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Enjoyable and wonderful news from Eräkeskus: Our MinTim`s (Minea+Timber) were born !!

On thursday evening Minea moved to her puppy-room in which she got used to it during the last days. Yesterday in the late afternon the blows has started and around 6 p.m. the first puppy was born. Nr. 2 and 3 followed later in the evening and the last little boy arrived around 10 p.m.  Minea is doing very well, she does it really great, is quite relaxed and cleaned every puppy immediately after giving birth. All of the 4 puppies are doing fine and were weighed this afternoon:

Male Nr. 1 is black: 533g, Female Nr. 2,  coloured light grey: 487g, Male Nr. 3 is black as well: 484g, Male Nr. 4, coloured dark grey: 483g. Now we are excited, how it goes in the next days -  you`ll be informed..:-)

Except our 4 puppies we have 2 more newcomers: at 26th of march Moritz was allowed to enter Finland, he is going to support us as a volunteer.Some days later Larissa came from sweden by ferry. Both of them had to worry and discuss at the border because of the current travel restrictions. But taking care of animals is part of the list with essential jobs in Finland, that`s why they were allowed to enter at long last. We are happy to have both of them here when our winter-crew will leave at the end of april, one by one.

Winter-season is almost over, since 2 weeks everything is melting and we will finnish training down the dogs very soon. Last week a couple from Helsinki and 3 french guys from the wolf station near by came to visit our farm and the could join us for a short sled ride with Simone and Frank. On every side of the kennel we are going to go for one or two last sled rides (5-7 km), afterwards we will clean up the sleds and harnesses and take out the canoes! :-)

Once more Siri does not hesitate to join us not only in the kennel while feeding but also on one of the last short sled rides to train down..:-)