Yona's Puppy Diary

4.1.2009

Yona's first Christmas is behind and of course we had to try put a goblin hat to her... ;-) Yona was thinking differently and tried to play with it. Below few photos of that play...

Yona and operation "Goblin hat"

For a few second it stayed at her head...

At Christmas holidays Yona trained sledding with Yepa and Hino. Longest excursion was 1,4 kilometers and it went also well. In last few hundred meters she started to hesitate a little and Pekka stopped and continued after she was heading eagerly forward again. We are very pleased for Yona's performs in front of sled.

In New Year's day we went to rock-mountain to let malamutes play free and of course we took some photos, because day was sunny. Yona loved running and here is few photos of that too:

Yona chasing Yepa

Yona's movements at the age of 1/2 year

We also measured Yona some days ago and her height was approx. 56-57 cm and weight was 23,5 kilos. Now we are waiting, when her first heat starts and does it affect to Yona's and Yepa's relationship.

At 6. of January is Match Show (unofficial playful show) at Lappeenranta and we are thinking to take Yona there to practice for a shows. We'll see what she'll get from there - Yepa was BIS-1 at her puppy time Match Show and Hino was BIS-2... I'll update results later and also update some new photos of Yona in few days.

20.12.2008

Last week Yona had her 1/2 year "birthday"! Time flies so fast... Now if you look her photos of time she came to us, she was so little, that I just have to smile. Last week we also weighted Yona and she was 22 kilos sharp.

Today we had possibility to test 3 malamutes team with sled. Yona instantly recognized what is happening and went really well in lead with Yepa. Distance was once again short, but in start it should be that way. And if I decoded her face right, it was also fun in her opinion. That is also very important when starting to train.

Below you can see few photos of 6 months old Yona, those are took today. In her album, there is some photos more.

Yona and Pekka

Pretty girl Yona, 6 months

Yona posing

1.12.2008

Last week we had so much snow, that we could dig the sled up and also Yona had a chance to try sledding. Yepa and Hino were been sledding longer trip and for the rest of the trip we changed Yona's and Hino's place. Yepa and Yona started well, because of few odd things (snow covered trailer and wood pile) Yona slowed down a little, but went still forward. Yepa did most of the work of course. This time we also attached Yona and Yepa with their collars and that didn't make any difference.

On Sunday Yona was participating to her first Show at Helsinki. Girl behaved really nice, although she had lot of speed as usual. Last week's training was successful and in the ring Yona performed nice trot, not a jump-hop-jumps... She can pose quite well and she has nice looks and character, so she got Prize Of Honor and was also BOB-puppy. We stayed at group-competition also, but this time Yona got only experience from there. You find Yona's great judgment from Result-page.

Here is few photos of the Show:

Yona posing to judge on left (outside the photo)

Yona's movements

Yona in FCI5 Group-competition (Akita behind her won the group)

24.11.2008

Yona has started her pull training last week. Her first pull was in our yard road and she pulled kid's little boxing sack! ;) As soon as she started moving, she noticed that sack is following her and she would have wanted to play with it. When we got her to forget playing, she pulled 30 meters really nicely! You couldn't notice, that she was pulling something behind her, it was so easy..

Yesterday after big mal's kick-sled trip Yona got to take a little practice with Yepa in front of kick-sled. When we got to the move, it went also really well! This time we didn't connect Yepa and Yona with their collars, we try to minimize all bad experiences in start phase, so Yona won't get any bad memories about pulling.

When we got our first snow, Yona showed that she is a real malamute and got really wild in snow! It is always so fun to see how mals enjoy about snow and they just love it.

I've added few new photos to Yona's Puppy Gallery.

16.11.2008

Well, it's about time to update Yona's Puppy Diary. Today Yona got 5 months old and you can say, that time goes so fast! For a fun, we weighted Yona and she is now 20 kilos. We also measured her height and it was approx. 53 cm.

Yona has shown many sides of her and we think, that she is more in everything than Yepa and/or Hino; Hino is so friendly, but Yona is more. Yepa is confident and almost "shameless", Yona is that also but more. Yepa is very energetic, but once again, Yona is more. And Yona is also more stubborn, than Hino and Yepa together... Sigh, I say! But she is so much everything we wanted, so now we only hope, that we can start train her little by little to working and she will show her potential also there!

