Here are a few of the 60+ dogs here at the racing kennel. To start, puppies!
The Hellions. From left to right: Aleta (Mama dog), Puddle, Drought (only boy), Splash (top), Rain (bottom), Levy, and Drizzle. These are the "weather" puppies, the names based around rainy weather since this summer when they were born it rained almost non-stop.
Kubota. This guy is quiet and very polite. Doesn't exactly come when called, but he is an amazing sled dog. During a race sometime ago, his balls fell out of the ball bag thing that the males wear on really cold races and nobody noticed until it was over, so his balls froze. An attempt was made to save them, but it was too late, so he was altered. He is not of breeding quality anyways but that really sucks for him.
Lark. Also quiet, kinda a one-man type dog but very sweet. A bit funny looking since her chest is very large and her legs long, but her head is pretty small. She's got real sensitive feet so care has to be taken when running her.
Makita (left) and Ryobi (right) share a house. They have two, but they think this is warmer.
Makita is quite sensitive and will flop over on her back if you show even the slightest bit of anger. She does not like the ATV (which we are using for training right now) so when she runs we strap a kennel on the back of the lead ATV just in case she won't run and has to be dropped.
Ryobi is a pretty cool dog and almost always comes out of her house to say hello to me unless it's really cold out.
Throttle. This guy just
loves to eat his poop, and for a while that caused him to constantly have diarrhea and he was losing quite a bit of weight. He still eats poop, but he's doing better now and has gained a lot of weight back. Throttle is a total goofball and very wiggly.
A lot of the dogs look like Throttle, houndy in appearance with short coats. There are some husky-types but they are not the "norm" at this kennel. Most are a mixture of the two with quite a bit of variance in type.
