Puppy Training & Wolftrack Prep

Puppy Training & Wolftrack Prep
Feb 27th 2009
wolfmoonsleddog
Midwest
Location: Finland, MN
Time - 9:34pm Central Time
Temperature: Minus 15 degrees F (-26 C)
Conditions: Clear and still
Forecast: Cloudy tonight, low around -30F. Mostly cloudy tomorrow with highs in the teens and lows in the minus teens

We are having a rather intense cold snap right now. Fresh snow on the ground and clear sky. The cold air just settles right in.

We have been working with the puppies a lot lately, especially since the Vitamin A incedent in the race dogs. When I say puppies, I mean the dogs that are between 8 and 10 months of age - they’re coming up on a year now. We have been putting them in harness behind a couple of older lead dogs and going on fun 5-mile runs. One of my favorite groups of puppies is the Flowers - all named after flowers - Rose, Violet, Black-Eyed “Susan”, Poppy, Bluebonnet “Bonnie”, Lilly and “Lupie” Lupine. They are great little dogs but all the puppies are doing amazingly well and I love all of them.

Calypso has been coming along on the puppy runs and you can tell that she really enjoys them. She is so wooly! It’s hard to believe we’ve been here almost seven months now!

Blake and Jen are in Maine right now and will be running the Can-Am Crown 250. They have taken a lot of dogs with them - including a couple of dogs from my Beargrease 150 team. One of the dogs from my team, Yoda, is going to a new home. It was hard for me to say goodbye to him but I know he is going to a very good person and a good place.

In the meantime, I am preparing for the Wolftrack Classic 60-miler on Sunday. Vet check and musher meeting is tomorrow in Ely (here’s to hoping the truck will start with it being so cold). I am very excited about this race. My team (from leaders to wheel dogs) will be:

Fiona Deuce

Avery Hjordis

Hagar Kahn

Scotty Rocket

I ran this team the other day and they ran BEAUTIFULLY! I can’t wait to see how they do on the race trail Sunday!