Do You Want MORE With Your Dog?

I took this cool, simple quiz today to find out where I stand. Try it out yourself and see what your relationship with your dog(s) looks like. 

My Dog and I…How Are We Doing?

Take this simple quiz to find out the strength and health of your relationship with your dog.

Are you and your dog REALLY best friends?

http://www.betheleaddog.com/my-dog-and-i-quiz/

Stay tuned for more posts about how to "become a lead dog", how to improve your and your dog´s relationship and bond, and other philosophies of Liz Parrish, the author of this quiz.

To read more, you can visit Liz´s website www.betheleaddog.com and her blog.

Presenting the Eternal Love Litter

We knew that Lucky x Inuk´s puppies MUST have names of love. But it wasn´t easy to chose a common topic with the proper names and took Rebecca, Steve, Jachym and myself (and a bunch of Facebook friends - thanks for all your suggestions, guys!) a lot of brain storming and tweaking. 

Thankfully, the long training runs prior our big races were good opportunity for thinking and philosophing :)

We wanted to honor our great handler crew and name the puppies after Irish love gods and goddesses, but quite frankly, their names are nearly impossible to write, never mind pronouncing! Sorry Reb and Steve :)

So, here are the babies at 3,5 weeks, sporting their noble eternal love story names:

Meet TRISTAN

This handsome fella is FINN

This pretty, wild and smart girl is CORA

And this is NATHANIEL aka NATHAN aka NATE

and another pretty and brave girl, full of character - ROSE (in honor of our Irish/English handlers, her official name will be TOLLY ROSE (forest rose).

And now a little quiz for you - can you guess who are the puppies named after? There may be a few tricks and one puppy might be named after two "love" characters. The first one who will guess all correctly will get a little prize. Have fun! :)
(Just place your guesses in a comment under this post and add your name).

May I Present to You....

THE SPICES II

The Spices II Puppy Name Challenge has it´s results finally!! We got a huge response from friends all over the world, sending in name suggestions and voting in the puppy name challenge poll. Huge thank you for all the lovely name ideas! 

So, with no further due, let me present to you (in our traditional way of presenting - in order as they were born):

SUGAR Kipp d´Amundsen

JUNIPER Kipp d´Amundsen

PEPPER Kipp d´Amundsen

SAGE Kipp d´Amundsen

Sugar, Juni, Pepper and Sagey, as they are now known, have all opened their eyes by now and start exploring the world around them through other senses than just their super sensitive noses :)

They will celebrate their two-weeks birthday tomorrow night and have their "eyes open" pictures taken.

Thank you all once again for joining the Kipp d´Amunsen team in the very important task of puppy naming!

Happy Trails!

Puppy Name Challenge

We are announcing the Puppy Name Challenge for our friends and fans!

But before I get to the rules, etc., let me explain a bit about the theme, chosen for Ginger and Iceman´s puppies.

This is litter was a semi surprise. The breeding between Ginger and Iceman happened in the begging of July and sine then, a lot of thoughts went through our minds. Thoughts like this is a cool linebreeding on our kennel´s foundation dog Buck and his wonderful son Nugget. And thoughts like but the breeding was very short and perhaps too early in Ginger´s heat. But as days and weeks went by and Ginger showed absolutely no signs of being pregnant, we felt that was it. So no wonder it came to us as a surprise, when, then about ten days before the delivery, her belly just looked larger one morning. And she ate like crazy.

Now getting into the core of this all is the fact that Ginger comes from a surprise  litter we called the "Spice of Life". There were only two puppies there - Ginger and her brother Chilli, one of (if not the most) the most amaziing athletes of our kennel and my racing team.

And so it occured to us as a good idea, to follow in the footsteps of the surprise and create Spices II litter with Ginger x Iceman´s puppies now. After all, there are zillions of great spices out there and that will be up to you guys, to step in and help us find the best ones to name the little future sled dog athletes after them!

THE SPICES II NAME CHALLENGE
(poll will be posted on the sidebar as soon as we get name suggestions from you )
Rule nr.1. No Ginger or Chilli (we already have them)
Rule nr.2 Send your suggestions as a comment on this blog post and we´ll add them into the poll.
Rule nr.3 Click on the names on the poll, which you like the most (you can chose multiple names)
Rule nr.4 The four most popular names win!

Easy, right? Let´s have fun!