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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
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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...
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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)
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