Trailblazer Tamaskan (2025)

08/04/2025

So excited for our friends at Towhee Tamaskan! 🥰

14/03/2025

Wishing our handsome Zuko a very happy 5th birthday today! 🥳🖤🤍❤️ and happy birthday to the rest of the Nova litter from Morass Tamaskan! Winston, Nara, Cinder, and Vos! Can’t believe it’s been 5 years already.

08/02/2025

Last weekend we took Miss Senna to the local Pet Expo and a photographer who had a booth there asked to take some photos of her! Of course Senna and her airplane ears were happy to pose for the camera! 🐺✈️🥰

A little update on Senna - it has almost been a year since her cancer diagnosis and surgery and you wouldn’t even know it! We have not done any type of follow up treatment after the removal of her tumor so to be honest we have no idea what is going on in there but she shows no signs of anything! We are hopeful that the surgeon was able to remove all of the cancer and that Senna will go on to live a normal and healthy life! Senna was recently spayed as well and the procedure and her recovery went great! Our energetic, crazy, happy girl is living her best life! 🩷✨

26/11/2024

Super excited to share that this guy passed all his health testing and is officially listed as an outcross stud with the TDR, approved for two litters.

Very thankful to our dear friends at for co-sponsoring Togo with us!!! His first litter will be with their Tamaskan, Rowan. 💜

Togo is our dog Strider’s nephew, and now that it looks like Strider puppies won’t be happening for a long time, I am very much looking forward to seeing how Togo produces and contributes to the Tamaskan breed.

When Togo was just a little guy he came and stayed with us awhile for some training. Enjoy some of our favorite photos of him and keep your eye out on Towhee Tamaskan’s page for updates about their upcoming litter!

05/08/2024

*Last of the Natural Disasters Litter Updates*

Buccleuch Tsunami - Pink Collar Female
🩷 1 Year Update 🩷
Weight: 61lbs
Height: ?

Last but certainly not least is Ktaadn!!! She loves to play and live life with her Tamaskan big sister, Akela. She has a very silly personality and is a great cuddler. She gets super excited to greet us whenever we get home and she is a master digger of holes.

04/08/2024

Buccleuch Hurricane - Green Collar Female
💚1 Year Update💚
Weight: 55lbs
Height: 24 inches

Vada!! Vada is quite possibly the sweetest and most easy going dog I have ever had. People love her, dogs love her, everyone loves her!

She loves the beach, hikes, going to work, playing with her 3 pack mates, running errands, chewing marrow bones, digging holes, and most of all, cuddling and snuggling with her human family. She has such a wonderful temperament and we are so hopeful that she will be able to pass on her parents’ fabulous genes to a future tamaskan generation 💚

03/08/2024

Buccleuch Flash Flood - Black Collar Female
🖤1 Year Update🖤
Height: 29 inches
Weight: 50lbs

Freyja is the biggest cuddle bug and loves to be part of anything and everything. She is easily excitable with new experiences and people but, once settled, is a submissive and gentle friend. She's the master sniffer on our walks and would adventure all day if she had her way. When she can't be outside, you can find her watching the outdoors from the upstairs windows, chewing her bone, or pestering her cat siblings. Freyja will overload our laps with toys when she wants to play and prompts us to go to bed once she's decided she's tired. She's a happy, wonderful part of our family and is easily one of the best parts of our home🤍.

02/08/2024

Buccleuch Earthquake - Red Collar Male
❤️ 1 Year Update ❤️
Height: 30 inches
Weight: 95lbs

Maverick literally is the epitome of Tommy Boy in dogs clothing. His tackles life with full exuberance and joy, and loves absolutely every person and every dog he meets. He is just so happy all the time! Next on his list of loves is water ... this boy loves his baby pool, the hose, the horse water trough .. you name it. He also loves boat rides, getting a "doggie crush" (water in a smirnoff bucket) from Harborside in OCMD, and running on the sandbar. At home on our farm he loves to chase and play with the donkeys and they in turn chase him right back. He's just a big goofball! We absolutely adore him!

