COMPETITIVE DOGS!
MORE THEN A SPORT!
PEOPLE INVOLVED IN DOG SLEDDING
- Joe Reddington invented the competitive race called dog sledding
- a typical sled dog is 2 feet and 40-80 pounds
- dogsledders and their mushers have once travelled up to 1,00 miles away
- Anthropologist have found evidence that humans have used dogs in a dog sledding manner for thousands of years
AMAZING SLEDS
- wooden sleds are called komatiks
- modern sleds may be conducted by hickory or birch they also included aluminum pieces
- most early sleds had ridged wooden or iron runners and couldn't be steered
- a fan hitch is what dogs are secured to on the sled
DOG SLEDDING PLACES
- dogsledding is practiced in more than 100 countries in the world
- dog sledding became popular in England
- some dog sledding races or in artic places
- Jr. mushers go on short trails for dog sledding
DOG CARE
- Dogs in the Iditarod races must be chipped before the race
- dogs must vaccinated , dewormed and take blood shots in preparation of the race
- mushers must sign a dog care form for their dog before the race
- nurse must English to be a vet to the sled dogs also they have to have 5 years of practice
- nurse staff is approximately 35 people
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WORKS CITED
"Sled." Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online, 2016. Web. 1 Feb. 2016.
Forsberg, Will. "Dogsledding." Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online, 2016. Web. 1 Feb. 2016
"A Sled Dog Life." Iditarod. Scholastic Inc., 2015. Web. 04 Mar. 2015
"Dogsled.com." Dogsled. WordPress & Atahualpa, 2015. Web. 04 Mar. 2015.