Snørokk News

News 09 /10

29. May: Vytok became best open class male on the Norwegian Siberian Husky Club show, placing 2. after Swedish champion Dante in the all male class. Mithril placed 3. in the open class male and 4th overall.

8. April: Arctic Soul Vytok has been bred to Najanins Cold River Rajah. Vytok is our most hard working male, while Rajah is one of our leaders. There will most likely be puppies available from this litter. If interested, please contact us by e-mail.

1. February: Kennel cough in the kennel, which means that Ulf had to scratch from the upcoming Femund 400. It is of course very frustrating, since the dogs seemed so ready for it. We will come back with more information about the rest of the racing season, when we see how the dogs are recovering.

22-23. January : Ulf entered the Hallingen 160km, open class in a field of 19 teams. We wanted to test all the dogs(except Caia, which is not ready for long distance due to a muscleinjury, so she has too few miles). The first leg of 80km went well, except a little "detour" of about 10 minutes. Runner was taken out before the second leg, because he didn't pull well. We suspect a sore muscle in one of his hind legs. Second leg went a bit slower. They did well on the flat parts of the trail, but were a bit slow in the hills. Ulf had hoped for a "top ten", but came in as number 11. We did not get a direct answer to which dogs are going to be part of the Femund team, but will try out different combinations in the week to come. Keep our fingres and toes crossed that our dogs did not pick up any kennel cough during the weekend!

16. January 2010: *Ulf decided to take 12 of 13 dogs to the Vikerfjell race, 70km, a short week before the race was held. Tuva and Kari came along. Due to a long period of cold weather after a heavy snowfall at the end of December made the trail tough, and hard to keep the gangline straight, but was a useful lesson before next weekend's race at Hallingen. Only Hanne Rognstad and Ulf entered the open class, and both ran far slower than the two best 8 dog teams; Ola Martinsen and Marcos Porcires.

14. January: Ulf decided to also enter the upcoming weekend's Vikerfjell race. He will enter the 70km, open class. Caia or Jack will be the at home since they have had some injuries, and therefore have less milage than the rest. Which one will be decided after tonight's trainingrun

11 november The new Snørokk site is out, only some pedigrees missing still. I also have trouble converting doginfo-tables to the narrow format they came in, this will be fixed later when we find out where the problem hide. There is a bug somewhere that cause some extra lineshift
Rikke

12.-13. September 2009: SPHK's specialty show in Bjursås, Sweden
A long way to go for a show, but a really nice experience. Karsten Grønås judged the males and Tina Permo judged the females with nearly 200 entrants.
I had Mithril, Caia, Rajah and Viti with me. Mithril became 3. bst male in open class, while all the girls got a 1. prize. Rikke's Vytok offspring did very well. Their results can be found at: http://www.nay-la-chee.net/

September 2009: Ulf has signed up for Femund 400 2010
The upcoming season Ulf will be the musher and Kari (and Tuva) will be the handlers. We have 13 dogs in training and cross our fingres that we will have an injury-free season so all dogs can show what they are capable of. We plan to enter Hallingen 160km open class in January as a trial run to pick out the 8 dogs which will be on our Femund 400 team.

24. June 2009: Tullatuulen Wilma and Jericho offsprings
Wilma from Good Mushing kennel in Finland gave birth to 1 boy and 2 girls after her visit to Jericho in April.
More about the 3 puppies can be found at: http://www.goodmushing-nordysak.com/pennutGMC.html

18. May 2009: Mithril and Pya offsprings
Fortunately, Fia's long journey from Sweden to our kennel to breed Pya to Mithril paid off. The result was 3 males and 3 females.
To learn more about the litter go to: http://www.shejrix.com/kenneln/lotr.html

8. May 2009: Tingeling and Panda to the UK
Peter from http://www.transpet.co.uk/ picked up the two females in his specially designed van in Oslo and brought them safely to Britain. Panda(Mia) went to Dawn and Mike Hammond in England and Tingeling to Mary and Michael at Sassicaia kennel in Northern Ireland.