?'s for Malamute folks, I know your out there.

[RuGlu6]

Hyper activity also comes from food coloring in dog food as well as kids food.
These color agents are toxic and some times even carcinogenic. makes them hyper active, the liver has to work very hard to process this staff.
Stay away from dog food. Give them real food if you care about them, so they will not be a psycho puppy anymore. At leas try for 30 days you will see the difference.

[The Grizz]

It is not good to give huskies / malamute REAL food as in people food. Everyday because are instinctive hunters and will start to want to hunt for that food. Being out in the country ourselfs we do not want our Huskies to go chase the neighbours cattle, attack there ducks, chickens or rabbits. We only feed ours Blue Buffalo Wilderness dog food & we do not have any psyhco puppies.

Beautifully dogs there Colin, where did you find your sled? I would like to find a couple fairly inexpensive sleds myself. The wife has been looking for good quality pulling harnesses as well.

[marie]

Originally Posted by RuGlu6

Hyper activity also comes from food coloring in dog food........

Yea it's really hard to get that attractive brown dog food color without adding food coloring

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by marie

Yea it's really hard to get that attractive brown dog food color without adding food coloring

I have always wondered how they do that?

[ColinD]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

It is not good to give huskies / malamute REAL food as in people food. Everyday because are instinctive hunters and will start to want to hunt for that food. Being out in the country ourselfs we do not want our Huskies to go chase the neighbours cattle, attack there ducks, chickens or rabbits. We only feed ours Blue Buffalo Wilderness dog food & we do not have any psyhco puppies.

Beautifully dogs there Colin, where did you find your sled? I would like to find a couple fairly inexpensive sleds myself. The wife has been looking for good quality pulling harnesses as well.

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[The Grizz]

Shooting Star, check out this link Colin sent me. They have dog packs that look amazing & there harnesses are incredibly affordable.

http://www.tanzilla.ca/index.htm

[Ian]

K 1st Grizz PLEASE NO PUPPY PICTURES! I am not allowed another dog soo pics could cost me a wife!

2nd one of the best things we have done is train our Boxer to run on the treadmill....days like today (-30) are so much easier when he can get a run in where it is warm. Without a tonne of exercise he is a house shredder!

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by Ian

K 1st Grizz PLEASE NO PUPPY PICTURES!!

no promises

[shootingstar]

Wow, thanks everyone for the information and pics.
Really great stuff there.
Had a quick look at the link and will dig deeper once I get home from work.

Koda has settled into our family pack very well and stolen our heats in the process. We had a wonderful and busy weekend betweeen the dogs and the tank.

It was simply histerical this weekend. We have had nice extended fall and although we have had flurries here and there, this weekend was the first real snowfall that stayed on the ground. Koda came to us from a rescue in Texas ( can you imaging how miserable he would have been in Texas in august with a coat like that) Anyway, we have a sled dog that had never seen snow, didn't know how to walk in it, he kept slipping and falling on his butt. Pawing at the stuff falling from the sky and eventually just sat there looking at the sky with a confused look on his face.
I took the shovel and gathered some into a small pile and he vas very curious....smelling...tasting... then he just dove in and started rolling around. We laughed ourselves silly watching him experience it all.

We walk him 2 x day for about 3-4 miles each and it burns off his energy and keeps him very mellow. I found a back-pack for him and he really liikes wearing it. Currently we only have a can of soup in each side but will increase the weight gradually over time.

All of our dogs get people food.....but only raw veggies and fruit and they love it. Other than that we feed Blue buffalo kibble only.

thanks again, looking forward to seeing the puppy pics in Dec.