Tuesday, October 17, 2006
TOPAZ UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
TOPAZ
He is an other male on the 2 years old groups we have on training. He is very high attitude and loves to JUMP high when he is on the line.
He is a nice dog. All the litter is very nice and easy to train.
His mom is our main leader JEWEL and his dad a recently retired leader SMALLET. He is like his dad very easy to train and willing to please. But like is mom Crazy and goofy at times.
Last winter he was doing great until he got hurt on his wrist when we were doing 45 miles runs. So we hope this winter he will calm down a little and learn to pace himself on longer distance and then will make it to the race team.
He is a medium size male and will be about 50 pounds by the middle of the winter I would guess. He is a nice dog to work with.
 
Posted by Magali in DOG PORTRAIT
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:41:03 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00) 
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Friday, October 13, 2006
WIND UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
WIND
He is just a 2 years old male. He is out of Janet of our Stage race Leader and Niki, one of our older dog who is directly out of Gareth Wright REX.
Wind is very crazy and noisy. We were considering selling him because he is just too crazy and work too hard. But he is a very nice personality dog and does the job on the line so we decided to hang on to him for this season and see.
If he doesn’t get hurt by working too hard we are sure to be able to train him as a leader.
He will be a great STAGE RACE dog….
Posted by Magali in DOG PORTRAIT
Friday, October 13, 2006 6:29:43 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Thursday, October 12, 2006
ALF UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
ALF
He turned 4 years old this summer he is the brother of Shrek and Scooby. He is a nice quiet dog, not crazy when not on harness and he is a fairly good size: about 60 pounds. He has a nice fur and good feet.
Since this fall I started to put him in lead and he is doing a great Job.
Last year he raced all main races with Jacques.
His name come for the old TV show Alf, who was a fury alien who wanted to eat the cat from his Human host family. Very funny show.
There is nothing much to say about him he is just a nice quiet dog in the yard and an OUTSTANDING working dog. He just does his job and you don’t even notice him he pulls all the time and rest when he need too at camp and always eat and drink, no much just a PERFECT dog….
Posted by Magali in DOG PORTRAIT
Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:24:10 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Saturday, October 07, 2006
EGYPT UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
Egypt
She is a small 35/37 pounds female white with blue eyes and good husky coat.
She just turn 3 years old this summer.
Her nickname is “mouick blanc” which in English “white Mouick”, Mouick is how I call the puppies when they scream/Cry all the time for attention… so you get he idea she is always TALKING for attention and love….
Her sister Pyramid is the “grey Mouick” and Simbel the “Black Mouick”….
Her mom is Memphis and her dad Runner.
She is not a very hard worker, but she is steady and very very good on long distance! On stage races I can use her everyday…. She is small so doesn’t get affected by the warm temperature like the bigger dogs.
She has excellent feet like the rest of the litter…
She is no very friendly with the other dogs, but she LOVES Shrek !!!!
But like her mom she got a mind of her own and she is really attached to me (us).
She finished Iditarod last march and she was tired when she got to Nome… but when she saw me walking down the team she started to wag her tail and started to “Mouick” !!!! She was happy to see her “Human mom” again. On races beside Iditarod she runs with me, it is like Memphis I keep them with me ALWAYS except for Iditarod when I know Jacques need them.
Posted by Magali in DOG PORTRAIT
Saturday, October 07, 2006 6:28:11 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Saturday, September 30, 2006
SHREK UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
Shrek
Shrek is a male of about 57/60 pounds who turn 4 years old this summer.
He is very noticeable he has that weird look on his face with those big blue eyes that are a little “crossed”. Physically he also has a “short” back compare to his brother Alf and Scooby.
The whole litter was named after non-real character, I hope you all the the Shrek, the Green Ogre.... his brother is Alf (Fuzzy Alien who like to eat cats) and Scooby (The world famous Scooby Doo), we had a female named Fiona (Shrek wife) that we sold couple years ago.
He is very funny, he is pretty quiet doesn’t bark much but he is a clown and act goofy to get your attention.
He is an official member of the "Baboon family" which means he is out of BONZAI which was our Original Baboon…. Why Baboon, well find a documentary on Baboon and this will describe well their personality!!! He loves to come "pee" on your leg when you are hooking up other dog!
The funny thing is that every female in the kennel is in LOVE with Shrek, turn them loose and they go to him and play with him. His best friend is Egypt, when they play they look so funny because he is twice her size. Shrek and Egypt run together also in the team and it is like the Elephant and the "flea"....
He is part of the main team and goes to every major race with Jacques and Finished Iditarod last year. He doesn’t have the best appetite and body disposition this is why he didn’t get the chance this summer like his brother to make “puppies”.
