Posed perfectly! These two were postcard perfect for our little family photo shoot on Harrison Lake.

Our little "pack" of hooligans. Becoming their alpha came natural to me but is a very necessary part of owning a mal!

Our two girls! Two sisters - two friends and two completely different characters!

An active member of the family! Whatever you are doing, your Alaskan Malamute will want to be right there doing it with you!

And how they LOVE the snow!!

Kaiah and her babies!

Friday, June 28, 2013

9 days old


The pups are now 9 days old and growing very nicely.  They have all doubled their birth weight and are looking good.  We let them romp around the backyard in the shade today as they are not very appreciated of this heat we are having!







 




Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Kaiah's first litter is here!

I would like to introduce our newest members of the family!  
Rather than just calling them puppy 1 and puppy 2, we had been thinking of names for weeks already and named each of the pups.  These aren't names they will have to keep for life, but it just makes it easier on our kids and us to remember each of them.
There are 5 girls and 2 boys, and they all weigh within 5 ounces of each other.  








Kaiah, it turns out, is a natural at this whole mothering job, she is just fantastic at it.

Friday, June 07, 2013

Patiently waiting for the babies to arrive!

 As we had hoped (and planned) Kaiah has become pregnant by Storm and now we are patiently awaiting the arrival of the puppies.  The kids (....and Kaiah) are getting a little bit impatient with the impending puppy arrival and so we took some photos and had a little fun! 










Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Hanging out with STORM



STORM.  
An awesome dog!  He is 4 years old, American Kennel Club registered, and a proven stud.
He was raised by two elderly people, who lived on a small acreage in Williams Lake with 7 other malamutes in a kennel and rarely had visitors besides his two owners who took him for sporadic walks.  And he had rarely been around children.

We definitely had our reservations about him at first, he was out of shape, had very little obedience training and was very used to doing his own thing.  His character though was amazing, he was very easy going, relaxed yet confident and a pleasure to be around....and Nancy thought he was just the cutest!

Well, here we are, having owned him now for just over two months and we don't regret buying him at all.  He is such an awesome dog!  With regular walks, romps and field days (thanks hugely impart to our wonderful neighbour Dorothy who takes them on romps at the local rivers and trails!) he has regained an athletic build. 
And we have found out from the day our kids were introduced to Storm, the he ADORES children.  Absolutely loves them.  We have a lot of nieces and nephews and each time Storm gets to meet any of them, he puts on a little show of deep howling/talking and you can just tell he lights up. 
Training a 4 year old 140lb male Malamute has its challenges - but I am totally up for it.  He is heeling nicely and has become quite well behaved on the leash.   He has to be as usually I am walking three of them at one time and so strict discipline is needed to walk close to 400lbs of dog around a park or subdivision.
With my malamutes I have very strict rules when it comes to feeding time - they have to sit while their bowls are being filled and only when the command of "OK" is said by myself can they get up and eat from their bowl.  Besides that, they have to let me take whatever food they have from them - never abusing this of course!  Storm is a star pupil in this area.  Our toddler can feed him off of a spoon and he will gently take it.  

Besides all this he has proven again his value as a stud - Kaiah is pregnant!