Dog Sledding Not Just a Sport
Devin Aucker, and Jessica Bell pd 1/5 2/3/16
Pup Camp
- Dogs go through identification, vaccinations, and de-worming
- Dogs examination at every checkpoint
- Hike = get moving
- Gee = turn right
- Haw = turn left
- Easy = slow down
- Kissing sound = speed up
- Musher runs the dogs on dirt trails to practice
Magnificent Dogs
- The Canadian Eskimo Dog, Siberian Husky, Alaskan Malamute, and the Samoyed
- Thick outer coats, dense undercoats
- Most dogs are 2 feet tall, and 40-70 pounds
- Big meals at beginning and end of the day
- A diet of 60-70% fat
- The dogs eat salmon and lard balls
- Most of the dogs are purebred
Devine Dog Sleds
- Travel in a basket sled over 10 miles of frozen sea ice
- Dogs run in a fan formation
- A pituq is a 12 foot rope that attaches the dogs to the sled
- The sleds can travel over 10 miles a hour
- If a dog overheats the leader puts it in the sled until the next stop
Marvelous Mushers
- A sledding team consists of 12 dogs, a sled, and a musher
- Mushers must carry dog care diaries
- Mushers can visit kennels to pick out their team
Intresting Facts
- Sled dog races happen mainly in Greenland and Alaska
- The first Sled Dog race was in 1908
- More than 20 countries have Dog Sledding races
- Always care a gun
- Bring repair tools, a spare harness, emergency supplies and food
- The team races for six hours then rests for six hours
Works Sited
- "Adventures in Dog Sledding." POP! Protecting Our Planet. Winter 2002: 12-13. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 01 Feb. 2016.
- "Dogsled.com." Dogsled. WordPress & Atahualpa, 2015. Web. 04 Mar. 2015.
- Fraser, Stephen. "The Amazing Race." Current Science (Vol. 94, No. 12). 27 Feb. 2009: 4+. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 01 Feb. 2016.
- "Iditarod Dog Care Measures." Iditarod Dog Care Measures – Iditarod. Iditarod Trail Committee, Inc., 2015. Web. 03 Mar. 2015.
- McIntosh, Carolee Miot. "Dog Sledding." Faces. Jan. 2015: 20-21. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 01 Feb. 2016.
- "Sled dog." World Book Student. World Book, 2016. Web. 1 Feb. 2016.
Images:
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Dog+sled+race&safe=strict&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjajtqLoN7KAhVGGx4KHc_3B1YQ_AUIBygB&biw=1280&bih=907#imgrc=WTkam9zi6HV2NM%3A
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Dog+sled&safe=strict&biw=1280&bih=907&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNoYGbod7KAhUM2B4KHdB3Bc8Q_AUIBigB#imgrc=oy3Jfnf-N0Yr6M%3A