Sentences with phrase «dog mushers»

In the evening, a special farewell dinner was followed by a presentation from local dog mushers.

When I got my second dog Ice (Alaskan Husky) I sought professional advice and found amazing people (dog trainers, groomers and dog mushers in Alaska and Colorado) and with their guidance I studied to become a professional dog trainer, behaviour consultant and dog groomer.

Another angle that ties into strategy is the number of dogs each musher uses at each stage of the race.

He is the one who started the company and is a veterinarian as well as an accomplished dog musher.

He aims to include the best ingredients for dogs, and as an experienced dog musher, he understands the needs of both working and other dogs.

He's also a sled - dog musher, and in March, Dr. Hunt will be heading to Alaska as an Iditarod competitor.

Living on a rural homestead outside of Homer, Alaska with her husband and dog team, she has created an innovative lecture series on leadership and teamwork that incorporates lessons from the trail based on her experiences as a dog musher.

Scientist, author, professor, dog musher, and founder of the Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project, Dr. Linda Chamberlain is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and champion for health issues related to domestic violence and adverse childhood experiences, brain development and trauma, and the amazing adolescent brain.

Not exact matches

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He began by taking in street mutts and other mushers» castoffs — the kind of dogs Lance could relate to.

On Saturday, 66 mushers and their teams of dogs will leave Anchorage as the 2012 Iditarod gets underway.

Dallas Seavey made history Tuesday night when he won the 2012 Iditarod Sled Dog Race, becoming the youngest musher ever to do so, at just 25 - years - old.

With mushers as your guide you will get a chance to witness true working sled dogs in action!

A Challenge to Canine Health The rigors of the Iditarod sled dog race, in which a musher and a team of 12 to 16 dogs cover some 1,150 miles in 16 days, takes its toll on the health of its athletes.

Mushers must carry sick or injured dogs to the next checkpoint for treatment and continue the race without that canine.

Mushers ran the dogs in mock, 100 - mile races for four to five days in a row.

«The bloodlines of my dogs date back 100 years,» says Lance Mackey, Larry's owner and legendary racing musher, the only person to win the long - distance Iditarod and the Yukon Quest in the same year with the same dog team.

The obvious question now is, How did a nice Bronx boy, who knows the Lexington Avenue subway line like an Iditarod musher knows her dogs, get to bouncing around low and slow over ice fields a short jump from Sitka?

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Junior Iditarod Math skills: addition, subtraction, multiplication, telling time The Junior Iditarod is a sled dog race for mushers under the age of 18.

Calorie Calculations Math skills: subtraction, multiplication, division Dogs and mushers consume a lot of food as they race along the Iditarod trail.

As she reflects on her Alaskan adventure, she sees quite a few similarities between the skills it takes to be a dog sled musher and a classroom teacher!

With your wall map and miniature dog teams in place, your students committed to following individual mushers, and a well developed background on the dogs, you're ready to receive updates at least twice a day (and more often if you are interested) online.

The ratio of dogs to speed in elapsed time is a fairly accurate indicator of the success each musher is having on the trail.

Each musher must take at least one extended layover at a checkpoint of his / her choosing and two shorter layovers to rest the dogs and make sure they are properly cared for.

But as the teams spread out across the Klondike, mushers whittle numbers down to an average of six dogs in order to increase speed on the open, fast tundra.

A nice extension of this activity is to make a template of a musher's team (usually no bigger than an inch by 2 inches in size), or have students create their own small facsimiles of a dog team out of tagboard and label them with their names.

In even - numbered years, the mushers and their dog teams follow the northern route.

The Iditarod race crosses 1,049 miles of Alaska, so the mushers and their dogs travel through varied terrain.

DULUTH, Minn. — In an effort to attract more mushers and infuse new energy into their event, organizers of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon have agreed to shorten the iconic winter race that skirts the North Shore and evokes a historic mail route.

But then again, how was she supposed to know that all the mushers were entitled to complimentary straw for their sled dogs at several points during the K300 racecourse, including here in Tuluksak?

Or that you could take a musher to the spot where food and water was stored... but you weren't allowed to help feed the dogs?

The victory marked the third year in a row that the winning musher was feeding Dr. Tim's Momentum Dog Food as their dry kibble.

The initial work has also been done for a weaver who runs a small flock of colored sheep, a farmer storing feed grain in his barn, a flock - owner in wolf territory, a recreational musher, a rabbit hunter, and a pet owner with an interest in any of the characteristics of the herding, guarding, terrier, working, or hound dogs; what remains is to find just the right breed to match the lifestyle and personality of the owner.

Dropped dogs are flown to Nome where the musher can pick them up after the race.

The musher must file a form when leaving the dog and provide a chain and food for the animal.

Dr. Tim, aside from making dog food, is also a veterinarian and a musher who owns Alaskan Huskies.

(Many mushers bring warm stews for their dogs post-race.)

In the case of the Samoyeds, early kennel - men took the aboriginal dogs, re-developed them and sold them to mushers who were looking for working dogs under the guise papered dogs are superior.

This year, musher Jeremy Gebauer's five - year - old dog, Rodman, died after running 650 miles in the race.

Prior to the sled dog race season, the kennels are open for tours, various events, and the mushers and their dogs often make public appearances to share their experiences with others.

Individual preferences by mushers in the breeding, rearing, feeding, housing and training of the dogs must all practice humane care and handling at every stage of the animal's development.

Any action or inaction which causes preventable pain or suffering to a dog is expressly forbidden, and a dog who is noted to be in critical condition can cause the musher to be held at a checkpoint for up to eight hours while an investigation is completed.

Indicating that the ITC needs to initiate further changes to ensure a death - free event, dogs continue to die in the Iditarod and mushers push even harder to break speed records.

Alaskan musher Lance Mackey has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and set an Iditarod record for most consecutive wins.

This is why mushers cover their bellies with special dog coats and cover their paws with booties that protect their feet from cracking.

Around this same time they made their first appearance in what is known as the All Alaskan Sweepstakes, where mushers pushed their dog teams to make the 408 - mile run from Nome to Candie.

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Some SA mushers, such as myself, use Alaskan Huskies, Labradors and even Africanis dogs.

There are so many factors to dog mushing most of which you will learn through observing and paying attention to your dogs and what other mushers do some you may learn what not to do and from others what to do.