Thanksgiving

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with friends, family, and delicious food!

We have SO MUCH to be thankful for at Ryno Kennel- wonderful dogs, an amazing team, generous supporters, the list goes on and on! So thank you!

We decided to spend Thanksgiving lounging about and visiting with friends. Activities included sleeping, watching football, skijoring (with Boone, Scarpa, and Cartel), eating copious amounts of food and….reindeer mushing! For the past few weeks, Kalyn and I have been doing little training sessions with the reindeer. Our sessions are short and fun with lots of treats. We’ve been getting them used to wearing a harness, walking in a halter, and having someone be immediately behind them while they’re moving. Yesterday, we decided Sailor was ready. We hooked him up to the sled and off he went! Sailor did wonderfully. Pilot is a bit more highstrung, so he’s still at the harness wearing/ground driving stage. For dogs, we can take the easy route by hooking them up with an older, experienced dog and having the puppy learn from the older dog. Since we don’t have that option with the reindeer, this is a slower process with lots of baby steps. Regardless of whether the reindeer decide they want to pull sleighs or just eat and sleep about, we’ve had lots of fun working with them!