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8/3
Long time since I raced in Sweden, so it was nice to enter
Huskydraget last weekend. Almost like a sprintrace, 2 x 30 km on
very flat terrain. I ran in open class with 8 dogs, H Ebert 8, Manfred Witchel 10 and Anne Liese Witchel 7. Fun to have the germans behind me on a resultlist: for once!. Team was Iver and Yin in L, Vadim, Lømmel, Isi , Ivanka, Carlos and Troy Results here
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28/2-05
Nay-La-Chee`s Cool n Rude Hex are
bred to Sujozov av Vargevass.
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28/2 NSHK had
its annual Winterrace on Femundtunet. It was great snowconditions
and many participants. I brought all 21 dogs so its no holliday:) .
Luckily my boyfriend is getting good at helping with the dogs and he
had his first time driving a team up there. I participated in 8-dog
sprint 18kmtrs and the class had 10 competitors. I was nr 5, the 4
first places were occupied by danes and swedes:) Team was Iver and Yin
in lead, Vadim, Lømmel, Ivanka Isi, Troy and Carlos .Allways nice to
meet people again but time passses too fast.
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6/2-05 Had a
couple of nice runs in Hurdal, where there was much more snow than
here, still no anchorhold, but with Ronny in the sled I can
train all 11 at the time. Today its all grey down here again and ground is bare. I hope to go away at next days off from nightshifts. Here s a couple pic from our last runs in Hurdal 
 In front Hex and Noia, Isi and Yin, Lømmel and Vadim, Iver and Carlos, Troy, Nikki and Ivanka |
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29/1 Tried the
sled tonight on very little snow on the local road. No hold for anchor
and hard to break so had to drive small teams. Dogs got the diahrrea
that was around and has rested for a week, so first time out again
yesterday. Seems we have to enter sprintcalss on the NSHK race instead of middledistance. :( |
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22/1 The ground
is finally white again, after the mildest january recorded down
here. But its not enough to run dogs on, so nearest trail is Gåsbu,
Hamar 110 km each way. Have tried to go there once a week now, late at
night and stayed over so that I get two trainingrounds at one trip..
But I can shoot an arrow after a middle distance race season. A pity since I havent racetrained properly for some seasons now and I was hoping for an ok race season this year. Regular training has only been possible for people that can travel and stay away from home to train.Well, nothing one can do with the weather: I have fun with the puppies and work with them. Will put out new pics soon. And hopefully there will still be a lot of nice trips to places with snow Here is a pic from Gåsbu taken recently  |
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9/1-05 Tried to train two nights ago, just glare ice with some gravel on where I usually train both with wheicle and sled. And the road was closed after 4 km due to ice. Not a distance one want to train in january....Trainingamount is still under 600km since there have been little increase in distances for a long while. Would have been nice to stay for a week somwhere with snow buts its impossible for me to manage. This is frustrating indeed. |
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6/1-05 Winter is
still just hopeless down here. Snow came but melted again. Ice is back
but its still possible to go out with small teams in the hills. I have
been out on sled just a couple of times since november, the rest of
training is short stretches, 11-14 km in front of car. |
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22/12 Winter seem to delay again. Hardly snow anywhere..... :( |
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22/12 New pics of
Larkas pups
and
Dillas
pups Larkas pups is the nicest looking bunch of puppies I ever had, at least at this stage.They have very good proportions, angulations and type even in young age |
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15/12 Finally
possible to train again since ice has melted down on forest roads..
Dogs has been off for 13days. No snow forcasted for a while. But good
to be able to go out again. |
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11/12 What
miserable weather....A mild weather melted the snow but left icy roads
so my dogs hasn`t been trained for 9 days now. Better stay home than
risk injuries on the slick roads No snow is forcasted either and I have no possibility to go to the mouintans., |
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5/12 They
are a fun and sosciable gang and some rascals allreaddy New
Pics of Dillas
pups here The snow has melted now and its probably icy all over. What a pity now that training was good... |
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30/11-04 First time out with the sled
this weekend at NSHKS trainingcamp in Syningen. Beautiful winter
weather and good trails and a lot of people participating made it a
nice weekend for both people and dogs!
 Training run in the nice terrain of Syningen My car and the handy stake out system made by Frank Guldberg |
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26/11
Larka
delivered 5 large pups (she was
extremely big but rest was water....) 2 silvergrey and a white male
and one grey and one silvergrey female. Pics will come soon.
Father is Troy There is 1 female available in this litter.
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24/11-04 Winter
has arrived with a week of cold weather and snow. Didnt try the sled
yet but are going to the mouinans this weekend. I am waiting for Larka
to labour, she is very big now and will probably get 7 pups too.... Dillas pups are doing fine, there are two females available. |
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6/11-04 Dilla delivered 7 fine pups yesterday, one of the fastest and easiest labour I had here. There were 3 males and 4 females.Exept for a black clovermasked female and a grey clovermasked male, all are *dirtyfaces* similar to Dilla Pics of Dillas pups here |
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3/11-04 Training dogs alone for the first time
since I injured ancle...have to let the dogs loose before and after hook
up, since I cant hold on to them.Most of them are ok to let loose
fortunatly. I manage everything alone now but expect to have pain in the
leg for quite a while. Dilla is getting big, she is due end of this week. I forecast it will be at least 6-7 pups. Larka is starting to grow too. |
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25/10 Attended the
only rig race I had time for this fall , arranged by two local
sleddog clubs Great fun with 45 teams, 20 of them 8 dog teams in wich I started. The route is 6 km. Has never been that many entries before! The dogs did great and we were 11 out of 20 teams.Only one other siberian team, one malamute and one eskimodogteam. What wasn`t so great is that I slipped and fell on the outside party afterwards and injured an ancle. Luckily it wans`t broken but its painfull and I have to use one leg and crouches...not very convenient with kennel and 3 floor house, and the training has stopped til I am able to walk and drive a car again. |
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18/10 I have 12 mainstring dogs in training now,
that is Iver, Yin, Isi, Vadim, Lømmel, Hexa, Troy, Nikki Attilla,
Carlos, Noia and Ivanka. I dont get out more than 3 times a week, thats
what I get time for and can afford. (gasprizes are at a new costpeak....)
