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darkwood-sleddog · 3 years

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I love seeing all the mushers i follow on social medias post about their specific dogs on their Iditarod teams. Dogs of all ages, dogs that are “old”. I know that pretty much all mushers know that age isn’t necessarily a factor when it comes to a dog’s ability to run and perform well and it’s nice to see dogs doing stuff well past an age that many much too online sport people I know say about their dog’s “limited window” for competitive sport or whatever.

#dogblr #dog sports #its just nice to see sport people being like oh yeah my dog is old but he is healthy and can still go #so why would we leave him he's a great dog #vs like THOSE sport people you know the ones #that are like upset when their dog isn't perfect by 2-3 or whatever #thats BABY #that's not prime time #another thing i love about this sport is that my dogs can do it for a long time there's no 'timeline'#just whenever they are ready to retire be that 8 or 12 you know #or never...re: slash's grandfather #and also theres NO timeline on you the musher #this is not a sport like gymnastics which i grew up doing and competing #where you age out very quickly and there is a lot of stress to be good young #like jeff king is 66 and he's still got it #there's an 80+ year old musher kicking ass with his sibes in finland #there's no limit #the limit does not exist. meangirls.tumblr.jpg.com

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