NPR Promotes Dog Cruelty Event

Apparently NPR doesn't merely promote a dark vision of the War in Iraq - its positively blindsighted when reporting the Iditarod sled race. This event makes cockfighting look like some the the SPCA might endorse. According to www.helpsleddoogs.org at least 122 dogs have died in this event, and the cruelty is barbaric. While 'mushers' snooze on the back of their sleds, the dogs race forward, 1150 miles over 8 days with little rest. And worse:

They have been strangled in towlines, gouged by sleds, suffered liver injury, heart failure, pneumonia and "external myopathy," a condition in which a dog`s muscles and organs deteriorate during extreme or prolonged exercise.

A previous race winner was banned in 1990 after accusations that he struck a dog with a snow hook. In 1985, a woman musher (dog sled driver) watched the race from the sidelines after a moose stomped on her team of dogs.

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