Tiger-Lilly

Hard to believe we had to say good-bye to this beauty.

We were blessed with just over 12 years of life with her.

Then blessed again when we got an extra few weeks with her.

She was a sweet, gifted and devoted Malamute

Exceptional athlete and leader with numerous races under

her paws and thousands of miles of adventure

RIP sweet Lilly

Early Summer Update

Puppy training is going great. They are super smart and so devoted for such pups. I am able to spend a lot of time with them working on command work and setting them up for a successful season ahead. They are all super sweet and play well with the rest of their kennel buddies. Daily sprints in the 2 acre fenced in garden known as 'the secret garden' has been a blessing during this hot weather. It is nice and shady in the secret garden with lots of boulders to hop onto, trees for shade and various hidden places for the dogs to dig and have fun playing with each other. The older dogs are doing well considering the heat.  We recently celebrated Tonka and Zudnik turning 14 years old. They are having a blast and recently taken to being in with a bunch of girls including the puppy girls, Chimbey and Tinkerbell. As a forever home, our dogs spend their entire lives with us.  We work with what we have and our joy is bringing out the best in each dog, working hard on communication, obedience and performance. All our dogs are house trained so every night, there is always a bunch of them in the house .... on the sofa or sleeping on the bed with us!

Some Fun Moments

Nothing Beats Loving One Our Dogs.. Especially Driggs

My Cling-On.. Bindhi!

Pups Doing Well At Sits For Dinner And Group Meals

White Feather And Richard.. She's Such A Kisser!

Some Puppy Photo Updates

Tinkerbell standing over her brother, Driggs

Chimbey and Jackson

Handsome boy Driggs

So like her mamma, special girl Chimbey

Loved this boy from the moment he was born. He takes after his papa Gunsmoke, this is Jackson

Another old soul and special girl... Tinkerbell. Knew it from the start!

First runs in harness, Jackson and Chimbey

Tinkerbell and Jackson, super focused at only 8 months old

Tinkerbell... she's intense!

Siblings Tinkerbell and Jackson

Our 2015-2016 Season

We didn't have much of a snowy winter to brag about but despite the lack of snow, we were super busy with tours.  The dogs were in great shape and all was going well for a season of tours and races. However with the lack of snow , almost all the races we were interested in were canceled.   It was a shame because we had the best Fall training in many years with the dogs hitting mileage distances of 25-28 mile runs at the end of October/early November.  We made the most of the season and enjoyed many wonderful guests and a few fun local races with the four wheeler.  Our season ended mid-April which was pretty darn good. We were able to squeak in quite a few fun puppy runs. All four pups are now harness broken and ready for training at the beginning of September 2016.  They are superb! Updates coming shortly.  Enjoy these photos from our season.

Powerful team lead by Miss Squish and Sofiel

The mighty Bindhi!

Richard and I do 100% of what it takes to care for and train our huskies

Ourstanding pair... Gunsmoke and Pretty Pear

28 mile run mid-Fall, taking a short break

We are surrounded with gorgeous views

We train a lot at night with friends

Our gorgeous White Feather standing infront of her brother

Perfect Pair ! Gunsmoke and Miss Squish

Beautiful Whitefeather

Some Images From Our Winter Season

Mushtoberfest

Great weekend with some awesome people, each with individual goals, different sized teams and lots of wonderful dogs.  We were mentored by Brent Sass, Mike Ellis and Christine Richardson. The weekend of activities, talks, slide shows and demos just seemed to fly by. It was really wonderful to be able to just concentrate on the dogs and training and leave everything else behind. I was able to get some young leaders out front who showed great potential for this coming season. I was super thrilled with the dogs, their good manners and willingness to camp out Check-point style for a few hours.
Back to pre-season training with another fun event ahead of us for Halloween

Mushtoberfest In The North CountryM

Multiple short runs with new leader pairs

Mike Ellis talking about foot care

Brent Sass hanging out and talking dogs

Gorgeous views and a super strong team

Open country leading with verbal commands through the parking area

Brent went missing ! but here's the group with Mike Ellis

Valley Snow Dogz and Team Uktousa !

Some upcoming stars on team Uktousa this year and some newbies in harness. We are counting down to our first runs in harness which typically start during the first week of September. Gunsmoke from Brenda Mackey in AK will be a great addition to our team, as he was last winter and we also welcome the arrival B'Zhoo later this week, from our dear friend Linda Newman, from Points Unknown in MN .  He is sibling to our Miss Squish.  We have quite a few young dogs in training this year.... Tuliq now just over a year old along with Miss Squish who ran in harness for part of last winter, then we have Bindhi who is currently 9 months old and will have her first experience on the team this September.  Dougie and White Feather are now two years old and this will be their second season.  White Feather already showed great leader potential last year taking lead on numerous occasions while her brother Dougie really enjoys being close to me or Richard however, he has evolved a lot this summer with his confidence, he's such a devoted dog.  We have started some leader training and next we will be working on line-out and a few of the commands which we use during our running season.  It's great to introduce the young ones to these before they are on the team.

Summer Fun In The Dogyard

Some fresh paint, new style box and a fun ramp!

Bindhi ...her paws are dangling in a rather large hole, dug by Bindhi

Siblings, Dougie and White Feather.. such a funny pair

Papa Tumac

Bobby, one our retired Malamutes taking a nap!

A favorite ! Two smiling faces... Richard and Bindhi

Some Fun Spring Photos Of The Dogs

White Feather just turned 2 years old

Richard being loved by Sofiel and Bindhi

Richard with Rosie's daughter Tuliq, she is 1 year old

Mamma Daisy

6 month old Bindhi... she's all legs

Beautiful Gunsmoke from Brenda Mackey