He is a good honest dog and we like him a lot.
Shrek and his co worker Egypt
PS: Coming up Under the SPOTLIGHT: Egypt, Alf, Oracle....
Posted by Magali in DOG PORTRAIT
Saturday, September 30, 2006 8:52:33 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
MYLENE
This is a very hard one to write... I started to write it 3 days ago and was suppose to post it yesterday but Life and sad things happen since.
We lost Mylene to Liver Cancer yesterday (we didn't know she was sick).
So I re-write the text and change present to past.
Mylene was one of our main and best leaders. She is Memphis Daughter and like her, very strong personality and extremely lovable. She got her name from the French singer "Mylene Farmer" that both of us like so much.
She is a character always happy barking and running like a maniac. She was also a very good mom. She is one of the best Jacques trained for command and we rely on her and the trust we have in her a lot in the race. She loved going to price giving ceremony and LOVED kids and been the center of attention. She was supposing to race all this winter with Jacques as the main leader.
The day before yesterday she ran 12 miles with her mom in Lead perfect, happy like always.... but in the evening she didn't eat her diner so we brought her inside the house where she spend the night by the wood stove, she didn't look right and seem swollen we decided that first thing in the morning she would go to the vet, we were thinking of the beginning of Occlusion or something similar. We were so wrong.
I was at the vet clinic in town a 8am, nothing on the X-Ray so we decide to open her up well me and the Vet (Dr Stuve) were "hoping" for a broken spleen to be removed but we found a CANCER so huge unbelievable her liver was no more it was just a HUGE TUMOR.... the tumor had somewhat "explode" and she was bleeding to death from that the vet removed). Our vet never so a tumor so big and having the dog in perfect shape until the night before! He told me the toughness of that Alaskan Husky is so hard when they are sick because they don’t show any signs until it is almost too late.
Hard decision but the best one for her I decided to have her put to sleep. She was only 5 years old
Posted by Magali in DOG PORTRAIT
Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:45:57 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
MAMBO UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
Mambo
Male, red and white was about 52 pounds ; Born August 1986 died in 1996 (cancer).
Mambo even though he is no longer with us is still very important for us. He is the foundation of our kennel bloodline.
Jacques purchased him when he was a Yearling. He was produced by Joee Redington Jr. He was a husky looking dog, brown eyes, ears up, who loved to run.
He was working so hard that after each training he would barely walk and we never had thought he would hold up to all those races, but he did because he was so tough.
He raced among others : Alpirod 91, 92, 93, 94 - Gold Run 94 (Leader) - North Pole 94 (Leader) - LNAC 94 (leader) - Tok 94 (leader)
He was a nice leader not so good on command due to the fact he was completely crazy once in harness. He would jump 3ft high on the line he was easy to spot on the team at the starting line.
We had 22 pups total from him and today we have in the kennel we have 2 dogs directly out of him (Snicker and Crow both 11 years old ) and 20 alive grand kids here in our kennel and great grand father of 73 dogs here; 3 of the 13 main leaders in our kennel are his grand kids and 6 are his great grand kids.
Today we bred our dogs to have a strong Mambo presence we really liked his attitude, toughness.
So even though he is dead I figure he needs to be under the SPOTLIGHT!!
Posted by Magali in DOG PORTRAIT
Sunday, September 24, 2006 11:22:29 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Friday, September 22, 2006
JEWEL UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
JEWEL
 Color: Red/Brown
Female born April 14th 1999
Jewel one of our main race leaders. She doesn’t look much , small husky type female with lot of fur and funny ears but she is a GREAT DOG, she is also very spoiled and wags her tail a lot.
She and her sister are a result of an “accidental breeding” Jacques was Caribou hunting when they were born and when I realized that Poupette was going to have puppies and then saw only 2 puppies .I said to myself “well it is only 2 more”, I did try to give those two pups (unwanted at the time) to friends and they all said no due to the close “bloodline breeding” it was…
Poupette the mom was 1/2 sister to the Dad Ding-Dong (both out of Mambo).
I am so happy they all refused those two are GREAT SUPER LEADERS….
I like Jewel more than her sister Jenny because she is more like Memphis “DARE DEVIL” you want say, don’t care, not stressed out by everything and STUBBRUN big time…
Like Memphis Jewel has a mind of her own but she finished both Kobuk 440 and Iditarod in Single lead…
Jacques with Jewel in Nome last March
Posted by Magali in Kennel News | Other news | DOG PORTRAIT
Friday, September 22, 2006 12:29:51 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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