Nicaya Kennels & Dog Sled Race Team
- Finally, Nicaya Kennels & Dog Sled Race Team has a website! It's been a long time
coming; please, feel free to peruse the information that we have included here. There
will be periodic updates and definitely more changes and photographs as race season
rolls around. So, please, keep checking back!
| WELCOME!!! |
WHAT WE DO
Some people call us crazy. Others call us insane. We just call it
fun and rewarding.
We are mushers. What is that, you ask? Dog sledding. You
know, hooking up a bunch of powerful dogs to the front of a very
fragile wooden frame and hoping that you get to the end of the trail
in the middle of a freezing cold winter, drifting snow and icicles
hanging from your nose.
Okay, so it's not quite that dramatic. It takes time, skill and
intense training in order to get everyone (including ourselves) into
shape for racing season. However, it really IS fun and rewarding
especially working with the dogs!
We breed most our own Siberians. We strive to breed quality and
personable Siberian Huskies with strong work ethic and proper
aesthetic value. We wish to produce the highest quality pups for
dog sled racing, freight pulling and other harness related fields.
We are also proud to present our Dog Sled Education Program.
Our Dog Sled Education Program is a free service that we offer to
local schools of all levels. Our goal is to help educate the
students of our community on dog sledding, dog sled racing, and
dog care.
We are now providing a Siberian Rescue & Adoption Program.
Our Siberian Rescue & Adoption Program is a service that we are
proud to offer to help the beautiful Siberians out there that need a
good home so that they can live a good life with a loving and
caring family that understands the needs of a Siberian Husky. We
are happy to work with other Rescue & Adoption Services to help
locate good homes for Siberian Huskies in need. We will
consider adopting Siberian Huskies into our own kennels that we
feel will make good sled dogs so that they will have the
opportunity to "be all they can be" as a sled dog as they were
born to be! We will also be offering for adoption some of our own
sled dogs to selected good homes.
Some people call us crazy. Others call us insane. We just call it
fun and rewarding.
We are mushers. What is that, you ask? Dog sledding. You
know, hooking up a bunch of powerful dogs to the front of a very
fragile wooden frame and hoping that you get to the end of the trail
in the middle of a freezing cold winter, drifting snow and icicles
hanging from your nose.
Okay, so it's not quite that dramatic. It takes time, skill and
intense training in order to get everyone (including ourselves) into
shape for racing season. However, it really IS fun and rewarding
especially working with the dogs!
We breed most our own Siberians. We strive to breed quality and
personable Siberian Huskies with strong work ethic and proper
aesthetic value. We wish to produce the highest quality pups for
dog sled racing, freight pulling and other harness related fields.
We are also proud to present our Dog Sled Education Program.
Our Dog Sled Education Program is a free service that we offer to
local schools of all levels. Our goal is to help educate the
students of our community on dog sledding, dog sled racing, and
dog care.
We are now providing a Siberian Rescue & Adoption Program.
Our Siberian Rescue & Adoption Program is a service that we are
proud to offer to help the beautiful Siberians out there that need a
good home so that they can live a good life with a loving and
caring family that understands the needs of a Siberian Husky. We
are happy to work with other Rescue & Adoption Services to help
locate good homes for Siberian Huskies in need. We will
consider adopting Siberian Huskies into our own kennels that we
feel will make good sled dogs so that they will have the
opportunity to "be all they can be" as a sled dog as they were
born to be! We will also be offering for adoption some of our own
sled dogs to selected good homes.
What's New?
The 2008/2009 race-season will be much different in terms of
training and racing. We will be restructuring our training
schedule and our training styles again based on this year's
racing experience and the knowledge we gained from our
primary Iditarod mentor Karen Ramstead and local musher
Rob Gregor and from many of the other mushers that we ran
with this season. We will be more aggressive with training and
we will definitely have even more miles under our belts that are
required to run some of the larger races. Our new training
schedule will put hopefully 1,500 to 2,000 miles on the entire
race team (16 dogs) for this season before January 1st, 2009,
including having six or more well trained and disciplined
command leaders available and making more heavy long
distance training runs.
Our racing goals for this season are to finish in the top ten
places in each individual race that we enter, including but not
limited to the 2009 Montana Race to the Sky and the 2009
Seeley Lake 200, and to finally complete our Iditarod
qualifications. We are also planning to run some of the shorter
races and perhaps even a few that have purebred categories or
some of the purebred ONLY races. It is still our intent to run the
Iditarod with a team of Siberian Huskies starting in either 2009
or 2010, depending on the completion of our qualifications, the
Race Team's financial status and the physical and mental
condition of the dogs, and eventually the Yukon Quest.
We have recently included new blood into our breeding line
from proven racing stock. There are four yearling's, including
one black male of the Seppala-Siberian line, and one 5 year-old
white Seppala-Siberian male. Soon, we'll have a few more
batches to choose from. It promises to be another very exciting
year for our kennel.
The 2008/2009 race-season will be much different in terms of
training and racing. We will be restructuring our training
schedule and our training styles again based on this year's
racing experience and the knowledge we gained from our
primary Iditarod mentor Karen Ramstead and local musher
Rob Gregor and from many of the other mushers that we ran
with this season. We will be more aggressive with training and
we will definitely have even more miles under our belts that are
required to run some of the larger races. Our new training
schedule will put hopefully 1,500 to 2,000 miles on the entire
race team (16 dogs) for this season before January 1st, 2009,
including having six or more well trained and disciplined
command leaders available and making more heavy long
distance training runs.
Our racing goals for this season are to finish in the top ten
places in each individual race that we enter, including but not
limited to the 2009 Montana Race to the Sky and the 2009
Seeley Lake 200, and to finally complete our Iditarod
qualifications. We are also planning to run some of the shorter
races and perhaps even a few that have purebred categories or
some of the purebred ONLY races. It is still our intent to run the
Iditarod with a team of Siberian Huskies starting in either 2009
or 2010, depending on the completion of our qualifications, the
Race Team's financial status and the physical and mental
condition of the dogs, and eventually the Yukon Quest.
We have recently included new blood into our breeding line
from proven racing stock. There are four yearling's, including
one black male of the Seppala-Siberian line, and one 5 year-old
white Seppala-Siberian male. Soon, we'll have a few more
batches to choose from. It promises to be another very exciting
year for our kennel.
Copyright Nicaya Kennels. All rights reserved. No
pictures or videos can be used or reproduced in any
form without written permission of Nicaya Kennels.
pictures or videos can be used or reproduced in any
form without written permission of Nicaya Kennels.
Nicaya Kennels
P.O, Box 133
Joliet, Montana 59041
Ph. 406-860-3570
Alt. 406-860-2247
nicayasiberians@yahoo.com
P.O, Box 133
Joliet, Montana 59041
Ph. 406-860-3570
Alt. 406-860-2247
nicayasiberians@yahoo.com
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