Q+T at home.

A few days ago Qimmiq and Talik were allowed to come home with the humans for a few hours. It turned out that even savage polar dogs likes cheese! There must be some aromatic chemicals in cheese that enhances hearing and memmory because all of the sudden the puppies were very responsive to "sit", "dæk", "bli" and last but not least "værs`go"! After wards Qimmiq tried to bury a chew toy on the sealskin. Not her brightest moment but she does get point for persistence.

Oh btw that should have said HER seal skin. She has decided that a real polar princess should not be content with sleep on the bare floor, resting her royal paws on a sealskin is far more befitting!

Driving in the dark

There is finally enough snow for some serious dogdriving and even a hint of light at the southern sky in the middle of the day. This video is from yesterday when we went out in a bit of a snowstorm! It is Talik and Nuna in the front (some where out there in the dark) with Qimmiq and Ludde in the middle and Silver and Miki as wheel dogs. Except for a discussion about whether or not we should relocate some reindeer or not (the humans vetoed no) the trip was nice. NSQTLM

End of year update

After a long silence we are back! The team is now 50% bigger with the additions of Ludde and Miki, we have finally gotten our new sledge and the snow is back! We have entered into next years edition of trappers trail The humans have been to the other side of the earth and we have in the mean time been serviced by aunt Lisa, uncle Eike and Yvonne, Jonas` human. Oh and we are now on youtube as well, have a look at our videoes here:

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Marry X-mas and happy new year from NSQTML (and the humans)

Summer training: The quadbike is repaired and yesterday we went for a trip in town after a brief snowstorm!

Team Qanik and Ludde

Refueling at the gas station

It was a warm day, Silver taking a break

Talik is a bit dirty after running on the muddy streets of Longyearbyen

Boat trip and tiral dog!

Team Qanik might get a new member! Ludde, the huskey is currently undergoing test driving. He is a huskey, black and brown, 2003 model, ca 30 kg and 0,2 HP.

The humans picked us up yesterday and took us for a ride in Kermit, their new green boat. That was quite nice BUT they made us wear life vests! It is so hard to be a cool rebellious teenage dog when you wear the same clothes as your siblings and MOTHER! well well it was nice to be out. On Sunday Qimmiq and Silver went for another ride- Qimmiq was positioned in the stern of the boat, when we returned to the beach and were just 50 m from land she could wait no more and made a swim for it! Rico "sprinted" (well if you can actually call it sprinting in a huge orange survival suit) after her but she was already at the car. So we returned a wet Qimmiq and dry Silver to to dog yard. Oh yes, one of great fans, aunt Lisa is back for a long time! Yesterday she and Ole took N&S for a walk while the young ones and Ludde went out with Rico. Welcome back Lisa- we look forward to lots of new adventures!

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Slightly frozen humans

View from the sledge

The team

Talik and Nuna in the front

Qimmiq on the line

Weekend trip. On Friday the humans came with the snow scooters and picked us up for a trip. We were not quite pleased with being stuffed in boxes on the sledge. Last season we were allowed to ride on the scooter in front of the humans but they claim we are to big now! It was a bit of a bumpy ride to Reindalen since some one with a bulldozer and an anger management problem had been driving through Todalen before us, but in the end we made it. Nuna and silver have been in the cabin several times before, they spend Christmas there last year and Ulli (our ex caretaker) took us there for new year. The puppies were very curious and in the evening they all got to go inside for a short time- so cosy! The humans kicked us out just before midnight and went to bed. The next day it was Talik and Qimmiqs one year birthday! HURRA. We celebrated the day with a long trip en Reindalen and a big piece of meat in the evening. After dinner two of our fans and sometimes feeders Harvey and Marzena showed up. Even later more people came so we were not allowed to go inside again, luckily it was nice and warm (-1C) outside. In the night we had a bit of a snowstorm so we did not go on a trip on Sunday. The humans drowse us home after lunch and we played in the dog yard for some time. A good weekend for the furry ones.

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Rico and Nuna relaxing in the cabin

Sleeping birthday puppies

Talik (front) and Silver