 Fido, the lead dog of an Iditarod musher was stomped to death by a charging moose along the Denali Highway in Alaska. Ramey Smyth said that a few years ago Fido led Smyth's team to a significant victory in the Tustumena 200 Sled Dog Race on the Kenai Peninsula. Fido, who was killed earlier this month, was behind the leaders in a team of 20 dogs when the moose appeared and for reasons no human can know, the moose charged the dog, reported the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News. Smyth says he wishes he'd kept the gun he had loaned to another musher, who was having trouble with a moose on the trails around Talkeetna. He said all the mushers training in the Cantwell area had been having troubles with a moose.
It's always better to have a gun and not need it than not have one and need one!
| Fido's friend Bowser was coincidentally done in by a squirrel recently... |
Moose, why do they hate us dogs? |
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