Tuktu found a home

Wow!  What a response.  Thank you to everyone who contacted me about Tuktu.  He found a home within a day of me posting his information.  He will be moving to New England where he will soon have another Chinook housemate.  I am sorry his previous owner had to give him up but I am happy he found such a wonderful home.  Thanks again to everyone who offered to take him in.

Adult Chinook Available

 Tuktu is a very sweet, well trained 2 year old Chinook available for adoption.  He is an experienced, reliable lead dog and is good with other dogs and people.  His owner is devastated to have to give him up but her life has had a lot of upheaval and she cannot keep him.  He is currently in Nova Scotia so an east coast home is prefereable.  He is a great dog and a loving companion.

 Tuktu loves pulling!!

 Playtime with other local sleddogs

 Tuktu taking a canoe trip

Tuktu is from my Jungle book litter http://moonsongjunglelitter.blogspot.com/
He was puppy Kotick

Litter expected...I mean litters!!!

 Moonsong Mukilteo Bluejay ( aka Jiggles) has sired a litter for Brownstone Chinooks, due in early june.  Don't tell Jiggles but he was the back up stud who was called in to help when the original choice could not accomplish a natural breeding.

 The dam of the Brownstone litter is the beautiful Moonsong Cedar River Touchdown.  I am the breeder/co owner of Cedar and breeder/owner of the stud so this is my first "homebred" litter even though it is not my kennel doing the breeding! I will be placing a Breed potential puppy from this litter.  You can learn more by visiting the Brownstone Chinooks blog http://brownstonechinooks.blogspot.com/

Jiggles also sired a litter for Moonsong Chinooks a few days before he was asked to sire the Brownstone litter.  Jiggles had a very busy week and was quite happy with a job well done.

 The dam of the Moonsong litter is Cloudburst Faeden Chilali Song ( aka Chili).  I am very excited to see these pups as Chili has produced some very healthy, sweet, loyal pups.

 Jiggles sister Lilah ( Moonsong Halona Delilah) is expecting a litter for Frontier Chinooks.  Lilah is a gorgeous, well built girl who produced a phenominal litter last year.

Sire of the Frontier litter is Frontier Brick Rafferty ( in the foreground).  He is a sweet, mellow boy with a nice coat and great color.

Rainbow Bridge

 On Saturday, May 12th 2012, Pharaoh crossed the Rainbow Bridge.  He was 12 years old- a good age for such a big guy!  Pharaoh was a very sweet, very mellow but fun loving dog who was loved by EVERYONE who met him.  His mom came into our rescue in Florida and promptly gave birth to 10 pups- All of whom looked very Husky like except for Pharaoh.  He was so much of a Chinook -a-like as a pup that I just had to have him.

 Pharaoh looked so handsome in his harness! 

 He was a great weight pull dog and we would practice with tires by pulling them up and down our 1 mile grass runway

 What a cute face!  I had a very hard time naming him and one day a visitor to the rescue looked at him and said "Look at that puppy, he has a face painted up like a little Pharaoh" and that was his name!

 Pharaoh with his mom Chassie, a Malamute hybrid.  He did not get any of his looks from his mom!  All his littermates looked similar to her- Pharaoh was one of a kind.

 Pharaoh snoozing- his favorite activity

The only time Pharaoh was active was when he was under harness.  He loved to pull.  He was a strong, steady sled dog.  Here he is the winter after I moved to Washington in harness with UConn, Hyak, and Tay.  Of the four dogs in this picture, only Tay( back right) is left...where has time gone:-( 

Seattle Meet the Breeds

Jiggles gets some love

On March 10th and 11th the Chinook Club of America had a booth promoting the Chinook at the Seattle Kennel Club Dog show. The show draws thousands of people and several Chinook owners showed up to help man the booth and show off the breed. I am always so impressed with how the Chinooks handle thousands of people molesting them all day long with no complaint. The dogs do sleep like the dead when they get home though! It is very tiring to be so patient!!!
Ranger hang out in front of the booth.

One of the tables displayed magazines featuring Chinooks as well as many photographs of Chinooks past and present

Oooh! Do you have a treat for me?

We made sure to celebrate the working heritage of the breed. Not shown is the scooter I brought. I had to beg and plead to get them to let me bring it into the building. They were very strict on the NO WHEELS INSIDE THE BUILDING policy but finally gave in. The Frontier Chinook pack is always super well behaved and great ambassadors of the breed. Frontier Wild Wild West (James), Moonsong Delilah, and Frontier Akeena hang out and patiently wait for visitors to the booth

Channahon Kikiah's Tyee (Oscar) is admired by a show attendee

Oscar and puppy Koda help Marleen answer questions about the breed

Chili's turn to get some attention while Peter and Jiggles wait their turn

Chili butts in again and steals the love

It is a long day

New Arrivals

Katsuk gave birth to 3 beautiful babies. You can see more at http://moonsongkatsuklitter.blogspot.com

Pregnancy confirmed!!

Katsuk is expecting! This will be Katsuk's last litter and I hope she will produce several girls this time after a litter with a heck of a lot of boys last time:-) I would love a Katsuk daughter for my pack. Katsuk is a very well built female with a solid body, an amazing chest, and a super temperament to go along with her good looks. She has her CGC, TT ( Temperament Test), and TDI ( Therapy Dog International) titles as well as a grand Championship. I have been pleased with her puppies from her previous litters and can't wait to see these babies!!

A naked Katsuk shows off her nice body:-) She is a big girl- normally 70lbs. She was a chunky 74 in this pic but soon lost the weight with some sledding/scootering. A girl has to be fit before being bred!!

Katsuk has a nice, though somewhat masculine head. Several times in the ring we were told "males to the front" and I had to tell the judge she was a bitch or the judge reached back to feel testicles. She was always so much bigger than the other females.

Lounging in the pool. She knows how to relax on hot days

Katsuk as a youngster before she filled out all the way. she always knew how to strike a pose.

This is the daddy-to-be and his family. Jack is a very sweet, young male who loves everyone and everything...though you can see by this photo that he REALLY loves the cat:-) Jack does 4H with his boys and won ribbons in agility and conformation this year at fair. He is a great family dog.

Jack loves the snow

Jack as a yearling

He has a very sweet expression

Here is Katsuk's dam, Electra, who is also a good sized female. i can see a lot of her in Katsuk....

I can also see a lot of her sire, Thunder, in Katsuk- especially the head.

This is Jack's sire, Taz- who has my favorite of all Chinook heads. He is so handsome!

This is Jack's dam, Kaya- a very pretty girl