Final Tally!

Hey there everyone!
We are finally almost ready to go! The shipping was a major hassle. But we finally got it nailed down and we are leaving on the 30th and 31st out of Logan airport in Boston. Kaia is leaving first and I am leaving second. We are bringing 6 dogs with us this round with the possibility of bringing two more later next year.
The dogs that are coming are George, Jedi, Orion, Sub-chief, Freya, and Fenris.
We will start putting up photos of our trip as soon as we leave, and will add a running commentary as often as we can!
Cheers, Barry

Tough Choices

After much agonizing and looking it has become apparent that there is no company that will allow us to bring 11 dogs to Norway for less than $13,000. So we have unfortunately had to limit ourselves to 6 or 7 rather than the original 11 that we had planned on taking. This has meant that some incredibly hard decisions have had to be made about who stays and who comes.

The dogs that are coming for sure are: Freya and Fenris the pups. Orion, Sub-chief, Jedi, George, and possibly Ricki. It looks like we may have found some wonderfull homes for Jarvi, Casey, Koyuk, Yoda, Jesse, and Moses. These homes are really excellent and will take wonderful care of the dogs mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing. It makes it a little easier knowing that they will be in such good places.

The dogs we are bringing are just a few months away from a flight from Boston to Oslo, Norway. Then Kaia, the dogs and I will drive from Oslo to our new home in Tromso, a trip of 3-4 days. We are building a dog box for Kaia's fathers truck to transport the dogs there, and then we will take the box off the truck and send it on it's long journey back to southern Norway.

Once in Tromso, we are going to start fall training with our dogs after a few days of rest. We're hoping that starting a routine with the dogs quickly will aid in their adjustment to their new surroundings and give them some much needed outlet for any residual stress from the trip.

Updates as events Warrant.
Barry and Kaia

Micro Chipping and other stuff

We got an email from Home Again pet chipping company giving us all of the information that we would need for the dogs we microchipped to get into the Country. However, they got all the information wrong, my name was misspelled, and because of other clerical errors only eight of the dogs made it on the list of dogs that were microchipped under my information. The first of many hiccups!!!

We are waiting for emails back on that stuff.

We've had some great runs this week and the snow just keeps coming!