LJ Q & A

[theacefactor]

If you could travel back in time to spend a day with someone, who would it be and why?

Susan Butcher, before she died last year in August. She was a fantastic dog musher with a heart of gold.

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The Iditarod is barbaric

[help_sled_dogs]

Several of Susan Butcher's dogs died in the Iditarod in her effort to gain fame and fortune. One of the dogs used by Butcher in the 1994 Iditarod died from exertional myopathy, otherwise known as "sudden death syndrome." Another dog used by her dropped dead in 1987 from internal hemorrhaging. Several were injured and killed by moose. People who love their dogs don't make them run in the Iditarod