Visited the remaining pups in Terelj park today. Talking to the herders, we heard some good about the pups, and some not so good. 

But more importantly, after filling our stomachs with stomach, lung, liver, heart, kidney, intestine, fat, and blood (from sheep)...

We found the dog from the Neverending story,

I milked a cow,

Wrestled a Mongolian,

Lost.

Found this gal,

did a bunch of this,

And on our way back from the country, it was close to 11 at night and pouring rain, so we picked up an old man hitching a ride into the city. Turns out he was a professional hunter, who offered us Snowcock meat which is illegally traded for Chinese and Korean medicine. He assumed because we were foreigners we might be interested, and we were, but not for the same reason. So we picked his brain and found out a bit about the process of hunting and trading, how difficult it is to make the exchange and if he collaborates with other illegal hunters. He did not find out he was speaking with conservation workers, but it was very interesting insight into the life of an illegal hunter.

All in all, a great day. But there is still a lot persuading to do in order to get the herders to follow our instructions for training these puppies. It's proven difficult to make herders, stubborn in their ways, to understand why we wan't them to raise a dog in such a bizarre way.