Though I understand your position here, but do you really think that running 1,000 miles in all weather extremes/terrain is instinctual for them? 1,000 miles? Sub zero temps? Cliffs, rivers, ice, etc? Not to take lifesaving medicine to children, but to warn humans a large profit?

I understand this is a tradition of the Inuit people, but as time goes on, we evolve. Last year at the Iditarod, it was a bunch of white people hootin’ and hollerin’. It’s time to evolve past using animals like this.

Oh, so you’re a musher or work with a musher, so you know this firsthand? Or do you just live Anchorage/Willow, etc. yourself? 🤔 Having been to the Iditarod and being on these sled dog properties has proved the theory that they live this great life on the end of a chain when not running — wrong.

I don’t know, man. Mushers house sick, distressed dogs with no socialization, enrichment and bullshit shelter through frigid temps and weather.

Running to your death, choking on your own vomit, breaking a limb, or suffering from hypothermia in order to make big bucks for the human seems pretty gross to me.

Over 150 dogs have died during the Iditarod and that doesn’t even include those who have died during the off-season. One dog’s heroism turned into a tradition of running dogs to their death in all weather extremes. 💔