Thursday, October 12, 2006
Wyoming race schedule
I just visit the Wyoming race web site and the 2007 schedule has been posted
http://www.wyomingstagestop.org/schedule.htm
It seems like we don't have an overnight this year but a long stage with a "stop" at Bulcher creek. I never been to Bulcher creek, Jacques already told me there is a serious Uphill to Sioux Pass....
Look foward to be in Beautiful Wyoming.
Posted by Magali in Other news
Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:09:53 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00) 
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
MY MAIN LEADER HURT
Hello,
More bad news, on Oct 8th Jacques took the team lead by Memphis and Jenny for our regular 12 miles run. Shortly before the "due" time of the team Memphis arrived alone in harness in the kennel I went to her and she was on "3" legs.
She seemed hurt on her rear left leg. Jacques came back and told me she way all fine until 1/4 mile from the kennel when he realize she was limping so he turn her loose.
As of today we can't see when is the problem, we check muscles, toes, pads etc... NOTHING and she will not tell us where she is hurt. So she is out .....
I figure this is may be a muscle problem due to the fact she pulls like a maniac... she must has pull something inside when she went through the swamp and tusseks, but she is so tough she will not show us where she is hurt. She is on 3 weeks off... she started to put light weight on her rear leg yesterday....
I am very upset... And of course she got hurt when I was not training her and she is MY MAIN LEADER.... hrrr...
Keep all finger (Toes also) crossed so she heal up good and that I can run her in a month or so...
Posted by Magali in Training News
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:00:19 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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WEIRD TEMPERATURES
OK we are having a very strange fall this year. For sure warm, we had some day of frost earlier and recently very warm....
Yesterday Super warm 56f (+13°C) at 6:30am so we decided to not train and guess what this morning 28°f (-2°C)... STRANGE STRANGE STRANGE
I like cooler for sure..., 28f is still above normal for us but I take this instead of 56f anytime....
At least the warm weather yesterday gave me time to finish painting the 8 dog houses left... I will bring them inside to do the Stencil paint and if it freezes for couple more days we will install them in the kennel very soon.
The dogs are going to be happy this morning.
Posted by Magali in Training News
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 5:58:00 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
VIBRATION DAMAGING PYRAMID IN EGYPT
The pyramid of Zoser in Saqqara is getting damaged by the vibration made by the bus waiting for tourist which stay in Idle (for the air conditionning).
The Pyramid was build in the 27th century BC and it is about 60ft high.
Here's a link to the article
Saqqara Pyramid reveal Crack
Posted by Magali in Other news
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:24:21 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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Friday, October 06, 2006
12 NEW DOG HOUSES
Hello
One of this fall projects that has to be finished before the snow comes, is DOG HOUSES.
We Purchased plywood to make 12 new dog houses.
 
We use ½ inch plywood for the walls and floor and 5/8 plywood for the roof.
The house size is : 2ft high X 32inch wide X 23 inch deep.
The roof is overhanging 1 inch in the front.
Then I paInt them with Deck/fence water based Paint from Behr, which is pricy but very good quality and last long.
Of course they are RED!!!!
I do 2 coats of paint and then for the fun I do some Stencils in the front!
Posted by Magali in Kennel News
Friday, October 06, 2006 11:56:27 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Thursday, October 05, 2006
PILLING UP DOG FOOD
We order 4 tons of dog food for this fall, so here's what so far 2 tons of Energy 4800 look like:
We use over one ton of dog food per month... so this will not last too long. This dog food is so good that we don't feed meat at all.
Posted by Magali in Other news
Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:40:53 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
TOPAZ the Flying Sled dog
Here's some photos of Topaz once he is on harness, to see larger version please click on the photo:
He is for sure Happy to go ! Etna next to him is wondering what the "fuzz" is all about... She is older so she knows what is up for the next months...
Posted by Magali in Training News
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:15:45 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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TRAIL WORK
Couple days ago we went to work on some rough part of our winter trail. The temperature are so warm nothing is frozen, so we decided to go cut some TUSSEK.
So if there is not much snow we will be able to go on the swamps. Last year with our handlers we went when it was frozen and it was so hard to cut them with the axe, so this year we tried with the Bursh Cutter (Metal blade) and it worked fine, it is faster and hurt the back less.
Jacques took the Chainsaw and cut the stumps sticking out lower and I cut the Tussek with the mental support of Keops of course !!
Posted by Magali in Other news
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:54:36 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Monday, October 02, 2006
Training photos
Here's some photos of our trainings, we are going 12 miles now.
Click on the photo to see larger version (from our Galery)
 MEMPHIS and JENNY
 HEAD ON PASSING WITH JACQUES ON THE LOGGING ROAD
 12 miles loop
Have a great day
Posted by Magali in Training News
Monday, October 02, 2006 12:37:11 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Sunday, October 01, 2006
PAINTING JOBS
Well I got some painting jobs done before the winter. But I am not done yet.
Couple weeks ago I redid all the painting on the outside of our Dog Van. Repainted the door flaps in white and the Back doors and Storage doors in "Aluminium" paint. The truck look like almost new!!
Posted by Magali in Other news
Sunday, October 01, 2006 3:04:50 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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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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