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18/10
Attended SPHKs spesciality in Kloten 9/10 judge was Erna Britt
Nordin. Entered was NLC Cool `n Rude Carlos who was Best open
male with CK and reserve winner male (beaten by 4 males from Working
class which is a thing they have in Sweden but not in Norway) Arctic
Souls Utu was 2. Winner female with CK and Lure Larka got 1.
prize. Been a while since Ive visited Sweden, allways nice to meet
people again, besides it was fun with the high entries (19 males, 27
females)Carlos and Rikke in Kloten Foto: Sofia Ericsson |
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18/10 Dilla
is definatly pregnant, puppies are due beginning of november. Also pregnant is Lure Larka. She is bred to Nay-La-Chee`s Narrow Trail Troy and puppies are due middle of november |
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2/8  Nay-La-Chee`s
Cry Wolf Xo (NLC Iver Glipp x
NLC Svarte Ildico) , owned by Erik
Meinhart arrived today. The plan is to breed him to Dilla, who is in heat now. She is not the easiest to breed though, since she prefers to lie on her back and whiggle her legs... I have Xo `s brother Vadim but he seem to have a more hyper temperament, while Xo is very calm and quiet. Besides Xo is larger, better buildt and has a better coat than Vadim. Xo has been kenneled here now and then and is such a pleasent boy to have around, he also works well in harness as a leaddog. Xo in lead at Rørosløpet 04 |
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1/8 Been a while again:) Started to work
nightshifts again in july, after a years leave. Only
workingsituation that give me some ekstra days off and works well with
sleddoglife. Had a job last year that wasn`t a good combination with me
who never gets up early, and noon til evening work. I have 19 dogs right now working my way down to 12-14 but it takes time to rehome a number of dogs. Today I went out for the first run with the cart, but unfortunatly it seems like the place I used to train in early season isn`t useable anymore. What used to be a quiet road with little traffic, is now a paved road that leads to new houses and industrial buildings....that means I have to drive at least 30-40 km each way to train until the sheep are taken inside for the fall. Will go out on " expeditions" to look for some country roads or so. But since the dogs are so loud when its hook up time I just cant start nearby houses....I claimed every year that I was gonna work on their behavior during hook up, but never got the time and energy...maybe this year....he he Seems like all the girls come in heat now so I`m in for some sleepless nights tuned in to the howlingchoirs of restless boys.... |
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30/5
Arctic Soul Utu arrived and stayed with me for a week before she went to
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30/5-04 NSHK
arranged its yearly Spesciality show last weekend with Ralph
Cambell judging It was a good day for Nay-La-Chee dogs and also a nice weekend with doggy friends. I entered Lure Larka who got 1AUK, 1 AUKK, HP, 2VK, CK, 3BTK (3. winner bitch) Nay-La-Chee`s Cool `n Rude Dilla 2 who got 1AK, 4VK, CK, res. BTK (reserve winner bitch) The twho females that is on breeding terms with Frank and Nina: Nay-La-Chee's Chill Out Misty got 1AK, 3VK, CK, 4BTK Nay-La-Chee's Nomi got 1JK, 1JKK, HP, res. VK Nay-La-Chee `s Chill Out Balto owned by Kari and Ulf got 1AK and reserve VK male BIR (Best of Breed) was Larry Berntsens Victor (Nay-La-Chee`s Iver Glipp x Nay-La-Chee `s Gråtass Sina) with Cert His sister Ivri was 2. winner bitch and got the female Cert Both Larry and I got HP i oppdrettsklasse (breeders award) Results here
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 28/4
Exchangepup for Saga will be the female Arctic Soul Utu (Vitek's
Desmond of Jedeye
x Go-Steel Arwen)
She will be
co-owned and live with Kari and Ulf Hope and will arrive in MayPic on Utu |
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28/4 Dilla
didnt get any puppies unfortunatly. Larka might be bred but its
uncertain when she will be in heat |
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22/2.04 He he rumours rumours: NO I am not quitting sleddogs, I`m reducing the
size of the kennel.so that it will be half of what it was at the most. This winter has been the one with less training ever and I havent participated in any events, but I hope to be back another season. I am soon back to nightwork wich is the only situation I feel can fit the timeconsuming sleddoglife:) |
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11/11 Ivankas pups has long time ago left the nest.A very sosciable
bunch of pups. Saga, female, is in Arctic Soul kennel of Finland
as an exchangepuppy.Yippe, male is co-owned with Kari Hope |
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11/11 Things are slow going unfortunatly There will
be no racing this year, since training has been down to a minimum due to
different circumstanses.I am reducing kennelsize, a number of dogs has
been placed, there are still some that are available for
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29/9 Pics
of Ivankas pups 6 weeks |
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17/9
Pics of Ivankas pups 4 weeks
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18/8
Nay-La-Chee`s Cry Wolf Ivanka gave birth to 6 puppies today, two
males and 4 females.Father is Nay-La-Chee`s Cool N Rude Carlos
Two greys and the rest dilute blacks.There are some for sale |
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18/8 Been a very
busy summer indeed..Yin/Ivers litter has left the nest and its
the first time without any litterpics. I didnt have the digital camera
at hand, but now I bought my own so in the future there will be pics
again. Nomi is put out at breedingterms with Frank and
Nina. Have a few pics, will put up later. |
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16/6 Another
Champion! Nordviks Road to Glory got her last Cert this weekend
at NKK Bjerke, judge M Sellebach. |
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14/6 Nay-La-Chee`s Narrow Trail Troy is
eyechequed and gonioscoped clear, he was bred to swedish living NLC
Daisy Glipp owned by Runa |
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 12/6
A bit late, but we had a good day at NSHKs yearly spesciality show 24/5. Judge Kari Granaas Hansen BIR (BOB) was Nay-La-Chee`s Cool Running Kenoia (left pic) and she got her last Cert and is now norwegian champion! 2.best female was Ivri ( Nay-La-Chee`s Iver Glipp x Nay-La-Chee`s Gråtass Sina) owned by Berntsens 2.best male was Victor ( Nay-La-Chee`s Iver Glipp x Nay-La-Chee`s Gråtass Sina) owned by Berntsens 3.best female was Nay-La-Chee`s Cool `n Rude Dilla with CK 4.best female was Nay-La-Chee’s Aussie Zita owned by Legårds Nay-La-Chee`s Cry Wolf Vadim were Reserve winner male with CK Larka got HP and 2 juniorclass females, (ut hardly walked on 4 legs jumping like kangaroo:-) Nay-La-Chee`s Iver Glipp got HP (honouraward) in studclass Nay-La-Chee kennel got HP in Breeders class |
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12/6 Nay-La-Chee`s Cool`n Rude Carlos
were eyechequed/ gonioscoped today, everything fine. |
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12/6
Nay-La-Chees`s Narrow Trail Yin got
7 puppies, 4 males and 3 females, father
Nay-La-Chee`s Iver Glipp!!! |
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12/3
Nay-La-Chee`s Cool `n Rude Dilla was bred to
Alaskans Ping Ping of Anadyr
(Ash) 13/6 Unfortunatly there were no puppies from this breeding. |
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10/3 Hex, Dilla and Ivanka was eyechequed and
gonioscoped today. Hex had a bit dysplastic lingaments (narrow
