Husky News

Image taken on 2009-07-09 17:31:11 by stevesheriw.

I have a husky and i want to get a dog sled. I don’t know if I should get a wooden one or another kind. What kind of bindings should i get also? Should i get leather or tenon? I have no idea.What kind works best? It needs to be cheap too.

Image taken on 2008-07-05 18:11:28 by jacob.scheckman.

Image taken on 2003-08-07 18:42:58 by Jim Rettig.

I am currently trying to write a book about Alaskan sled dog racing. I need to know the temperatures of Alaska for every season. If anyone has any additional information on sled dog racing, the Iditarod, or rules of the race, please let me know!

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Yukon Quest: Yukon Quest. Yukon River, List of Yukon Quest competitors, Sled dog, Fort Yukon, Alaska, Mushing, Carting, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, American Dog Derby, List of sled dog races, Yukon

Image taken on 2009-04-04 21:31:25 by Alaskan Dude.

Seriously. I know you can get a DUI for riding a bike while drunk and for drunk boating. The thing is, I live in Alaska and dog sled competitively. Every once in a while I get loaded and have the dogs take me home. Could I get a DUI for that if the cops caught me?

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Balto, the great Alaska sled dog, has been dead since 1933. But he still stands larger-than-life on Dogdom’s Mount Olympus, where the world’s great canines are immortalized. Yet few people know Baltos true story. Only one small part has been told, and even it has been distorted. Several Balto books have been written. There’s even a Balto animated movie, but it, too, is largely fiction. (Balto was NOT part wolf!) Like the books, the movie leaves off where this book begins ­— and tells the best part of the story.

Balto was only three years old when he helped carry serum across Alaska from Nenana to Nome to save the town’s children from diphtheria. As leader of the last dog team in the life-saving relay race, he became an overnight sensation — a BONEa fide international celebrity.

But much more happened after that. Balto lived for eight more years. His days unfolded like a sled expedition to the North Pole, carrying him in an exhilarating rush over smooth snow one minute, an icy hummock the next. And how does the new story end? With a heart-thumping surprise that you can’t imagine — and neither could have Balto.

Hook up your harness, step into Balto’s booties, and mush off to Balto’s true story.

Balto The Untold Story of Alaska’s Famous Iditarod Sled Dog

Image taken on 2009-07-12 14:34:00 by Susan E Adams.

This dog is not mine, she is my girlfriend’s parent’s. I like to take her for walks in open fields though. I’d like to let her off of her leash, but I’m afraid she will just run wild and I’ll never get her back. For now I just want her to have my attention, listen to me, and stop yanking on my leash. I know she is a sled dog, but she still needs to know some commands! She is only a year old by the way, so I’m sure she can still be molded! Thanks!

Image taken on 1998-07-01 00:00:00 by NatalieMaynor.

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Balto, the great Alaska sled dog, has been dead since 1933. But he still stands larger-than-life on Dogdom’s Mount Olympus, where the world’s great canines are immortalized. Yet few people know Baltos true story. Only one small part has been told, and even it has been distorted. Several Balto books have been written. There’s even a Balto animated movie, but it, too, is largely fiction. (Balto was NOT part wolf!) Like the books, the movie leaves off where this book begins ­— and tells the best part of the story.

Balto was only three years old when he helped carry serum across Alaska from Nenana to Nome to save the town’s children from diphtheria. As leader of the last dog team in the life-saving relay race, he became an overnight sensation — a BONEa fide international celebrity.

But much more happened after that. Balto lived for eight more years. His days unfolded like a sled expedition to the North Pole, carrying him in an exhilarating rush over smooth snow one minute, an icy hummock the next. And how does the new story end? With a heart-thumping surprise that you can’t imagine — and neither could have Balto.

Hook up your harness, step into Balto’s booties, and mush off to Balto’s true story.

Balto The Untold Story of Alaska’s Famous Iditarod Sled Dog

I’ve been thinking about trying dog sled out this winter. However I’m deaf and I don’t speak at all. So I’m wondering if I’m out of luck or not?

Storm Run: The Story of the First Woman to Win the Iditarod Sled Dog Race

Image taken on 2009-02-23 00:06:26 by Hometown Invasion Tour.

Image taken on 2009-07-26 18:58:56 by ex_magician.

I want to teach my bernese mountain dog mix to pull a sled or wagon around the yard. Since I don’t want her to get injured I’m looking for a scale or something that gives a weight limit a dog of a certain size can pull. Also, any tips on going about it would help too.
Thanks

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Sled dogs have been serving humans since they were first tamed and broken to the trace thousands of years ago. Their history of supporting soldiers is much more recent and, for all its drama and heroism, remains little known. This hundred-year history of canine military service from the frozen reaches of Alaska to the snowy battlefields of World Wars I and II is told fully for the first time in this book by former army officer and longtime sled dog aficionado Charles L. Dean.

By way of original army documents, interviews with the last living dog drivers, and never before published photographs, Dean’s book tells a story that begins in Alaska, traverses two world wars and the Cold War era, and ends in the present-day Danish sledge patrol in Greenland. Here are the sled dogs drafted from Alaska and trained by French troops for use in the Vosges Mountains; improvised alpine sled dogs used by the Italians in the Great War; those deployed by the German SS in World War II; and others training in Montana’s Camp Rimini, Colorado’s Camp Hale, and Nebraska’s Fort Robinson. From the nitty-gritty of the making of a canine division to the high drama of dogs conducting daring rescues and parachuting to their destinations, this book richly supplies a missing chapter in military history and in the story of man’s best friend at war.

As an arctic expert in Alaska, Charles L. Dean led the Army High Altitude Mountain Rescue Team and taught military skiing and mountaineering at the Northern Warfare Training Center. He is a former army officer who served as a rifle platoon leader in Vietnam and as a jumpmaster with the 82nd Airborne Division. He is now a retired fire captain from the Colorado Springs Fire Department.

Soldiers and Sled Dogs: A History of Military Dog Mushing

Image taken on 2009-02-03 09:53:54 by http2007.