Polardogs

History

Polardogs still have a lot in common with their far grandfather: the arctic wolf. Not only do they look like and howl like a wolf, they still have a strong developed pack- and huntinginstinct. These qualities make that polardogs are born for their task: pulling a sled over long distances. For hundreds of years the Inuits in the Northpoolarea used these dogs with that purpose.

Today, in our modern world, many people experience the friendly nature of polardogs, which makes them pleasant pets. Breeders began to select beautiful looking and easy to handle dogs to make them appropriate as housedogs. Other breeders, as us, do not loose their original workcapacities out of sight and select dogs for breeding that are easy to handle, have a high workingmotivation and as much as possible meet the breedstandard for the different polardogtypes.

Every type or breed has its own specific attributes. Best known are the alaska malamute, syberian husky and the samoyed.

Pups

We breed our own dogs. We do this according to the legal laws and in addition we are completely independent of sports-, showing- and breedorganisations. This independency gives us the opportunity to follow our own vision, together with mother nature, that is rather based on a holistic approach than on a scientific one.

Natural selection, livingconditions that agree as much as possible with their original nature, and fresh raw food are the basic principles. Pups are born outside on a thick bed of dried grass in a windproof doghouse and with the warmth of the mother, also during wintertime by minus 30 degrees, so that they will develop a strong immunesystem and only the strongest pups survive. When the pups get older, they are educated by the dogpack and by us. Also, we socialise them with the life indoors and human society so that they can not only live confidently as a sleddog, but also as a familydog. From every litter we keep up to several pups, other pups go to a new home with microchip and EU pasport, worm prevented, vaccinated and veterinarian checked. From the summer 2010 buyers also get a Karulas Wolftrail pedigree with information about charakter, health, sizes and weights, colors etc. of the parents and grandparents of their pup. And an outline concerning character, education and feeding.

Training

Our over 25 dogs live in groups together on a fenced territory of 1200 m2, so that they can form a harmonious pack. This harmony is nescessary to work together in teams in front of the sled. From the early fall, when temperature drops under 15 degrees, until the late spring we work with them intensively. Summertime is their yearly restingperiod to gain new strengths.

Pups are hooked up for the first time in a team for a short tour of 1.5 km when they are 8 months old. Only at the age of around 18 months sleddogs can start the serious work. At the end of the winter dayly distances can get up to 100 km. If there is no snow we train with a quad of small car. Teams vary from 4 to 14 dogs. Every dog can pull up to 100 kg. For distances over 20 km they pull on average 30 kg per dog.

Food for working sleddogs.

Sleddogs need a big amount of high qualitative food. Not only the growing pups, but also our adult dogs get a menu existing of a combination of fresh meet, such as raw chicken, cow stomach, fish, eggs, lamb- and porkmeet, organs, bones, oil and vegetables. During the expeditionwintercampings and once or twice a week all year round the dogs get dry food (www.brasa.ee).

Informatie: the Alaska Malamute
Informatie: the Samojeed
Informatie: the Siberian Husky