iridocorneal angles), everything else were fine on all of them. I here that rumours in Sweden have it that my line of dogs has glaucoma:-/ (well I have many lines) I might as well comment it here, I didn`t have any dog with glaucoma so far!!! Hex is my 2.gonioscoped dog that has a bit narrow angles, something that in worst cases CAN predispose for glaucoma. Just a tiny percent of dogs with narrow angles ever get glaucoma though. In Samoyeds, there is no difference in the percent of dogs with or without narrow angles that get glaucoma, but in Siberians chanse increase with narrow angles. The advice from eye-vets I asked is not to breed two individuals that both have narrow angles. I got that same advice from an experienced breeder who eyecheque all dogs.. Beware that very few siberian breeders in Scandinavia ever gonioscope (or eyecheque) their dogs, so the status is unknown for most dogs and glaucoma is a small problem. Even though it is not called for in the breedclub or kennelclub, and its quite expensive, I eyecheque for the best interest of my breedingstock in the future. NOT because I had problems!!! Hope that clearified this. I wrote an article about eyeproblems in siberians on norwegian, that can be read here |
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12/3 Almost 2
months since last update. Winter has been great here, but still
another season didnt turn out as expected due to many reasons. On top,
the dogs caught a "sickness" thats been going around this year,
which left them with lack of energy for almost a month after a few
days of diahrrea.After the NSHKrace they got kennelcough and I let them
off training. So I didnt find the mileage addequate to enter
Drevsjøløpet and PolarDistans as planned.I hope for some nice spring
runs though!!!Its still a lot of snow in the forest and mouintans. Went to Norwegian Husky Club winterrace and entered open class 50km for the first time.Beautiful weather and hardpacked trails made it a nice weekend! In the team was Yin and Iver in lead, Noia, Isi, Vadim, Ivanka, Carlos, Djerva, Bandit, Troy and Konyak. Carlos had some problems in his shoulder and was left out day 2. Noia wasnt feeling good after the sicknes and got a ride in the sled day 2. Day 1 we were 10 minutes behind Karsten and I was happy with that, but day 2 we were in more "trouble" and used much longer time.  photo F Bakke Had a go as "touristmusher" as Robert Sørlie has a weekly assignment at Haraldvangen camp. Himself at Iditarod and the kennelassistent didnt have time, me and 12 dogs got the task to transsport 50 danes to give them a taste of dogmushing. ...... I was sceptical, but luckily it was one adult and one handicapped child sitting in Roberts really huge touristsled.each round, instead of 2 adults which were mostly the case. The dogs were doing mighty fine galloping the 600 m full speed, but the leaders were kind of tired of the same round again and again... Good thing Lise were there to catch them and get them in the right direction for next round, they wanted to go everywhere else! This is how Roberts young dogs train for Iditarod!!! |
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16/1 Entered the first race a couple of weekends ago, Vikerfjelløpet. Kind of a 1 day trainingrace, two rounds 14km each.Nice training for the youngsters since its a lot of passing teams due to the 2 rounds.Placed nr 6 out of 11 teams like last year in 8-dog class.5 of the teams where siberian teams, I had one in front of me (Hans Christian!) Teamdogs where Noia, Iver L, Djerva, Isi, Carlos Vadim,Ivanka and Troy. |
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16/1-03 Oh gosh, been a while since last update! As
you probably has figured out its been too busy for internet around
here.lately.It probably will for a while more... But let me tell those of you who dont live in Norway.... winter has been completely weired where I live: ITS BEEN A LOT OF SNOW AND REAL COLD!!! Unbelivable! Mildweather arrived yesterday and has melted a lot, but mind you, that is the first day with + since beginning of november! For weeks and weeks I have had 1 meter of snow here and degrees between 15-30 c . Despite that my dogs has`nt had the amount of training they could have had duerto this top conditions...Unfortunatly its been toomuch other things on my mind . But we are starting to reach some mileage now. In order to be more effiscient I started running 12-dog teams now. I didnt dare before, because I strongly dislike that much uncontrollable power when somethings goes wrong. To RUN a big team is real fun, but if a dog needs help and you need to STOP them...But I purchased the largest snowhook available and that helped a lot... |
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  17/11Here is a few pics from todays trainingrun up in Hurdal. Lot of snow, but mild and moist weather.
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14/11 As I finish this update, it started snowing heavily again Only a few drawbacks with snowfalls, dogpoop get buried too fast, its a hell of a job to showel all the snow from parkingspaces :-/ And since I work in Oslo tomorrow I can look forward to a hopeless queue. Southern norwegians don`t handle driving in snowfalls..... |
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13/11Good to get the sleds out again! Its lot of snow everywhere
now and the dogs was extra eager to run tonight.!Main team this year is Iver, Noia, Isi, Yin, Konyak, Troy, Djerva and Bandit. Vadim and Carlos is the best of the young dogs and will be on the main team too.The females Dilla and Hex are really energetic, but because of their small size I prefer the boys in races. |
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12/11 Been a while again! Still too busy for internet these days.WINTER has really arrived! And as usual, it caused a complete caos down here around Oslo.This is really early for such a large snowfall, and all october was colder than in many years. Good to know that the global warming hase`nt struck us completely yet.In the last minute I decided to change my HiAce into a 4wd version. Turned out too much of a hazard with the other one on slick roads and with the trailer.And that caused another trainingdelay when a week was used on that project.:-) Dogboxes out and dogboxes rearranged back in the short version. After this huge snowfall I`m really glad to be back on 4wd (was having a faithful Subaru for many years....)But I even got stuck with the new car and the trailer though... |
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 20/10
View from my bedroom window this morning!(New yard) I love snow but I dont want it yet!!!! Guess todays rig-race get cancelled...I didnt get the chance to go to the two others, now its only 1 rigrace left this season. Oh well, guess I`m forced to do housework today. |
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19/10 Still snowy
in my trainingarea and the dogs loved it! But we are way behind a normal
trainingschedule unfortunatly. Today I
finished the fencing of the excersisingpen. Its just the entrancegate
left now, but its a golly heavy one which need a deep hole in the ground
to stay where its supposed too.
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17/10 We had a taste of winter
allreaddy!!!Its been cold and snowing a bit also. My traininghelp
Susanne and I got stuck for a while the other day, with summertires and
boggietrailer, since there was 10 cm snow at the turningpoint! Puppies are 6 months now . I have one male(Iver x Djerva) for sale at the moment. Noias white girl Misty left on breedingterms a while ago, and joined her brother Andy with Nina and Frank. |
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7/10 Been an
extremely busy month, I`m behind with everything from e-mailing (sorry
to those who awaits an email!) til dogtraining.(and not to speak of
housework, but that is nothing new around her, huh?But its even worse
now!!!) But the new dogyards were finally finished last sunday, only the fencing around the exercisingpen remains now. Since the whole dogyardproject was delayed, dogtraining hasn`t been as I was hoping for so far this season. Dogs hasn`t been out for more than 10 runs all sept/okt.Other time consuming inscidents has also delayed everything. But a couple of days more and everything is in order. First frostnights has arrived but there is still "hot" here since 6 bitches are in heat! Below is a view from the new area, only the main gate and fencing around the area remains. 
