Trailblazer Tamaskan

01/10/2025

Happy 4th Birthday to our Senna 💖✨🥳

In the last pictures she reminds us often that she is mostly Alaskan Malamute 🤣 awooooooooo!

30/09/2025

We are very excited for our friends at Basalt Tamaskan and their upcoming litter due in October.

If you are wanting to add a Tamaskan Dog to your family and are looking for a reputable breeder, we are happy to recommend them!

Located in Michigan, USA.

I am excited to announce that the next generation is due to come in October.

Thank you to Towhee Tamaskan for allowing this breeding to take place and all hospitality as you hosted my whole pack and I back in August.

With this litter I hope to see the sleddog race trails again but also there will be some puppies looking for active dog sport, confromation and companion homes.

It may take me a few days but interest can be directed to my email. I will get applications out throughout the weekend sometime.

Litter Announcement by Rahne Meeder

29/09/2025

AKC Rally Trial
9/28/2025
Valley Forge Kennel Club
Novice A Group
Score: 99/100
1st Place

Our very first Rally trial ever! 🥳🥰

Need to work on: engagement and cleaner turns

29/09/2025

Zuko and I competed in our very first AKC Rally trial yesterday at the Novice A level. Absolutely ECSTATIC to say that we scored a 99/100 and took 1st place in our group! 🤩🥳

For those who are not familiar with Rally…an excerpt from the AKC website…

“Think of an AKC Rally event as any team sport: You and your dog navigate a course, side-by-side, as you steer him through a course of 10-20 different signs. Each of these signs provides instructions regarding the next skill that is to be performed. The dog and handler move continuously throughout the course with the dog under control at the handler’s left side. There is a clear sense of teamwork between the dog and handler both during and between the numbered signs. Although each performance is timed, having a good race time is not the goal; it’s all about working as a team while performing the skills, with the dog under control.“

Our next two Rally trials take place November 1st, wish us luck!

28/09/2025

We would like to congratulate Tamaskan Solskinn in the Netherlands on the birth of their recent litter of 9 puppies! 🥳🫶🏻✨

Kinack is the littermate sister of our female Tamaskan Dog, Senna. We are excited to see Senna’s nieces and nephews grow up overseas 😊

07/09/2025

Pictures are difficult sometimes…🤣

This crew had a FUN time Friday and Sunday in New Jersey at a FastCAT trial! It was Zuko and his daughter Kelly’s first time going to an event and they both did great!

Senna FINALLY cracked under 8 seconds for all four of her runs this weekend which is something we’ve really been working towards and I’m so proud of her! 🤩

Zuko got fastest dog for his breed group (All American) and height on Friday 🥇 and still made it in the top four fastest dogs for his group today as well! [[For those wondering, Tamaskan Dogs are not recognized by the AKC, so they must register as mixed breed which is referred to as All American Dog.]]

Looking forward to seeing some professional photos that were taken today, hopefully will get them sometime next week and I’ll share them then!

Our next FastCAT event is a 3 day trial at the end of October! Stay tuned! 👻🎃🕸️

26/08/2025

If you would have asked me ten days ago if I thought I would be making this post today I woulda said nah we have more time than that. But in fact we did not. Talcon told us this morning that he was ready to go so we sat outside on a blanket in his favorite spot and enjoyed an absolutely perfect weather morning and ate icy cream together one last time. I love you so much Turkey. Can’t wait for you to come visit in my dreams 💙

05.09.2016 - 08.25.2025 🌈

19/08/2025

We recently had Zuko tested for a few things through Laboklin. We are adding the results to his public health record photo album.

- Pituitary Dwarfism (N/N)
- Congenital Idiopathic Megaesophagus (N/CIM)
- A Locus Color Test

19/08/2025

Zuko now has two good boy titles under his belt! This past weekend he passed his AKC CGC and CGCA tests with flying colors along with his buddy Benny the Bernedoodle 😊

Next up is the CGCU test in September which the instructor will take us to our local Cabela’s store for. Zuko will also be attending his first FastCAT and Rally trials in September as well.

