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Our Alaska Malamutes
We've been the proud parents of two Alaska
malamutes for years now. We adopted Kodi in 2003 right
before his fourth birthday, and we rescued Tundra in 2005 at
just 10 weeks of age. They have been wonderful companions.
Malamutes are so faithful, they love snuggling, they shed like
crazy, love to chase anything that moves, don't mind it when
it's well below zero, and are super photogenic.
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Tundra enjoying some winter hiking.
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Old man Kodi on his 10th Birthday, December 24,
2009.
Kodi on his 11th Birthday! |
Pretty Mals... |
Kodi
getting some love after a long hike. His age is starting
to show on our walks.
Tundra taking a break after a long hike. |
Winter Malamutes....in a snow cave to get out
of the wind. |
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Kodi seems pretty comfortable despite the
constant winds and the blanket of snow. |
Tundra enjoying an evening on the deck of the new house.
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August
2008
Ahh...to be back in Alaska. I know Kodi and
Tundra are loving the cool temperatures. We spent the night on
the beach down in Homer. |
Some serious Malamute play up near our cabin. The dogs were
playing fetch for sticks.
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We knew Tundra could jump, but she was impressive lifting all of
her little round self out of the water. |
Kodi has been in love with water ever since he literally caught
fish once in a stream with spawning salmon. Now he is convinced
that sticks are salmon, so he is easily entertained for hours on
the river playing fetch. |
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July
2008
A warm day on Flathead Lake. Kodi and Tundra
are SO ready to get back to the north country. Heading back to
Alaska around the 1st of August. |
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Grandma will miss her dogs for sure. The dogs ran to the door
every time we mentioned "Grandma"....Funny, how my mom used to
be so scared of Kodi. She brought a sandwich all the way from
Seattle on the plane the first time she met Kodi, just to make
sure he liked her. I think she'll miss the dogs more than me! |
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October
2007
Kodi hanging out with me while I work on
building front porch! He's almost 8 years old....still
acts like a puppy, but can sure act like an old man! |
Tundra gets in on the action, posing with her
new red collar in front of the red geraniums! Her looks are
deceiving. She is a terror and a joy all at the same time.
She has turned into quite the lover. |
Dogs have rights to pretty much all the furniture in our
house! |
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October 4, 2006
On our drive back to Montana; Kodi and Tundra enjoyed some scenery!
Eventually we just left them in the back so they could just stretch out!
Long days in the truck for these poor mals. They were real troopers
though! |
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We stopped outside of Banff in British Columbia for some cold water fun!
Kodi was in heaven in the water. |
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Tundra
will dapple in the water, but Kodi loves fetching sticks and swimming in
the current! He's our water dog! |
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Tundra
feeling very frisky after cooling down a bit started picking on Kodi!
He just puts up with her! |
March 2006
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I'm not sure what these dogs are doing, but I
thought the moment was precious. I'm sure they were
intently watching a bird or something. |
February 2006
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Snowshoeing up north near our cabin! We were
following some trails made by caribou, hoping we might find an
antler. |
After a long day of hiking the dogs are beat! Tundra is
just half the size of Kodi, she's just a runt!
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January 22, 2006
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We got about 8 inches of snow last night, it
is light fluffy powder! The dogs went crazy playing in the
drifts. Poor Tundra still isn't quite big enough, she tries to
plow through though! |
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The "Snow Ball"
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Christmas 2005
With the dogs! Tundra was our Christmas present! She is now about
fourteen weeks old! |
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Tundra and Kodi are worn out and dreaming of
shed antlers after we spent a day out tromping around the woods!
It is good to have tired dogs! |
November 25, 2005
Our newest addition.....Tundra. A 10
week old Alaska Malamute. She is a handful. Kodi doesn't
know what to do with her yet, but is playing well so far. |
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Our little monster! She looked so cute in the
pictures, but for weeks we didn't sleep due to her wining,
wanting to play, and then needing to go outside and pee. |
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Kodi
was forced into this picture. He couldn't stand her in the
beginning! It was a full time babysitting job for awhile!
More babysitting! Tundra's favorite thing
to do. Tear up anything and everything! |
This what I call spoiled! We took her on a pretty long
walk and the temps were well below zero. About halfway on
the walk she started slowing down and wining at us. I picked her
up in a fleece blanket and zipped her up inside my down coat!
At first she was shivering, but soon we were quite warm and
snuggly! Needless to say, I did have a back ache after walking
three miles back to the truck with her in my coat. Lucky I
don't have to carry her like that anymore!
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Our first malamute, and baby, Kodi!
We adopted him from a couple moving out of state. He was nearly
three years old. He immediately fit right in with Aaron and I.
He is about 120lbs in the summer and 140lbs in the winter! He
loves to snuggle! We got Kodi in November of 2003. He has been
such a wonderful companion~ extremely faithful but very
independent at times! |
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Kodi's heaven....LOTs of snow! We had a
whopping year of snow in 2004, I believe approximately 105
inches. Malamutes are definitely snow dogs. Kodi had to wear his
booties only when temps were below zero. The cold would make his
feet crack. |
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Traditionally malamutes were used for work
dogs; Kodi has a life full of fun. The only work he has ever
done is helping us haul our caribou meat out 15 miles in the
Kenai Mountains. |
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