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 7/10
At the NSHK "fallcamp" there was a puppyshow with 15 entrants, judge was Frode Bakke. Best puppy was NLCs Djerve Zidane owned by Christoffer. 2. and 3 best male pups were littermates Igloo and Zeke. |
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 8/9Yesterday I picked up the new car-cages made by Larry at Lillehammer, they turned out really nice! Here he is with the result.... Today I was wondering wether to quit the doglife and start with sandvolleyball instead since I now have a nice field for it right outside my door.... I`m a bit tired of shuffligng sand and carrying concrete blocks, but when this last project is finished I hope I won`t have to carry anymore of those :-) Also was out on the first trainingrun today, with the new cart. Still a bit too hot and humid, but off we went. Susanne and Marlin risked their lifes and were passengers!!! They also brushed all the dogs and changed straw in all the houses, so I think the dogs are quite happy now! |
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 4/9
Things are finally starting to get going around here. The re-arranging
and expansion of the dogyards is coming along and I hope to put the new
yards up next weekend. Yards with good drainage and concreteblocks for easy cleaning and an exercisingpen for the pups, much larger than before. A gate and a driveway will make it possible to take the car inside the pen and let the dogs loose when we are going for training. Lot of work and expences, but it will be a great improvement for both the dogs and me.!!! |
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4/9 This has
been the warmest august in Norway since they started measuring
tempratures 140 years ago. Since I didnt have time to start training
yet anyhow. it doesn`t bother me as much as it should....But its just
around the corner....I have now been able to reduce the amount of
nightwork since I have two alternative jobs with different "doggy"
friends. This allows me to spend time doing among many other things,
computerstuff of the kind I like (in my favourite program Photoshop for
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1/9 NLC Cool
Running Kenoia, NLC Cry Wolf Vadim and puppy Possum entered a show at
Hundorp, judge R Campell. Didnt get the last Cert I was hoping for with
Noia, but Vadim got Cert and BIR (BOB) Didnt stay around
for the groups.Visited Larry B on the way inspecting the new
dogcages he is making for my car. They look very nice, and can
according to the constructor, hold tigers!!! |
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26/8
Lure Larka has arrived, the studfeepup out of NLC Iver Glipp and
NLC Gråtass Sina from Berntsens at Lillehammer. She is a charming and outgoing girl, here inspecting the house. |
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2/8 NLC Aussie Possum attended his first show
together with my mum. Even though she complained about his of lack of
showtraining, they managed to become 2.BIS out of 160 puppies! |
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I was visiting Berntsens at Lillehammer and their 7 pups out of NLC Gråtass Sina x NLC Iver Glipp. 6 weeks and some real cuties! I`m taking a female as studfee pup. There are still a couple of pups for sale. Will put out a picturepage of these pups soon! |
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 28/7
Yippee 2!!! The new training-rig has arrived, the largest VanDyck-cart.(weighs about 90 kgs) I tried them out last fall and they are very comfortable to run and gives you good control since they have brakes on all wheels and also parkingbrake that digs into the ground. Since I cant train from home an ATV wasn`t an alternative. For the first time in years I look optimisticly on upcoming training /racingseason. But now I better get started building new dogboxes in the car....besides the dogyard is going to be expanded and I will hopefully be able to drive the car into the exercisingyard, (at least thats the plan,) will save a lot of time and energy loading the dogs in and out . |
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28/7 Yippee 1!!! I
now have accsess to borrow a digital camera and it`s as great as I
thought it would be... Just shooting away without thinking of
developingcosts. Besides it saves you from the scanningtime.Have
upgraded the PC too, maybe it will get easier to update these
pages...still some work with things though. |
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28/7 There have
been som namechanges etc on the dogs. Christoffer now owns Zidane
formely Zancon, Yago has changed name back to Zeke. More pups have
left and its only a white male out of Noia and a grey Djervaboy left to
go. Together with Odin, a Charliepup, 18 months old Valenki also left
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Still has a number of puppypics I didnt have energy/time to scan! (Still
didnt get a digital camera....)There are now 2 males left in Djervas and 2 males in Noias litters for sale. My keepers are: NLC Aussie Ohnowshow (Kangoo) and NLC Aussie Possum out of Charlie x Iver, NLC Chill Out Misty and NLC Chill Out Attila out of Noia x Andy and NLC Djerve Zeke and NLC Djerve Zidane out of Djerva x Iver..My keeper female in this litter was sold after all and will enjoy life with Phoebe,Linka & Ida! Pics soon??? ehem maybe. Here is Zeke, the male I keep from Iver x Djervalitter |
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28/5 Days are flying, with all the puppies to take care of and all the
people that come and go to look at them! Good I have holliday right now!
I have chosen my keepers, two males and a female in Djervas litter, a
male and a female in each of Charlie and Noias litter.I might put some
out on breedingterms later. The pups are starting to leave for their new
homes, but there is still a number out for sale, mostly males (possibly
one female) Its been pouring rain for some days, not the nicest puppyweather.... So I have some time now to update this page since constructionwork outside in this weather doesn`t tempt me too much Djerva x Ivers pups 6 weeks |
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28/5 Pictures of Nay-La-Chee dogs at the
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12/5 I know people are waiting for puppypics, but I have been so busy
with puppies and fixing dogyards there has been no time. But I finished
the last puppypen today so here s a page with Charlies pups. The other
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12/5 Sad day. Old Pani had to be put down today, 14 years and 9
months. Her cancer had spread and made her limp and have pain so it was
time to let her go. Some dogs are more spescial than others, Pani was
one of them. It will feel strange looking out of the kitchenwindow
without seeing her face, allways hoping for some goodies to come flying
out
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29/4 All my puppies are growing fast now, and are starting to get very
cute,hope to finish a film soon! Have been busy rearanging the
dogyard lately` Ive been painting and repairing doghouses, building
roofs and covering more ground with concretesquares. I`m building some
new yards too.Owning a kennel allways gives you something to repair and
expand!!!
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29/4
Norwegian Siberian Husky Club had its yearly spesciality show
this weekend and it was a good one for my kennel! Fun to see so many dogs entered too, 10 puppies, 22 males and 22 females, thats a lot in Norwegian terms. Judge was Robert Sellevik BIR (BOB) and CERTwinner was Berntsens female Ivri (NLC`s Iver Glipp x NLC s Gråtass Sina) She is a very well buildt and cute female who also run in lead Her brother Victor got CK and was 4..VK PICTURES I had entered following dogs:(wich made me quite busy running in and out of the ring :-) thanks everyone who helped me handling!!! It was some task, ao due to the fact that mooses had been sleeping on the lawn were the ring was,dogs heads went down like vacumcleaners continuosly!!!! ) Ch NLC`s Cool Running Konyak: 1.CHK CK 2.BHK (2.best male) NLC Cool `n Rude Carlos 1JK HP 1.JKK,2.VK, CK 3.BHK (1 junior male,3.best male) NLC Cry Wolf Vadim 1JK HP 2.JKK CK (2. junior male) NLC`s Cool`n Rude Hex 1 JK 1JKK (1 junior female) Avatac`s Brave Ulveline 1AK, 2VK CK 2.BTK (2. best female) Best Veteran NLC Rakker Micro: BIR-valp (BOB-puppy) Nay-La-Chee had a Breederclass entered which got Hederspremie (?) The other 3 NLC dogs entered, Tasha, Xo and Zana all got 1.quality prizes. Nara and Tinka entered puppyclass. And even myself got a nice "prize" this weekend due to the fact I was chosen to be Honorary Life Member (Æresmedlem) of the Norwegian Siberian Husky Club, This was a suprise I really apreciated! |
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29/4
NLC Iver Glipp has besides my two litters (and two litters
earlier), been bred to two outside bitches this year (Moira and Sina) If
they get normal littersizes he will be taken out of breeding for
quite a while til the youngest offspring has been evaluated. Its a small
breed and its not good with too many pups out of one male.
