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To contact us: Email or 864-423-7565

We are located in Chapin, SC (just outside of Columbia)

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Barnwell Oaks Kennels is a full service pet boarding and grooming facility. 

This is a group of avid dog mushers who do it without snow using wheeled rigs, gigs, skates, skateboards, scooters, bikes, mountain boards, what have you.  We explore the selecting, training, and care of dryland mushing dogs, as well as, discuss suitable breeds, trails, solutions to related problems, and equipment.  This is a forum for meeting other musher in the southeastern US. 

Are you looking for a pet of any kind this is the place to adopt a homeless pet.

Siberian Husky Assist is another Husky rescue in Bristol, VA that I am associated with.  We do many events together.  I was involved with them in the Serum Run and the Fun Run.  Just look out for Moseying Marcia she will run you over with that fast team of dogs she has.  I told her she needed a pilots licenses. 

Recommended Reading

Training Dogs:

 

Training Lead Dogs by Lee Fishback;

 

Mush! A Beginner’s Manual of Sled Dog Training by Sierra Nevada Dog Drivers, Inc.

 

The Culture Clash by Jean Donaldson

 

Idiot’s Guide to Positive Dog Training

 

 

 

Mushing (non-fiction)

 

Winterdance by Gary Paulsen

 

My Lead Dog was a Lesbian by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue

 

Yukon Quest by John Firth

Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork    This is great after a weekend of mushing.  You might even want to try it too after your dog.

Promoting healthy relationships & humane training through a holistic approach to the dog-body, mind & soul.  Relationship based training by Suzanne Clothier

 

There are some great books here for training.

See what one of my friends is doing.

Here is yet another friend of mine.  I have the honor of working at his place for a week in the summer with kids. 

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Where would we be without our wonderful friends at the vets office.  They have two locations and one 24 hour Emergency Vet Clinic.  When you have as many dogs as we have it is nice to know they are there to help 24 hours per day.  They even make house calls. 

A club of mushers here in the South East to play with and learn together with. 

Sled Dog Central, "Your on-line sled dog advertising & information source"

Two Notch Road Animal Clinic

Blue Ridge Dryland Mushers

Sled Dog Club