In our last newsletter we announced that we would like our customers to ask professional musher, Gary Rolfe, some questions. We had a great response and here are some of the answers he gave.
1 ) I find it interesting that you have 17 male Greenland Dogs and only 1 female, are any of your males [...]
Gary Rolfe Interview
May 13th, 2010British Dog Musher Gary Rolfe Journies Into The Unknown
March 18th, 2010British dog musher Gary Rolfe, 44, returned to his home in Ittoqqortoormiit, east Greenland on Sunday after a 33-day, 400-mile solo journey with 12 of his dogs, to an area marked unknown or unexplored on the maps of Greenland.
Gary set off on February 10th 2010. Before leaving, he was told stories by Ittoqqortoormiit locals of [...]
Gary Rolfe – Canine Hydration
February 22nd, 2010How do you keep your dogs hydrated when working?
GR:
All my dogs have their own kennel. Every dog deserves one for security, to hang a water bucket from or just to sit or lay on. Expanding bolts – the ones used for securing house timbers to foundations – are driven into rock to secure their [...]
Gary Rolfe – Dog Food
February 15th, 2010Do You feed raw meat?
GR: Yes sometimes I feed raw meat but predominately I feed seal or walrus blubber with kibble. Yearly my dogs go through 6 tons of Nutrience kibble, 30% protein and 20% fat. They look terrific and work wonderfully on it.
Where I live we have seven sometimes eight month [...]
Gary Rolfe – Dog Harnessing
February 8th, 2010How do you harness up and put 12-14 dogs on a gang-line without them turning and playing up?
GR:
I don’t race dogs. I run big teams because sometimes I’m away for three months with my dogs pulling half-tonne payloads. I harness up alone and most of the time it’s cold. By cold I [...]