People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is looking for the shutdown of Alaska’s Iditarod sled canine race after two dogs collapsed and died.
“The death count keeps climbing for dogs who are forced to run until their bodies break down, all so the human winner can get a trophy while the dogs get an icy grave,” PETA Senior Vice President Colleen O’Brien mentioned in an announcement.
PETA’s call to action adopted the demise Sunday of a 2-year-old male canine named Bog, who collapsed close to the race’s Nulato checkpoint. The canine’s musher, Isaac Teaford, had three different dogs that already had been pulled from the race resulting from exhaustion, sickness or damage, PETA mentioned.
The Iditarod Trail Committee mentioned CPR was administered to Bog for 20 minutes. A necropsy shall be performed by a board-certified pathologist to find out the reason for demise, the statement said.
“PETA is calling for this despicable race to end before more dogs like Bog pay with their lives,” O’Brien’s assertion mentioned.
The advocacy organization referred to as for Teaford to be faraway from the race, which started March 2 and goes till Sunday.
George, a 4-year-old male on the crew of musher Hunter Keefe additionally collapsed on the path and died, USA Today reported.
Teaford dropped out of the race later that day, the Committee mentioned in a separate statement. Keefe additionally withdrew from the race after George’s demise, USA Today reported.
“Up to half the dogs who start the Iditarod don’t finish it,” PETA mentioned. “During last year’s race–which had the smallest field of mushers in the event’s – approximately 175 dogs were pulled off the trail due to exhaustion, illness, injury, or other causes, forcing the remaining dogs to run under an even greater strain.”
PETA mentioned the main reason for demise for dogs within the race is aspiration pneumonia, attributable to inhaling their very own vomit.
The race’s official canine demise toll doesn’t embody others who had been killed in the course of the race or in the course of the low season, PETA mentioned.
The Hill has reached out to the Iditarod Trail Committee for remark.
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