Monday, 26 March 2012

A Greenlander and her dogs 2




 Here Mia describes more of her dogs and their relations with each other. Feel free to leave and comment or ask Mia and question and she'll try to get back to you.





I took all but one dog out sledding. No bigger problems. Really nice.


Aaju. He is very very scared of the other dogs and insteed of being submissive he bites the others, and I don't know what to do right now. Very fond of people though. He would do anything to be petted.

Going home in the sunset. From the left: Milo the old top dog, Pedro the big young one, and Louie, Pedro's brother.


Out of nowhere old Mika jumped Milo, the old top dog, and kind of won, and is triumphing with his companion Hannibal. But it only lasted this one day.

Milo and Pedro jumped Mika before start the next tour, and Mika is out. I was told that size doesn't matter... Milo can still be top dog although he isn't the biggest and strongest. It's his attitude. Interesting. And I try to support Milo because he is such a good dog. It's working. I don't know if it will work completely yet. Mika is on a break because he got a wound. The only female, the alpha female dog, is very fond of the big Pedro, and somehow has pronounced Pedro as the alpha dog, but he is her puppy, and he is not as good a sleddog as Milo.
 
The female dog, Zenta/Lillepigen, is in heat and is left at home. It would ruin the sled tour completely. Mika is still on a break. I don't want to bring Aaju when there are unsolved problems between the top dogs. So I went with only 4 dogs. They run and run happily and don't get tired. Hannibal the big puppy is not completely used to the sledding concept yet, and doesn't look very elegant running at the left. Two sleds are in front and a third sled passing them and us. We go in the left side of the track, because of the 'steering whip' in the right hand I think.


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