Mush! Dog Team Delivers Supplies To Elderly Residents Shut In By Virus

Coronavirus updates, NPR News, April 2, 2020

Sled dogs lead the way in quest to slow aging

By Krishna Ramanujan, November 7, 2019

Heather Huson shares time with a sled dog at the Baker Institute. Photo: John Munson/Cornell University

A Brief History of Dog Sledding

Outdoor Dog World, March 13, 2019

Balto

Balto, (1919 – March 14, 1933) was a Siberian Husky and the lead sled dog of Gunnard Kassen and his dog sled team in the 1925 serum run
to Nome.

Togo

Togo (1913 – December 5, 1929), was a Siberian Husky and the lead sled dog of Leonhard Seppala and his dog sled team in the 1925 serum run to Nome across central and northern Alaska. He ran over 250 miles of the most hazardous part of the serum run to Nome, while Balto, along with other sled dogs, ran an average of around 30 miles. Togo’s stuffed and mounted body is displayed at the Iditarod Trail Headquarters Museum in Wasilla, Alaska.

Questions with a Champion:
Buddy Streeper discusses weight, feeding and “secret” supplements

Mushing Magazine, August 2016

SCIENCE: Researchers from University of Copenhagen have sequenced the oldest complete dog genome to date

Phys.org, June 25, 2020

For further information please visit:
M.-H.S. Sinding el al., “Artic-adapted dogs emerged at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition,” Science (2020).

ISDVMA Legacy Memorial: Alaska’s Hobo Jim “Iditarod Train” song