Yona's canine teeth (tusks) are all left and new ones are coming. Girl has grown well and with balance also elsewhere. I like her straight front feet, which hasn't tried to turn any direction. She also has nice front moreover and she also got great coat. Her rear is also balanced and movements are good for her age. Yona rarely trots anywhere, but she loves to run as fast as she can...

Today we tried to take photos of Yona, but once again we noticed, that stubborn and energetic malamute kid isn't easy to get posing! We'll see, how her first Puppy Show will go in the end of this month.... I have added new photos to Yona's Puppy Gallery. There is also few photos from Theme: "How to try take photos of malamute kid...." ;-)

Yona 5 months

20.10.2008

Yona is now 4 months and it will be easier to count months than weeks anymore. Yona has grown quite well, at her 4 months birthday she weighted 16 kilos sharp.

Yona, Yepa and Hino has started to keep three-some-play-sessions at the evenings in our living room. One time I captured in video, hopefully I'll have time soon to make it ready for our site. Yona has so much energy, that it feels like she won't ever tire her up... Car driving is also very familiar to Yona, she has already travelled three race trips, one Autumn meeting and couple soccer events with us, so she is totally used to car drive.

Ýona has changed her teeth. Her bite looks to be ok now, but we'll see when she has changed all those teeth. I'm planning to take Yona to one Puppy Show this year, I think it will be late November or early December. It will be unofficial, because of age, but still there is all as in real shows - only personal quality judgement as EXC, VG and so on aren't used.

I've added some new photos to Yona's Puppy Gallery.

Yona 16 weeks.

3.10.2008

Well, it is gone over week from another update, but here we are again. Yona is now 15 weeks and her last weight was 14 kilos. She is still growing fine, height starts to reach Veera's height.

Yona has changed her coat's color quite much, body is quite dark gray now. Head, throat and neck are still light, and so she looks like the head would be from another dot. Yona has started to listen us better outside and comes more surely when you call her. Otherwise she is still as energetic and happy as she has always been. Her social manners are something that always makes me happy - Yona can "speak" dog's language so well! Yepa and Hino hasn't ever been so good, or we just have learned to observate better. Yona charms almost every dog, which she meets and get's them to like herself. What a great feature!

Last weekend Yona was with us at Jämi Pawtrekker Finnish Championship 2008 - race. There was really much people and dogs, but once again, Yona wasn't afraid at all. Only when we needed to go through two howling husky packs, then she was a little bit nervous, but that's only wise. Yona also was in "stake-out" chain for a while, but she acted like she has been attached to chain for a lifetime - nothing new or odd about it.

Next week Yona will have her effect vaccination and then only Rabies is missing. I've added many new photos to Yona's PuppyGallery.

Yonalla riittää vauhtia aina ja ikuisesti!

23.9.2008

Well, another week behind and Yona is 14 weeks now. Scale showed 12,5 kilos yesterday and it means that girl is growing well.

Yona got great deal of new experiences last Saturday. She was with us at Aulanko Race. Yona didn't mind all the fuss at all, even though there was many people and dogs howled and barked of exitement. Tail up went our little Yona everywhere. There was also her "soulmate", Belgian Shepherd puppy, which was same age than Yona. Together they got to wonder all different looking dogs.

On our way home, we stopped to visit Mika and Sirkka. There we tried Yepa's and Nukka's working together and Yona got to play with all her heart with Atchuu. Atchuu is approx. one month older malamute male than Yona. You'll probably guess, there was lot of speed with these too. Yona played also with Nukka, so she got really much experiences of dogs outside of our own pack!

Yona is now stubborn little creature, maybe even more stubborn than Yepa and Hino together... On the other hand, she is very kind - so little "bad habits", only one mobile phone's charger. She is speedy and quite acrobat, at least what comes to jumping. One of her favorite hobbies is hanging out on our sofa's arm rests or back rests. Yona's character is also very happy and social. Her tail wags all the time and if you say half a word to her, Yona's ears goes by her head - she is so pleased. She also pulls very much already and we tested our smallest harnesses to her. There is some room to grow in, so maybe we don't put her to work yet... ;-) We'll see how powerful worker she will be, when she grows up and gets more age.

This kind of news today, below you'll see photo of Yona of last Saturday. There is also quite many new photos in Yona's own Gallery, and Hino with Yona in Malamutes Together-album.

Yona is very happy girl, as you can see of photo.