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16/4
Info on litters (pictures will come soon) Arctic Songs Djerva x Nay-La-Chee`s Iver Glipp Nay-La-Chee`s Cool Running Kenoia x Sledge Dog Kennel Effendy Nordviks Road to Glory x Nay-La-Chee`s Iver Glipp |
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16/4
Charlie got her litter a week ago, 4 girls and 2 boys, some
large and energetic pups.I dilute black girl, the rest is grey/whites
with typical masks. Djervas count showed by the way 7 boys and 2
girls, I got mixed up in the heat of things.
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3/4
Djerva
(father is Iver) delivered a
litter of 8 today, much larger than I expected (she
wasn`t that big, my guess a week ago was 4!), 7 males and 1 female!!!
All grey/whites in different shades with typical siberian markings.
Everyone is doing fine. Seem I will be QUITE busy soscializing pups this spring!!!! Takes a lot of time and effort, hopefully I get some asistance from "puppyfans" I know! |
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3/4 Also expecting pups soon is
Charlie, who was accidently bred to
Iver. Charlie was eyechequed clear and gonioscoped in february
02.
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30/3
Noia x Andy (Sledge
Dog kennel Effendy) delivered 8 puppies
today! 5 males and 3 females.. 3 white males 1 white female, 1grey
female and the rest silver gray. Mom and babies are doing fine! This is
Noias last litter, some pups are still available to good homes.
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20/3 Soon easter holidays in Norway when a lot of people go to
the mountains, I allways work though. But sa few of my dogs go on holiday with other people. The rest of us will probably be able to go sledding down here a while more unless very mild weather disturbs things. Its still a lot of snow in Hurdal. The snow down here on the fields only lasted a few days this winter. |
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20/3
BIG SALUTE for Robert
Sørlie and his alaskan huskies who became "Rookie of the Year"
and nr 9 in Iditarod!!!!! Best time and best placing for a rookie
ever!!! Hope this makes it less troublesome to finance next years
Iditarod for him! Will also congratulate Kjetil Backen who was nr 10.
These guys has very small kennels compared to american standards and do
a great job with their teams! The norwegian mushingcomunity was spent a
lot of time on Internet during the race I tell you!
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20/3
Old Pani is doing fine again! She got a couple of teeth pulled
out and was on painreleaver for a week and she`s been eating since! She
says halo to her friends!
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20/3
 Went
to
NSHK`s yearly races 21-24 february, was going to run 2 x 50km.
The day we arrived, snowstorm wiped out all the trails (had been nice
and hard...)so day 1 no class could go longer than 12km in a mess of
punchy snow.Day 2 middledistancetrail was 37km. Noia, who was 4 weeks pregnant at the time had more problems than I expected day2 and had to ride in the sled for 1 hour. Thats the first time in her career,.Pregnancy should`nt affect them that much so she probably had a bug of some kind. The others were doing fine. Was nr 3 in 6-dogclass, 5th best time of 13 teams in middeldistanceclass. RESULTS here Here we are at the last meters, photo by Annjonette Left to right Iver and Yin, Isi and Konyak, and Troy in wheel. |
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17/2
Pani, 14 1/2 years old are in trouble Her teeth is very worne
down and are starting to get painful. She has been put on painreliever for a while, but of course they dont go on forever in that age. It will be a very sad day when she has to go.She is the sweetest kind of dog you could ever meet. |
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17/2 Nay-La-Chee`s Cool Running Kenoia got her second CERT
today at NSPBK`s show.
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15/2 It has now been nice conditions again down here for a
little while since there was a snowfall and then got colder. I`m down to 6 dogs that are fit for the race at NSHK Vintersamling, those are Iver, Noia, Yin, Isi, Troy and Konyak. I was hoping to enter 8dogclass, but Bandit and Byks are not functioning very well at the moment. |
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10/2 I was planning to assist during the Femundrace this year, to watch
the action at the Femundtunet checkpoint for the first time. But I chose
to stay home after all, among other things to take care of a new "baby"
Lerkelunds Lømmel. He is out of Nay-La-Chee`s Svarte Ildico x Lerkelunds Tserko (Spassky x Darja av Vargevass) Picture will come later. |
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8/2 Have been 3 rounds at Gåsbu, Hamar this week thats 220
km in the car for each trainingrun....but I really need to get some miles more in the dogs if we are to start in the 2 x 50 km at the NSHKrace. This dogrtail-arena is situated 900 m asl. At last visit it was pouring rain all the way til I was 1 km from the startingarea.... At Gåsbu the trail is prepared with large groomingmachines which make the trail harder than the dogtrails at home, and permits running on it without the dogs damaging the surface. |
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3/2 How long was Adam in paradise??? Its tropic here again,
POORING rain and all the snow is gone around here. This weather will
continue all week the forcast says. Up in the hills snow its so punchy you cannot train there either. In other words- no dogtraining at all unless you go up in the mountains, and thats not allways easy when you work all week.....Makes me,and I bet other dogmushers,depressed and pissed..... |
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30/1 I see many races are moved or cancelled here in Scandinavia and USA
due to lack of snow. Guess we are lucky around here after all, its been
excellent conditions again and today its snowing a lot.
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30/1
Arctic Songs Djerva was gonioscoped (normal angles)
today .She is now bred to Nay-La-Chee`s Iver Glipp.
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30/1
Nay-La-Chee`s Cool Running Kenoia is now bred to Sledge Dog
Kennel Effendy.
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23/1
Charlie had taken a brake in her shedding and won BIR, Cert
and GROUP 1. at Sandefjord Hundeklubbs show this weekend!
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23/1 After 1 week with no trainingpossibilities down here due
to mild weather and hardly no snow were I usually train, cold and snow
is back, at least in the heights up in Hurdal. Beautiful conditions
today. Dogs had their longest run this winter, 38 km and they were
really tired.
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13/1 Mild weather finally arrived and roads are glare ice and snow is
gone at my house...The tropis zone has arrived here too like many other
places right now.
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13/1
"Noia" was eyechequed clear again today, she will
probably be bred to Sledge Dog Kennel Effendy (alternative his son
Troy). Since she waits 9-11 months inbetween season, next year would
spoil raceseason and the year after she is getting older.
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13/1 Got the "Snøbarna" episode on video today, kind of fun to see!
