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NEWS 2010

31/8 Nayak and I send a big High Five to the very kind Rizzi-Anzelini family on Alpen Hotel Corona in the Dolomites, for sponsoring another Nay-La-Chee dog, this time Nayak (River and Tvilling are adopted!) You guys are soooo sweet!
And also to my veterinary sister Hanne who make it possible for me to keep it up with Nayak. She have used quite some time with Nayaks leg.

30/8 Finally team Nay-La-Chee got going with the fall training too. Ronny and I was out with the dogs in harness for the first time since spring. Once the first run is done its easier to get going. But at this time a year, one allways wish it was possible to train from home...
As expected Nayak was quite stressed and upset when the others were loaded. I knew this was going to be a hard part. But if I go back inside after the others are in the car and quiet, and I sit there for a while she calm down again so guess thats how we gonna do it.
I have 12 dogs in training this fall, divided into two 6 dog teams and the Dyck cart. Those are Ravm River, Sikpok, Kaylo, Graabein, Skarv, Tamsin, Chasey, Dingo, Tusse, Tvilling and Tannik. Jeni is still with Svein and Irene, but I might have to take her back since Nayak is out and Tesslin is placed in Rakkestad. Meanwhile Tusse and Tamsin is trying out lead position some more, and some others will be tried too.

30/8 This weekend we had a dog/peopleparty when Jana Henychova from Tchekkia and Arnt Jensen From Alta met here (I live near the airport) so Jana could get pup Arnhild. Arnt have Ivers sister Luna and we have not met since he picked her up 12 years ago except on Facebook that is:) Also Hans Olav S with family from Stavanger turned up seeking shelter from the pouring rain in Oslo. Quite funny, my very few puppybuyers that have the same musictaste as I (metall!!!!), one from further north of Norway, one from as south as you can get, turning up here at the same time:) Nice. Johanne S and her puppy Sapian also showed up so all and all it was a soscial saturday for both people and dogs. Nayak were so kind to the stranger puppies, she shared her toys even:) Good girl!

28/8 It`s been 8 weeks since Nayaks accident. We have found our routine living together 24/7. Status right now is that the pressure wound is the biggest problem, so we stopped using the rail a bit earlier than planned. Its hard to make the wound-dressing stay on the wound since nothing can be tightened very much and the rail and movement makes everything slide downwards. As the wound was getting better, a dressing slid down and teared of the flesh down to the bone and we are not back to that stage before now.
But Nayak seems mostly happy, and are off painkillers. As soon as wound is closing more, we will take a new x-ray to see how things look. Her fractures are not the problem but the bone without tendants. But while I thought only alternatives were operation or put her down, I know now there is a possibility that scartissue etc stabilize the leg so we dont need metal and screws in there.
Hopefully she will soon be able to start walk on the leg again and we will start with swimming to regain her muscles.
She is a darling dog for me and make me smile everyday.

Here`s an album about Nayak

26/8 This summer i finally finished the dogyardbuilding! Unbelivable..Seeems I have been building dogyards for 20 years... .I have reduced number of dogs lately and made some new improvements that makes things more practical. I moved the puppypens near the house since I had such big horde of puppies this summer, and that was much nicer than having them far away. I also enclosed another part of my garden so that I have a fence outside my living room with a new gate to the big pen inside that enclosure. It was meant for easy access to puppypen/ bringing the pups inside the house, but also got an unexpected use when Nayak got injuried.
Besides its easy to take the dogs inside just letting them loose in the big pen and open the gate.
I changed some old fenceparts and got a number of new doghouses so now things are on track. Only thing missing is to have light in the area.

11/7 I am quite devastated right now. My most valued dog, fastest, upcoming mainleader and spoiled housedog, beautiful Nayak had a terrible and weired accident friday. She is a climber and usually lives in a roofed pen, but have been spending days in the larger pens with the puppies without problems. Until she found out she would get to the window that leads into my house and climbed a gate and her paw got stuck in the gap between gate and gateframe as she launched over the top. It caught her hanging on the other side with hock bent over the gate in a very bad angle and it broke two bones and ripped tendants in the hock. She has a cast on the leg and will most likely have to have to undergo expensive operations and aftercare to function in daily life. If she can ever run in harness again it will be a wonder:( She is happy to be a housedog again after the motherhood and sounds like a pirate with a wooden leg. This was really depressing...Her very promising sleddog-brother Dingo allreaddy tore a muscle from jumping and landing akward last summer and I dont know how this will affect him in the future.

