Dog team in training tangles with musk ox on the move Seventeen-year-old musher Melissa Owens was a mile into a training run last week in Nome when she saw a musk ox standing on the left side of the road. She stopped her dogs so the woolly beast could cross to the other side. "Then all of a sudden the bushes come alive, and I think, ohhh, this can't be good," Owens said. "There's more musk ox in there, isn't there?" Sixteen more, to be precise. Just yards away from 23 huskies, including two young and curious leaders.