01/08/2024

Buccleuch Sandstorm - Yellow Collar Female
💛1 Year Update💛
Weight: 65lbs
Height: 25 inches

This is Bella. She loves going for walks meeting her neighbor friends but does need to "curb her enthusiasm" when greeting them. Loves running like a wild woman chasing balls and going to the pet stores to pick out a special treat. Her best trick is tip toeing into the bathroom so we don't hear her and grabbing the toilet paper and running through the house with it. The best part of my day is waking up every morning with a cold wet nose on my nose and kisses on my face.

31/07/2024

Buccleuch Volcano - Orange Collar Male
🧡1 Year Update🧡
Weight: 80lbs
Height: 29 inches

He is the sweetest boy ever, there isn’t a mean bone in his body. He LOVES other dogs and especially loves his big sister kitty. He is so gentle and calm when small children are around, but also very protective of them. When he went to the beach with our friends young kids he wouldn’t let them go in the ocean without being by their side. He is also a roadtrip champion! And loves long car rides to new adventures with mom and dad.

We love Bodhi more than anything in the world. He is an Angel. He makes us laugh SO MUCH because he is a goofy, silly 80lb puppy still. He loves adventuring outside and swimming in rivers. Snow makes him go crazy and he’s got an energy and enthusiasm for life just like Kris has! Everyone tells us they even look alike. He has completed our wolf pack and we love the bond we have formed with him over the last year!! He is FAMILY.

30/07/2024

Buccleuch Tornado - Grey Collar Male
🩶 1 Year Update 🩶
Weight: 71 lbs
Height: 27 in

Kenai is extremely high energy and LOVES playing with other dogs. He also is a huge fan of fishing (aka watching the fish and once even jumped in after one) and loves the boat. We cannot keep him out of the water at our cabin. He swims like a fish!

He has an all or nothing type of personality. It’s either play, play, play, or SLEEP. He does great with our cats and when he is around kids, he is so gentle and curious.

He also loves to smell EVERYTHING. Very scent driven and will sniff out just about anything that can be considered a “treat”.

He cracks us up! He still acts like an oversized puppy and is our best little bud 🖤

29/07/2024

Buccleuch Landslide - Purple Collar Female
💜1 Year Update💜
Height: About 25.5-26 inches
Weight: 65.6lbs

Kelly! Kelly belly, baby girl, little miss, lickitung. If we ever get another puppy, Kelly set the bar high. Her first year has been a relative breeze. While she made it very well known early on that she did not like crates, she made up for it by being able to be left alone out of one since she was about 4 months old. Add on some stays and training with Cassie when we’ve had to be traveling and we’ve gotten ourselves one great little sidekick.

Today, she’s our go with the flow (but needs to be the center of attention) girl. She’s as comfortable off leash in the woods and at the beach as she is walking for miles on leash in the busy streets of New York and DC. And she adjusts with no problem as she flows in between all the different environments we take her to.

We’re excited to take her upstate to Saranac Lake in a couple of weeks and hope we can add swimming to her repertoire.

But best of all is what she’s done for my older dog, Raleigh. She is obsessed with her Raleigh (see photo where she was the one to squeeze herself next to him on his bed) but he’s obsessed with her as well. She’s the only dog I’ve ever seen him really play with and they play daily.

Current Loves: Raleigh, laying on the air conditioning vents throughout the house, her wishbone chew, belly rubs, throwing tennis balls under the couch and spending hours trying to get them back out.

28/07/2024

Buccleuch Typhoon - Blue Collar Male
💙 1 Year Update 💙
Weight: 78.5lbs
Height: 28 inches

My handsome goober… aka Summit 🏔️. He is the goofball of goofballs. He is always smiling and also has the most graceful leaps and hops/jumps I have ever seen in a dog. He legit looks more graceful than a gazelle.

He’s a lanky guy who eats like a bird… picks all day long opposed to eating large meals like we try to do. He loves treats, bones, and steak 🥩 .