Nayaks two pups Myrull and Znoke are some smart, enthusiastic, energic pups that makes me crazy bathing away the water in every kind of waterpen...

28/6 Oh dear-time fly! Again... No energy to update here for a while exept for the Gallerypages.- I finally got a new and more advanced camera than the little Ixus, Canon Eos 550D. I did not have time to go thorougly through the details of it yet- but take a lot of pics and deleate most:)
Also had some other great equipment improvements during fall/ winter, a Lupine Wilma headlight and a Skunksled, both were very welcomed indeed. The Skunksled were supposed to be a race sled, but its tempting to use it since everything else I have seemed so stiff and difficult to steer once I got used to it! Heres a video from this winter and the new sled
Guess Eveline K is right in her observation, people who are active on Facebook, get kind of lazy to update homepages!
But some news under here from that period of time, for those NOT on Facebook. I will try to update more regularly again.

30/5 NSHK Spescialty: As last year I was show secretary and could not show myself, but had a nice time at Frya Leir anyhow. Me and Anne Kari picked up judge Mary Davidson at Oslo airport.. Worse when we left her there on the way home, got sms that she was on the wrong airport! Turned out she got ticket back from a different and far away location for the return but luckily got home on stand-by!
Only Nay-La-Chees represented were Tokpok Lilletusse and Tella from Trondheim. They did well, Tella was 1 juniorbitch with CK, Tusse nr 2 in the class. Congrats to the winners!

April 20 Puppies, puppies puppies! As you probably have seen elswhere on this pages, there were a lively spring and forsummer here. And I did not expect much pups at all after watching Sepp looking totally uninterested in females in heat. The owners claim he is bashful and maybe he is! Jenis litter of 8 was a *gay-test* that lasted for a few seconds, when Nayak was on the 16-17 day without him being interested. She was following him backwards almost, with tail bent for a week....He finally bred her for a couple of minutes at 21 day. But there were 14 very nice puppies after all. Tamsin did not want nothing to do with the chosen male, but got pups with old Iver, who was second choise. There might be one of her pups available since she has a quite large overbite.
Exept for one, all pups have found nice homes with people I know that mostly have dogs from me before. I kept two of Nayaks, Myrull and Znoke and have one female on breedingterm, Gihli, and a swop-pup male from Jenis litter It has been a busy period, with loads of people visiting the pups, they had different visitors almost every day many times a day. It has been great fun with them, espescially after they all moved together with the two mothers. No problem to sit for hours and observe them (and cuddle of course although 14 pups have a lot of sharp teeth!
Nayak have been an impressive mum for the whole bunch! Jeni was more tired of them. Jeni has gone back to Svein and Irenes togehter with two pups, they will borrow her as leader in their new little team, til I might need her myself.

April An entertaining afternoon when photographer Bjørn Ivar and Silenoz (Sven Atle Kopperud) from Dimmu Borgir was here to shoot images for the next Dimmu Borgir album. Ravn, Skarv, River, Tvilling, Tannik and Graabein will appear as Hounds from Hell, which they of course had natural talents for at hookup-time:) Since I opposed to most dogmushers, love Dimmu B music, I now even more than usually look forward to their next album...due in september.

Season 2009/2010:
It was a good one for me, even if I did not race. For the first time since I moved here, we had plenty snow on the fields from 22 desember til end of march! Not ONE single day of + degrees or rain for that period!
As usual, when november and december comes with icy roads, and I do have a problem getting longer distances on the dogs without travelling,, inspiration drops... I cannot train all dogs in front of the Dyck cart and there are nowhere within 50 kmtrs radius where I can train all in front of wheicle either since it was put up a new roadblock at Holter. To turn around a team of 14 in front of car alone on a narrow road is not an option for me.
Anyhow it was wonderful (and economic) with a whole winter driving sled from home. One could get used to it, just hooking up outside the dogyard...The distances we had open (my neighbour and I) is not so long, but you can take loops and its quite much up and downhill even if its fields. Unfortunatly we had only one day of hard crust. Had a number of people joining on training small teams on the fields and also some passengers once in a while!

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)