Here is the story in her own words.

Last night a wolf killed my dog, Helio ( Read more... )

A woman hiking in Jasper park just recently lost her four-year-old Entlebucher mountain dog to a wolf. Suddenly her dog was running past her, oblivious, pursued by what she thought was a Husky. Then she realized it was a wolf. She gave chase and tried to frighten it off, but once a wolf is in predatory mode like that, not much gets in the way. It ( Read more... )

NFTCH Road Warriors Lady Hawk QFTR. 0.0

She did it! Haley won the Canadian National Open Retriever Championship!

Been busy for the last few days answering the phone and email...

Really cool. If you're a dog person, anyway...;)

For anyone curious about what she's doing, look here:

http://www.nrcc-canada.com/natl/2011/natl-results.html

Haley is dog 65, Road Warrior's Lady Hawk.

Test 5 over. Difficult test, most dogs struggled.

Haley slammed it. A lot of buzz over this little dog, now.

All up in the air until the last day, though.

I'm pleased, even if she gets no further. :)

Middle dog Haley is in Winnipeg running the Canadian National Retriever Championship. 4 out of 10 tests completed, a third of the field of 83 eliminated, and Haley has crushed every test. Unofficial scuttlebutt has her in the top 3 dogs. I'm very pleased, but ( Read more... )

A brief respite from my boring little life on Friday night...taisiia and hubby (Rulers of An Tir) were here for an SCA event, and I was able to swing by for awhile and drink too much ( Read more... )

I was going to jump into the fray over the Canadian election results on someone else's journal, but (being Canadian) I then thought ah...what the heck. I'll post on my journal, no one reads it anyway ( Read more... )

Here's a little story taken from the history of my stomping grounds, for those with nothing better to do ;)

( Legend of Monarch of Beaver Hills )

Oh man ( Read more... )