Day: March 6, 2022

General News, Live Transport, Uncategorized

USA: Iditarod, The Cruelest Dog Race In The World, Has Started.

Iditarod

What we are told:

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
DateMarch
LocationAnchorage to Nome, Alaska, United States
Event typeSled Dog Race
Distance938 mi (1,510 km)
Established1973
Course recordsMitch Seavey, 2017, 8d 3h 40m 13s
Official siteiditarod.com

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, more commonly known as The Iditarod, is an annual long-distance sled dog race run in early March. It travels from Anchorage to Nome, entirely within the US state of Alaska. Mushers and a team of 14 dogs, of which at least 5 must be on the towline at the finish line, cover the distance in 8–15 days or more. The Iditarod began in 1973 as an event to test the best sled dog mushers and teams but evolved into today’s highly competitive race.

Teams generally race through blizzards causing whiteout conditions, sub-zero temperatures and gale-force winds which can cause the wind chill to reach −100 °F (−73 °C). A ceremonial start occurs in the city of Anchorage and is followed by the official restart in Willow, a city 80 miles (129 km) north of Anchorage. The restart was originally in Wasilla through 2007, but due to too little snow, the restart has been at Willow since 2008. The trail runs from Willow up the Rainy Pass of the Alaska Range into the sparsely populated interior, and then along the shore of the Bering Sea, finally reaching Nome in western Alaska. The trail is through a rugged landscape of tundra and spruce forests, over hills and mountain passes, and across rivers. While the start in Anchorage is in the middle of a large urban center, most of the route passes through widely separated towns and villages, and small Athabaskan and Iñupiat settlements. The Iditarod is regarded as a symbolic link to the early history of the state and is connected to many traditions commemorating the legacy of dog mushing.

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – Wikipedia

Our recent posts -see the full list, including videos, by clicking on the following:

Search Results for “iditarod” – World Animals Voice

Search Results for “musher” – World Animals Voice

Race Map – click on ‘Checkpoints’ for more details of each. 

Race Map – Iditarod

Main website  Iditarod

Dog Care ? – see our video links given above –  Leaders in Dog Care – Iditarod

THIS is the reality about dog sledding-a musher describes it

Regards Mark

General News

“Human suffering is lamented, animal suffering is ignored”

From the Facebook page of the Austrian philosopher and animal ethicist Helmut F. Kaplan:

“Obscene from an animal perspective *:
Human suffering is lamented, animal suffering is ignored

Photo: Frankfurter Allgemeine

Animals are deliberately exposed to the conditions of nuclear war to determine how long they will survive and how they will die.
Animals are tied up and shot at with guns to explore the effects of new munitions.
Animals are ruthlessly frightened, expelled, injured and destroyed in the “opening” of nature, in the demolition of buildings, in the construction of roads, in the construction of dams and so on and so on.
Flocks of birds that impede airport operations are ruthlessly massacred.

Gassing and poisoning squads are on the move everywhere and without interruption in order to “exterminate” “vermin” and other “pests” in the most brutal way.
Not to mention from the round-the-clock, routine massacres in experimental laboratories and slaughterhouses around the world”  ( from his book “Animal Rights and Human Rights: One Unit”)

* (His statement came after an article in the German newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine” entitled: “The situation in Ukraine: the population is already on the brink”).

https://www.facebook.com/tierrechte/

“Animals are almost always in the position of being (much) weaker than humans!
By nature, because we are mostly rationally and practically superior to them, ‘by civilization’, because we scientifically optimized and technically perfected exploit and kill them in animal factories and slaughterhouses. In experimental laboratories, animals are even deliberately humiliated and terrorized.” (Helmut F. Kaplan)

He said everything, actually.
Who else wants to comment here…

regards and good night, Venus