Our family got our first dog and also our
first malamute, Hukka, in 1996. When Hukka arrived, I was only 6
years old, so luckily I have practically get to grow around
malamutes. One of my first experiences with mushing was when
Hukka pulled me on ice with a pulka and even me once falling
trough the ice did not slow down my enthusiasm, it was just a
good exercise. Eventually we got a sled and first I was on board
and my mother Tuula driving and eventually when I got older I
too started to drive.
Our first siberian husky we got
in 2005 when we were on a holiday with our dogs and we visited
on a huskysafarikennel and then Lefa stayed on our tour as a
worker for our team and to spend his retirement days with us.
Right now we have 5 malamutes; Waho, Nanuq,
Nuki, Chena and Kayimi and siberianhusky Takoda. To better
sleddingtrails from our pack have left malamute Hukka and
siberian husky Lefa.
The main hobby with our dogs is of course
mushing and when we have a chance we also go couple times in a
winter for sleddingtrips in the northern Finland. Right now in
the sledteam are Nuki, Nanuq, Chena and Kayimi. Waho has moved
to retirement and Takoda is still too young. Another hobby we
have is obedience training and I have also attended in Finnish
Kennelclubs obedience trainer-course and qualified as a
obedience trainer in 2009. We also go to dog shows once in a
while and ofcourse our dogs attend to other kinds of things with
us for example as being company and carrying things in their own
backpacks in our hiking trips. We have also attended in a few
sleddog-races, but because malamutes are not racedogs, this is
just playful and the main role in our mushing hobby is with
hiking.