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∙ 13y agoThe dogs have thick callous pads and fur on their feet. They don't need booties or such like city dwellers do for their dogs. I suspect that the whole jacket and bootie thing is more about how the city owners feel than how their dogs feel.
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∙ 13y agothey massage them and put booties on their feet
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∙ 14y agothey are treated with lots of care and kindness or they would not be very healthy nor strong cause they have to be kind to the dogs to get them to eat........
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∙ 13y agothey take care of there feet by puuting on booties
what route will mushers take
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it was to commemorate the serum race, mushers + dogs
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Kris Hoffman actually has 16 dogs total for the Iditarod race of 2011. All mushers start with 16 dogs
They run their dogs alot and slowly increase the distance.
The number of participants in the Iditarod sled dog race varies each year, but typically there are around 50-60 mushers who compete in the race, along with hundreds of sled dogs.
Each owner is different. The best thing to do is to read some books that have been written on the Iditarod race. They will tell you lots about what these owners/trainers go through with their dogs such as the breeding, care of, feeding of, & how they care for their dogs during the race.
in the iditarod you can have a maximum of sixteen dogs and a minamum of twelve dogs!!! most mushers will end up with anywhere from eight to twelve dogs in the end!!!! this is because many mushers will lose dogs when they run away on the trail and because some mushers will leave there dogs at the check point if they are hurt or if they are overly tired. people at the check point will then take care of the dogs at the check point. in the end of the race they are reunited when theyre musher crosss the finish line!!! the iditarod face is a very stressful race but can also be very exciteing and is something thet all great mushers want to do. they may also enter in the Yukon quest race. so wwwwoooooowwwww.................maybe you should try the iditarod.............it could be fun!!! couldn't you just imagine a little two year old mushing a dogsled!!!!!!!!!!ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha wouldn't that be funny!!!!!!!!!!!yyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeehhhhhhhaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They train and train by increasing distance over a period of time.
The mushers have baskets that carry the gear on the Iditarod Trail. These baskets are used to let the dogs rest while on break.
In the book Gary Paulsen uses the dog booties that it explains earlier in the book. If you research the Iditarod (especially the dogs) you will find more about this..... Trust me, I know! I'm reading it in school and working on a project!