Posted on 03/12/2019 12:14:21 PM PDT by C19fan
Musher Nicolas Petit lost a huge lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Monday when his dog team refused to keep going after he yelled at one of the animals.
A dog named Joey had been fighting with another dog on the team and jumped it during a break on the way to the Bering Sea checkpoint of Koyuk.
"I yelled at Joey, and everybody heard the yelling, and that doesn't happen,'' Petit told the Iditarod Insider website. "And then they wouldn't go anymore. Anywhere. So we camped here.''
(Excerpt) Read more at espn.com ...
and they’re running on bare feet.
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Is that true? I watched the ceremonial start here on FR and they all had footies on their paws!
A lesson Homer Simpson learned also.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kd97Q4DMNYM
Footies get just as cold.
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