More Puppies!

  As occasionally happens when you have a kennel of 25 or so dogs, we ended up with an unplanned litter of husky pups today.  Of course, we knew she was pregnant, but we didn't breed her on purpose, and I know that sounds bad, but what happened was that one of the males got loose in the yard at just the right time.  We are not really unhappy about it, though, because the father is our 14 year old Eric Morris bred dog that we had been hoping to get one more litter with, but hadn't totally settled on who the mother would be.  He decided for us.  The mother is actually one of our pups from last summer, Breeze, who only just turned one on the 25th, so she is actually way younger than we would have liked and also hasn't had a chance to prove herself much in harness yet, but she did do a great job on the couple of hookups that she did have.  We have had a similar thing happen once before, seven years ago, where the mother was under one year old, and that breeding produced our best lead dog, Thunder, and the father happens to be the same dog. 
  So, long story short, we have five new, perfect looking pups so far as of this post-three girls and two boys:

Our whelping shed-first time doing it this way, but perfect for the 80 plus degree days we are having.