MUSH!

Just a quick note about a recent undertaking. Currently we own a four and a half year old Alaskan Malamute. Her name is Tundra. She's very strong and in fact her litter mate, Badger, from Cascade Malamutes Kennels, I believe, is the current IWPA champ. Tundra is pretty strong and I think she'd be a good puller. I'd like to get her into pulling in some of the pulls held by the International Weight Pulling Association (IWPA).

Well, today her training began. It wasn't much, but it was a good start for a dog who had never been harnessed up to something. We took the bicycle trailer and after a fashion were able to rig it to her harness. With my four year old and sixteen month old boys riding along we went on about a mile walk. At first Tundra was nervous and kept looking back, wondering what in the world was following her. But, it didn't take long for her to fall into step and figure out what was going on. She actually seemed to enjoy the excercise.


This phot of Tundra was taken during her first hike, the day after we brought her home...about a year ago.


I went to Home Depot tonight and bought some hardware and a couple wooden dowles to improve the rigging so she can pull more comfortably. For now just pulling the bike trailer around will suffice for training until she's used to the harness and pulling. Eventually and gradually we'll start adding weight to increase her strength and get her used to pulling against resistance. I will try to report our progress on the blog.

Out of Bordom

Made this little music video of friends and me playing paintball back in 94' At the same time I'm testing to see if I've succesfully been able to link my youtube account up with my blog.  I apologize for the absolutely hideous quality of the video.  It was taken off of a dusty old VCR tape and then reduced even more in size for emailing.  Still kind of nostalgic for me.  Maybe someday I'll try to redo this and re-edit into a better version.