(Photo from Ole Dag Løvold)
Long time since the last update! We have been busy finishing an excellent winter season - more than 1 meter of sno on our doorstep! Since we have a 3-dog team the pulling power is enough to enjoy sledding, which we can do just next door. We took a long deserved holiday in Brazil at Easter time (see my wife's blog at
http://naterradobacaiau.blogspot.com/) This long absence was followed by a business trip or two, ending with the total flight paralysis due to the Islandic volcano exploding.... I was of course stuck a few extra days in London... You bet the dogs (and our cat) were sorely missed!!! Thanks to some of our very good friends, they had a pampered holiday! With spring comes many natural changes - the birds return and start to sing, the leaves start to come out....and the doggy hormones start to flow! Phoebe has finally entered into her overdue period of "heat"...! And this means she will be bred to Vargteam't Zordo - we plan to keep at least two puppies so we can start to build up our small team :-) Phoebe is an intense, slightly overheated dog in the harness, prefering to gallop along like her Swedish-bred sprint parents.... Her dad ran on last year's winning dryland Siberian 4-dog team, and her mother comes from a long-established sprint line, Team Amarox. Zordo on the other hand is a well-shaped, cool and collected long distance lead-dog with all the genes and experience from Ole Dag Løvold's Vargteam kennel. We are both looking forward to seeing the results of this cross....if it "takes"!
(Photo from Ole Dag Løvold)
