Friday, September 29, 2006
Smelling like winter
Life goes on here and we are training everyday about 48 dogs. Now we go with each team 12 miles one day and 6.5 miles the other day. Pretty soon we will go 12 miles two days in a row.
Today we had rain mix with snow for training and 10mph wind... cold... HUMID!
sure smell like winter is around the corner. I want the temperature to drop so the ground freeze and I can put straw in the dog houses, right now it is just oo muddy and the dogs will get it all wet if I was to put straw now...
I'll take photos of the training run tomorow...
Posted by Magali in Training News
Friday, September 29, 2006 3:15:33 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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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Brush Cutting team
Today I went cut more Willows and Brushes on the trail. This should help to not have those stupid Mooses hanging around the kennel and trail since Willows is their food in Winter....
I had help with me...
 Keops always ready to follow me.
Carlit my Old Border Collie making sure the 4 wheeler is not moing by itself (she herd the 4 wheeler) and Keops on the seat waiting for me...
Posted by Magali in Other news
Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:42:42 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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MEMPHIS UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
Hello,
I am going to try to put "under the spotlight" one day per day or may be every other day.... Just so you get to know them a little more beside their racing blood.So of course I'll start with MEMPHIS!!!
Name: Memphis (Female)
Color: Grey and White
Born: April 8th 1999.
Memphis is my favorite dog, I love all my dogs but this one is very special to me. Her nickname is “dinguette” (in reference to her dad)
First she is a daughter of my beloved leader Ding Dong which teach me so much. She has a very strong personality and she is very funny. She will do things to get your attention you would not believe!!!
She is an excellent leader. She is a little stubborn which sometimes cause problems on the trails but she has such a drive….
Put her in Lead and she make all team go faster. We call her the “minute” dog because one year in Wyoming Jacques needed to make some minute to secure is placing, he put her in lead and he won the Stage… Same thing last year on Iditarod when she was in lead Jacques was going has fast as our friend Doug Swingley. But to go down the Alaska Range he removed from lead !!! to make sure to be in one piece at the bottom of the Mountain.
She races in Sprint race Limited Class and also Fur Rondy (3 days in lead) and ONAC, Stage races and last year finished the Iditarod. Iditarod isn’t her cup of tea but she finished very well.
She is the mother of 17 dogs in the kennel and she has 11 grand kids in the kennel also.
She hates traveling in airplanes, she is the one that chewed up a all air kennel on our way back from Russia and got chased by the police at the Anchorage Airport and it took us 5 hours to find her….
She is a beautiful and special dog.
To check her bloodline on our Web Kennel System click here
Posted by Magali in DOG PORTRAIT | Kennel News
Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:23:02 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Trail work
Today we got the opportunity to get a small dozer in a part of our trail that was "tricky" and we called it "the gouille", to complicated to explain if you don't speak french so just let say it was down hill, not even ground, twisty in middle of many trees...
Well it is now almost straight and flat... So the "Gouille" is no longer a "Gouille" !
As soon has it freezes we will start going on the winter trail and clearing all the trees that may have fall this summer or anything on the trail.
Posted by Magali in Kennel News
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:55:08 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Longer training more Energy needed
We started last week to go 6.5 miles through the swamps since the logging road is too dusty and busy.
We go pretty slow making 12 dogs pull the 600 pounds 4 wheeler with one person on it. Average time is 55mn to 50mn for each team of training time.
Until now we were feeding more Puppy Food than Energy 4800, but now we changed to an equal amount (in dry volume) of Puppy Food and Energy 4800 food.
This give each dog about 1650 K/Cal, some dogs like our yearlings males requires an additional meal in the morning and we give them 1.5 cup of Energy 4800 (about 850k/Cal).
Soon the temperature will drop with freezing from evening to morning then we will increase the Energy 4800 and reduce the Puppy food. This goes on until we remove the puppy food from their main diet and just feed Energy 4800. We like to keep some amount of Puppy food in the diet because the Puppy food soak in warm water,rgy 4800 doesn't it is too fatty (it is a 32/30).  
Posted by Magali in Kennel News
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:35:35 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Monday, September 18, 2006
Jewel babies have names
Here we go for Jewel puppies names:
FEMALES: WULIK - KELLY - KITLIK - SALMON
MALES: SQUIRREL - ELI - OMAR
They are named after Rivers in the Arctic in the Kotzebue area. Most of those rivers are in the Gates of the Arctic National Preserve.
I don't know yet which one will get which name but it will come soon... I already have afavorite one the dark female.... she reminds me of Ding-Dong.
Posted by Magali in Kennel News
Monday, September 18, 2006 5:05:32 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Trip to Manley
Hello,
Yesterday we went to Manley to visit our friend Joee and Pam Redington and Linda Johnson. Manley is at the end of the Elliott Highway (80 miles long) and this highway is an Alaskan Highway NOT PAVED!!!
We drive alongside the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (start in Prudhoe bay end in Valdez) for about 50 miles:
We had a good time with our friends, I haven't been in Manley for almost 3 years and Jacques way more than this. This is a very small community of about 60 people.
For us Joee is a close friend and one of the best dog trainer, racer and breeder there is. 90% of our dogs come from dog we got from his kennel. Now he doesn't race (health issues) anymore he just train and sale dogs, very good dogs.
From left to right: Linda, Jacques and Keops, Joee and Pam.
Posted by Magali in Other news
Sunday, September 17, 2006 11:21:33 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Friday, September 15, 2006
Back under the Powerline
Well the no rain factor since Sept 1st, made us "re open" the trails through the swamps. The logging road is coverred with 2 inch of the dry "cilt" and it is very bad for the dogs to breath and no rain in the forecast for one week.
So yesterday we went and open a 6.5 miles loop, today we took 2 teams of 12 dog teams and since we cannot follow the "winter trail" straight under the powerline and we have to go around swamps off the main trail we went both of us together each time. We had some trouble getting around some swamp for the brief story. At least the dogs are not in the dust and the swamp area keep them wet and cool.
The colors are just beautiful at this time of the year:
We just wish it would be cooler than 40f so we could train more teams before the temperatures warm up.
Have a great day!
Posted by Magali in Kennel News
Friday, September 15, 2006 11:52:22 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
Great Web Site
Hi,
Some fo you already notice I love Ancient Egypt and some fo my dogs gets names from the old civilization.
Check out this new web site created by IBM, beautiful and very good source of info and culture.
Eternal Egypt
Posted by Magali in Other news
Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:51:18 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Monday, September 11, 2006
5 year anniversary
Today is the Fifth anniversary of the attack of the World Trade Center.
A very sad anniversary for our country.
 
I remember that day like it was yesterday....
Posted by Magali in Other news
Monday, September 11, 2006 11:34:54 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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