Our recent dog sled "races"

[TMcrazy]

Our recent dog sled "races"

After all winter training we have entered a few fundraiser races.
Our first one was better than I expected, it was a 1k track and while the more traditional sled dog type dogs ran it with times of 3 minutes and a few seconds we did it in 9 minutes!!! (which is pretty darned good for a 2 dog team consisting of a Tibetan Mastiff) we were the 11th team out and we came in 10th place out of 13 teams. I'm super proud of my guys.
Here we are coming up to the finish line

My dogs decided to stop at the timer guy and say Hi... the clock is still running because we haven't crossed the line yet lol

"Oh, we still have to go forward?"

This past weekend I lent Karma to another "racer" w

 

[angelbears]

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Super cool. Nice pics.

 

[AKBull]

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That's great! lol

 

[TMcrazy]

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Hey half my thread is gone...
The last sentance was explaining last weekends race with karma off on another team.
I raced Elmo and Marv and our time was 10 minutes and some on a really soft trail after our 3 feet of snow we got, and I had stopped twice to pick up a camera and car keys that one of the faster racers had lost. So all in all I think we did better time wise and roughly the same in placings.
I hooked up all 3 for the 'anything' goes race which was just more or less to keep going around the track not being timed and the teams being one dog or as many as you have. My guys run MUCH better together as you can see here.

And here is Elmo really channelling his inner lead dog " i am a lead dog, be the lead dog"

All time best picture of the weekend
"You mean to tell me we did win this race either?"

 

[Bentley]

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The last photo is fantastic! how some people say the mastiff types don't show much expression is beyond understanding.

 

[dpenning]

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I LOVE these, thanks so much for sharing! Great story and pics.

 

[Kelly]

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These are great thank you for sharing. I love that they stopped to say Hi to the timer guy.

 

[ruthcatrin]

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thats awesome. And yes, mastiffs are HUGELY expressive lol!

 

[NeoBull]

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Awesome! Great pics too I wanted to try skijoring with my Dobe but we moved from Minnesota when he was 1.

 

[East of Eden Farms]

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I ran sleddogs for 30 years and miss it since we moved to GA. We're farmers now and have herding dogs. My wife has agreed to let me get a mastiff/bulmastiff cross puppy and train it to harness. Very exciting. I plan to do draft work and a little bikejoring with her.

 

[Oak Hill Farm]

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Very cool! I love the "I am the lead dog" pic!

 

[Tiger12490]

That's so cool love the pics

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[wolfsnaps]

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Love the pouty lip. ALL of those dogs are gorgeous.

 

[BlackShadowCaneCorso]

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OMG those are fab! You are my idol... I am the one in the chalet with the lazy dogs watching you guys in the snow I love the pick of Elmo just letting loose with the inner leader I love it, please post lots!