Cesar Milan eat your heart out

This is how my ultra-obedient, uber-professional dog team gets lined out at the beginning of a run.

I know! You're jealous that YOUR dogs aren't that well behaved right?? My dog handling skills are available. For a price.

It gets even better as Gracie pulls her "I'll go wherever the hell I damned well please" move:

It's more interesting back here I think says the little twerp.

Sure, I have no necklines on them but more lines mean more tangles with these guys and more work for me. I don't like either of those things.

They're such slackers, I always try them out on sketchy trails, but whattaya know! They started off fairly fast on the downhill, and little did I realize just HOW icy those trails were. Eh, why bother checking them out beforehand? This is much more entertaining and fun.

Ok, fun? Not really. Here is videographic evidence:




Post wipe-out. This is when I realized I left my mitten back up at the start. Oops! At -847 windchill, I wasn't going far without it.


The monkeys and I get back on track, they did pretty good for our whopping 1.5km run. This is when the "dogs-who-share-one-brain... sometimes" were working together quite nicely.


So this is when I let the girls loose, and ditch the skis, 'cause walking was faster at this point - mostly due to the crap trails and the fact that I didn't want to go screeching downhills in this mess. This turned out to be the unexpected skijor/ski AND hiking trip.

Fast forward to the next day, I took out Jack/Harris and Esther/Pooh Bear! on the sled. They had a BLAST. And seemed to enjoy it when I just let them run as fast as they wanted. Well, Pooh Bear and Esther, notsomuch mellow-boys, Jack & Harris.


Then I took out Ripper/Loki and Ivy/Sage - this was the first time I tried my new windy, bumpy, twisty trails on the sled and four dogs was more than enough on these trails!

Next time I'll try Ripper/Loki and Esther/Pooh Bear - the possibility of combining these four, light, hard-working (ack! Did I just call Pooh Bear a hard worker?!?! Wow, she's maturing!) maniacs kind of scares me. Just a bit.


Ripper(L), Loki(R), and Ivy (back right) and Sage (back left) after the run, anxiously waiting for their fish!


And here is Sarah trying to steal the Pooh Bear! She was making a stealthy move on her way out the door but was a bit restrained by her car seat. I'm keeping my eye on those dog-knapping twins in the future...

Pooh Bear was acting very un-Pooh Bear-ish tonight, actually being calm and quiet and being very into the kids! Heather was starting to believe that I'm making up all this stuff about PB being a maniac. I think she needs to listen to PB during feeding time or hookup! My eardrums are at half-capacity since I got that dog last year.