Monday, July 19, 2010

Pups and things




Prairie Isle NW Voyageur
Trek-Man



Eve coming out of the tunnel

Eve sitting on Sheyenne

Tolinka is safe in her new home in Sweden and our Norwegian pup is here at the Prairie Isle. Eve decided from the get go that this is her home. She also has decided Sheyenne is the best toy there is and that Trek is boring.

Sheyenne plays and tolerates Eve chewing on her ears and tail. Shey is bigger than Even but only 2 weeks older so it is fun to watch them interact. Trek thinks Eve is a pest and he wants to know where his sister, Tolinka, has gone to.

Shey loves the tunnel and chute. She did not hesitate once she saw Ruby run through the tunnel, then that became the game of the day. Run through, turn around and run back through, go jump in the pool, and run through some more. Eve picked up on it too so they were doing it together and would stop and now and then to wrestle inside the tunnel. Trek decided to try too and was having fun chasing Shey and Eve. With the chute, Eve was the first to figure it out and then Shey. Shey decided running through the tunnel then chute, stop off at the pool and do it again was the game of the day. It was great to see how fast all 3 figured out the tunnel and chute and were not scary and would easily do the obstacles.
Shey and Eve wrestling inside the tunnel

Eve chewing on Shey's ear.

Sheyenne

Torrey came home on July 12th. She lost her litter of pups (she had been leased and was not living here) and had to have an emergency C-section. She became ill this past Friday and was rushed to the vet office. She has an uterine infection and is one sick dog. She is improving and we will see how it goes. She may need to be spayed, but we will see how things go.

The team and I will start harness work in about 2 weeks. Our night runs will begin. Skunks and badgers are the big things we will have to contend with but it does help to start conditioning early in the season and the dogs rest better during the day after having a work out in the cool night. Trek, Sheyenne and Eve will get limited time in harness till they are older. Trek is almost a year so he will work more at first then Shey and Eve.

Cooper and Callie are recovering nicely from their surgeries. Cooper had a sebaceous cyst removed from his back and Callie had a large lipoma removed from behind her front right leg.

The green beans are being harvested along with onions and Swiss chard. Tomatoes are green and we are looking forward to them ripening. Garlic is doing great too along with corn, squash, spinach and lettuce.


We are repeating the breeding of Hudson and Ruby. Ruby should cycle in the next 2-3 weeks so again she will be out the fall training. We have 4-5 pups already under contract for purchase so we will see how this breeding goes. Hudson will be 4 in Sept with Ruby turning 5 in Nov.

Hudson


Trek with his dam, Ruby


Summer is going by fast and we are looking forward to conditioning and the upcoming winter activities.