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This woman should have her dogs taken from her.
Correction. She's a SUPER idiot. Everyone knows that all those rifles in scabbards, slung over a saddle..."with all the jostling"...go off by themselves all the time.
Moose attacks Iditarod rookie's sled team, injures 4 dogs
A large bull moose spent more than an hour stomping on the sled dog team of a rookie Iditarod musher in the wilds of Alaska last week — and the
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So she's just an idiot then. She's well aware of the dangers but refuses to take the proper tools to keep her dogs safe. Her dogs deserver FAR better.Watkins, a native of Arkansas who moved to Alaska when she was 5, is no stranger to mushing or its dangers. Her father and step-mother are well-known mushers Allen Moore and Aliy Zirkle.
Correction. She's a SUPER idiot. Everyone knows that all those rifles in scabbards, slung over a saddle..."with all the jostling"...go off by themselves all the time.
"It is never a musher's intention to go out and kill an animal," Watkins told the AP.
She said no musher would ever travel with a rifle or a large caliber gun, instead preferring to scare off animals with a flare gun. And with all the jostling of the sled, the larger guns could easily go off.