We last bred and reared our own dogs eight years. There’s nothing like raising your own puppies! All the dogs in our yard become our great trail friends and most will live out their retirement time with us.
All dogs have current rabies vaccination certificates and receive routine veterinary exams annually.
Sundogs is member of Mush With P.R.I.D.E, an international, non-profit organization dedicated to education and the promotion of the welfare of sled dogs.
We are grateful and often amazed at the work these dogs are capable of, because it doesn’t look like work, they are driven to enjoy the run so much. Here is one of my favourite mushing quotes that captures the essence of the dog’s incredible heart!
"I have driven dogs a time or two, enough to know what a driver means when he says the dogs' exuberance can get up inside you, that you can take on their abandonment and their great generosity of spirit, that you have to discipline that in them, and in yourself. I stand on the sidelines and watch in simple awe the unhesitating charge through a long turn of a team that wants to run, being driven by someone who knows that desire in them and cares for it, who communicates empathy and respect. What dogs give in these circumstances is enough to humble a human being for the memory of any niggardliness in his life. A person would have to be a fool to abuse such heart. Any one would have to be callous, nearly finished as a human being not to want to raise his arms in salute as such animals roared past, a fury of hot breathing gone like a shot down the trail."
Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams
