A visit from the girl next door...

We know... Last week the girl next door, Nuna, wrote that she paid us, Bebbe, Bans, Belle, Barbie and Birgit, a visit and was complaining that there was not much playing because we were still so much baby...

 

Now, two weeks later, our favourite guide Ales let her pay a visit again and proofed on camera that for sure we can also play! One of us was even so brave to chase Nuna around the kennel... :-) But then it is also really safe to escape under Mother Donna's wings again!

 



Floppy ears, it runs in the family...

About six weeks old and I, Nuna, start to get quite a bit of attention from the guests already so early in the season.









Of course that might have something to do with my floppy ear... It looks like I inherited it from my uncle Ana... only the other way around :-)










Otherwise I had also an exciting week, because I was visiting the neighbour girls Barbie, Bella, Bans, Bebbe and Birgit. Because I'm only child and nobody to play with (except for my mother who I always tease with biting her legs...) I was quite excited, but a small disappointment, they are still so small little babies not really possible to play with them.

Abiti, following into his father's footsteps...

Yes, I made it! After weeks of hard training they finally decided I'm probably the one to follow into my father's (Black) footsteps!

The only problem was to find the right partner for me... At the moment they choose to give me Susan, my father's partner. But she is also not the youngest anymore so we have to see if she can keep up with my speed the whole winter :-)

And of course I still have to learn a lot before I'm about as good as my father, but at least they think I showed the right skills: I'm quiet before we start, go lay down when we have break and I'm able to keep about the same speed during the whole trip... I only have difficulties when leaving the kennel, I'm not quite sure yet when is the right moment to start. Susan always seems to wait for me and I want to wait until Susan starts... But when the guide finally strongly "advice" us to start running, we gooooo...

I also have one speciality, which I think is quite funny: When I cooled down my nose in the snow I shake my head with my mouth open. It makes a really funny sound :-)

Blakes first time...

The name is Blake, named after my grandfather Black :-)









And last week I was for the first time working with the big dogs!









I'm still quite a wild youngster so I probably gave my guides a hard time.








 Jari tried to calm me down, but that wasn't really working for my.









I did not really get how to act when they put my harnass on... So it was a bit of a struggle








But finally it was the right way around my body!









I was so excited that even my mother Sunny (my partner in the team) got one moment enough from me.








But I'm still young and have to earn my place. They say, end of the winter I will be probably a bit more calmed down....

All on board!



Yess! The training is in full swing.

And best of all, today we've got at least 15 cm. fresh snow. Perfect conditions :-)

 

We are so excited to run that, last week, we managed to pull one stake-out (the pole that holds the sledge) out of the frozen ground...

 

But on the other hand, some of us want to show that they earn their place as a leader and wait nice and quiet during the preparation before the start.

 

And off we go!! :-)

 

Donna & girl power!

Again? Yes, again! We know... But this time well planned!

Because both I, Donna, and my partner Kawak have great ancestors (from famous kennels in Finland and Switzerland) which were racing in big competition with high results!

We are both leaders in Saijas team and so the expectations are high, and above all they are all girls.
 

Like Asko our boss always say, girls are great leaders :-) GIRLPOWER! That also means they have to have really girly names :-)... Bebbe, Bans, Barbie, Birgit, Belle.

Adèle, a great way to show off...

As for a couple of weeks ago my father Black wrote; the new generation is ready to take over. And the next gerneration are me and my brothers and sisters.

The big question is still who the real successor will be. So we try all kind of tricks now to get the attention.

I have my own strategy and that is, among others, digging. Digging?? you ask... Yes digging! A great way to get in shape and warm up!




And even more interesting...: sometimes it happens that I'm digging so far that I'm suddenly on the otherside of the fence! That actually helps shaping you in the role of leader, because you can show off a little bit for the other dogs which are still within their fences.

The only problem is, how to get in again when you don't want to use the same hole. Luckely our caretakers are friendly enough to open the door for us so we can get in again!