 above is Brutus, a military K9 at McChord. He’s huge – part Boxer and part British Bull Mastiff and tops the scales at 200 lbs. His handler took the picture. Brutus is running toward...
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Sprint sled for sale

Sprint sled for sale

September 30, 2008
This was an experiment that didn’t work. Kayla just wasn’t into being a sled dog and I don’t have the patience to try to convince her that it’s fun (she’s also getting arthritic so not a good idea anyway). Monty and I will go back to skijoring this winter....
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My husky Monty chewing on huge moose antlers.

The life of a country dog

September 3, 2008
Monty says, “Ah, the life of a country dog in the Yukon, with room to run, a corral full of mice to play with, the occasional mouse in the house – and when we get bones, we get serious bones!”...
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Huskies Kayla and Monty in the White Pass

Late Summer in the White Pass

August 28, 2008
Yesterday turned out much better than the forecast had indicated, and so the drive to Skagway and back was a much longer trip than I had expected. We stopped on the way to Skagway for a bit of a run at Tutshi Lake as usual, and then for a...
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Kayla my wolf hybrid snuggled with Latimer, my cat

Wolf hybrids & cats

May 4, 2008
Kayla is a such a sweet dog I often chuckle at how she came into my life, and about the wolf-hybrid horror stories that circulate. She’s a registered wolf hybrid from a breeder in Ocala, Florida. When she was abandoned in Whitehorse, I took her in with the understanding...
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Senior sled dogs need homes

March 16, 2008
I just got this message from Michelle Phillips: I am writing concerning Thalina Tchulokvsky. For those of you that know her Thalina is a renowned bush woman. She has lived most of her life in the bush with her close companions – her sled dogs. Some of you might...
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Dogs being killed in traps

January 31, 2008
There seems to be an increase in the number of dogs in Alaska and the Yukon being killed in traps in recent years. The buffer between recreation and trapping areas has apparently been reduced if not eliminated. The death of another dog in Indian, Alaska, has prompted the Anchorage...
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Christmas dinner at the zoo

Christmas dinner at the zoo

December 26, 2007
We had a wonderful Christmas Day – a superb brunch with Sharon, Laura and Randy and then dinner at our place with Steve and Rachel. We had a huge turkey dinner and the fur-kids (4 dogs and 3 cats) were great – very patient even when Rachel starting handing...
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A heart-warming husky story

November 20, 2007
What can you do when one of your working huskies goes blind? Certainly she can’t continue to pull tourists across the tundra around Churchill, Manitoba. Or can she?? When husky cross Isobel went blind 3 years ago, some of Jenafor Ollander’s friends said that she might as well shoot...
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