Basalt Tamaskan

30/09/2025

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

Well Vesper (Morass Evening Sun at Basalt) is officially listed with the TDR. I was very much hoping she would have a litter this fall but surgical AI was unsuccessful and ultrasound revealed no puppies. We hope to try again over the winter in the hopes that we will be blessed with a spring litter. That means we will need to travel to update eye certificates probably at the beginning of the new year as her yearly eye exam will expire in November.

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐮𝐧 (𝐕𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫)⁣
Location: USA⁣
TDR Litters: 0/4⁣ G1 | 2022

15/09/2025

Another year of sponsoring our local shelter’s biggest funraiser of the year. Each year the dogs get a bandana in that years color and every year I put on their past bandannas to show how many times they have walked to support pets at our local shelter. 

So Zephyr, Noque, Fahren, Graph, Vesper and our foster Tamaskan Maez got to come out and have a good time and support UPAWS.

09/09/2025

Registration is LIVE for the 9th Annual UP200 Dryland Dash. https://up200.org/dryland-dash. This is a ISDRA Sanctioned Race.

Registration closes October 7th at Midnight EST.

If any aspiring musher wants to give it a try for the first time time I am more than willing to lend gear out or show the course in advance. Apply for scholarship to have entry fee covered (applications are due before October 2)

02/09/2025

Happy 3rd Birthday to my youngest Vesper and the rest of the Sunflower litter.

08/08/2025

I have been really struggling with this decision because I really like this dog and she is really trying to bond but Graph is not on board with Maez living with us. They are fine on neutral ground and even have played but that’s not how it is here at home with the whole pack. I am a stickler with being my dogs sole provider and being out numbered by them that everyone needs to be able to live in harmony. I don’t want to live in a home of crate and rotate and basket muzzles. I don’t want to put myself in a situation where if managment fails I could have a potential fight. Maez will stay for as long as she needs but for Graph’s sake I do not think forever is what is best for Graph.

Maez ideal home would be a active home with another young dog preferably male. She absaloutly swoons over Zephyr and Noque and wants them to play but they are both old men and only are good for very short bursts of play with her. She is fully integrated with everyone except Graph. She plays well with Vesper and Fahren and absolutely loves the game of chase. She has very good dog body language skills and is passive and receptive appropriate correction when everyone else is tired and done playing.

I would like her to stay here in Marquette County and would like to keep a relationship where she could come back for boarding if new owners don’t already have a set up for those situations.

Maez wants to be chased makes it to where she is not a tamaskan that I would ever trust off leash. She is busy and life is a game. She kennels well and doesn’t have the seperation anxiety that many of this breed can have. Her pulling in her walking harness definitely tells me she would enjoy pulling sports or to hike or run with her human. She is spayed and completely up to date on shots.

Please reach out with questions if this breed has ever been a dream to own and you have the lifestyle that’s compatible with a working breed.

07/08/2025

Mark your Calendar the 9th annual UP200 Dryland Dash is in 65 days!

16/07/2025

Happy 14th Birthday to Zephyr and his litter mates. We went for a drive around Presque Isle where I let him feel the wind in his face followed by a little walk around lower harbor before going to the pet store and him picking out a jerky strip chew and and a peanutbutter banana frozen yogurt pup cup.  He is doing pretty good for his age, he will still grab a ball and ask for it to be thrown across the livingroom, he still tries to get involved with the girls rough housing but is often left in the dust. His hearing is perfect when it comes to anything that could be food. He still sings and tap dances before getting served his meals. He is a slower and dealing with osteoarthritis in his rear from his younger days so he is on daily pain management medication but otherwise still his happy go lucky self.

08/07/2025

We have had a few play dates with a fellow tamaskan that lives relatively close. Her name is Maez (Little Bear Ahnah) and she is only two months younger than my youngest Vesper. The entire crew has accepted her so as her owners are about to relocate out of the lower 48, she is going to spend some time with my crew. She is very much heat intolerant as most every arctic breed raised this far north is, and her owners and I agree it would be unfair to move her to the tropics. Her breeder is aware as Maez’s owners did reach out and she could go back to them but to go cross country and then find her new home could be unnecessary when she could potentially find a new home here in Upper Michigan.

She is spayed and up to date on all her shots and though a little boustrous at first she loves to be around other dogs and is a good communicator. She has been boarded and gone to doggy daycare. She has tricks and is kennel trained.

Maybe she could stay but my lifestyle is very different than a single dog home she has grown up in so this may be a disservice to her long term especially if being a sled dog isn’t her thing. I also have a lot going on as I am working on litter plans for this year, and with my boy Zephyr in the twilight of his life I am trying to soak up what ever time we have, may it be weeks, months or even a year.

Application process to come after I talk with her breeder and maybe get to know her better when she moves in.

12/06/2025

Less than 24 hours after these photos I lost her. Today marks six months without Py and it hasn’t gotten any easier 💔.

16/05/2025

I made a very last minute decision and drove out to Arizona for my Granddads celebration of life last month. Mostly thanks to a decent tax refund. I made a bit of a trip out of it with my little family.

Over 9 days we drove 5,617 miles. Went through 14 States, 6 National Parks. It was a adventure. Starting with a broken brake line. Hitting and killing a buck on my way to get a safe reliable vehicle. Getting use to driving something other than a truck. Never did get use to low light headlights. Driving through Kansas’ open plains at night surrounded by lighting/thunderstorm. It was amazingly powerful and beautiful. Going through a border patrol checkpoint in New Mexico. I kinda thought maybe in my sleep deprivation of driving 16 hours I took a wrong turn and was headed to Mexico. Satisfied my craving for Mexican food over and over again. The midwest just doesn’t know how to do it. Getting to see my brother’s home and being allowed to stay in his guest bedroom. Reinforcement of how much I dislike big cities, the suffering, the crazy things that shouldn’t be normal. Celebrated the extraordinary life my grandfather lived. Had a quick visit with Timberline Tamaskan. Hiked up the same arch in Utah I did in 2017 when it was just Zephyr, Noque and I. It was hard to watch Zephyr struggle and have to help him so much to get up to and down the arch. His house mates were not very helpful with their unfettered youth. Found a iPhone hiking. It works but its locked with no emergency contact attached to it. Prevented a massive wildfire in Colorado by quickly jumping into action with all my dogs water and a shovel with the help of a local rancher while on the phone with 911. Stop throwing ci******es out your car windows! Picked up my truck in Ann Arbor with the brake lines all fixed. We are reluctantly “home” and trying to get back into the swing of things. Stay tuned. I

04/04/2025

It has taken a long long time to find a photographer that was at the 2021 Beargrease and was able to look back and see if they had pictures of my team. I am some how notorious for slipping through the cracks and being invisible and not getting photos. Races also don’t really make it easy to find the photographers but after a lot of inquirieses after Beargrease 2023 I did find Amber’s Impressions and she had taken photos of my team and promised to look back over the 2021 race photos. She was able to go back over her photos from the 2021 race this winter and she did infact have some photos of my team. So I ordered digital copies and a big print of this photo. She is the only photographer I have seen photos from of my team either year I have raced.

Lead: Sphinx - Ranger
Point: Graph - Pyrite
Wheel: Fahren - River