FL500: girldog

Øyvind Mortensen stiller med et spann bestående av bare ledere. Så de finner seg ikke i å bli befalt å spise.

Foodbowls stay untouched by many of the dogs. Often the dogs are still in the run mode when they arrive at the checkpoint and can't think of food. Then you need a couple of tricks to attract them -This is a secret powder, smiles Morensen about the dogfood boxes that he supplies for the dogs. He admits that it has to do with the taste and that this may help in appetite. He's sure that the dogs will get enough food. He often stops along the course and give a tiny bit of food,socalled snacking. -Then it'll be extra important to think about fluid intake at the checkpoints. But it looks very nice. Urine is light and no veterinarians have commented something, he says.

- Little and mean

All the dogs are leaders, but Lisha (5) is the most dominant and knows how to get respect from the others. -she goes easy and good and she never gets hurt, but she's also little and mean, he says. It does not seem that she understands the contest, Lisha thank you for the attention with a bark. That all are leaders, they have to organized them by a militar model. All the dogs have a new, good deck of camouflage pattern.- This is a gift from Julie Vesterhus, Mortensen tell.

Mortensen has taken a dog out of the team in Jergul. His wrists and shoulders felt tired. He didn't take so much time. He was expected to catch on with the race at 15:17.