Christian Cullinane is going to cycle 350 miles non stop across Alaska to raise money for Winston’s Wish charity. Read the rest of this entry »
It was 14 below zero when Jim Adcock awoke at 6 a.m. Saturday. He turned on his coffee pot, put the beer on ice and began sculpting a dragon. Read the rest of this entry »
Where, oh where, are the humaniacs when our companion animals need them? This has not been a good winter to be a dog in Alaska. Read the rest of this entry »
Owner has Smokey put down after veterinarians tell him dog wouldn’t recover from injuries. Read the rest of this entry »
Father Christmas did not bring just one bundle of joy to a Paignton dog lover, but ten. Read the rest of this entry »
Being sick and in a hospital can be stressful and depressing, a feeling that is even more intense during the holiday season. But animal-loving patients at New Milford Hospital had a spot of brightness Christmas day when Marydale DeBor and her little dachshund, Ticho, came into view. Ticho was decked out for the season with reindeer antlers, and, while she might have been a bit short for the role of locomotion for Santa’s sleigh, she definitely helped bring Christmas cheer to the patients. Read the rest of this entry »
If Donald Smidt’s drive to the Iditarod is any indication, he’s in for a heckuva race at the 25th annual Yukon Quest sled dog race. Read the rest of this entry »
Organizers of the first annual Flathead Sled Dog Days shifted their race venue from Olney to the head of Whitefish Lake due to plowing on the Olney Crossover Road. The race will now start and finish on the Upper Whitefish Lake Road, a popular local snowmobile trail that departs from East Lakeshore Drive in Whitefish. Read the rest of this entry »
The 2008 TimberTown Sprints sled dog race in Lewiston has been canceled this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Organizers of the first annual Flathead Sled Dog Days shifted their race venue from Olney to the head of Whitefish Lake due to plowing on the Olney Crossover Road. Read the rest of this entry »
The third Annual Great Slave 200 has finished. The race was quite an event with the first big storm of the year blowing in for us. Trail conditions were tougher than expected due to the amount of snow and wind resulting in slower travel times than expected. Read the rest of this entry »
MORE than 100 teams are expected to take part in husky dog racing in a forest near Scarborough at the weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
Regardless of the race outcome at the 2008 Yukon Quest, history will be made at the event and it is all thanks to Wilco van den Akker. Read the rest of this entry »
As Bill Pinkham nears, a bucket of food dangling from each hand, a cacophony of barks and howls busts out. Read the rest of this entry »
A former Iditarod musher said he wants satisfaction from the Matanuska-Susitna Borough for seizing his malnourished dogs three years ago and curtailing his mushing career. Read the rest of this entry »
You may have seen dog sled races like Alaska’s Iditarod, but one Northwoods center gave people a chance to get up close and personal with the sport. Read the rest of this entry »
At this time last year, Robin Oberton should have been gearing up for her first-ever dog sled competition. She should have been bundling up in her Mukluks, fox-skin hat and full-body purple snowsuit at least three nights a week to run her six-dog team out on the local trails. She should have been practicing her commands, and mastering her use of a snow hook. She should have been feeling anxious and excited about the upcoming race. Read the rest of this entry »
About one-third of the dogs HALO received from Kentucky still at shelter Read the rest of this entry »
Sometime between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, burglars broke into a 29-year-old Michigan City man’s house and stole an Xbox 360, a Camcorder, a 9 mm Ruger handgun, a Glock 9 mm handgun and eight rounds of ammunition. But Jason Johnson, 338 Hendricks St., said he was in shock not about the burglary, but about finding his dog Smokey, a Siberian husky, with a life-threatening wound. Read the rest of this entry »
Incident deemed a good Samaritan act Read the rest of this entry »
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