Dog Care News Archive

02-Mar-2008

 

All in the musher family for the Mackeys (USA Today)
Sled-dog bloodlines are meticulously bred to ensure the best possible genes pass on to future generations. The same can almost be said for the men and women who drive their dogs in the Iditarod Trail Sled dog Race.

Target's mascot checks out Iditarod (Anchorage Daily News)
In a hotel suite three floors above the howling and barking and controlled chaos on Fourth Avenue for the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled dog Race, the most famous dog in Alaska on Saturday could care less.

At home: In Manhattan, skin care guru has museum-quality town house (USA Today)
Judy Garland's ruby slippers are enshrined in Washington's National Museum of American History. Audrey Hepburn's feather-festooned My Fair Lady hat is ensconced in the Warner Bros. Museum in Burbank, Calif.

Former military working dog Rex to receive eye surgery thanks to anonymous donor (The Bradford Era)
SMETHPORT ? Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, Jamie Himes Mangan?s former military working dog, Rex, will have the surgery that will prevent likely permanent eye damage.

Former military working dog Rex in need of eye surgery to replace tear ducts. (The Bradford Era)
SMETHPORT ? The story of Rex, the U.S. Air Force military working dog, and his trainer, Jamie Himes Mangan, formerly Jamie Himes Dana, a native of Hazel Hurst, is one that swept not only the area but the entire nation between 2005 and 2006.

PROFILE: Area vet manning Iditarod 'dropped dog' clinic in Anchorage (Daily and Sunday Jeffersonian)
PORT WASHINGTON -- The Iditarod Trail Sled dog Race -- which had its ceremonial start Saturday and which began in earnest today -- will receive support from a local man.

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