Since then, his family has bred five Iditarod racers and 100 champion sled dogs.

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The men survived on a diet of seals, penguins and their own sled dogs.

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She is the person up in Juneau, Alaska who's planning to ride 350 miles on a mountain bike through the snow on the same trail that's used by the sled dogs.

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Hot weather bothers dogs more than people, especially really furry, really active dogs like my Golden and most of the other dogs around me in Vermont, labs, sled dogs, cattle dogs, etc.

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No sea ice means no seal hunt, which can mean no meat for sled-dogs.

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Dog teams are able to run without snow by using wheeled rigs, but ice makes underfoot conditions treacherous for the dogs and stops the sled's brakes working properly.

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There have been other opportunities, but I was always reluctant for the simple reason that I am a huge dog lover and worried that pulling the sled was somehow unfair, harmful, or abusive to the dogs.

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This is both harder and more of an adrenaline rush than it seems, because the sled likes to tip over and keeping it from doing so involves a lot of squatting and leaning, while going uphill means getting your weight off the sled and running behind, like pushing a grocery cart, to help the dogs.

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The spot shows an Eskimo man getting in hot water with his wife for trading in his dog sled for a Kizashi, which he enjoys cruising across the frozen landscape with his dogs inside.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Mushers and their dogs took a leisurely jaunt through Anchorage on Saturday in the ceremonial start of Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

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