Ok my husband I were talking on the way into work this morning. You see...we are leaving on the 21st of this month for vacation. We are going up to Montreal to visit his family then on to Ottawa for a day and then over to Algonquin Park in Ontario for 2 days. I was at Algonquin over 10 years ago with my mom for a weeks vacation. I just loved it. My husband has never been there.

We are taking Sequoia with us on vacation. We want my husband's family to meet her and I didn't want to board her in a kennel. The cats my mom can take care of but I didn't want to stress her out with the responsibility of Sequoia. So I made the comment about how it is too bad we won't be able to rent a canoe while we are in Algonquin because of the dog.

My husband gets a gleam in his eye and he starts mulling over the possibility of this situation. I just can't keep from shaking my head and laughing. We can hardly get Sequoia to sit still for us on solid ground. I can't imagine what she would do in a canoe. And what if she saw a loon or two??? I know when mom and I were there we had a pair of loons diving under our canoe and coming back up on the other side over and over again. I can just see Sequoia leaping happily over the side of the canoe wooooing away...

I imagine the water up there will still be a tad cold for swimming. I also couldn't imagine trying to get her back into the canoe without tipping it.

Has anyone tried to canoe with a husky? My husband now has this in his head. I think I have him convinced that we could work on this over the summer and then NEXT year perhaps go out on the lake with her. Perhaps by then we would also have our own canoe and life jackets for us and the dog. I have been looking forward to the hiking trails and seeing Sequoia's reaction to her first moose. My hubby will be holding onto the leash for that!

Denyce