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- Training good sled dogs takes a long time.
- Susan Butcher begins training her dogs as
- soon as they are born. She makes sure that
- her voice is the first voice they hear and that
- her face is the first face they see. Once they
- are old enough, Susan takes puppies on
- three-mile to four-mile walks. At the age of
- 1, each dog gets a doghouse and receives
- a special diet.
-
- Then the serious training begins. Susan
- takes them on daily runs, sometimes 25
- miles or more. The dogs she chooses to
- compete in the Iditarod will have run 2,000
- miles during training!
-
- Unlike many trainers, Susan treats her
- dogs like pets. She lets them come into her
- cabin at the end of a dayΓÇÖs training.
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