The Iditarod has punished three mushers for taking their dogs inside shelter cabins during fierce storms at the tail end of this year's race
Mille Porsild is seen in Unalakleet, Alaska, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 13, 2022. A fierce winter storm in the last stretch of the race that ultimately forced six mushers to scratch the same day now has cost three other mushers for sheltering their dogs instead of leaving them outside in the harsh conditions.
Porsild was dropped from 14th to 17th position, while Phillips dropped one notch to 18th. Dyche wasn’t demoted in the standings, but he was fined $1,000 after officials determined there were no other mushers close to him that would have been affected by the dogs resting inside.The nearly 1,000-mile race across Alaska was won March 15 by Brent Sass, who was also affected by the storm just as he was nearing the finish line in Nome.
She called for cruelty charges to be filed against mushers who did leave their dogs outside while they went inside shelter cabins, “Cruelty is baked into this deadly race, and it’s time for it to stop.”“Stopping and having the dogs in the shelter cabin gave Michelle and I no competition edge; on the contrary we both lost the edge we had — especially me and my team,” she wrote to the Daily News from Denmark.
“There was no doubt to me that my dogs sitting unprotected in these conditions could lead to death or deaths of dog,” Porsild wrote in an email to Nordman after the race, explaining why she did it.
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