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NEWS 2010

21/12 09 Another year is soon over. We had some real good old cold winter weather lately, but no huge snowfalls. But possible to train with sled. We changed our plans for the winter a while ago and there will probably not be much racing after all. Maybe some late season races. I have placed some dogs and have at the moment more yearling and pups (9) than older dogs in training (8) We will enjoy winter without stress, and hopefully get some good training on different things with the youngsters,.
Skarv was at his 3. and last chiropractic treatment from G Wiik couple of weeks ago and his pelvis/back is now declared back to normal. He has completely changed gate from choppy and cowhooked to more floating movements, which make me believe he had this problem since puppyhood. ( he limped severly for a few days as youngster) I thought it was his build that made those movements.... He has so much energy and really enjoys to get going in the team again.
Katja Petrell, dogfysio/ masseur spent some hours here again and went over some of the dogs. Jeni has improved a lot, Dingo is also back in training, he still has some swelling in the tibia-area but it did not feel too bad she said. Kaylo had some real tense, stiff muscles in his thies, and need regular massage. He has changed gate from decent trot and gallop to a stiff choppy pace. Comparing dogs movements on videos can be useful, and I try to understand more of the mechanics that give injuries and problems. Now we gonna be busy massaging and stretching for a while...

hmm...no doubt who is taking Noias place... Nayak. Here with Noias toy and cromes from dried bread she stole from the counter

5/12-09 My very spescial dog friend Noia ( Nuch Nay-La-Chee`s Cool Running Kenoia), the *queen* of my kennel, left us today in her 15. year. Time was right, she did not seem to have much pleasure out of life anymore . Luckily , with help of Hanne, she was able to pass over sleeping in the couch like normally, not noticing anything unusual. RIP Noia, you will be missed! It will be a while before I stop looking for that familiar face around the corner...

23/11

November is on with its dark, wet and muddy days.At least the ice melted again so its possible to train with the cart.. Last season we were on sled 1. desember, so there is still hope.
Been a while since update here, I have been busy with a new website for Snørokk. Visit it here!

We have entered a couple of rigraces, Few participants opposed to the years before
Results here and here
Rigrace team was Ravn, Graabein, Nayak, Tesslin, Tusse, Dingo, River and Sikpok

A visit to chiropracthor G Wiik sorted out the problems of my 3 injuried dogs:
Skarv have had for a while (don`t know english terminology of these things) a locked pelvis. He is allreaddy much better after 2 treatments and will be completly well. Rough play(his spescialty) have probably caused it.
Jeni have had a injuried front leg which destroyed her racecareer for two season. She did not limp yet this year, but turned out her leg is very stiff compared to normal. She has a biceps tendenitis, the most common injury in front of sled dogs...Daily massage and stretching will most likely fix her. She is in training with a shoulderwarmer on, and we run slow in downhills)
The worst case is Dingo, my best yearling ever. He have the habit of doing high kangaroojumps at feeding time and in june he landed akward on one hind leg which left him screaming like a pig. But since he stopped limping quite fast I was relieved that it went ok. But as training got harder he stiffened up in this side. He has torne a muscle in his tibia according to Geir. This can cause scartissue and problems in his back that can affect him later.
So now he is out of training and gets massage every 2. day:( I really cross my fingers for him.

Tvilling and Tannik, 6,5 months had their first tries in harness, and as expected they worked good and behaved bad!

Noia turned 14 in october. She is mostly sleeping and looking quite old now.She is constantly shedding, so I had to take her inside yesterday despite all the hair

Above is JJ Yana, who lives with Ingvild in Folldal. She reports that Yana is looking promising in harness so far and is an easy grl to have around. But she she is a talker like many relatives...

A while ago we trained in Rakkestad together with Frank, Nina, Lars, Camilla (and Nora) Kjell and a glimps of Jan
I made a film that have been out for a while, but link here We finally got to try the big lavvo, the lavvostove and I tried my campingbed
and it all worked very well. And its NICE to have a lot of space inside! (we get mobbed or the 16 personlavvo)