Corvus Malamutes

29/09/2025

29/09/2025

29/09/2025

Sora sporting the latest fashion at the SKAMF specialty this weekend in Kennewick, WA. That waist is snatched!
.. she had an ultrasound back in July and got shaved. Yes, it does indeed look ridiculous and we didn't get any placements. We still had a good time with SKAMF and CAMEO malamutes (and their people)!

Also big thanks to the folks that came from out of the region, it was lovely to see you and your dogs in the ring!

12/09/2025

Story time!

So it's Thursday night post-dinner and I've had a long and stressful work day. The weather is just how I like it - cool and cloudy - with crickets and confused frogs singing. Sora and Renka are outside, and the back door is open so they can come and go as they like.

Which you'd think I'd learn to stop doing after the Skunk Incident.

Anyway. I'm curled up in the Pillowsac, nested into cushions with a fuzzy soft blanket and watching Wednesday when the bell... rings. I think "Huh. Odd, the door's open." So I ignore it.

The bell rings again.

"Sora, the door is open, you can come in if you want!"

She doesn't come in. I shrug and continue disassociating until the show is over, then do some things around the house. I hear a WHINE.

THAT gets my attention.

Sora is close to the back door, and BADLY wants in. But her ears are sideways, her tail tucked, and she keeps giving the door a wide berth as she paces back and forth.

That's when I saw it.

The ANKHEG OF DOOOOOOOOM.

I giggle and take some photos (of course I do - it's a California Root Borerer), and then hold the screen back folded over the beetle so the dogs can come in.

She is AFRAID of it. She approaches then backs away three times before I REFOLD the screen so the beetle is further away from the door's edge and she SKEDADDLES into the house like this beetle was coming for her SOUL.

I'm still giggling.

26/08/2025

That face.

22/08/2025

How dare I leave the girls at home and take the boy out for his own walk.

Rude.

(I am waiting for them to stop pushing into the gate before I open it)

03/08/2025

Tee hee

29/07/2025

I dared to leave Sora inside the house when I enjoyed my lunch break.

03/07/2025

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Random life with malamutes update.

I let the girls into the backyard yesterday, then got distracted in the house (dancing with Shoku and organizing). It got dark. I opened the back door and called for the girls.... nothing. No sounds. No pounding of paws. No happy faces as they zoomed into the house.

Uh oh.

I searched for a headlamp (and couldn't find one - where did they all go??), then opened the garage door and called for them again. Still nothing.

After more fruitless looking for a headlamp, I went back to the garage door to ... I don't know... panic I suppose... and WHO WAS THERE?

Sora and Renka both, smelling foul, and panting like they had sprinted a mile. Covered in pokey w**d seeds. I brought them in and instantly regretted it.

Renka had a bath with dawn, hydrogen peroxide, and baking soda at 10:20 pm. That got rid of most of it, though her face still smells. Sora didn't get into whatever it was, but there is a faint odor on her face too.

This morning I went out to the dog yard and looked for the route of escape... and found nothing. No holes, no open gates, no evidence. Now I'm wondering if *I* left the garage door open and they got out that way or if they have learned to scale fences.

12/06/2025

This is a lovely litter with an excellent pedigree. If you're looking for a girl puppy, here she is!

12/06/2025

Sora is happy to do the thing... and behind her Shoku is plotting.