tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21096663.post4915678116932086013..comments2024-01-29T04:25:53.194-06:00Comments on The Adventure Blog: 2018 Iditarod Underway in Alaska Amidst Controversy and UncertaintyAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942139766832303244noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21096663.post-23751144550631742672018-03-06T07:01:08.576-06:002018-03-06T07:01:08.576-06:00Great! We now have this post out of the way for th...Great! We now have this post out of the way for this year. Thanks!kungfujedihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00724706652959523509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21096663.post-90528346510298660972018-03-05T18:29:52.216-06:002018-03-05T18:29:52.216-06:00The Iditarod should end. This is a once-a-year gr...The Iditarod should end. This is a once-a-year grueling, treacherous, unnecessary race for only about 67 mushers. Approximately 1,072 dogs (67 mushers each with 16 dogs) start the race, and half the dogs don’t finish due to illness, injury, or exhaustion. Dogs die just about every year. Four dogs died last year, bringing the total to at least 150 since 1973, which averages 3 per race.<br /><br />These dogs are short chained (considered inhumane and illegal in many communities) their entire lives, except when they’re training, to their small, dilapidated enclosures, among their feces and urine, unable to play or interact with their kennel mates, —all at the behest of their mushers. They are treated as slaves at the ready to perform.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16524438009623375744noreply@blogger.com