Meet the Team: Nuka

Meet Nuka

 

Now this little girl may just be one of the cutest dogs around!

Nuka is a bit of a nervous-Nelly, but once she warms up to you she loves attention. When I first brought her to her new home, Nuka was a bit of a mess. All the new dogs, new smells, new dog house, new surroundings - it was a bit much for her. She paced and whined and squealed and barked, but after about a week she started to calm down a bit. It wasn't until about a month in however that I felt she finally settled in to her new home and friends.

Like my long legged friend, Bravo, Nuka is young. Barely 2 years old. She has more training than Bravo because like Ajax, Bluto, and Flounder, Nuka comes from Kelley Griffin's kennel. She started training when she was about 6 months old. However, Nuka is much smaller (about half the size of Bravo), and therefore has a bit harder time keeping up.

Nuka is the one who ended up in my sled the last 15 miles of the Knik 100. Along with having to move faster to keep up since she's smaller, she also doesn't quite know how to pace herself yet; so she works her little butt off and completely poops herself out.


Right now I run Nuka as a team dog, but Kelley and Ed said she has a lot of potential to be a lead dog. Now that she's getting more comfortable with me and life here at Bacon's Acres, I'm going to start running her in swing and begin to nurture her leader potential.