We hoped to do a Dog Fan Club Draw at the end of November and here it is December already. How the winter mushing season seems to FLY BY this time of year. Congratulations to Romeo Williams who is a fan of Bruno. He wins a packet of SP Kennel … Read More
Allen made it official this week by signing up for the 2020 Yukon Quest. 63 days and counting… We are thrilled that we will now have 2 mushers and 26 dogs on the Yukon Quest trail (Karolyn for the first 300 miles.) We obviously have much dog training, human conditioning … Read More
I am thankful for dogs. All breeds, colors, traits. They make me happy. Mismo and Ziptie are two that make me particularly happy. These two dogs are different breeds, have different personalities and different goals in life but they still remain besties. Their friendship is quite refreshing from a human … Read More
You know me and pretty sunsets… whew. I can never get enough of them. The big PLUS to Interior Alaska this time of year is that our sunset is almost at midday. So I got to see a pretty sunset at 4:00PM yesterday afternoon. ENJOY!
We are fortunate this season because it looks like winter is here to stay. It started snowing over a week ago and has been on and off since then. We have plenty of white covering the ground. I did a long day of errands in North Pole and Fairbanks yesterday … Read More
I’ll take mine thank you. People sometimes wonder why our huskys stay outside and not always indoors on the couch. For one thing… we only have one couch. Also, most of the dogs feel comfortable in their own house. This doesn’t mean that they don’t enjoy being in my house. … Read More
Bill, Wu and Gravy. All very different individuals. Bill and Wu share brotherhood, but that is the limit of their similarities. Gravy is their distant cousin. Check out SPK family tree diagram. Editor Note: Scooter’s Father was Ranger, not Pingo. Bill is crazy, high-strung. He is his father, Rodney, incarnate. … Read More
SP Kennel shut down for the day and went to the movies! ‘The Great Alaska Race.’ How rare is this you ask? Well… the last movie that Allen saw in a theatre was ‘Hildalgo.‘ That came out in movie theaters in 2004. Yup it’s been 15 years … why not … Read More
It’s Dog Fan Club Draw day! It’s the first draw of the season. We put the dogs’ names in a cap and first picked a Dog winner. Then we picked one of his fans from the cap next. We tried to get Olivia and Nacho to help us with the … Read More
Before we introduce the entire SP Kennel Crew for the season, we really just need to just talk about Karolyn. Karolyn has returned to SPK for a second season (plus an add-on month back in 2015). Karolyn has moved her belongings back into the Handler Cabin after a summer away. … Read More
