Do you want the whole list? This could take awhile.....

My husband bought Muskwa from a breeder. He had Muskwa before we met. Contract had a breeding clause in it. Breeder wanted one litter sired by Muskwa. Our "stud fee" was Earle. I got to pick a puppy. Earle picked me. He started nursing on my fingers when I first met him. My bridge baby Hoodoo was also from that litter. Hoodoo was adopted and then neglected so we took him back.

Sleet was a gift from my mushing mentor. Sleet was about six when I got her. She wasn't happy living in a dog yard, but still wanted to pull. My friend recognized that Sleet wasn't happy and thought she would fit in a recreational team like mine. Sleet's my soulmate dog.

Kayleigh came from the shelter. I was in there one day for no apparent reason when this big, black dog jumped up on her kennel gate. She was way too big for that little room so I took her home. Turns out that there was a reason I was there--if the shelter had enough time to really get to know Kayleigh she likely would have been euthanized. She has/had some major issues, but she'd doing better now.

Bandit we basically stole from former neighbors. They tried to sell him to us. They were his third lousy home. When he ran away, he always came to our place. One time, we just didn't return him. A week or so later, his owner left a bag with his AKC papers, vet records and leashes on our door. We never heard from them again.

Preacher and Franklin were our first foster dogs and our first foster failures. They were a package deal, had to stay together. They had been in the shelter for a year. Franklin was so timid no one could catch him. Preacher was so depressed he stopped eating. Six months later, I was laying on the floor with Preacher and my husband walked by and said "why don't you just adopt him? No one will ever love that ugly old mutt like you do?" So first thing the next morning, I adopted both of them.

Goldie arrived shortly after Preacher and Franklin. She'd been in the shelter for two years and so depressed. She eventually became an adoption!

Raven and Heyoka arrived at the same time. My husband really wanted Heyoka, but he was highly adoptable. The shelter would have had no trouble placing him. Stuart thought we deserved "an easy one" for a change, but he felt really guilty about it. So to ease his mind, we took Raven too. Raven had been in the shelter for a year. She turned into a great sled dog so we adopted her too.

Delta and Antare arrived after a disasterous foster. Summit, the foster, tried to kill Kayleigh. She was highly dog aggressive and would escape just to beat up another dog. She did major damage to Kayleigh. I had no choice but to return her to the shelter. Of course they were full so I said I'd take a timid male. Delta and Antare were another package deal, so they both came.

Pingo was from a musher friend of mine. She wasn't abused, but he had dropped her to his B team. He's really serious, has run the Quest ect. Pingo wasn't getting enough exercise and a bored sled dog is a bad thing! She was one of his first dogs and he wanted her to go somewhere he knew she would be well loved. I don't think he expected her to be a house dog, but she really likes the couch!

Chase came from the shelter. Kira had just been adopted and we had an open foster spot. Again, good sled dog, so I kept him.

Pacer arrived after a long debate about which shelter dog to take. Deciding factor was that the volunteers would no longer take Pacer out for walks, runs on the weekends. So he came home. A couple weeks later, hubs brought home Founder.

You all know Hobo's story.

Chum arrived after the shelter considered putting him down--he's dominant and growly. He just needed to know he wasnt' the boss and that someone else would take care of him. Then someone claiming to be his owner showed up at the shelter. They were drunk, rude and abusive to the staff--clearly Chum had been treated the same way. I walked out the back door with him and he's never gone back.

Mac & Ozzy are more long term shelter residents that all seem to end up at our place.

I think that's everyone.