Seems the programe is sent on TV"2 FrokostTV 10 40 at friday, possible earlier too.(7 10?) |
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7/1 The weather remains very cold, but we could use some more
snow in the bumpy parts of the dogtrails. Its too scarce to train from
home, too bad since I have many youngsters to try out. I will try to get some longer runs now, since the team only has ca 400km training in the legs. That doesn`t call for the 50 km races yet, but I will hopefully be able to participate in some middledistanceraces in february/march at least. |
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7/1 Back from the first race this season, Vikerfjelløpet, a
one day "trainingrace" of 28 km (two 14km rounds)Up in the mouintans of Vikerfjell there was sunny and + warm, almost a shock to the dogs after a month of training in the cold!. Rough trail too, but since mine wasn`t the only ones who seemed slowgoing in the warm weather I was satisfied with the result after all., nr 6 (11) in 8-dogclass, less time behind the alaskanteams than before. Noia & Iver ran lead, Isi and Troy had their racedebut and both of them did well, Yin, Byks, Bandit and Konyak made the rest of the team. Will put out raceresults at www.siberian-husky.net as soon as I get them. |
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4/1-02 Back from 4 wonderful days in Gausdal. Perfect
winterweather, 15-20-c, full moon, bright sun, fresh snow, beautiful
light, alaskanlike landscape, eager dogs and nice friends.
Can you ask for more?. It was my first time in this area. The dogs has
of course been out everyday even though the lack of training
didn`t call for the very long trips (28 km was the longest) Think my company froze more than me too... and Annes & Kjells teenagers wasn`t too pleased with the outside old fashioned toilet in 20 below!!!! I forgot my film at home so there were only two pics from the trip! |
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28/12 Its been wonderful winterweather for quite some time now! A
descent snowfall before christmas softened up the hardpacked icy trails,
and it has been between 10 and 18-c every day. Nice weather for a
dogmusher ! Have had a number of runs together with young and older
friends, so the dogs are getting used to different drivers than me. Have had a few runs with the young dogs, who all seem to enjoy being sleddogs. Well, Happy New Year to you all! I`ll be off to Gausdal with 12 dogs leaving the youngsters and pups home with Annjonette who lives here at the moment with her two huskies. |
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5/12 Winter has arrived here too now! A week earlier than last year. Has
been out with the sled, but we has lot to catch up on trainingwise.
Allways nice to have the first run on clean snow after having delt with
mud and dirt for weeks and weeks. The young dogs didnt get much training either . I only get the mainteam in the car, and with the heavy snow on the forestroads I didnt dare to go out with the trailer yet. Must get accustomed to how the new car acts on snow first... |
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29/11 Miserable weather! . Rain and slush has made the forestroads icy,
had one hazardous trainingrun on snowcovered glare ice. Could easily
have crashed my new car, better await the weather before next
trainingrun!! Last year I had first run on sled the 9 of december.
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25/11 I have been without a car for a month now, so dogtraining has been very scarce.But I am now the owner of a rather new Toyota HiAce which I hope will bring me from A to B without problems, even though it isnt the best on winterroads. (no 4wd...). I have borrowed different dogcages and a trailer with dogboxes so I can haul the team, until I get permanent dogboxes made in the spring. When I was readdy to start training again, Troy managed (he smelled a bitch in heat...) to stick his leg out of the dogcage in the night, and fish the ganglines (and a harness) into his box, putting out his sexual frustration on it, with the result my entire 10-dog cablefilled ganglines were mauled to pieces.....Well not the cables, but all the rope around it and on it.Took some days to get new ones....Dogs are fun sometimes.! Got out on one trainingrun in nice cold weather with
new clean ganglines and nice new shiny car, (nice feeling!) but today
its undercooled rain glazing the roads so one better stay inside. Its been cold for a long time now, but no snow in sight. Must quite a bit up in the country to find sleddingsnow.(Røros) |
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7/11 Its frost in the air now and the first snowflings has showed up. I
have had to cancel dogtraining for 10 days now due to the fact I have
no car... Old faithful Subaru is retired and the Iveco, which I hoped
would work throug the winter without major repair has again (and for the
last time) screwed up things.. I was expecting this sooner or later (thats
why I didnt make any plans for longdistance-training this season either)
I`m looking for a Toyota HiAce now and will hope for better days
so I can get to work and dogtraining when I like to.....
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12/10 Has put up new picturepages of
Noia x Rude-E pups and Ildiico x Iver
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12/10 Has visited the Znookapups at Annes place and have put up
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12/10 Have been training mainly with my 90 kg cart and
small teams (4 dogs, all I manage to stop...quite timeconsuming) for a
while, but this stretch is only 6 km. As soon as the moosehunters cool
down a bit I will start training in the forestroads again and increase
distance. Dogs are doing fine so far,
 main
team this year is: Noia, Iver, Bandit, Byks, Konyak and Yin is the experienced ones, Troy are working extremely hard, hope he will overcome his stressproblems this season.Only way to know is entering him in races, at training he do fine. Isi is doing really well so far and will probably run on the mainteam. Gullik also has a high stresslevel, but his workingspirit are good. Yr has improved a lot since his first season, but since he is a clown I dont trust him 100%.Time will tell Tusky is retired from racing but serve as trainingleader. There are 5 young dogs to try out too.(Valenki,Vadim;Ivanka Sniff & Kinski) Here I am borrowing Larrys vanDyck rig... Nice to have good brakes for a change! Christoffer is passenger |
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8/9 Will go out on the first trainingrun this fall tomorrow. Have
been very busy with outhousebuilding and other things that need to be
done around kennel/house. I was hoping to change dogvan this year but it
seems like I`m stuck with the Iveco another season. That means it
won`t be any longdistancerace this winter either... Hope to get enough
training for middle distanceracing though. Its cold air in the morning
now and one starts thinking about winter again....
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8/9
Znooka got 6 nice puppies 30/8. Two grey females, one sable
female, one light red female, one sable male and one white
male.They will stay with Anne and Kjell til they are 6 weeks and then
move to me.(Anne is probably gonna feel like moving with them!!!) There
might be 1-2 puppies available.
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2/8
Racingseason has started! At least for Iver and Bandit, who
participated on a filmset this week, on styrofoam snow!!! They took
part in an episode of "Snowchildren" (Snøbarna) I was really
impressed by the dogs, they behaved exellent ! A mental challenge
to spend the whole day in the filmstudio with a lot of people,
cameras, stuffed,strange looking "Snowpeople" etc.When Iver
got his harness on and was put in front of the sled, he thought it was
REAL winter, scratching the floor to go and making the styrofoamsnow
fly!!! I will inform you when I know what time the episode is sent. Here are some pics from in between the filming. 
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2/8
Noias pups (Northomes Rude-E x Nay-La-Chee`s Cool Running
Kenoia) have left the nest. Codename for the litter is Cool`n Rude. My keepers are the two darkest females Dilla and Hex. Sold, but to be kenneled and trained here are the two light grey males Ronaldo and Carlos. Pedigree of the Noia x Rude-E pups Pics of the litter |
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2/7
Nay-La-Chee`s Cyber Znooka, (Nuch Nay-La-Chee`s Cool Running
Konyak x Arctic Songs Byks) now owned by Anne Trøbråten , was recently
bred to Santo (Romanov av Vargevass x Vargteams Skrollan) Santo
reside at Snøheimen
Kennel, Rena Pups expected in august Both Santo and Znooka is
eyechequed clear, Znooka is also gonioscoped. More details later.
