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Skye isn’t the only sled dog that’s found a retirement home—it’s common for kennels in the Northland to turn to adoption when they have dogs past their running prime. Voyageur Outward ...
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and they spend long miles running behind the sled and pushing it up hills to help their dogs. The teams camp along the trail, running an average of six hours on and six off around the clock ...
The breed is known for delivering lifesaving medicine to the remote town of Nome, Alaska, during an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925.
Public health officials agreed that dog sleds were their only hope to save Nome’s children. On January 27, a relay of 20 dog teams and drivers set out to haul serum from Nenana, 674 miles away, to ...
the Arctic Challenge, spiting a mountain man who wants the dogs. What follows is a comedy detailing Ted's adventures in learning to run the sled dogs.
My dog sled races along the frozen polar sea of Greenland ... the sea ice at speeds approaching ten miles per hour. The dogs run flank to flank in an arrangement known as a fan hitch, in which ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dog fighting, one of the most brutal forms of animal abuse, continues across communities in South Carolina. According to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), more ...