Ramy Brooks - PETA are you watching?

How can a guy who shakes, kicks, hits with a lath (a thin wooden trail marker) & beats his dogs Only get a 2-year ban in the Iditarod? It seems you must be a 12-time race finisher, two-time runner-up, come from one of mushing’s ‘royal families’ and be one of the race’s most popular mushers.
If this type of crap is given only a two-year ban, I will rethink What I teach my kid about this sport.
Anchorage Daily News
Ramy Brooks got lucky.

Note: I originally posted this on myspace May 20, 2007. I am revisiting this because the Iditarod is coming up March 1, 2008. My educational links that contain facts about the Iditarod are on my other blog at Homeschooling on a Shoestring Blog - Iditarod. I understand that the media exaggerates and mistakes happen. What upset me when I originally posted that last May was that this was this man’s sport and his valued dogs were hurt and he was the abuser, and he was only given a 2 year ban. I do not like animal abuse. I also began to question my thoughts, teachings and myself. Walter McKenzie of Surfaquarium makes his notes at What About the Dogs?. His site has given me a better perspective.

Tags: animals, iditarod, lessons
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