A promo from the 2007 Iditarod race
Two very different dog competitions are going on right now. One, the Iditarod, is a 1,150-mile long dog sled run through some of the toughest and most beautiful country on earth.
Powered only by teams of 12 to 16 dogs, the dogs pull the sleds over 100 miles a day, through snow and ice storms, in what is, without a doubt, one of the last great endurance competitions on earth. >> To learn more
On the other end of the world, in more ways than one, is the Crufts dog show -- the dog show started by a man who never owned a dog.
Crufts was originally called the Allied Terrier show, and it was this show, along with the Westminster Dog Show, which sped the destruction of terriers in general and fox-working terriers in particular. >> To read more
What can we learn about dog breeding from looking at the history and current reality of Crufts and the Iditarod? Quite a lot, I suggest, in an earlier post entitled Inbred Thinking.
Crufts at its best -- nonworking crap in a ring.
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