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The Iditarod og Race has begun.
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The Iditarod dog race has begun for 2025. 
This year's race is longer by 100 miles. The route had to be changed due to lack of snow in some areas. This means a much harder run for the dogs. Dogs have died during the race. This could be a bad year.



https://apnews.com/article/iditarod-sled...0273a2bdba


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iditarod_T...d_Dog_Race


There are less dogs this year. It is one of the smallest numbers in the history of the race.
Maybe people are rethinking the need for the race. It is supposed to commemorate the dogs being used to deliver life saving medical supplies.
There are better ways to honour what the dogs did. Putting dog's lives at risk for nothing does not seem like a way to honour them.
Why does it need to be a race? If they are not following the original route, how is it a commemoration?
I understand the need to acknowledge what was done. It is a special part of Alaskan history. There has got to be a better way to do it.
Putting dogs through a dangerous and exhausting race now seems to miss the point. It was about saving lives, not risking them.
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Catherine

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