He loves to run around the yard chasing Max, chew bones, swimming, and playing fetch. He also enjoys chasing the cats, but he doesn’t phase Comet (the cat), she’s too ‘cool’ to be chased 🤣. He is loved by all who meet him.

27/07/2024

The “Natural Disasters” litter between Wren and Zuko turns 1 year old today! 🥳 I will be sharing each of the puppy’s updates individually over the next week or so! So proud of this litter and how these dogs are growing up! We have some absolute FANTASTIC owners doing a great job!!

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Buccleuch Avalanche - Lime Green Collar Female
💚 1 Year Update 💚
Weight: 71lbs
Height: 26.5 inches

Lyra has a reputation for going from 0 to 100 in just a few seconds. When she meets new people, she starts off shy and cautious. But once she warms up, she transforms in an instant, jumping on them with excitement and showering them with kisses.
At home, one moment she’s napping belly up and doesn’t want to be bothered. The next, she’s doing parkour moves off the couch and hurdling over her older brother, Simba.
On weekends, she enjoys hiking, a passion she shares with Simba. She learned all the essentials from him: sniffing every tree, marking her territory, and biting at the running water when we reach a river or creek. It’s never a dull moment when she’s around!

11/07/2024

We haven’t been super active on here because we are busy preparing for our first baby! The dogs will have a new baby brother at home sometime in the next week most likely! ⁣⁣
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I also have recently joined the Tamaskan Dog Register’s (TDR) Committee of Breeders and have been enjoying learning the ins and outs of the registry policies and assisting our registered breeders. It feels really good to be a part of an organization striving to be the best it can be both for its breeders and the dogs. ⁣⁣
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Here’s a little update on our pack! Everyone is doing well 😊🐾 ⁣⁣
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𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐧: Our Turkey Bird is currently 8 years old and thriving. He loves to swim to stay cool in this hot Summer weather we’ve been having and he is full of attitude and s***k as usual! This dog really is one of a kind and I absolutely adore him and his shenanigans. He has so much personality. ⁣⁣
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𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫: Strider is currently 6 years old and has just been extra affectionate and silly ever since his neuter back in March. He’s such a ham and we really enjoy every day with him now. Unfortunately the procedure has caused him to gain some weight so we are working on trying to trim him back down. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩. ⁣⁣
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𝐙𝐮𝐤𝐨: Zuko is currently 4 years old and full of energy! I’m really looking forward to getting back into bikejoring with him once I’m no longer pregnant and when the weather cools down! His first and only litter of pups turn 1 at the end of this month and I am excited to share updates about them! 𝘈𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘡𝘶𝘬𝘰 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵, 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵. ⁣⁣
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𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚: Senna is 2.5 years old and back to her crazy and extremely energetic self post surgery. She has currently lost about all the fur she possibly can after dealing with a second false pregnancy after her most recent heat cycle. But if there’s a good time to lose your coat it’s definitely during Summer because we have had some crazy heatwaves already! We are not planning to do any follow ups or checks in regards to her cancer and are just enjoying life with her. She is happy and feeling great as far as we can tell! I would like to have her spayed because her heat cycles have been inconsistent her whole life and she does not handle them well but I’m torn on it. For now we just want her to have fun! ⁣⁣
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At this time we are also in the process of sponsoring Strider’s nephew, Togo, to be an approved outcross stud for the Tamaskan breed. He has a few more health tests to go, if he passes everything we will share some pictures and info about him! 🤞🏻⁣⁣
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Even though we ourselves have no breeding plans or puppy plans in the foreseeable future we have many things going on in our personal life to look forward to and we are also very happy and excited for our breeder friends who have upcoming plans as well. Hope everyone is having a great Summer, thanks for following along with us! 😊⁣⁣

09/06/2024

Wishing our big guy the happiest 6th birthday today! 🥳⁣
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🤍🤎 We love you Strider! 🤎🤍

05/06/2024

Our Tamaskan Dogs, Senna and Zuko 🐾

Trailblazer Tamaskan