Home in the kennel

Nay-La-Chee kennel At home! I live 30 km from the center of Oslo, on the countryside ( in a suburban area.) in my own house. Its also only 30 minutes from Oslo Airport and as long to drive to work as to go training with the dogs. I can`t train from home, I can run 4 km with saccocart just down the road, but have to go 25kmtrs to carttrain with a larger team, 25-60 km to run on sled. The few periods when it`s snow like in "old days" its possible to go on shorter runs on the fields that surround us. My closest neighbor has a kennel of Euro hounds/ alaskans and my sister, who (lucky for me) is a vet, lives next road with her terriers and cavaliers, so we have a doggy neighborhood!! Unfortunatly civilazations creeps closer with more houses build around here and more people passing by our small road.
Belove are a number of shots from the different areas of kennels and daily life of the dogs

I The cages are made of Larry Berntsen, who has done a very good job:-);-) I can easy carry the 12 dogs I train for the race team, if I`m bringing more dogs I use the dogtrailer. The nice hookup-system are made by Frank Guldberg The wooden sleds have been retired and I run mostly on a BeWe distansesled or with Oinakka Alu Distans For shorter races, I enjoy the Dannler sled. For falltraining I train by car or use the VanDyck-cart	All the yards has concrete-block flooring for easy cleaning since its clayground here and gravel dissapear too fast.. The dogs live in groups of 2-3 dogs and are let out to run in the playground alltogether every day.I love to watch them play and interact .Wish I had a larger fenced area but its not space for it here... I love gardening and flowers so I think its nice with a dogyard surrounded of bushes and flowers. The dogs are mainly kenneldogs, but some are housetrained and "housedogs". The puppies also grow up outside, but are taken inside regularly, up to 8 weeks almost everyday, to be sosialized. The dogs are fed with premium kibbles from and meatproducts from Vom og Hundemat	Some dogs are more accustomed to indoor life than others.

	I used to have hens for years, but don`t have any at the moment. But maybe I get some again! The creatures to the right are angorarabbits. Its fur is very soft and warm and it need to be clipped 4 times a year. Its wool has 10 time better insolationabilities than sheepwool. I spin the wool into yarn myself and make very warm mits and socks. Perfect when you are dogmushing in cold temperatures.
	I used to have cats, but have none at the moment (could use one to hunt mice in my basement....)But the cats I had did have a tendency to visit the dogyard and that wasn`t very smart.The left cat Lillepus was a Norwegian Forestcat. I also love horses, espescially Icelandic ponies, but its years and years since I had the time to ride... Maybe one day...
	I used to paint and do different artthings, but the doglifestyle have used up my leisuretime. Hmm... To the left a painting I made twenty years ago. Well, seem like I`m gone to the dogs......