More recently, eight young huskies were found bludgeoned to death in the snow outside Fairbanks, Alaska. The large number of dogs and their breed and ages led authorities to suspect a musher. If a dog does not have what it takes for this all-out effort, he should not be disciplined. He should be culled. Mushers would like us to believe that all their culls find happy homes somewhere in the Great White North, but let's be realistic.
Mushers like to claim that they have to treat the animals well in order to win.
One musher, stranded after 15 of his dogs died during the 1992 Northwest Passage Expedition, was saved from probable death by an Inuit hunter who, showing more common sense and respect for the capricious savagery of the North, was riding a snowmobile.