Jess
Just dogs and stuff.
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- “Mushing is abuse” ok then explain this.
- Genuinely cannot believe this is my backyard. What a dream. And yikes, we were slow without my wheel boys. 😅
- Trump is going to lose his already decrepit mind.
- The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
- Hubble looks to be fine, considering he had no limp to check out anymore. He did get a couple staples in a small puncture, so at least it wasn’t a complete waste of time 😆
- “Limp? What limp?” - Hubble
- I withdrew from the Kearney race this weekend, in favor of staying local, nursing our injuries, & avoiding the "feels like" -30ºF temps. It's a bummer, but I want the boys to recover in a warm house. It's also not a Laika-friendly race (spectator heavy start chute), so I'd only have 5 dogs to run.
- (Laika is very skittish with strangers, so I tend to just choose races with minimal spectators for her). I'm loosely planning a mileage bump run at the local forest before temps drop, since we took Friday off. We'll see how the team does without my wheel boys. Focused now on Tug Hill next weekend.
- Lots of chilling today (somewhat literally as our power went out for a few hours…) Hubble seems to be almost back to 100%, swelling is down and limp is mostly gone. Blitz, on the other hand, is still limping/swollen. I’ll be calling our vet first thing tomorrow to get him in. Still comfy on meds.
- An update to Hub: back to limping last night and today :\
- I, unfortunately, couldn’t bring both sore boys in to the vet today, but they moved things around to get Hub in quickly tomorrow. I think maybe he should’ve been seen first with how he’s been glaring at me, though. 😅🥴
- Woke up this morning and Blitz is no longer limping! I still opted to get him seen by our vet. No sign of broken bones or torn ligaments, thank goodness. He’ll get a week off at minimum but he seems to be on the mend! We have to wait til tomorrow to snag another appt for Hubble, fingers crossed 🤞🏻
- Welp. Hubble is now limping, too. When Blitz was panicking, the two of them exchanged teeth, and one landed on his hock. Barely left a mark but it’s a bit swollen. They’ll both get time off—and hopefully that’s all they’ll need to get better. 😓
- I’ve also been worried about Laika. She starts our runs strong but has a loose tug towards the middle/end. Last run was trail-breaking and she seemed to get tired pretty early on. This run she was ok a bit longer but still seemed to lose steam before the others.
- She did okay with the longer state forest runs we’ve done, where the trail is hard packed and less redundant. Hoping maybe she just gets bored at home. I don’t often race her because she’s very shy, but gosh, I’d like her to keep training with the rest of the race team.
- Here’s hoping my little team can keep it together for our sled races and mail run. And that whatever my finger is doing.. isn’t too serious. Ahem.
