with the 11 Alaskan Sled Dogs: Sleeping dogs

I've not been keeping up with blog posts. Sorry. Dogs needed a bit more attention than usual the last couple days but now we're back to routine; which means regular meal times while everything else moves from a more instinctual and wily edge. Like life, you know.

In the yard, the dogs sleep alone, in pairs, in mini-packs. When they're asleep they're really out. A few snore. I imagine that we'd all be able to sleep deeply anywhere, too, if we lived all of our time in close quarters with 11 others of our kind who we'd bonded with. I like to think this is a lesson they're teaching me anyway.

Of course, they wake up and start running like...well, alaskan sled dogs... at some minuscule message sent out from one dog to all the others. Or maybe many dogs at once send it out, I mean, really what do I know? but it appears they jump up as One Beautiful, Elegant entity. Occasionally, I think I see one dog begin the "rise up now and run" phenomena. Key phrase in last sentence is: "I think..." If I find out more before I leave here, I'll let you know.