Early YearsĪt the start of 2011 we had a surprise litter from Grumpy – Trouble’s sister. In 2010, Trouble gave birth to 7 pups whose names all begin with ‘T’ (Tundra, Taiga, Terror, etc). In the autumn of 2009, Matsku (and Jopa) gave birth to the five ‘planet’ pups – so called since they are named after planets (Mars, Mercury Mick, Pluto, Venus and Saturn). Hulda, one of the most difficult dogs on our farm came from here, and she continues to challenge us when near other females. ![]() ![]() After two years of work and some castrations, they are all finally running. 8 months, (the Meggy, Merlin 2, Muller etc litter from Bandit) when they arrived and needed lots of extra attention. Some of these were experienced runners, but six were incredibly shy (and aggressive) pups of c. In the Spring of 2009 we took 12 dogs from a German guy called Torben who was moving home with his dogs and needed to downsize quickly. Some of our best future leaders also came from these litters, like Diva and Bruiser (from Sanna), and some of our most solid wheel dogs like Yoda and Malik (from Madonna). Some of our sweetest dogs came from this time, like Suka, Arrow and Cherry (from Princess). In the autumn of 2008, three of our female dogs, Sanna, Madonna and Princess gave birth to 20 puppies in our house (7 in the bedroom, 6 in the office and 7 in the gear room). The older the dog was when it arrived, the harder it is to turn the character around but people who visit us year after year say that they see a huge improvement in the pack each time. They shy away from you when you come near them and we continually work on socializing them so that they start to want to be near us, and so that they are not so scared of new people. Hence, many are still not used to being touched or stroked, etc. The bulk of our initial dogs (44 in total) came from Juha Pekka’s farm in Ivalo in Eastern Lapland, where they were down-sizing from c. Lizzie is now too old to race and has become a house dog but Much and Monty are good dogs (however Bernie is a little lazy). These dogs, as well as the three little sisters, Trouble, Grumpy and Pinky, and Princess and Cloud’s other siblings, Bono and Madonna, all came to us from a husky farm near Luosto.īernie and Much (brothers), and Monty (shown jumping in excitement, below), and Liz came from a German friend, Dominik, who was racing dogs for a few years in Sweden. It is actually unexpectedly easy to learn them all.Ĭhocolate and Sausage (brothers) were the first to arrive, followed closely by Princess and Cloud (also siblings). Some, for instance, are small (Samu, Petteri), some strong (Ponde, Lassi), some timid (Varna, Nalle, Ted), some playful (Monty, Pepe, Princess), some calm (Tinnu, Hamppu, Spice), and some excitable (Much, Pinki, Timon and nearly all of the pups at present). However, many have very unique personalities and all are very different in appearance. When people first get here, most of them doubt that they will ever be able to learn the names of all of the dogs. ![]() Disney generally use Siberian Huskies or Malamutes in their films, rather than Alaskan huskies, and hence, those types of dogs are what most people associate with the breed. Most of our dogs are Alaskan huskies, although we also have some Siberian huskies. 12), dogs living with us, in the cages close to our house. Our kennel opened its doors in the autumn of 2008 after some frantic building during the few short summer weeks in which the ground is not frozen.
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