Husky News

It’s less than a month until Mushers from all over the world come to Duluth for the John Beargrease Dog sled race.

They will face more than 400 miles of hills and trees and lots of cold winter nights. Read the rest of this entry »

You can add another sled dog race that will go along Alaska’s western coast. Read the rest of this entry »

Weekend adoptions at Pet Food Express will have a decidedly arctic-like flavor this Sunday May 22, when Northern California Sled Dog Rescue Read the rest of this entry »

A bizarre break-in occurred at the borough animal shelter early Wednesday morning, and the perp stayed on. Read the rest of this entry »

Kotzebue musher sets race record in first victory.
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Blayne Streeper had it in the bag. At the end of the second day in the three-day competition, the defending champion in the Fur Rendezvous Open World Champion Sled Dog Race held a lead of more than one minute over his nearest rival. Read the rest of this entry »

Dallas Seavey, a 23-year-old with impeccable mushing blood lines, captured victory Tuesday night in the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, becoming the youngest winner in race history. Read the rest of this entry »

The owner of a B.C. company connected to the slaughter of as many as 100 sled dogs says the cull wasn’t related to a post-Olympic drop in sales. Read the rest of this entry »

Kamloops Liberal Terry Lake says he’s put down hundreds of animals as a practising veterinarian, but he remains horrified about the reports of how 100 sled dogs died in Whistler. Read the rest of this entry »

Dog owners and dog lovers alike can get a taste of what it’s like to race through the woods with a dog sled team at the Orion Oaks county dog park this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1925, the children of a small town in Alaska were dying. A diphtheria outbreak threatened Nome and its surrounding towns, and the local doctor was desperate for an antitoxin. The problem was, it was January in Alaska, and the land was locked in winter’s deadly, frozen grasp. With a blizzard raging and temperatures plummeting to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, there was only one way to get the serum — sled dogs. Read the rest of this entry »

FINISH TODAY: Four mushers have separated themselves from the pack. As a clear, calm evening of sub-zero temperatures settled over Copper Basin on Sunday, a passel of top mushers were sorting themselves out as perhaps the most competitive Copper Basin 300 in history headed into its stretch run. Read the rest of this entry »

Lance Mackey clocked the swiftest time in the first stretch of the Copper Basin 300 sled-dog race, which began Saturday afternoon in Paxson. Read the rest of this entry »

Fogelsville’s Scott Farmer tries sled dog racing Read the rest of this entry »

Just because the temperature outside will be hovering around zero for the next couple of months, that doesn’t mean there won’t be plenty of things to do outdoors in the lakes area. Read the rest of this entry »

Even with the prospects of lake-effect snow showers for later in the week, the organizers of the annual Punderson Sled Dog Classic race have scrubbed this weekend’s meet. Read the rest of this entry »

He says Silver Creek man should not be allowed to house animals at his home. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the rapid disappearance of snow from last week’s blizzard, organizers of the Laconia World Championship Sled Dog Derby are optimistic that there’ll be plenty of the white stuff in time for the 81st running of the event next month. Read the rest of this entry »

For the second year in a row, the Mackinaw Mush Annual Sled Dog Race is canceled. Read the rest of this entry »

Daryl Hollingsworth drove his 14-dog team to the first-day lead in the open class of the Orville and Doris Lake Memorial sled dog race at Tozier Track. Read the rest of this entry »