My Bio

Name- Kodiak

Also Known as-   Mr.Sniffy, the Kode Man, Head Counter Surfer, Big dog, Dude, Mr-Sniff-A-Lot

Birth date-  June 19, 1999

Pedigree- Don't know! Mum saw me in a pen at at back yard breeders. It was a disgusting pen full of dirt, poop and flies. Mum knows better now than to buy a dog from a BYB but she couldn't leave me there.....if she had the cash with her she would have bought my remaining brother to get him out of there too.
I really hate flies due to the fact that they tormented me in that dirty pen as a pup. No fly that gets in our house gets out alive.
 

Accomplishments-

    -Obedience class Graduated May 11/2000

   -Obedience/Agility Graduated June 12/2002 

    -Master food thief Graduated @ 6 months old

    -Master Clam digger at the beach Graduated@ 1 y/0

    -Master Bed Hog Graduated @ 3 years old

    -I too have mastered the electric windows in Mums truck and she now has to keep all the child-lock controls on.

My Favorite Things

Pastimes- In the mornings I like to play "Revolving Door" with Mum. I want in / I want out until she gets Peed off. Then it is Scooby-snack time which I insist on each morning or I won't quit picking at Mum. Then I start the "Revolving Door" game again until she won't let me back in the house any more. Once she has ended the game I usually harass the current foster dog a bit and try to teach a few bad habits like digging holes in the yard. I scope out my turf  and then take my snooze spot on the patio. I like to go to work with Mum and get pictures taken with the tourists. People actually come into mums office just to see me and are disappointed if I am not hanging out there.
My absolute FAV thing to do is SWIMMING! I totally love it which is not supposed to be common in Malamutes but what the heck it's good exercise eh?

Foods-  All food is good food to me. I'll eat anything except olives and oranges so far. I am a Master counter surfer and have stolen MANY food items off the dumb hooman. I have even excelled at opening the fridge to help myself and I can open all the cupboards. The hooman got smart though and put locks on everything.

Toys-  I like stuffed toys and especially love squeaky toys. I have mastered all the Kong toys now and will have any treat out of them within a couple minutes so that just doesn't seem like much fun. The King Kong I pound on the floor until the treat breaks and drops out. It took several years for me to master the art of treat removal from a Kong but now I have a system that works well.
 

Accidents-

Kodiaks Version- While checking out a new born calf the fence monster reached out an zapped me with some sort of magic. I'll never touch that fence again!
Mum's Version-  He was getting too close to the electric fence and touched it with his nose.

Kodiaks Version-  Mum was washing the floor and I laid down by the gate to the kitchen so I could watch her. I just touched the gate and it grabbed my beak so hard and wouldn't let it go. I screamed my head off and Mum saved me from the dirty rotten beast. I had to go to the Vet and the beast had hurt my nose very badly, crushed my nose all up and then it got all icky and infected. I had to take some yucky pills to make it better and they even stuck a thingy up my nose to have a look which was not too much fun. The gate and I were never friends again after that.
Mum's Version-  He put his nose through a hole in the gate then laid down and turned sideways getting his nose and teeth stuck in the gate.

 

- I retrieve stuff! Sometimes just momentarily but on occasion I will fetch toys 4 or 5 times in a row. Apparently this is a big deal cause most Malamutes won't retrieve anything.

-I SWIM!!! No kidding I really do and I love it. Malamutes are not supposed to love swimming they are historically supposed to see water as danger (a sled on broken ice is not a good thing!) but me I like it enough to even dive under the water and pick things up off the bottom.

-I talk (A LOT!) I can woo with the best of them
 

-I steal stuff. I take things out of the hoomums office into the yard, hide things in my crate under the blankets and I rob the food off the counters if I get a chance.

-I SCREAM, and I can scream REALLY loud. I do this when I see water cause I want to swim. I will scream from the time I see water until I am in the water and it is, my hoomum says,..... very embarrassing cause it sounds like someone is stepping on my tail or sumthin.

-I talk back when I am getting in trouble.

A Kodiak-Moment

When Kodiak was a wee pup I had kind of a strange experience with him. I was walking him down a sidewalk and about 4 blocks up I saw a man carrying a very large box (Like TV size) to a vehicle. This man saw us and immediately put down the large box right in the street and stared at us for about a block while we walked towards him then he started towards us leaving his possession in the street unattended. Now usually an incident like this would make me turn and head the other way thinking the person was a nutcase but I was drawn to him as was Kodiak.  As he reached us I could see he was clothed in Native Indian attire. Kodiak who was a wild 5 month old stopped, did a perfect sit directly in front of this man giving him his undivided attention. I was in awe. The native man without addressing me in any way,  knelt down in front of Kodiak and they had this bizarre exchange between them in what I guessed was some type of Native Indian language. Kodiak never moved, never tried to jump on him, paw him, lick him or do anything but listen carefully to him for several minutes.  The man then stood addressing me with a polite hello and told me I had a very special dog who could "See far".  The question in my expression made him repeat himself. "You understand? He sees far?" I simply nodded and he turned heading back up the sidewalk.

I bent down to look at Kodiak still in his perfect sit, who seemed to be in a trance, broke his "moment" and he proceeded to jump up on me like a normal rotten puppy again. When I looked down the sidewalk towards the man who stood before us just moments before, he and his box which were like 2 blocks up where he left it were gone.

We continued walking up the sidewalk in the direction the man came from and when we reached the spot where he originally was I stopped there wondering if I had just imagined the interaction with him and how did he reach the spot, move his box and disappear like he had never been there. More like "WHAT THE HELL?" lol.

I must of looked lost and someone in the apartment right there who was hanging out their window catching a breeze said "You ok?"

I said "Ya but did you just see the Native Man that was just here?".  "You mean the medicine man?" he asked.

 Yaaay I was relieved that I did not imagine the man and I have never forgotten what he told me. It was one of the weirdest, nearly dream-like interactions with a stranger I have ever had and it had very deep meaning. 
Over the years I have come to know exactly what he meant about Kodiak.

<ok call me nuts now if ya want hahaha >