Winter Festival/Faux Race

Hi Everypup & Kitty,

A couple of weeks ago, our team participated in a Winter Festival in Willimantic. There were about ten teams that came from around Connecticut. We were there to show people about dog sledding and what better way to do that than to have a "faux" race?! A one mile trail was put in for us to run. We got some snow a few days before, so we actually got to run with our sled! Mom and her friend Tom had changed the runner plastic on her sled, so she decided to take the "slower" team out first. That team was Blaze, Angel and Velvet. The first two pictures here are of them going out and then on the way back in. A little later, she took Jasmine, Dave and me out for a run. We had a great run, including a sharp, clean turn around! The fourth picture shows you a nice close look at my team. Thank you to mom's friend Jim for taking those pictures for us. We met a lot of nice people and in fact, the wrestling team from the high school asked to have their team portrait taken with US!!! Of course Mom said it was fine! We enjoyed all the attention--we got lots of pets from everyone. AND we got to run on snow! How much better does it get??!! I hope you all enjoy seeing these pictures of us running as much as we enjoyed doing it!

Play bows & husky howls,
Skye

SNOW! Glorious snow!!!!

Haa Roo Everypup, kitty & hammie!

We got SNOW here in Connecticut! It started on Friday, stopped for awhile yesterday and has been snowing all day today. We had about 10 inches on the ground on Friday night and we got another 4 or 5 inches today! Yes, we are sled dogs, but this is actually too much snow for us to go running in--can you imagine that!? We did go out last weekend and ran with the wheels. Mom broke us into 2 teams so that we all got to run. I ran with my daddy dog Dave and Jasmine. We did a real nice 4 mile run. It

felt real good to be back in harness again! And I really enjoyed the ride home--snuggled under a
blanket next to Mom. Hmmm...the lettering just changed, but at least the pictures loaded! The first one is looking out the front porch on Friday night. Look at that snow coming down! The next one is Mom's truck (and OUR dog box) yesterday. There is almost that much snow on it again today!

Next up, is looking toward the kennel. The path to the kennel is between those 2 boxes and UNDER those snow covered hemlocks!

Don't you love the picture of Jasmine (in mid shake), my daddy dog Dave (the handsome mostly black dog) and Blaze? They were really enjoying the snow.

The last picture is Lakota. You can tell he had his snooter in the snow because Mom caught him with a snow nose! If you look in the background, you can tell he made some yellow snow! hee hee!
Mom has to go dig the truck out again tonight, but I
asked her to put these pictures up first! Last night she

was too tired to do it after digging out both the truck

and the car. I hope all of you that got snow are getting

to enjoy it. We had hoped to go sledding today, but

Mom believes in safety first and with the storm going

on all day and the possiblity of ice, she decided it was

better to stay home and be safe. Besides, with this

much snow, her truck probably could not make the

hill into the forest! So we will wait (again) and hope

there is still snow to run on next weekend! Mom and

her friend Tom put new rails & plastic runners on the

sled, so we are READY as soon as the weather co-

operates! In the meantime, we will enjoy the snow--

playing in it together and playing "catch snow" with

Mom. Everyone be safe and have a very Merry

Christmas! Hope Santa brings you all lots of new toys

and yummy treats!

Love and Happy Husky Howls!

Skye and all the Moondance Huskies and Kitties

HOWL-oween plus 1 & I'm BACK!!

Hi Everypup, kitty and hammie!

Hope you all had a safe and Happy HOWL-oween! I have SO missed blogging, but there has been a lot going on here which I will fill you all in on. My dear, sweet Grandpa passed away at the end of July and Mom & I have been very sad. I want to thank all of you who sent us fabric squares. Mom is making the quilt and says it will be a healing quilt celebrating Grandpa's life and showing the love of the DWB family.

Now to happier things, Mom gave me TWO new toys for HOWL-oween and they both have black cats!! We had a lot of cute Trick-or-Treaters last night and Diana and I let Mom know when they arrived and supervised giving out the treats. Mom said we were a big help and gave me a nice dog cookie as a reward....NO CANDY for me!!

Everyone in Mom's office dressed up yesterday and one of the ladies took a picture of Mom. That is a black cat toy on her shoulder and she is holding a crystal ball. She looked really pretty. She said one office dressed up as characters from the "Wizard of Oz".

As you all know, we are working sled dogs here, but here it is, November 1 and it is 60 degrees outside! We are all anxious to get out and start running. It is supposed to be in the 30's tonight so maybe tomorrow....... I will let you all know!

There is a lot more to tell you all, but I am going have to do it a little at a time. I am just really glad to be back and look forward to catching up on reading your blogs and hearing from all of you.

Again, thank you all for sending fabric squares....if anyone else wants to participate, you certainly can.

Love & licks to all of you!

Skye

Position is Everything.....

Greetings Every Pup, Kitty and Girl Girl!
Hope you all had a nice Fourth of July with NOT too many annoying fireworks! Unfortunately, there were lots of silly humans setting off fireworks near our house, so Mom gave us all some valerian root to help calm us. Well.....it sure didn't work for Blaze! He was barking for most of the evening, but what's a dog to do???
It has been raining a lot here so there has not been much to do. I decided to show some pictures of us just relaxing. There is a saying that "position is everything"....well, hope you enjoy OUR positions!
The first one is me and my favorite kitty sister, Misty. We like to curl up together on mom's bed.
The next one is Diana, one of my other kitty sisters. Doesn't she look comfy on that faux fur throw? The colors match HER colors haa roo! The next two are Lakota, showing us how to do the "twist". Personally, I don't know HOW he can be comfortable like that!
The last picture is Merlin. He is one of our Auntie Kat's kitties. He and his brother are Ragdoll cats.
Here he is showing his favorite yoga/sleep position. Hope you all have a quiet weekend!