Stay tuned! 🐾

18/08/2025

The last update is on Strider 🤎

Our big guy is 7 now and doing well! I know we have mentioned this before, but after his neuter he gained like an instant 10lbs that has been impossible to get off of him but after some recent adjustments with his food I think we are finally making progress! I definitely do not want extra weight on his frame as he gets into his senior years because of how big he is, it would definitely not be good for his joints! Hoping to swing by my vet sometime this week to throw him on the scale and see where we’re at!

This weekend Strider will start the same 8 week course at a local dog training center that Zuko just finished so that we can test out for his CGC, CGCA, and CGCU titles. Very much looking forward to it and the one on one time with him! He says he wants to earn some pretty ribbons too! 🤣

Even though Strider has been neutered, we still plan to use him in our breeding program
in the future via frozen semen once we have a suitable female that is a nice match for him! Strider’s nephew, Togo, recently sired a litter at Towhee Tamaskan and we are enjoying watching those puppies grow up in the meantime. 😊

Overall Strider is doing great, he’s healthy, and like Talcon, is looking forward to some nice, cool, Fall weather 🤣 We will post another update on him once he earns his titles and I also hope to have professional photos done of just him and Talcon sometime in the coming months that I look forward to sharing!

15/08/2025

Next is my bestest boy, first boy, oldest of our pack, Talcon.

Turkey, as we affectionately call him, is 9 years old and still has the same sass and personality he did as a one year old. He is the most playful dog we have. Loves to play with his chuck it balls, blue and green spiky squeaky balls, and goes nuts for the flirt pole. He has especially been enjoying all of the new electronic baby toys in our home now and seeing him play and interact with our son is one of the best things ever 🥹 he is the only one of our dogs that really goes out of their way to play with the baby and engage with him.

For those of you who don’t know, Talcon has an autoimmune disease called Eosinophilic Bronchopneumopathy (EBP) that affects his airways and requires him to use an inhaler twice daily. In addition to that he suffers from chronic rhinitis which has greatly deteriorated his nasal passages over the years. These conditions were triggered around the time he was 2 years old shortly after he went into anaphylactic shock from what we believe were multiple wasp stings to his muzzle. He’s been dealt a sh*tty hand in regards to health for what feels like his whole life but despite it he has always and still has the silliest, carefree, happiest attitude and his personality and antics are truly one of a kind.

I made an appointment with his internal medicine specialist in September to see if there are any new/different options we can try in order to better support him. Unfortunately while his lungs are in good shape, his nose is not, and he suffers daily from sneezing fits and reverse sneezing episodes that make me concerned about how much discomfort he is in everyday. Hoping that appointment is able to give us some information and clarity.

Besides all that, Talcon is very much looking forward to laying out in his favorite spots in the yard and going for walks in some nice cool Fall weather as you can imagine Summer is very hot for him with all that fur!

We love you so much Bubbas 💙

11/08/2025

Our next update is on Senna!

Senna is doing awesome. We are now over one year from her surgery date that removed a large cancerous tumor on her right side and she seems completely healed with no sign of any cancer being left behind or re-growing. We are so thankful that it seems the surgery was a success!

Senna will be turning 4 years old in a couple of months which just feels crazy. Time goes so fast. She is still very much a very energetic “puppy” who loves to play with her brothers and also every other dog she meets!

Senna LOVES to run, chase, and hunt so we started taking her to AKC FastCAT trials and she is really enjoying it. We are working towards earning her second FastCAT title, DCAT, this Fall.

While Senna unfortunately did not meet the requirements for health testing in order to be a breeding dog under our kennel and was spayed, we are looking forward to seeing her sister Kinack’s first litter this year at Tamaskan Solskinn in the Netherlands and wish them the best!

Senna is a very happy dog who is always up for anything and everything and we are so glad to share our life with her!