16.9.2008

Yona is now 13 weeks old and yesterday she weighted 11,5 kilos. No wonder, that she looks like she's growing in seconds. Her coat's color changes every day: at the weekend she got gray line to her back and today her shoulders looks more gray than yesterday. Yona is also now "officially" citizen of Finland, because we got her Finnish Registeration papers in last Friday.

Last week Yona got to drive a lot in our car. We had some things to take care at Lappeenranta city almost every day and Yona is so used to travel by car, that you almost forget that she is with you. At the city she gets also good socialization and gets used to traffic and so on.

Last weekend we were at Alma's Autumn meeting at Muurame. Yona got many new experiences of people, other malamutes and of course, car traveling. Yona's brother Talut was also there and they had soooo much fun with playing. I took so many photos of them, that I've made a whole new album of those photos. You'll find it in our Gallery. Please go and check those!

Yona has also shown her "killer instincts" by chasing down a mole and one mice. Yona has also been accustoming to malamute's fence and Yepa is starting to loosen up when Yona is in there. Hino and Yona are best friends and they look so cute - big and small! Also Pontus plays with Yona and that is nice. Usually Pontus hasn't played with puppies until they have changed their teeth.

Here are news today - you'll find new photos in Yona's Puppy Gallery and new album: Yona & Talut.

8.9.2008

Now Yona is 12 weeks and she went today to see a vet. There she got her 1. vaccinations and was also checked by vet. Everything was great and Yona's weight was 10 kg.

Yesterday I took a camera with me and took Yona to the forest. As you can see in photos in Yona's own gallery, she enjoyed herself of speed and freedom. She also perfomed nice jumps over the fallen trees and other obstacles.

We tried to photograph Yona today and get some posing pictures, but that was quite hard mission to complish... She has so much speed or if she's still, she likes to sit down and stare at your face.

Girl has also showed more "fun stuff" like eating all apples from the ground, digging in water bowl and running away if she have something forbitten in her mouth. Still, she already can lay down nicely, when she's getting her food, and comes to, when called outside. Usually she also gives everything up from her mouth, if you bribe her with some snack.

Here are Yona's news today - you'll find more photos of Yona in her own gallery.

Yona jumping over fallen trees.

2.9.2008

Yona is now 11 weeks old and now she weighted 9,5 kilos. This week it's time to deworm her and next week she's going to get her first vaccination in Finland.

We have a little "malamute's play-room" in our living room at evenings, when Yona and Hino starts to wrestle there. Sometimes Yepa participates also and plays along. Yona has also started to get used to our dog fence, but she hasn't still spend time there any longer.

Yona is some kind of jumping malamute. She is constantly planning jumps from somewhere to elsewhere. For instance, she is tried to jump from one sofa to another and there is over 1 meter distance between them. We just have to try to catch her, so she don't hurt herself. Another funny play is to growl, howl and snarl to food bowls. Those bowls are metal and I think the reflection is so fun, that she has to play with herself...! She also likes to carry those bowls and you'll never know, where they will be found next. Yona also found our currant bushes today and she eagerly ate black currants directly from bush.

Yona has now her own Photogallery, you'll find it from Gallery-page or directly clicking HERE. There is also album from our trip to Sweden - travel photos, Cahppes-kennel's malamutes and Yona's siblings. Please, check them out!

Yona is enjoying black currants

28.8.2008

Well, now we have weighted Yona and she is 9 kilos in the age of 10 weeks. No wonder, why she felt little bit heavy to carry in my lap on the boat over half an hour...

Yona has already met our other dogs, except Veera. Pontus was first, because he surely can behave nicely with puppies. Yesterday Yona already got little bit wild near Pontus and started to run around him. Yepa and Hino has also been inside the house with Yona for a couple evenings and that is gone well too. Yepa said once "ruff" to Yona and ment, that she's THE ONE. Hino would like to play with Yona, but he's so big and wild sometimes, that Yona is still little bit alert with him. Veera has met Yona also inside our house, but she has only met Yona briefly and from half meter distance. Veera didn't growl to her, but was a little bit "over-heated", that we'll keep them apart for a little while longer.

Yona is very happy and lively puppy, but still very kind. She has made almost every need outside and she's eating well and playing a lot.

Here is also few photos of Yona at our home.

25.8.2008

Yona has come home! She is very happy and brave little girl, but she is still little bit confused how to react to our other dogs. That's why we haven't introduced them to each other yet, even though Yepa and Hino has met her briefly and everybody has seen each other for a little distance.

Tomorrow it will be Yona's weighting day, so we'll know how much she weights at the age of 10 weeks.