When speaking about sled dogs, often referred to as snow dogs, most people will think about blue-eyed Siberian Huskies or Alaskan Malamutes. However, in today's dog mushing world there are numerous breeds of dogs used to pull. Many of them do not look like what you would expect. Our kennel mostly consists of the so-called Alaskan Huskies. This is not a pure-bred dog breed. It originated during the fur trade as Indigenous and European dogs mixed. To find out more about the historical development of snow dog breeds, click here. In our kennel, you can see some older style Alaskan Huskies and some newer bloodlines that are used for racing.

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An old dog musher saying goes: "A good dog is a tight line." This means, you cannot tell a good snow dog by the looks. One sled dog might have the perfect built but does not pull at all while another looks less than a snow dog and more like a stray but gives everything on every single run.

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We love to educate the general public about snow dogs. Expectations are often very different from reality. Siberian Huskies are not the original snow dog of North America. Instead some the snow dogs in our kennel have bloodlines that go back to the early fur trade.