Otter Run
@otterrunkennel
Progressive sled dog team- home to happy dogs, Martha, Chad, Erin, T-Boone and Leda Schouweiler. 8x best kept team award recipient.
A keen eye will always notice the decidious trees turning a lighter shade of green this time of year before the more obvious turning of color come fall.
the terrific trio was feeling spunky with the cooler weather this morning
Swain let her big brother join her and momma for their adventure earlier this morning
In just a few months Blanca will take her puppy hat off for a few moments and will be showing Swain the ropes in harness(picture flying 🐩), we hope you stay tuned for some of the fun
The default call for Blanca and Swain is “puppies” and there is absolutely nothing more fitting than that for the exuberant 9 year old and her little sidekick
Our family’s favorite band is the Kitchen Dwellers and Ted and Leda chose the names of their mandolin and bass player for their picks….
When our dear friend @esp1371.bsky.social says she is impatiently waiting, that means we must get our shit together and let you’ll know which puppies we are keeping
We’ve made our picks, keeping two of Blanca’s pups. First one left yesterday, she gets to join a team full of ORK pups. Then “Gypsy” left this morning. Her mini-mushers sure are happy to bring her home where she will meet their star leader, “Birdie”. Some of you might even remember Birdie
Vinny would like to let our maple syrup drawing winners on patreon know that the Otter Run stickers have finally arrived and the syrup should be in the mail soon🍁
Blanca, the perfect mom, knows it’s almost time to let her little ones fly
Some midday May mushing with 2 Ham sons Slate and Ragdoll. Rag is our most athletic 🐩 but Flash thinks he is too weird to breed. He is one of the handful staying intact here because he can really scoot. Stay weird buddy,1 of these yrs while momma is away we will let our fastest shaved poodle play
if you’re able and wanting to contribute for as little as a $1 a month on Patreon, that will help the poodles fight evil and keep them on the trail. And we PROMISE this weekend is the weekend T-Boone and a few special guests are going to be drawing names for ORK maple syrup 🍁🥞😋
70 years old, broken ribs... no problem. Off Martha goes with our most gentle pair of the morning
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers and mother figures, we love you all
puppies made a big move outside today, we hope you’ll follow along on their adventures
Swiper is a little scared today, help him be brave by giving him some Bluesky encouragement. We have a number of other surgeries this summer, fixed dogs do make better sleddogs and obviously help with eliminating unplanned pregnancies which is a huge detriment to the dogs and mushers.
With our limited gene pool we have been searching for an outcross for Ham, his OnlyHam’s content has been slow. We tried a few prospects but they lacked speed or flair or some other trait the ORK sled poodle line requires. We did find Biscuit, she is on the right here. Is the🌎ready for more Hamlets?
Our baby sled poodles have a lot to say to those who call them “Alaskan Huskies”. Who came up with that term anyway? Would dogs that originated in other states be called Minnesotan, Wisconsinite, Michigander, Wyomingite..? Is Wisconsinite Sled Poodles proper terminology, or should we drop the ite?
In case you missed it on patreon, we have some new little friends just starting their big adventure
Blanca would like to remind everyone it’s wood tick season which means there could be some extra critters running around soon. She’s also been busy supervising the ORK maple syrup operation, so that must mean our annual syrup giveaway on patreon is fast approaching🥞😋 www.patreon.com/c/otterrunsl...
It’s going. Leda demanded we take her pups out in the middle of snowmageddon. Then she said we didn’t go far enough and demanded an extra loop. By the end it was just right for her.
Perhaps we were just a smidge too conservative in that race, but that was best team we ever had. Best of luck to Ryan and dogs