{"id":1546304,"date":"2024-03-11T00:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=1a0fc3045f2cecbf17a0a0e9da936815"},"modified":"2024-03-11T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T00:23:16","slug":"video-iditarod-death-toll-rises-as-dog-collapses-and-dies-during-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/11\/video-iditarod-death-toll-rises-as-dog-collapses-and-dies-during-race\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Iditarod Death Toll Rises as Dog Collapses and Dies During Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anchorage, Alaska \u2014 Today, a 2-year-old dog named Bog, who was forced to race in the Iditarod by musher Isaac Teaford, collapsed near the Nulato checkpoint and died. Three of Teaford\u2019s other dogs had already been pulled from the race due to exhaustion, illness, or injury. Video footage, available here<\/a>, shows Bog lying motionless on the icy ground and Teaford trying to make him stand before lifting his limp body. <\/strong>PETA is calling for Teaford to be removed from the race.<\/p>\n

Teaford is reportedly racing dogs belonging to notorious musher Dallas Seavey, whose long list of controversies includes spending eight hours en route to the next checkpoint instead of turning back to get immediate care after a dog named Faloo was critically injured by a moose last week and a November incident in which two of his dogs were killed by a snow machine during training. Dogs Seavey has forced to race have tested positive for opioids, and his kennel has been accused of killing dogs who didn\u2019t make the grade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe death count keeps climbing for dogs who are forced to run until their bodies break down, all so the human winner can get a trophy while the dogs get an icy grave,\u201d says PETA Senior Vice President Colleen O\u2019Brien. \u201cPETA is calling for this despicable race to end before more dogs like Bog pay with their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Up to half the dogs who start the Iditarod don\u2019t finish it. During last year\u2019s race\u2014which had the smallest field of mushers in the event\u2019s history\u2014approximately 175 dogs were pulled off the trail due to exhaustion, illness, injury, or other causes, forcing the remaining dogs to run under an even greater strain. The race ended in controversy after the winner was caught on video<\/a> dragging exhausted dogs toward a checkpoint.<\/p>\n

The leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod is aspiration pneumonia<\/a>\u2014caused by inhaling their own vomit\u2014and the race\u2019s official death toll doesn\u2019t include countless others who were killed simply because they weren\u2019t fast enough or who died during the off-season while chained next to dilapidated boxes or plastic barrels in the bitter cold, a practice exposed in a PETA undercover investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PETA\u2014whose motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way\u201d\u2014points out that Every Animal Is Someone<\/a> and offers free Empathy Kits<\/a> for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org<\/strong><\/a> or follow the group on X<\/strong><\/a>, Facebook<\/strong><\/a>, or Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The post VIDEO: Iditarod Death Toll Rises as Dog Collapses and Dies During Race<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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Anchorage, Alaska \u2014 Today, a 2-year-old dog named Bog, who was forced to race in the Iditarod by musher Isaac Teaford, collapsed near the Nulato checkpoint and died. Three of Teaford\u2019s other dogs had already been pulled from the race due to exhaustion, illness, or injury. Video footage, available here, shows Bog lying motionless on… Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

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