Skwentna - Checkpoint #2
By Sanka W. Dog
You can’t believe how exciting and noisy it is to have 96 dog teams come through a checkpoint. As the race goes further down the trail, it spreads out but in the early checkpoints of Yentna Station, Skwentna and Finger Lake, all the teams are still pretty close […]
Category Archives: K-9 Reporter Sanka
Skwentna Checkpoint Number 2 by Sanka W. Dog
Vet Check by Sanka W. Dog
It’s no exaggeration to say that Iditarod Sled Dogs are the best cared for animal athletes in the world. Vet check is always scheduled for the Wednesday prior to the race. That day, Iditarod Headquarters is a busy place - dogs, mushers, vets and spectators.
This year there were 96 teams that […]
Sanka W. Dog Reports: The Jr. Iditarod
One week before the big Iditarod, young mushers between the ages of 14 and 17 participate in the Junior Iditarod. The kids have a bib drawing and musher meeting on Friday evening and on Saturday at 10:00 the race begins. The route takes the juniors from Willow Lake out to Yentna Station and […]
Gopher’s Story by Sanka W. Dog
It was Iditarod 2004. Sue Allen out of No Snow Kennel in Wasilla, Alaska was about to start her rookie Iditarod. It was an exciting time - one that she and her dogs had been working and training toward for a long time. Together Sue and the dogs had logged well over […]
Sled Dog Criteria By Sanka W. Dog
Sled dogs come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Some are large and some are small. Some have tall ears, others have floppy ears. Some have blue eyes while some have brown eyes. Some have one eye that’s blue and one eye that’s brown! Some look like a wolf, some […]
Your Family Tree, My Family Tree by Sanka W. Dog
Bothers, sisters, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents - some folks are very interested in genealogy and can trace their roots back to ancestors who came to America on the Mayflower and some even further back than that. People get a sense of who they are from their lineage. Dogs have roots […]
Eating & Drinking for Iditarod Dogs
Eating & Drinking for Iditarod Dogs
By Sanka W. Dog
Canine athletes in the Iditarod need to consume enormous amounts of food and drink plenty of water. During the race each dog will need to ingest roughly 12,000 calories per day. A human would have to down 50 Big Macs to equal that many calories! […]