Well it will be tomorrow anyway...from 9 dogs to 10!

One of my main leaders will be turning 11 this year which makes this racing season his last.
So, I found myself in need of another dog, a leader, to take his place.

Tomorrow we'll be picking up Rory, a 1 1/2 year old Alaskan husky. Obviously shes not a leader yet but hopefully with training she will be by this fall. She has an awesome lineage and comes from a line of leaders so she has great potential.

Anyways I should be back tomorrow with some pictures!! I'm also going to rename her so some name ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Congrats!

congrats ! ~

That's great! Can't wait to see pictures.

Here she is on the car ride home.


And here she is after I introduced her to all of the dogs and sat with her at her house for a while. I went into the house to get my camera and when I came back out, this is out she greeted me.
A bit excited, eh? lol


Over all, she is settling in quite nicely. She barked and carried on when I went inside to eat dinner earlier but she has quieted down now. Tomorrow (and pretty much the rest of the week) I will be spending all day with her so she can get used to my smell, voice, and rythym. Hopefully within the next 2 weeks (depending on how fast she settles in) we'll be able to take her out for a run with the team! We're going to take it slow though and mainly just work on building her confidence while running in a team. Although she may be an adult, she is just a puppy in the sled dog world.

Oh and I've been thinking of naming her Sydney...I would keep her old name but 'Rory' just doesn't roll of my tongue very well.
I'm open for suggestions though!

I love her mask! I hope she enjoys her new "pack"! Congrats!

I love the name Rory, but I know what you mean about it not rolling off the tongue. Sydney's cute.

Congrats I like Sydney!

I also love her face!

I wish I could find a place a closer that bred non-white faced Siberians. I have to go out west for a working line conformation dog though X_X. But they don't do as well in Conformation but I absolutely -love- their faces.

She is cute. Looks like she certainly has enough energy to make a great sled dog!

Thanks guys!

Yep, I think I'm going to go with Sydney. I've been saying it to her ever since I brought her home and she is already responding to it.

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I wish I could find a place a closer that bred non-white faced Siberians. I have to go out west for a working line conformation dog though X_X. But they don't do as well in Conformation but I absolutely -love- their faces.

I don't know if you've done this already or not but you could do a search on the Kennels page on Sled Dog Central. There are quite a few kennels on there that breed working line Siberian huskies with quite a variety of coloring between them all. I know there are some that both show and work their huskies too... http://www.sleddogcentral.com/kennelinks_usa.htm#top

Congrats on the new addition! Sydney is a great looking dog, and I *love* the picture of her jumping. Too cute! Good luck with the training!

that jumping pic needs a caption! what is her mix? she almost looks like my friends husky/gsd mix.
cant wait to hear how her progress goes, Congrats!

Thanks Piper!

I haven't done that. I know there are kennels out here that race and do conformation but I've only seen like the "normal" show dogs.

I did actually see my first Siberian who didn't have the white face at a show in November and she was absolutely beautiful. But my understanding is working line conformation Siberians dont show as well and they're hard to finish. I don't know how true it is but I just absolutely love their markings and color.

(I know you don't pick for appearance in conformation but they're amazing! Ill do my research and even see if I could handle a working line Siberian in the future and if my conformation career doesnt work out I'm going to try and get one!)

She's so cute! I love the name Sydney!

Congratulations! I hope she's as good at working as she is at jumping That's an awesome photo.