The Year the Industry Started Watching Itself I had a handler here in February who arrived with a GPS tracking…
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Practical and investigative stories about trail safety, paw care, heat, gear, wildlife risk, dog access, and animal welfare outdoors.
A two-year-old was bitten at a sled dog excursion in Alaska in May 2026. The child had been brought within…
The kennel smelled of hay and dog and the diesel tang of a generator running four days in minus-fifteen air.…
A dog named Kestrel showed me the difference between cold tolerance and cold preparedness. She was a young Alaskan Husky,…
The season’s last run ended in minus eighteen. My lead dog Basin, a ten-year-old Malamute, was still breathing hard when…
Niko came in on three legs last January and I knew before I got to him which foot it was going to be. Right front. He always favors it when something’s wro
Rook ate a harness clip last February. Not the webbing, just the clip, and I only found out because he was moving wrong through the gangline, favoring his
Wren went flat-eared and still before I heard anything. We were two miles out, the team moving well, the kind of cold that burns the back of your throat di
The dog’s front left pad had split clean down the center, and I didn’t catch it until we were back at the truck. Not dramatic. Kestrel barely favored it, w
The email came from a veterinarian in Fargo who’d been following my operation for a couple of years, and the subject line said thought you’d find this inte