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10/6
Charlie entered NKK Drammen, judge Tore Fossum and she was 2.
BTK and got CERT and Res Cacib.
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30/4 Norwegian SH Club held its yearly spesciality this
weekend with long time SHbreeder/competitive musher Karsten Grønås
judging. 40 dogs were entered. I was very happy with the results! Nay-La-Chee`s Cool Running Kenoia (Noia) was awarded nr 1 female/ BOS with her first CERT. Her mother Avatacs Brave Ulveline (Tusky) was 2.best female with CK and also Best of Veterans Arctic Songs Byks got 1. prize but were not placed. Berntsens Tuskydaughter Nay-La-Chee`s Gråtass Sina was reserve in the winnerclass. Sinas 3 entered offspring out of Iver all got 1. prizes. Nay-La-Chee`s Iver Glipp was my only male entered. He got an exellent critiqe, but unfortunatly he was limping lightly and could`nt get any rewards. | |||
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24/4 Am I now a breeder of huntingdogs??? In the last Huskyblad we could read about Nay-La-Chee`s Luna Glipp in Finmark, who suprised her owner Arnt Jensen by retrieving a ptarmigan he just shot, sitting down by his feet and dropping the bird undamaged. I know most huskies off lead with a fresh bird in their mouth definatly would have served themselves!!! Arnts conclusion is he is now the owner of a retrieving birddog.... Nay-La-Chees Gråtass Otto has also impressed his owner Jim with his different huntingskills and most sucsessfully as a trackingdog on a deerhunt- they shot many deer for him (the dog who was supposed to track got mites in the nose and couldnt smell a thing so the husky was stand-in) | |||
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24/4 The Ildipups has left for their new homes and are doing fine. My
keepers are Valenki, Ivanka and Vadim- code name Cry Wolf since they
grew up during the weeks of Norways controversial wolfslaughter.. On the picture belove from left are Zana, Bagera, Tasha, Valenki, Ivanka and Xo. Vadim has hidden. | |||
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9/4 I did put the sleds in the garage today, snow is almost melted here
now (But its still trails up in the heights) Last run on the
fields was 27/3,not bad. We also had some runs in fog and rain at our
first try in touristbuisness, computerpeople from around the world were
to have a short run each in the sled. Since we didnt have a trail and my
leaders suddenly had forgotten what left and right means, it started out
quite embarrassing!!!I If one stopped too long, the sled got stuck in
the slush.But we improved after a while, and otherwise learned that the
light japanese people (except sumos) are ideal passengers in a dogsled!
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30/3 Iver and Charlie were eyechequed clear by Ellen Bjerkås this
week
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27/3 Amazingly enough, its still snowy and cold around here!
Weather`s been glorious for weeks, hot springsun at daytime, down to
-17c at night. Its the latest I ever went out with a sled from here.
From newyear and out this winter has been the best for years and
years (not for "normal" norwegians perhaps, but for those into
wintersports at least.)
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14/3 Went to a last race this winter, Østre Æraløpet 2 x 30 km.
Kind of a trainingrace with 30 participants. Trail was very narrow and
bumpy with loose edges so snoweating dogs were in for some stumbling! I
lost quite some time due to passingproblems first day, but second was
o.k. On her 2year birthday Yin ran her first race in lead and did
very well. Her sister Tasha ran lead with Znooka in Kjells team with
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24/2 I`m sitting home looking after the babies instead of participating at NSHKs yearly camp/races. Makes me a little restless, but thats the way it goes sometimes. Have been training from home for 2 weeks now, its still enough snow . The sloping fieldareas around here are covered with hard crust so we can go anywhere. I`ve had some very fun runs out here, training the leaders on offtrail commands. Usually its only been possible with this klind of training in the mouintans, and since I havent been to the mouintans much the last years, none of the younger leaders had got the point yet. Before now. We also train on the very hard comand of STAY!!! wich is also possible since the sun is baking.. Its very cold at night still, so the crust keep hanging on. | |||
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17/2 Nay-La-Chee`s Svarte Ildico (sired by Iver) delivered
7 nice puppies today!!! 4 males and 3 females, All are grey, from light to very dark Pedigree/ info | |||
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13/2 Wasn`t actually planning to breed Byks now, but thought it was too bad to leave Åsarna with a female in prime heat and so many good males living in far away places. She was therefore bred to Vindsnabbes Sirocko see pic to the left (Tordenn av Seppalaska x Vindsnabbes Mirage) a linebred seppalamale belonging to Eva and Peter Mårtensson.Peter`s been a leading middle distanceracer in Sweden for years. Besides being a fast leader, Sirocko has also done well as a moose hunting dog!!! Pedigree of expected litter | |||
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13/2 Back from an exhausting but very nice weekend in Åsarna! We
had cold,nice weather, nice trails and nice company.Allways interesting
to look at dogs and talk with different people. Anne was happy with her
first race and got inspired to start airobics and swimming! Myself I was happy with the dogs performance, although having to drop Nikki after first day. I knew he isnt a fast type, but I chose to leave Byks who was in prime heat. Noia was cleared to run by the vet, but would probably not have lasted all three days due to her sore toe.I missed the two girls, but its allways something in this game. Bandit and Iver ran lead all 3 days, Yin, Konyak and Djerva (loaned back for the occation) were teamdogs. Results can be seen at http://www.siberian-husky.net/resultater/races.htm | |||
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5/2 Had last short trainingrun before Åsarna last evening, in - 22 c.
Cold enough even for just 3x 10 km runs, I didnt envi the
Femundracers who just endured a long race in - 40 c!!! Who should have
thought we`d get such a good old winter? After last report it was
raining here for some days, snowing higher up. Now its been around -20c
for a week! Today its snowing again. The dogs love to run in this
weather, but its forcasted mild weather again soon. Byks, main leader is in heat, and since I dont know yet if Noia can race, I`m in for some thinking about what combinations to put up front.Hopefully the boys Iver and Bandit will behave. Sleddogracing allways keeps your brain busy,heh? I dislike the stress of sprintracing, but hopefully I can enter some middledistanceraces at the end of the season.! | |||
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24/1 Its been snowing some 30 cm of wet snow since yesterday, and
the dogs had their first trailbreaking experience this winter, right
outside on the surrounding fields. Iver and Yin has never been
trailbraking in lead before, but did very well. Its like one almost forget the extremly mild fall and the global warming for a while! Its unbelivably nice that its been real wintery now since new year!(we used to take that for granted, but not these days...) Until the other day, its been 10-15 -c so the lakes finally froze up. Now its even snowing more, and the fact that we have been able to train from home for more than 3 weeks hasn`t happened for years . I also had some really beautiful trips in nice winterweather other places, I get some photos up soon. The dogs have had some 28 km runs now at last, it feels like we are hedding towars a more normal trainingroutine again. Mileagewise, we are less that half of the usual amount. But I`m looking forward to the nice trainingtrips ahead and are glad we live in a wintercountry after all!!!(but looking at the charts of snowdepths around the country it seems like its more snow down here than in Finmark!!!) Later same evening: Shouldnt have praised all the snow that we have....now its raining. :-( | |||
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23/1 Noia
managed to get one of her frontclaws ripped out in my
entrancestairs today. What a bummer. Since she is a main leader, this
was very sad both for her and me, but I guess thats Murphys law. She
was`nt happy watching through the kitchen window when the other dogs got
hooked up! Guess I have to make wooden steps as soon as spring
arrive!