I am going to stretch out on my bed for a nap.
Play bows,
Skye

Velvet's Gotcha Day plus 2

Good Morning everypup!
I am going to turn over the blog to Velvet today. Thursday was her "Gotcha Day". We decided not to post on Thursday because we were all so saddened by Baby Love's passing. We all wish her godspeed and much joy as a healthy dog at the Bridge. Soft woo's to Baby Love, Skye

Hi Everypup!
My name is Velvet. I am a girl Alaskan husky about 4 years old. I was born in Alaska and lived there until last year. On January 31, 2007 I was dropped off at the Fairbanks Animal Shelter. I don't know why. The people at the shelter were very nice to me. There is a very nice group of people who call themselves the "Second Chance League" who work with the shelter to help find homes for dogs like me. They took me running and included what they thought of me in my "bio". In March, I was lucky enough to go into foster care with a wonderful lady named Miriam. Foster care is a great place to be until you find your forever home because you don't have to worry about being put to sleep and you are in a loving home instead of at the shelter. Mom read my story on the shelter website and contacted Miriam to learn more about me. Well, I was a perfect fit for everything Mom needed, so she had Miriam adopt me. I was to live with her until travel arrangements could be made. Originally, the plans were to have me travel in October.....however...I was lucky enough to have them find someone travelling East in June!! Mom got an e-mail saying that I would be arriving in Boston on June 26, 2007!! Oh my dogness, she had to quickly get things ready for me and get time off to go get me. She did it and early in the morning on June 26, 2007, I met my forever Mom! I was reallly tired after my 12 hour airplane ride, so I slept all the way back to Connecticut. When we got here Mom took me out to the kennel to meet my new family. One of the dogs was barking at me a lot and it scared me, but Mom told me it would be OK. She put me next to Dave, who came over and quietly greeted me. I knew then that I was safe and had truly found my forever home. Living here has been wonderful! Mom takes us running every weekend in the fall & winter and the kennel is shady in the warm weather. She takes real good care of us and gives us lots of love. Here are some pictures of me. The first one was taken shortly after I arrived here. The second one was taken at Cockaponsett State Forest where we go running. That is me with my buddies shortly after a run. Next one was taken at a school demo this spring. I love meeting all the little bipeds! The last two pictures were taken recently. As you can see, I put on some weight since arriving here and Mom decided I needed to be on a "diet". Hmmmm....I am getting some different food, but it is really good, so I guess that is OK. I can't believe it has been a whole YEAR since I got here! I love living here. I want to thank the humans at the Fairbanks, Alaska shelter, Carol from Second Chance League for running me and to Miriam for being my foster Mom and getting me to my furever home! Also a thank you to the nice couple who escorted me from Alaska to Boston so I could come here so much sooner! Most of all, I want to thank my Mom for taking a chance on me. She made her decision without having the opportunity to meet me in person. I promise you I will never let you down! I love you Mom! Thanks for adopting me!
Love & Licks,
Velvet

Goodie Exchange, Part 2

Greetings again!
Here are some more pictures from yesterday's fun! First we have Lakota checking out the box of goodies...hmmm, what shall I have first???
Next we are out in the kennel. Dave is licking his chops in anticipation of getting a wonderful treat.
He loved the beef strip that Aunt Kat gave him, as you can see! Next it was Jasmine's turn and she got a yummy beef strip too!! She was very happy.
The last picture is Becky. She just got her peanut butter sandwich cookie. I can't wait til I get try one of those!!
I sure hope everyone enjoyed their Goodie Exchange treats as much as we did. Thanks again Butchy and Snickers AND to Chef and Mr. T-Bone Beasley for coming up with the idea!

Happy husky howls to all,
Skye and all the Moondance Huskies

FINALLY!!!!

Haa Roo Everypup!!!
First of all, I want to thank Rocky and Sitka for "checking" on me. Everything is OK here. Mom's back was hurting her, so she was not able to sit at the computer and take my dictation. Also the weather here has been horrible! Very hot and then constant rain! Our Goodie Exchange package arrived safely, but Mom would not let me open it until ALL of us could enjoy it. And yesterday was that day! Our Aunt Kat gave out the treats so that Mom could take pictures. The first picture is of me sampling a yummy beef strip from Butchy & Snickers' package. There were all kinds of cookies and a really nice card from them. The next picture is Aunt Kat with Lakota. See how nicely we take cookies?


Next up is Angel gently taking a Paul Newman chicken flavored cookie. The last picture is Blaze. As you can see, he is trying VERY hard to help Aunt Kat decide which kind of cookie he should sample. He thought that if he did a nice "sit" he would get more than one! LOL!
Mom got a few more pictures, but the site only let us put four of them up. We will try to do a "Part 2" with those pictures.
Butchy and Snickers, THANK WOOO so much for the yummy goodies! We will be enjoying them for some time! We really enjoyed being part of the Goodie Exchange and hope we get to do it again.
Also I will certainly try to make sure Mom gets back to posting as close to daily as possible.
Thank you all my DWB friends!!!
Love & Happy howls,
Skye and all the Moondance Huskies