Moonsong-Rain Chinooks

Napping with her brother (actually uncle and cousin both) Taataga in a brief spell between wrestling matches.

Cuddling with Taaku, who makes sure Kamiak always has a clean face.

PR Moonsong Kamiak Mystry of Rain
a joint Moonsong - Rain Mountain Production

Call name: Kamiak or Kami
OFA and CERF pending Fall 2006
Born August 25, 2005
Breeder: Carie Taylor, Moonsong Chinooks, and Anne Harvey
Owned by Ginger Corley of Rain Mountain Chinooks, and Carie Taylor of Moonsong Chinooks.
Sire: Ch. Cloudburst Wonalancet Legend (OFA Good, CERF Normal)
Dam: Ch. PR Hurricane Katsuk Rain Song (OFA Prelim Good, CERF Normal)

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As a baby, one of ten pups in the Moonsong Premier litter, she was known as "Shannon", named after Carie Taylor's roommate who just so happens to be one of my oldest and dearest friends. Like her namesake, Kamiak is almost always happy, especially if there is food on the horizon. But Miss Happy Pants also learned early on to stand up for herself where her friend Taga is concerned. Taga, a whole three months older and many pounds heavier than Kamiak thought she was to be his new chew toy. Hah! Though she's still small enough to dart under his stomach, she has never been a chew toy for any dog and seems to relish taking on the big guy.

After having both Holly and Thunder pass away in the last year, I started to look very carefully at their descendants. Kamiak and her nine siblings are the product of Thunder's gorgeous daughter Katsuk (Ch. PR Hurricane Katsuk Rain Song). Katsuk was everything we wanted from the blending of the Rain Mountain and Hurricane lines with the nice bone of her sire Thunder and the exquisite ground covering gait of her dam Electra. Before Katsuk was bred, Carie put in over a year's work analyzing the pedigrees and attributes of every male Chinook alive before making a decision as to which to use with Katsuk. Kamiak's' sire, Ch. Cloudburst Wonalancet Legend, goes back to both the foundations of the Rain Mountain and Hurricane lines while also bringing in the genes of the Chinook Cross Program and the generations of work put into bringing this effort to fruition by Donna Canfield and Joanne Blackmun of Cloudburst Chinooks. All the work paid off and Kamiak and her siblings arrived in record breaking time (seven pups born in 58 minutes and three more in the following hour for a total of TEN pups in less than two hours!) in late August of 2006.

Today Kamiak has a tail that wags gently as she inhales her meals without stopping to chew, attacks Taga who is many times her size and takes bones out of his mouth, or tells me she wants to climb up onso she can nap warmly in my lap. Life is a party for Kamiack and the other dogs arer enchanted with her. Lolo and Ttaaku indulge her and Taaku, always the little mother, insists on washing her face many times a day. In her puppy play class she went around the room during "recess" to say hello to all the humans as well as playing with the other canine youngsters. She brings a gentle calm to the household.

Fall of 2006 Kamiak will have her first round of health testing (hip x-rays and an eye exam) and Carie and I will decide her future. Until then she's learning all the many requirements of being a good canine citizen: waling nicely on a leash, not eating the leather armchair, managing the stairs at Carie's house, and not peeing on the living room carpet. She'll have her show debut spring and summer of 2006.

Once again, napping (her favorite pasttime after eating or chewing a new bone).	Our growing girl. Kami shows off her nice chest at 5 months old.
Our little girl has a lot of wonderful angulation. Kami's on track to be an average to larger than average sized Chinook girl.