It's the start of a new dog training season!

I have to admit after such a horrible couple attempts at Iditarod that for the past two years I have been reeling a bit to get competitive mushing back into my life. 

After the 07' Iditarod I did a LOT of evaluating about our whole kennel operation.  This resulted in starting a few long term plans to try and turn the bum experiences I was having trying to race dogs.

The first was getting Tina involved actually running the dogs.  And while she had been around them as long as I had, her actual experiences with them were very much a sideline activity in her life.  That's changed and for the last two years se has been raising and running her very own dogs.

The second was to breed in some faster, "sprint-e-er," dogs into our working class genetic lines.  We've done that and now have a crop of yearlings that have been trained from birth to be race dogs rather than "wood-haulers!"  

This year will be the test to see how these two changes come together!