The story began years ago when Lauri was working in a big husky farm in Ivalo and met his former wife Marika. She had already 30 Siberian Huskies and after few years working for another employer they decided to start their own company. It was so important for them both that they could do the work as they thought it would be best for the dogs.

It took some time to find a perfect place for a home and all the huskies. Finally they ended up in Posio. Lauri and Marika started to renovate an old farm house and Kota-Husky was founded in 2007.

The new home was just next to one of the many National Parks of Finland and the only thing they could do was hope that business would take off and fly. After many meetings with landowners and state's forest and park service, Metsähallitus, Lauri could open new magnificent dog sledding trails in untouched wilderness.

Slowly amount of dogs increased when they bred new Siberians for their loyal pack of huskies. Even though Lauri and Marika divorced over the years, they did run the business together for 10 years before Lauri bought the company for himself in 2017. Nowadays Marika has some of the retired huskies because she still has a very strong bond to these dogs. She's having her own pack of huskies just as a hobby, sledding across open fells in Lapland.

Nowadays Lauri leads the pack together with his spouse Sari and little son Viljo. This little rogue does keep the days quite busy, but at the same time brings a great counterbalance to the hustle and bustle with the dogs. Viljo is growing at a good pace to be a great dog man.

Sari has had dogs always. Before she moved to Jaksamo, she was already working with sled dogs in Vuokatti. Sari has main response of huskies welfare and she has became very important mother figure for the dogs.