Winter is coming!

Dreamer

Last week’s Black Friday deal was a great success!

Three females found their new forever homes.

DREAMER, NARISSA, and OPAL!

I am SO excited for them.

If you can believe it… OPAL is ALREADY home relaxing with her new family!

Their son lives in Portland, so they drove up while Jay drove down.

Here’s what they had to say about our 50/50 Lab/Shepherd crossbred…

“Opal made the trip home just fine. Though once she’d settled in to her “nest” in the car, she wouldn’t hop out for pee breaks! And of course, why should she? This is all new. But she’s here now, doing great, winning hearts right and left! [Their other dog] started out being a grumpy old man, but another day or two and she’ll win him over too. It’s all good. Thanks again for everything you guys did to make this happen.” —k

Oh the joy I feel knowing these girls will now have the one-on-one attention they crave.

Now it’s time for us to prepare the Dire Wolf Project headquarters for the impending winter.

It won’t be long until the snow blankets our little Vallecito valley.

That means we must put away the two 225 gallon outdoor water storage tanks or they will freeze solid as a rock and won’t budge.

Similarly, we must flush out the hoses and keep the valves open to make sure no frozen water expands the nozzles and breaks them.

But… what is an off-grid, water-hauling dog kennel to do when the temperatures plummet?

Remember that annex shed we pushed up against our motor home a few weeks ago?

It has a woodstove to keep us warm in the winter, but it also doubles as a room for the smaller water tanks.

We house two water tanks on the inside wall.

It’s significantly less water storage than in the summer, so we must haul water a little more frequently in the winter.

But it’s also not as hot, so the dogs don’t drink as much.

One of the tanks is 80 gallons. The other is 55 gallons.

Where do we get our water, you ask?

Since we don’t have a well and the water catchment system isn’t fully operational yet, we haul it from a local facility off site.

5 miles south on Mudgett Lake road is a Christian summer camp with a public commercial water tank. They generously allow us to fill our tanks for a small donation.

It’s so cold in the winter this far north in the mountains that water can literally freeze within minutes.

So…

We can’t use hoses in the winter to water the dogs.

Instead, we must hand-carry 5-gallon water jugs back and forth from the annex to all the dogs twice a day.

It takes about 20 trips a day.

5 gallons of water is about 42 lbs… for 50 yards… 20 times… in 25-30 degrees temps… every day… even in the snow.

The next time you turn on your faucet in the sink to fill up your dog’s water bowl… remember how blessed you are.

Head on over to our YouTube channel. @direwolfproject

The latest video will allow you to experience it for yourself.

There are three lonely adult dogs still hoping for their forever homes.

Our whopper of a Black Friday deal is over, but we do need to make a living, too.

The support you give the Dire Wolf Project helps a small, family-owned and operated business continue to produce our best for the dogs and all of you.

Here’s the link:

https://direwolfdogs.com/dogs-for-sale/adults/

Jennifer Stoeckl is the co-founder of the Dire Wolf Project, founder of the DireWolf Guardians American Dirus Dog Training Program, and owner/operator of DireWolf Dogs of Vallecito. She lives in the beautiful inland northwest among the Ponderosa pine forests with her pack of American Dirus dogs.

Dreamer

Narissa

Opal

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