Four teams of humans dragged sleds — with dogs as the mushers — and raced across a frozen pond to win money for their pet charity of choice. The red team, consisting of brothers (and Iditarod veterans!) Danny (not pictured) and Dallas Seavey, Mari Troshynski and Eric Ayers, plus dog Chinook, came in first, and won $5,000 for their organization, the Second Chance League. The other three teams each received $1,000 for their charities as well.
The Second Chance League is run by several mushers, who are focused on finding permanent homes for sled dogs. They work with dogs exclusively from the municipal animal shelter in Fairbanks, Alaska, evaluate them, foster them and train them with their own dog teams until they find forever families.
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its things like that that make me miss living in AK :)
Khyra would love that!
Benny & Lily
Wasn't that simply pawesome?
We got an email about it and just had to SMILE!
Thanks fur sharing the moment with all of us!
Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra & Khousin Merdie
C O O L POST!!!
That was awesome! Smokes would love that!
Oh how we would have loved to do THAT!!!
Woos, Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara
That sounds like a wonderful event! Anything to benefit the dogs has to be great!!!
Oh that is something I would love to do.
If only, if only, if only I was a big doggie, yup it would be fun!
thank you for sharing with us,
love
tweedles
Oh that is something I would love to do.
If only, if only, if only I was a big doggie, yup it would be fun!
thank you for sharing with us,
love
tweedles
What a lovely thing to do! I am sooo envious of those folk up there in Anchorage. Our cyber friend - Kit (Dog Daze) is over there at the moment attending as a dog handler. What an amazing thing to be part of...just a dream for us south africans!
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MAXDOG IN SA
That is brilliant!!
Haha, that's really cute. I wonder what the Sibes thought about having to sit in the sled. Either way, what a great idea to raise some money for pups.
That looks like too much fun!
Love,
Teddy Bear
We just loved that post and would like to see all our siberian friends being pulled along by their humans!
love
Martha & Bailey xxx
That is my kind of sled race.
Slobbers,
Mango
Oh my gosh, that is so cool!! Love it :)
Ha! That is just awesome!
What a great race!! It is too cool seeing all the dogs snuggled up on the sled...Hmmmmm, wonder if Mama would do that for me!?
Smileys!
Dory
Tsar says it's about time people started pulling the sleds and letting the dogs ride. He's ready to volunteer for a ride.
Thank you for showing that to us.. I think it is so lovely.. Hugs GJ xx
Isn't this amazing. I thought it was a joke at first. I saw it on NIgel's blog and you know how he is... BOL
Twink!
What a fun event! Scout says she would love to ride in that sled and have her ears flop in the wind!
Now that's what I'm talking about!
Oh that looks awesome!!! Hugs Joey and Kealani
Hi there!
That sure looks a lot of fun! I bet our Sibe-friends would enjoy this too.
-Fudgie, Princess & the Piappies
Good people to know about!
Sam
that is pawsome!!!!! when i grow up, i want to be like them ( the dawgs, not the hoomans bol....)
an award is awaiting you, my new friends
Tiffy
We heard of that event and love it.
Just great!!! :)
Hugs and snaggle-tooth kisses,
Sierra Rose
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