The “Three Pupsketeers” are at the age where they move so fast and in so many directions that it’s really hard to capture decent video of them. I’ll keep trying to bring you an update on them all very soon, but for now I can offer you this little gem … Read More
Congratulations to Dingle who is now a sponsored dog! Alice Van Dorn of Boise, Idaho, recently sponsored Dingle and wrote to tell us why: “Last year I subscribed to the Iditarod Insider and spent every spare (and some not so spare) minutes watching the Iditarod unfold via the GPS and … Read More
Here’s a little outtake of Aliy hooking up her team for the physical therapy run. As you know, her six dogs included four heathen yearlings — Hank, Lester, Willie and Scruggs — loud-mouth Ranger and “Saint Bullet.” It’s hard to describe Bullet. She is a shy, quiet dog who takes … Read More
In Part 3, we’ve saved the best for last. Continuing and wrapping up the physical therapy run, Aliy provides you with a fully narrated ride on “the slough.” Along the way she enhances her evaluation of the rehab dogs and shares her final assessment of their fitness to return to … Read More
Celebrating Aliy’s 10th year running the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Aliy, Allen and the SP Kennel Dogs are offering three Natural Extremes trips on the Seward Peninsula. These trips will be run after the Iditarod, beginning in Nome and exploring the historical trail to the Pilgrim Hot Springs. This … Read More
In Part 2, Aliy describes both the physical therapy run in general and individual dogs on the rehab teams in particular. She does all this, of course, while mushing, filming and observing dogs all at the same time. As they say, “Don’t try this at home!”
As you know, a few dogs were “dropped” from the teams during the CB300. None for any real or obvious injuries, but showing enough signs of discomfort that the mushers made the decisions to drop them in the interest of the dogs’ best welfare. Aliy talked about all of the … Read More
Winning the CB300 Humanitarian award is truly an honor for all of us here at SP Kennel, but we have to admit we’re not solely responsible for winning it. Nutrition plays such an important part in the dogs’ overall health and fitness that we wanted to do something special to … Read More
With the end of last week being a couple of weeks after the CB300 and a couple of weeks before the Denali Doubles, the training schedule called for the dogs to have a good, long workout in the hills. As you know, however, we have had practically no snow here … Read More
Allen, Aliy, Doug and I were in the Kennel’s basement / shop the other day, when all of a sudden Aliy said, “Hey! Let’s do a Pupdate!” The next thing you know we had four pups (Scooter, Shmoe, Sissy and Spoog) plus four adult dogs (Tig, Stella, Remington and Girlfriend) … Read More
