Sonia Kaminski, and her dog, Willow, are keeping entertained with a new winter sport called, Skijoring.Ayano Hodouchi-Dempsey - Thunder Bay, Ontario 
A different kind of team sport
Right now lots of people are looking for a new sport,” says Sonia Kaminski, who created a Facebook group, Thunder Bay Skijoring, to connect with other skijorers. She hopes more people will try skijoring, since the Thunder Bay Area has many trails and a large number of Husky-type dogs.
Kaminski’s dog Willow was her “intro into the skijoring world.” Several years ago, she spent a winter working with sled dogs near North Bay. One of the dogs, Willow, was ready for early retirement (“she’s more a people dog,”) so Kaminski adopted her and started skijoring with her.
Kaminski moved to Thunder Bay two years ago, and as Willow got older, she started looking for other dogs to skijor with. She met a friend’s dog, Echo, who was newly adopted from the Humane Society. “Willow taught Echo everything she knows,” Kaminski says.
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