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darkwood-sleddog · 2 years ago

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Been thinking a lot about our run yesterday and something that really stands out to me is how controllable the team was and it is mostly due to the fact that Slash is an adult dog now. For the past few years I’ve had a puppy as my main leader and I often forget that no matter how exceptional Slash is in harness that immaturity was present.

That’s one of the cons of small teams, ideally I wouldn’t have run an inexperienced baby dog in lead, especially when 1/3 of his teammates is a big lug that hates listening (Sigurd). I think I was just flabbergasted at how perfectly they behaved but it’s mostly bc I have a team of mature dogs now and I’m like wow. About it.

#dogblr #alaskan malamute #dog #canine #sigurd #zombie #slash #working season 22 23 #I remember Sigurd and zombie’s three year old season I really began #to get a better control and cohesion with them #meanwhile my breeder is jokingly like ‘buy two more puppies and then you and mr d can have a team each’#like do u understand that if mr d gets his own team I will never have slash as my lead dog again? he will be stolen from me haha #told her I need a bigger vehicle before I can justify that hehehsjtkgigjfj #I look at the ages of dogs in iditarod team #and I am comforted by the fact they don’t hold their dogs ability #to a stupid little timeline #we sometimes in dog sports have this line of thought of #the dog passing a certain age and having to be slowed down or retired #when that is entirely individual #slash’s granddad was leading teams at age 11 so being three is nothing #Sigurd and zombie being five is not old. anyways

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