Showing 22 posts tagged with "deaths"
A sixth dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race has died — this one on a flight to Nome.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the dog, a two year-old female on he team of musher Alan Peck, died during a turbulent flight from Shaktoolik to Nome.
The musher had scratched in Shaktoolik, and officials were picking up [...]
PETA has asked Alaskan law enforcement officials to launch a criminal investigation into the deaths of five dogs who ran in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to determine if four mushers should be charged under the state’s cruelty-to-animals law.
The PETA letter cites Alaska State Statute 11.61.140, which prohibits a person from knowingly inflicting [...]
The Iditarod death toll has risen to five.
With 20 mushers still on the 1,000-mile trail from Willow to Nome, the Anchorage Daily News reports two more dog deaths have surfaced: A 5-year-old male named Maynard in the team of Warren Palfrey died less than 20 miles from Nome late Thursday., and an, an 8-year-old male named Omen [...]
“Two dogs died in the name of sport this week, and this time it wasn’t Michael Vick’s fault.”
So begins an Associated Press commentary by national sports columnist Tim Dahlberg that recounts the final hours of Dizzy and Grasshopper, two members of musher Lou Packer’s team. The two were among three dogs that died in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled [...]
A brand of pet food from Australia is being pulled off store shelves in China after reports of dogs being sickened by it, CNN has reported.
Natural Pet Corporation, the distributor for Optima dog food from Australia, ordered a recall, according to the company’s general manager in Shanghai.
Reports of sick animals have been coming into Edis Pet Supply Company [...]
