Our recent post re Iditarod:

USA: Iditarod Is Due To Start Very Soon – 39 Days To Be Exact – Take Action For Dogs NOW.

NOW 33 DAYS UNTIL THE START

Dear Mark,

Let’s send Iditarod CEO Rob Urbach a demand: STOP exploiting dogs in the deadly Iditarod race!

Please urge Urbach to end the Iditarod’s dog abuse by replacing dogs with willing human athletes, such as cross-county skiers, or even snowmobilers:

Thank you for speaking up for dogs suffering in the Iditarod. Please help spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to everyone you know.

Take Action Now !

Tell Iditarod CEO to Leave Dogs out of Grueling Death Race

E mail Rob Urbach Now with this message below:

To – rob.urbach@iditarod.com

Being new to the Iditarod, you had a great opportunity to build something modern, exciting, and humane. Instead you’ve maintained the status quo for the dogs who suffer chained up in the freezing cold and then are forced to run to exhaustion, injury, or even death in this cruel race.

As long as the race continues in its present format, dogs will continue to suffer from stress fractures, bleeding ulcers, and illnesses like intestinal viruses. They’ll continue to die after being buried in snow and of heart attacks, excessive fluid in the lungs, and acute aspiration pneumonia—a lung infection caused by inhaling their own vomit—which, as you know, is the leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod.

These dogs are just like those we share our homes with. They don’t want to have a “career”—they’re just unlucky enough to have been bred by mushers who push them past their limits and then leave them out in the cold. Please replace dogs with willing human endurance athletes, cross-country skiers, or even snowmobilers. The Iditarod would attract a new and growing audience—and spare dogs a life of pain and misery.

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Regards Mark / PETA

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These posts/images are solely intended to show you what is happening, and we apologize for the graphic nature. However, to understand why this issue is so close to our hearts, and to all of those cooperating globally to end it, there must needs be an understanding of the “nature of the beast” we are facing. So bear with us. Thank you.

Together we’re strong.

For The Animals!

Regards Diana and Mark

Above – Photo of a dog chained up at a facility run by Joe Redington Jr., the son of Iditarod’s founder Joe Redington.

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Dear Mark,

In 39 days, the cruel Iditarod will begin again, forcing hundreds of dogs to run approximately 1,000 miles in less than two weeks. Last year, around 175 dogs were pulled off the trail due to exhaustion, illness, or injury. The “winner” of last year’s race caused nationwide controversy when he was caught on video dragging his visibly exhausted dogs in and out of a race checkpoint. 

Consider the 2022 race: By the time it ended on March 19, nearly 250 dogs had been pulled off the trail because of exhaustion, illness, injury, and other causes, forcing the rest to work even harder. Two dogs went missing—one of whom has still not been found—a musher was apparently forced to drop out after dogs he was using were found in poor condition, and outrage ensued when the Iditarod fined mushers who had brought dogs inside to protect them during a dangerous storm. Before the race even began, multiple dogs were attacked and one was killed during training, and after it ended, Iditarod musher Jessie Holmes reportedly let several dogs loose in a hotel parking lot and they attacked and killed a woman’s companion dog.

Numerous companies have cut ties with the race after reviewing PETA’s documentation of cruelty and hearing from our supporters, and the Iditarod’s days are numbered. We’re fighting hard to help the dogs forced to run in this absurd race, and with your help, we can win more victories for them.

Please take 10 actions in under two minutes:

Take Action for dogs:

The Deadly Iditarod Race Should Be Terminated: Here’s Why (peta.org)

Photo of a dog at a kennel operated by former Iditarod champion Lance Mackey. In 2015, Mackey was given the Sportsmanship Award by his fellow mushers, despite two of his dogs dying from probable heart attacks during the race.

Above and Below – Dogs residing at a kennel run by 2017 Iditarod champion Mitch Seavey. These dogs are chained up with only a plastic barrel for shelter.

Regards Mark