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Very good dogs lose Iditarod

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Inky_Wretch, Mar 12, 2019.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Two dogs on the team leading the race started fighting, their owner started yelling and the team basically said "You can't talk to us like that."

    “I yelled at Joee and everybody heard Daddy yelling, which doesn’t happen," said the 39-year-old musher who placed second in last year’s Iditarod. “And then they wouldn’t go anymore, anywhere. So we camped here and we’ll see what happens.”

    From lead to scratch: Girdwood musher Nic Petit is out of the 2019 Iditarod
     
  2. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Coincidentally, I read "To Build a Fire" by Jack London last night. In it, the unnamed character is so overcome by frostbite that when he clutches his dog and tries to strangle it -- so that he might gut it and stick his hands inside to get them warm -- he can't even move his fingers. He lets the dog loose and then it keeps its distance till he dies, then instinctually runs off to find a camp where someone else can light a fire to keep him warm. A damn fine short story, especially this time of year.
     
  3. Tarheel316

    Tarheel316 Well-Known Member

    Man, that’s brutal.
     
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  4. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    A cat would have eaten him.
     
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  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Sounds like the dogs want to be traded to Oakland.
     
  6. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    Stories like that — where a few seemingly minor bad decisions end up become huge, lethal mistakes — always creep me out.

    Jack London was a great writer.
     
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  7. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Like Chris McCandless in "Into the Wild."
     
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  8. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    No wonder the Lakers have sucked for the past month. They were actually playing in the Iditarod.
     
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  9. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Still missing their Kobe Dog, too.
     
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