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Yukon Quest 'Urban Legend' |
I first moved to the Yukon in the early 1990's which was still in the early years of the Quest. I did not know about the race before moving to Whitehorse. One of my acquaintances in one of those early years of living here told me that he had heard about a dog musher/trapper skinning a wolf carcass in the middle of the musher's dog yard, apparently to serve as a lesson that would permanently imprint in the minds of the dogs to let them know 'who was boss.' I did not think about this disturbing picture for years...until I was reminded of it by a lady from Whitehorse who called me in response to a 'letter to the editor' about the Quest I had had published in a Whitehorse newspaper. This time the lady had a name to attach to the story - the name of a very well known Yukon Quest and Iditarod musher. [SleddogWatchdog.com web administrator] |
The Toklat male wolf (in Denali National Park, Alaska) howls for his mate from a snowy plateau near the trapping area, the day after the trapper took her away. Friendsofanimals.org |