It’s unlike any other event in the world. A race over 1,150 miles of the most extreme and beautiful terrain known to man: across mountain ranges, frozen rivers, dense forests, desolate tundra and windswept coastline.

Standings on Day 5

1 Lance Mackey  IN TO Takotna 03/05 01:57
2 Jeff King  IN TO Takotna 03/05 02:21
3 Kjetil Backen  IN TO Takotna 03/05 02:27
4 Paul Gebhardt  IN TO Takotna 03/05 03:27
5 Jim Lanier  IN TO Takotna 03/05 04:59
6 Aaron Burmeister  OUT OF McGrath 03/05 02:52
7 Sebastian Schnuelle  OUT OF McGrath 03/05 03:26
8 Jessie Royer  OUT OF McGrath 03/05 03:59
9 Sigrid Ekran  OUT OF McGrath 03/05 04:19
10 Mitch Seavey  OUT OF McGrath 03/05 04:45

A happy beagle named “Uno” made history last night, becoming the first of his breed to win the 132-year-old Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York.
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Two Chinese businesses and their top executives and a U.S. company and its owners were indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City on Wednesday for their alleged roles in manufacturing and importing a tainted ingredient used to make pet food, believed to have sickened and killed pets across the country. Continue reading this post…

The winning 20″ dog. Stellar the Border Collie.

America’s number one Golden Retriever. Multiple best in show specialty winner. Finished with 3  - 5pt majors by 13 months of age. WOW.

Newton is from our first litter out of multiple best in show / best in specialty show. He is proudly owned by the same team that presented winning-est Smooth Fox Terrier in history.

Absolutely gorgeous.

Stuart Brown describes Norbert Rosing’s striking images of a wild polar
bear playing with sled dogs in the wilds of Canada’s Hudson Bay.
The polar bear materialized out of the blue, as it were: Obviously it was a
well-fed bear…The Polar Bear returned every night that week to play with
the dogs.

A stray kitten has found a new mother in a golden retriever, who began producing milk for the gray tabby after hearing its cries. Wow, dogs are amazing!
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It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die. Can it happen to dogs too.

Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it’s killed six boys and young men this year. The spike in cases has health officials concerned, and they are predicting more cases in the future. Continue reading this post…

Amazing tree climbing dog. Teach your dog a new trick or two, but be carefull. I heard he fill out of the tree a few times.

Still, amazing.

The immune system is an intricate biological protection system responsible for determining what belongs to and in the body versus what does not belong and requires elimination. It defends the body against infection, disease and foreign substances. Continue reading this post…