Westcountry Sled Dogs

Well we have been busily training as much as we can and we would like to welcome our newest members

The group is going from strength to strength at the moment and we really hope people are enjoying themselves.

Members have been attending rallies and doing extremely well, unless you are Rod ... LOL!!!  He decided to take a tumble and take in the view too

Rallies are still going on across England.  Rod and I will be at the Wyedean Quest for a bit of fun - then we need to get the dogs ready for CRUFTS!!!

Happy Mushing

and see you soon on a lovely cold morning or evening

We have been at Living Coasts, Torquay, today to domonstrate and talk to people about our lovely dogs.  We met many interesting people today and hope to meet a few more tomorrow.  We will be there from 11am till about 3pm.

Happy Mushing.

Hi all

We raised £264.14p for Children in Need on the 14th November, despite the howling gales and torential rain.  Well done everybody, and thank you for all your help. 

We are thinking of doing another dog show next year - but during the "Indian Summer" time when we will hopefully avoid all this wintery bad weather

Thank you again

Fay

Hi All

Don't forget to join West Country Sled Dogs on Saturday 14th Novemebr for a fun dog show - all in aid of Children in Need.

£1 per entry - all money goes to the charity.

Sign up from 12.30pm, judging begins at 1.15pm

Includes:

1. Cutest puppy under 12 months

2. Best Young Handler aged 16 and under

3. Waggiest tail

4. Best doggy Trick

5. Prettiest Bitch

6. Most Handsome Dog

7. Best Veteran over 9 years

8. The Dog the Judge would most like to take home

9. Best in Show 

Plus Hug a Husky, guess the weight and hopefully some demonstrations

So Be THERE!!!

Fay 

It was a good morning for mushing, only one dog walker out and nice an cool.....

Rod took out our 4 dog team - Alice was demoted once again half way round from lead dog to wheel dog - Amber is enjoying the run upfront with her sister, Scarlet.  James also ran his 3 dog team.

Then it was Rob's and my turn.  Luna needed start running, so we put her on as a 2 dog team with her sister Scarlet.  Rob ran them one way for a short distance, and I ran them back - they run absolutely fabulously together!!! 

Then I ran Alice on her own - she was not impressed - think she prefers the competition of the others ... LOL!

So I have now had my second go on the rig - I think I'm hooked - how we going to share one rig between two???!!!

Happy Mushing

Fay

Hi All

We will be attending the Canix and Dogs Day Out at Haldon Forest, Exeter on Sunday 6th September.

I will be running the 5Km with Alice in aid of Pets As Therapy.  You can donate through this link and it will be much appreciated.

www.justgiving.com/CaniX4PAT

Thank you so much

Fay

well, it has gone a little quiet down this end, due to a lot of shows going on and the humidity has been too high to run!!  Never mind, it gives us a little break.

CANIX

Don't forget to sponsor Emma who is running for charity, and I will be too for a different event.  CaniX has helped keep the dogs fit - and me too!!!!  Try not to overdo it though, it is still very. very warm!

Take care in the heat and see you all soon

OK - we have now reached that time of year when we have to get up really early!  Well, earlier!

Rod and I met up with Maria yesterday at 6.30am for a run at Haldon, and had a really good chilly morning running around the forest.  Our 4 dog team is doing really well and Scarlet seems to be pipping Alice to being the lead dog!  Sioux is so excitable, wow what a difference to when we first started running her at the age of 3 - there's no stopping her now!

James is currently doing more runs down at Halvanna due to work commitments (your growing up now James ....).  So you have a choice of two venues to meet us.

Rod and I have a few championship shows coming up so we are arranging a few more runs on evening during the week, so take a look in you email or text inbox to see what we are up to.

I am currently up dating photobucket to share just WestCountrySledDog pictures.  You'll receive an email soon when you have access to this.  Then I'll shut down my personal photobucket to public access.  Watch this space.

Happy Mushing.

PS. I am still in the throws of organising a West Country Sled Dog meal for the summer.

Well another good week of running

Rod and I went for a night run on Wednesday.  Left Amber in her cage and helped rod to set up his new toy ... OMG - we now have a rig ...... never thought we would finally get one of those ...... Thanks to Andy in North Devon

Quite a few members spent their Saturday running at Halvana, whilst we ran with a couple of friends at Haldon.  Poor little Amber is still on cage rest and is hating every moment the dogs run off without her - not long to go now!

We then had another run today.  Many of the members spent their Sunday at Pink Peaks - a charity rally to raise money for Cancer Research.  A fab time was had by all from what I hear.

   CRUFTS  

Wow!  What a fantastic day it was ... I'm still recovering from the excitement and the pain in my back ....ouch!

Rod and I are personally very proud of Jo Sutton with our little boy from our first litter, Rason (Honehe Spirit of the Wild) who gained 1st puppy dog, then best puppy dog and narrowly missed out on Best Puppy in Breed to a lovely Zoox girl.  Well done guys.

Our Alice (Rajarani Christmas Chalice) gained a 5th place (out of 10) in graduate class ... I am so proud of her.

Maria gained a 5th place with Smudge in the Mid-Limit class.

All those went to Crufts yesterday, whether placed or not, were so proud of their dogs as they have worked sooo hard this year.  It was a great day out and we hope we are honoured to go next year ... hopefully with our puppies this time   cool

Thank you everybody for a fab time ... and thank you Maria for driving most of the way home   

Forgot to mention, Emma and Scooter, who were picked to run in the CaniX on Friday ... well done guys.

Well here is to next year and all the up and coming shows - it's going to be a busy year for us, so I better take some more painkillers and put my feet up while I have a couple of sick days off .....