Exciting news! We’ve teamed up with @thegoldenratio4.bsky.social & @blairbraverman.bsky.social to bring you a Leap’ing good package. Includes signature, bookmark & Voodoo sticker. 🐕🐶🐕 honestdogbooks.com/shop/all-dogs

FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK

6 years ago, I walked into What Goes Round to find a book of poetry, and walked having bought the bookstore. Changed the name, added new books, multiple subscriptions, online store, + 2 buildings, theater & bar. Here’s how we’re celebrating. honestdogbooks.com

Kestrel 5, Melissa 0. Had to make a special trip to Duluth today just for his extra-ness. If he destroys this one before Tuesday (one week out from neuter) then I am gonna lose my mind

Update: kestrel 3, cones 0. We are trying the donut 🤣

Kestrel's wake of destruction: Kestrel 2, Cones 0 (we are 36 hours post neuter)

Kestrel is the last one to get the 🏀🏀✂️ this summer! He bounced back FAST from the anesthesia and he is dangerous with his battering ram cone

Summer is holding on for dear LIFE

🌟🌟NEW WAYS TO SUPPORT THE CHALLENGE 🌟🌟 We're so excited to share that we have a new way for you to help support the race. We’ve added a ‘DONATE’ button to our website & we’ve joined the modern world in being able to accept credit card payments, Apple & Google pay & our usual e-transfer option.

Call Ordona's Landscaping for all your digging and trenching needs!

Releasing the beast

Wild cryptid spotted

FOUND!

Like mother like daughter! @flightriskmushing.bsky.social #uglydogs On the left is Foucher who lives with Melissa and is Panthers bb. Fun fact: Foucher lives in the barrel Panther did.

WALLACE, MICHIGAN - two missing alaskan huskies! They belong to a very good friend of mine and I am worried sick for her. Check your trail cams! Alaskans can travel very far very quickly! Contact Choixlibre Kennel on Facebook ASAP if sighted!

✂️🏀🏀 lamp time for Q! Squeezing em in at the end of summer. Kestrel is next month!

August means I am thinking about upcoming drylands...and finally getting around to editing videos from last season 🤣 Ride along with me at Redpaw's dirty dog last season! It was the first race for the mushing heroes litter - Watkins, Foucher, Q, and Zirkle. youtu.be/Ppx1RFvXbYU?...

Looking for some new fashion? I have some brand new enamel pin designs up in the shop! melissamendelsonart.com/shop

#doggust 10: Peruvian inca orchid dog I love a cute hairless weird dog!!!

Don't forget to water your Sleddogs for optimum health and growth ♥️

Merch is live!!! There are 4 different designs to choose from, with various products for each design. The shop will be live for several weeks, proceeds going towards our busy race season. Thank you to everyone who continues to support me and my canine athletes 🐾 criss-cross-racing.myspreadshop.ca

#doggust 4: Belgian malinois Gamble, a malinois belonging to my friend who crossed the rainbow bridge last year ❤

#doggust 3: sloughi

ITS DOGGUST TIME

She's snoring

For the #UglyDogs out there, if you thought following a dog team across Rainy Pass and through the gorge was, umm, exciting, I can't recommend enough the sheer bleral tension of following a cross-county skier doing the same thing. Why have a couple hours of stress when you can have literal days. 2/

Hey all!! Laura's GFM for the Iditarod Trail Invitational (the human powered Iditarod) is less than halfway to goal and it's less than 8 months to the ITI and much less than that to the ramp up for training. Laura's an amazing endurance athlete and I can't wait to follow her journey again. 1/

Hot one today. The heat should break this evening finally, and we will be back to not obscenely hot days. Loaf came inside because she was struggling with the heat a bit but everyone else tolerated it just fine with fresh water and shade.

There are three dog beds in this room

Hubble’s bump appointment is scheduled for the 28th. I’ll keep a close eye on it in the meantime. We also (finally) have Kuiper’s cardio appointment this Thursday. Hoping for good news all around! If you were thinking of some merch, now’s a great time! 😅 www.blueeyesandspitfire.com/support

It's official - at 72lbs, Lanayru is the biggest dog in the kennel, knocking daddy Compass off the moose throne.

Jon Van Zyle wrote this tribute to mushing legend Mary Shields who died on Monday. #MusherSky #Iditarod #Alaska

#UglyDogs KOTZ in Kotzebue needs our help. If you can spare a little bit.

I AM CACKLING!!!! NO MORE NIGHT RACING FEARS

Good Tuesday vibes!

#UglyDogs Sarah and Fiona ran the T-Dog 50 this year, and Sarah survived the whole pack of the #UglyDogs at the start of this year's Iditarod. She also provided most of the early intel on the team. :)

Find Lanayru

Its hard to feel so helpless.

Its difficult to put into words how special this place is, and what a truly remote “port in a storm” it is for #Iditarod and #ITIalaska racers alike. Please consider contacting your representatives to reject *all* these land sales—but especially this one. action.outdooralliance.org/a/reconcilia...?

Thank you to Librarian Warlord for sponsoring Foucher! Foucher is such a little spitfire. She is sweet and snuggly to humans, but a confident freight train in harness. She is whip smart and a really promising leader in training. Her favorite summer activity is chasing & chomping fluffs of shed fur.

YEAAAAAAH LETS GET LAURA TO ALASKA

Thank you to @minnesotagirl.bsky.social for sponsoring Bogey! Bogey is not shy about hugging and letting you know her needs. I remember when Laurie was helping at Doty, she was next to Bogey who needed to put a paw on Laurie's leg for emotional support. If she could, Bogey would live in my lap.

I am really bad about posting on here regularly, but I had to share this story:

Boosting for Soph. There's been updates, she lost practically everything in the fire. The fire is now 90% contained so they are onto the next steps on figuring out how to rebuild and will need to drill a new well, build a new cabin, get new gear for herself and the dogs, etc.

Thank you to @knitleft.bsky.social for sponsoring Ordona! Ordona is my sensitive little girlie. She craves attention desperately and isn't afraid to ask for it. But she is very soft in personality and will just melt into my arms. Ordona's favorite game is to run at me, build up speed, -

Catching sunbeams. I'm feeling a lot better too!

5 years and it finally got me 😭