Hey Larry’s JOTW #178

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A veteran musher had to kill a moose after it injured one of his dogs shortly after the start of this year's Iditarod, race officials said Monday.

Dallas Seavey informed the officials with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Monday morning that he was forced to shoot the moose with a handgun in self-defense. This came "after the moose became entangled with the dogs and the musher," a statement from the race said.

"It fell on my sled, it was sprawled on the trail," Seavey told an Iditarod Insider television crew. "I gutted it the best I could, but it was ugly."

Alaska State Troopers were informed of the dead moose, and race officials said every effort was being made to salvage the meat.

Race rules state that if a big game animal like a moose, caribou or buffalo is killed in defense of life or property, the musher must gut the animal and report it to race officials at the next checkpoint. Mushers who follow must help gut the animal when possible, the rules state.

Musher Paige Drobny confirmed to race officials the moose was dead and in the middle of the trail when she arrived in Finger Lake on Monday.

Yeah, like my team went up and over it, like it's that 'in the middle of the trail,'" she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/musher-kills-guts-moose-after-encounter-with-dog-at-iditarod/ar-BB1jkzwK



And now, the JOTW……….

What did one sled dog say to the other while leaving the party in the igloo?… “That was one of the best parties we’ve ever been to… and then you had to go and do that on the floor!”

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