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Avalanche Dog Training: Search
Good morning everyone. As promised here is a little about Training a Dog to Search for people buried in an avalanche. There are other aspects to an avalanche dogs training but Search is the central one. I will hand you over to Logan. To explain a few of the steps. To begin. Every time you train – the…
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Dog in Snow
I am late in posting. So my words will be few. I know some of you are off to bed soon while some of you are having your morning coffee. And Miss C is late! We drove past Banff and into the ski fields and took a gondola up into Sunshine Village to the ski fields there. The…
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Going UP
I am in Canmore, up from Calgary. In Alberta, Canada. The drive up the mountain in the gathering dusk yesterday afternoon was beautiful. We are far North and the nights are longer here I think. Today we are going to the ski resort that employs my son- Sunshine Village. We are going up the mountain in…
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Stalled Clatter Box
Egoli my old moggy always walks up the hay escalator (I call it the Clatter Box), when he wants to get from the bottom of the barn up to the loft in the top. He is an old cat. He prefers to walk rather than jump- if there is an option. The Clatter box is…
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Evening cows
My small home-field herd is doing very well. Not-So-Difficult has begun to walk with her herd and she is eating well and though her lungs will never be 100 percent I think she is improving. The whole group are even sleeping outside at night now, no-one wants to go to the barn it is so…
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Tane goes for a walk
A LONG walk. He is convinced, poor deluded fella, that there simply must be a few kernels of corn left for him way out there in the field. But alas the harvesters nowadays leave nothing at all behind. And after the tiller has been through it is all mud in this wet misty weather. Tane…
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