Sentences with word «musher»

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.

Gwen Holdmann, director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, part of the team that developed Alaska's first geothermal production plant, and Iditarod musher who has lived «off the grid» for her 17 years in Alaska.

Another option is to cover your dog's paw pads with a pet - safe gel such as Mushers Secret or regular old petroleum jelly.

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

Siberian Huskies were much smaller and faster than the sled dogs used by other mushers who were using sled dogs normally used for pulling freight.

Dee Dee Jonrowe and Lance Mackey, two well known mushers, have both survived cancer.

This is why I chose not to let other mushers run my dogs as it only takes one bad experience to ruin a dogs taste for mushing.

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.

All is quiet on the course as the 2012 Iditarod as many mushers opted to take their mandatory 24 - hour rest.

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

Good mushers use the technique of slowing their dogs down to a natural pace so that they don't run full blast the whole time.

Jim's ethically run dog sledding teams have been winning dog sledding races in Quebec's Sled Dog Club competitions recently, and he's spreading the word to other sled dog owners and mushers about coconut oil.

Togo's owner was Leonhard Seppala, a sled dog musher from Norway that lived in Alaska and eventually Maine.

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.

Although relatively infrequent in the UK there are occasional races on actual snow and mushers come from far and wide to participate making it a great day out for Husky owners watching their breed do what they do best.

As a veterinarian and accomplished musher, Dr. Tim Hunt understood his dogs» need for a food that promoted stamina, endurance and performance through proper digestion; a food that just made them feel good.

Siberians caught the eye of the public when they began winning sled races in the early 1900s, but they made headlines in 1925 when a legendary musher Leonhard Seppala led a relay of Siberian Huskies 658 miles in only five and half days to rush a lifesaving serum to Nome, Alaska, where an epidemic of diphtheria had broken out.

Next week Lance Mackey will choose 16 of his 120 huskies, tie them to his sled and try to become the first musher to win five straight Iditarods.

Then there are the girls in Nome, presenting their chests to be autographed by the top mushers at the Iditarod finish line.

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

While individual mushers typically rally to assist with rescue operations, the Iditarod race committee offers nothing in the way of financial resources to support either failing or aspiring race participants.

I also went to teacher workshops on the Iditarod in Alaska, and met mushers.

In the lesson students have been selected to travel across Alaska in the «Amazing Iditarod Race» as math mushers.

Siberian Huskies made their debut in Alaska with dog musher Leonhard Seppala early in this century.

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.

«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.

It gives students the opportunity to experience the race through the lens of a rookie musher which will keep them guessing what Paulsen will do next!

Most mushers encourage people to visit.

Mackey is already the only musher to win four straight Iditarods.

The sleep deprivation, the long dark nights, the piercing cold that shreds the connection between mind and body — it's not unheard of for an Iditarod musher smack in the middle of the frozen Bering Sea to stare into the bright sunlight and, convinced a rogue warm spell has swept in, start ripping his clothes off at -50 °.

On March 5 he will again start the trek across the width of Alaska, attempting to become the second musher, along with Rick Swenson, to win a fifth Iditarod — and the only one to win five consecutively.

The leading mushers left Nikolai on Tuesday night and should arrive in McGrath sometime on Wednesday.

Just more head games in the Iditarod writes former musher Sebastian Schnuelle:

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

But 20 brave mushers carried units of serum from Nenana to Nome to help fight the disease.

Iditarod Training Math skills: multiplication, division Mushers train all year for the big race each March.

This is also the opportune time to examine musher strategies.

Packing for the Iditarod Students create checklist charts of supplies mushers might pack for the Iditarod.

Joe, along with many other past mushers, have bravely served our country.

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.

Raven Vinter is a woman with a soft spot for abandoned Huskies, particularly Mushers, or sled 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.