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15/1 I`m planning to go to Nordic Open, Åsarna after all.
Has entered in 6-dog sprint even though I`m not found of
sprintracing. Anne Trøbråten is coming with me and will (if she dare?)
enter 4-dogclass, her first race with two of her own dogs and two of
mine. Since I get travelcompany and since its fun to meet people, look
at dogs and participate after all, sprint is better than nothing. The
dogs are not readdy for 50 km anyhow.
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11/1 Went to
Vikerfjelløpet
last weekend, one of the few races short enough for me
to participate in with not so well trained dogs. 14 km x 1, 6dog pb-class, nr 1(5) with Noia/Bandit L, Iver/Byks Konyak/Nikki. Jan Kolpus was 2. with Djerva/Tusky in lead. Right now its actually possible to train from home! Been a while since we could this early in the season. My neighbour Jan Erik who also have sleddogs, made a nice 11 km trail around the fields. Hope the snow stays here a while longer. Up in the hills it has snowed a lot. | |||
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8/1 Spent the new year weekend at Sjusjøen, Lillehammer training
dogs and having a nice time. Winter decided to appear in southeastern
Norway that weekend, the day before departure it was snowing and blowing
so bad here and where the rest of the party lives, that we thought we
had to stay home snowed in! But the weather got quiet and very cold and
we had a great time.
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6/12 Training is lousy these days, once or twice a week due to too much work and lack of inspiration in this weather. Its not raining as bad as before, but weather is constantly foggy and humid . But to look at the positive side- it COULD have been glare ice all over! At least its possible to train. | |||
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6/12 Latest 4-legged addition to the kennel is this creature: A baby
angorarabbit with yellowish wildcoloring. I highly recommend products
made of angoerarabbityarn for people that are much outside in cool
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13/11 The weather has been exeptionally miserable this summer and fall.
Continous rain for 4 months makes everything a muddy mess and they have
warned for floods 4 times this fall in the eastern part where I live. So falltraining isnt allways a pleasure, but I try to get out training 3 days a week. We are way behind the usual scedule, but even if it turns out to bee little racing,the training will learn you about the abilities of the different dogs. A-string this year is leaders: Bandit, Kenoia, Iver, Byks and Djerva, teamdogs Konyak, Nikki, and the yearlingsYin and Troy. Yin seem to have leaderpotensial and Troy is an extremely focused and hardworking male I have high hopes for if he can keep it up over distance. Time will tell. This weekend we go to the mouintans and can hopefully try the sled for the first time this year. | |||
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13/11 Keepers so far out of this years pups are Kinski out Andy and
Tusky and Sniff & Torvald out of Biggen and Djerva
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29/8 I have finally added some pictures of my current puppies, more to come. | |||
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28/9 I have just recently started falltraining, much later than
usually.Since I cant afford to keep my dogvan running steadily
through the season if it acts like usually,, so I have to skip
racing this winter. I will instead consentrate on putting good
training on young dogs and leaders. But if the snow gets good and the
van is good, it might be some racing late in the season. I hope so. Then
I hope to be racing full season again next year.
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20/8 Djerva got 4 pups,1 male 3 females 30/7, all grey.
Tusky wasn`t empty at all, she got 1 male and three females too!One
buff, one white and two agouties, born
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NordviksRoad to Glory entered her first show at Bjerke, with HP and
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| 18/7 I have picked up two nice 4 year old brothers from Yngve Fagerli (switching to alaskans) Bandit and Nikki.(Robin Hood av Vargevass x Idun av Vargevass) .Both have finished Femund 280 km race. Bandit is a leader. Pics and pedigree wil come later. | |||
| 10/6 Picked up Isi Birkebeiner at Lillehammer, he is a studfeepup out of Nay-La-Chee`s Iver Glipp and Nay-La-Chee`s Gråtass Sina Pedigree . | |||
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27/5 Arctic Songs Djerva was bred to Isslottets
Biggen today Picture and Pedigree
of Biggen Pedigree of
planned litter Avatacs Brave Ulveline will be bred to Sledge Dog Kennel Effendy soon Both litters expected in beginning of august. Noia will be bred next time she comes in heat. |
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13/5 Showed Nay-La-Chee`s Narrow Trail Børk and Nay-La-Chee`s Cool Running Kenoia at NSHK Spesciality, Judge Eivind Mjærum. Børk was 3. and Noia 4. winner bitch both with CK |
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4/3 Racing at Drevsjøløpet, 100 km 6-dogs.A snowstorm night before the
race wiped out the trails, so we had to go the 50km twice.Both me and
the dogs slept well after that exercise, but it was a nice trip! Sun and
clouds, strong winds, snow, hard trails and soft, inblown trails.I was
only siberian team entered, and had Noia/Tusky in lead, Byks and Andy,
Konyak and Gremlin in the team. |
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28/2 Racing 2 x 50 km at NSHKs Vintersamling.in beautiful
winter weather! Thats more than one can say about winter here in
souteast of Norway, snow has come and gone (mostly gone) all winter,
leaving icy trails or no trails at all. Iver, Noia, Konyak, Gremlin, Andy and Djerva was in my team that came 3. (8) but speedwise we have some way to go.... If snow stays, there are two more races to go this winter, Drevsjøløpet 100 km and Långberget Open 2 x 43. Raceresults, see NSHK Web http://www.siberian-husky.net/resultater/races.htm |
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8/2 Racing at Nordic Open, Sweden. 2 x 50 km. Not much to brag
about speedwise for me, but I was happy with the dogs performance. Hade
to drop a dog I had loaned, the rest of the bunch did their best.(Noia
and Byks Lead, Andy, Iver Konyak and Gremlin) My congratulations to
Lotta Antoniussen, its a while since I could breath in her back!!! Other dogs from my kennel participating: Djerva and Tusky were loaned out as leaders for Jan Kolpus. Per Agefeldt ran Nay-La-Chee`s XL Yogi Bear in his 4-dogteam and Gert Kronholm ran Nay-La-Chee`s Cyber Bandit in his 4-dog team.Raceresults, see NSHK Web http://www.siberian-husky.net/resultater/races.htm |
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19/1-2000 New import, a showline (!!!) puppy bitch from Nordvik kennel,
South Australia, Nordviks Road To Glory See her at My Dogs. Puppies |
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23/1 Have entered two races so far this year, Vikerfjelløpet open
race (nr 6(6) i 8-dog 28 km) and Svensk Rasmesterskap for Siberian Husky
(Swedish championship for SH) nr 2 (7) 2x 34 km The time was suffiscient
to get 1.prize in the swedish sledtestsystem. Kenoia,Ulveline, Andy,
Konyak, Byks and Iver made the team. |
