New member(s) of the pack :-)

The last few weeks have been fun!  When some of our friends went to India, we looked after three of their Siberian Huskies..... They integrated very well with Luke and Phoebe, and enabled us to enjoy the local trails with the sled :-) A 5-dog team of relatively eager dogs are strong enough to pull our sled with one of us inside as a passenger!  We even had a chance to please two families with three kids in total - giving them rides in turn and letting the older ones and adults stand on the runners...

In the past weekend, we went to the Norwegian Siberian Husky meeting where we participated in the informal "recruitment class" race - this was an easy 10km trail. We entered with 5 dogs in the 6-dog class and beat the only other competitor - a young girl running someone else's team of Alaska Huskies :-)

On the way home, we loaded up the car with another sweet girl - Burka. After returning the three dogs we borrowed, we now have Burka on loan to find out if she suits us and the others - so far, very good! She is a careful, super-sweet girl :-) She is of similar build and size to Phoebe, but more "calm and collected" so we hope they will form a dymaic/thinking duo of front-runners for our small team of dogs!