Hay Bales and Dogs

Hey pups,

Last night was a pretty exciting night for many of the teams on the Midnight Run. Congratulations to the dogs who own Don Galloway, they won the race! The dogs who own Sharon Nelson-Curtice came in second and the race times were very close.

I have a little story to tell you about another dog team that was in last place for awhile. You young humans will think this is very funny, but us dogs just see this as normal. You see, on the race course sometimes the humans will place hay bales to help the mushers understand the trail. Many times during the night, dog teams were approaching the hay bales and going around them on different sides. This seemed to frustrate the humans who were there trying to direct the dog teams to go around the bales in a certain way. The last team in the race approached the hay bales and all the humans who were there to help started bracing themselves in preparation for this team to take a wrong turn as so many others had before.

Well let me tell you, these humans were quite surprised when THIS team came up and decided instead of making a decision on which way to turn, they all simply marked the hay bales. When I say marking, I mean the dogs all whizzed on them. This makes perfect sense to us dogs because then we all understand perfectly well who has been there and which way to go. Unfortunately, this team did not finish the race, but the dogs were all happy.

If you haven't had a chance to get out and see some of the dogs, you can catch the Jack Pine 30 mushers finishing here in Marquette early this afternoon. See you later -

Breakaway