Very sad day....

Sad Wooo furiends

It is a very sad day at my house today. Two of my pack have gone to the bridge at the same time.
My humans first Yukon dog, Queen Sleet. Sleet was real old, like over 16. Her body was just breaking down! She had lots of troubles getting up and moving; she mostly just slept. Mom says Sleet didn't have any quality of life anymore. Sleet has been here longer than just about all of us. It's gonna be real hard to get used to her not being here anymore! Sleet was real sweet and nice. She put up with my hooligan ways, as long as I didn't try to steal her rawhides!

My sisfur, Goldie, had to go today too. Goldie had bone cancer in her ribs. The tumor got so big that Goldie couldn't get comfy, no matter how much medicines Mom gave her. She was having trouble walking too and she couldn't even play with a tennis ball anymore. Goldie was real noisy. She was always wooing about something. It's awful quiet right now. Goldie had a special friend, Chase. She shared her pen with him. He's gonna be lonely now. I will take care of him for you, Goldie.

Goodbye my sisters. We will miss you so very much.

Sad wooos

Tehya, the sad babydog

A buncha things

Woo Furiends!

I gots a bunch of things to woo about tonight. It's been busy around my house!

Let's start with some very happy news!

I am officially FOUR! My real birthday got lost in the chaos of my first few months on this planet, but I was six months old or so when I got here so my Mom figured my birthday was in late September. We celebrated with some salmon fillets for dinner, moose bones for chewing and tennis balls for playing!

I am a growed up Babydog now!

All our snow went away, which ain't so happy, but it will be back soon enough! We are enjoying the cool weather anyway!

This is my sisfur, Kayleigh. She is a 12 year old malamutt. I ain't never met Kayleigh without a fence in between us. Mom says Kayleigh might think I'm a squeaky toy and chew on me! YIKES! But she is nice to me through the fence. She has been really sick. Mom actually thinked she was dying a couple weeks ago, but then she got better for no reason, just like she got sick for no reason! Dr. Helen has run all sorts of tests on Kayleigh and we still don't know what's wrong with her! We ruled out some really bad stuff though so that is good! Kayleigh is eating and playing again, but she has the shivers and she can't hold her pee in. Mom got some medicines today to try, just to see if it will help her. Kayleigh could probably use some good vibes!

And some even sadder news....my very first dogger friend went to the bridge yesterday. Reilly lived with the nice people who rescued me from that pound place where they were gonna kill me! He was an old dog then and he didn't really appreciate my puppy energy. I guess I was a bit annoying to him, but he shared his home, foodies and family with me until his people convinced my Mom to let me live here. I will always be grateful to Reilly for that kindness.

Godspeed, Reilly, you were truly a good dog. I will keep an eye on your special human for you.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Tehya, the busy babydog

Hey, it's winter!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Furiends

Just a few days ago, it looked like this on our road!

It was nice and sunny and full of pretty colors.

Now it looks like this in our yard!

Winter came back early!!

We got SIX inches of snow yesterday!

Us husky doggers are pretty happy about this, except Sleet the Ancient, who is disgusted!

Mom is not so happy!

She still has a whole bunch of stuff she was supposed to do before winter!

Guess she will be doing her chores in her winter gear now!

WOOOOOOOO

Tehya, the snow lovin' babydog!

Cranberry Picking Fun

WOOOOOO Furiends

A couple weeks ago, me and my Mom went cranberry picking. We go every fall and Mom uses the berries to make all sorts of yummy stuff. I sampled a cranberry muffin and it was delicious!

These are what we were looking for, low bush cranberries. They grow on the ground in the forest near my house. This year was a good cranberry year; we had lots of rain and just enough hot weather for the berries! We didn't have any trouble finding berries this year. There were tons of them!

I was supposed to be on bear alert. Bears really really really really like cranberries!!! But there was so much fun stuff to do in the forest, like chasing squirrels!

And rolling in stinky stuff! I think it was old bear poop! Mom says I am useless as a bear dog!

I guess that's why Daisy got to come. She is a good bear alert dog. She likes to stay close to Mom and watch everything. Fortunately, no bears came to our cranberry patches that day! Daisy only barked at a labby dog who came running by with her human! Mom didn't really need protecting from a lab dog, but Daisy is good at letting Mom know something is coming!

I am good at enjoying myself in the trees! HaROOOOOO

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Tehya, the fun babydog!

How to mess with your human

Wooooooooooooo Furiends

Tonight's lesson is how to mess with your human!

Step 1: When she brings you dinner, start doing the Horka Dance.

Step 2: Act like you don't want to eat, look pathetic. It's very effective if you can make some gagging noises too!

Step 3: When the human lets you out of your pen, race to the house, like you just gotta get inside right this minute!

Step 4: Let the human fawn over you for a few minutes.

Step 5: Wolf down your dinner like you ain't seen food in three weeks!

The reason this is so effective is that the human will be very relieved to see you eat and you will not get in trouble for tricking her!

TEEEEE HEEEEEE

Tehya the tricker babydog!

A new swimming hole

WOoooo Furiends

After all our bad excitement yesterday, Mom decided to take us to do something fun today. Me and Pacer and Anvik got to go for a extra long hike!

We started out the same way we always go, but then we turned a new way! We climbed a giant hill and followed this road. We went past the creek I sometimes go swimming in. It is really, really fast in this spot. Mom wouldn't let us go in there! We were disappointed cuz we were thristy and I wanted to go swimming!
Then we came around a corner and HOLY MOLEY, a new swimming hole! It looks like a little lake, but Mom says it used to be part of a copper mine. The mine went away but they left this big hole behind and it got filled with water. Mom says there are a couple more quarries that I ain't been to yet too!
It was a great swimming hole! I had lots of fun playing in the water.

I would like to go back to that quarry place! Mom says she has even been swimming in there when was really hot out. I think she should come in with me next time!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Tehya, water loving babydog

Pokie things!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOO Furiends

We had a calamity here in the wee hours of the morning! Some of us were napping away in the house. I was keeping Mom's feet warm. That's my job at night. Suddenly there was a whole bunch of noise out in the yard. Mom jumped outta bed and went running outside to see what all the commotion was about. Sometimes it means something cool like a moose or a bear is cruising by our fence, but it was not something cool this time.

It was one of these rotten pokie critters! A porcupine! The worst part was it got through our fence somehow!!! It was right in our yard!! In my pen!! Thank goodness I wasn't out there! I don't want no pokie things in my nose!

My buddy, Reggae, was out there though. He don't like sleeping in the house. He came over to Mom and his face was full of quills. Ow, ow, owwwww, poor Reggae. Mom has been working really hard to get Reggae to trust her. He is kinda shy and skeered sometimes. He must know that Mom was trying to help him though cuz he let her catch him and take him to the shop.

Mom says Reggae was the very bestest patient ever. He let her pull all those pokie hurty quills out of his face and he didn't even yelp! Then he had some medicines and Mom put him Kayleigh's crate to have a little nap. Obviously Kayleigh wasn't in there or we would have had another calamity!

Reggae is feeling better this morning and back to his smiley self. (This picture is from a couple weeks ago,but you can see his nice smile!)

Mom feels very bad that Reggae got hurt where he should be the safest... in his own pen! We aren't allowed in our pen for a few days. Mom has to make sure it is porcupine free first! I wouldn't want to be that porkie if my Mom finds it; she is some kind of mad at it!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Tehya, who don't like porcupines babydog!