Iditarod Musher Dramatically Revives Fallen Dog

[jsmirman]

101. There is no "Mr" Stevens (it's a female) - Honestly

I think it was a female tourist from Australia in a foreign land and she was scared shitless and didn't say anything.

I had the same reaction - I can assure you that if I see animal cruelty, I don't just write a letter. But I don't know *Jane* Stevens, Australians are bold, but maybe more polite than this aggressive New Yorker, and frankly, I saw (and dealt with) some pretty rough shit growing up in New York in the 80's so I don't scare easily.

I mean, in response to your "have you" post - it's like, "have you ever been strangled twenty feet away from your home, but escaped when your detachable hood came off," "have you ever run for your life from a crew of knife wielding thugs in alphabet city," "have you ever been jumped from behind and punched in the face multiple times (never got me down, Ray) while two hundred plus people stand around and watch," "did you spend every weekend night of high school being chased/playing cat and mouse with local gangs" and "did you ever beat the crap out of a fireman and his antisemitic buddy in a bodega, with the help of a brave stranger" - ah, only then will you understand New York...

I don't think it's quite fair to just say, "no real Jane Stevens exists." It looks as though the Whitehorse Star thought this was real enough to run the letter. And back to Ms. Stevens, it's not that implausible that she would be too scared to do anything.

I flat out don't believe in short chain chaining of dogs, but that's another conversation.

Frankly, the part that disturbs me the most is that it is hard for me to imagine that there is not culling and that there are not abuses when the dogs don't do what the goal is to get them to do. And I will never be okay with that.