Ashley Keith used to always dream about joining the world of professional sled dog racing. She got her first sled dog when she was 13 years old and fantasized about one day participating in the ...

Dog sledding is a popular sport in certain areas of the world, and it involves training a team of dogs to work together while traveling over some very unforgiving terrain, pulling a sled and human ...

Thirty-two dogs of all ages and breeds participated in Vintage Pet Rescue's fourth annual "Special Day for Special Dogs" ...

Two dogs died over the weekend during Alaska’s annual Iditarod sled dog race, marking the first deaths during the race in five years and renewing calls to end the 1,000-mile competition that sees ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Musher Nicolas Petit lost a huge lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Monday when his dog team refused to keep going after he yelled at one of the animals. A dog named Joey ...

TAUNTON – Denise Schumitz calls greyhound dogs “the 45 mph couch potato.” They run fast in short sprints, but don’t require much exercise beyond routine walks and play, are quite passive, and tend to ...

When the sled dogs in the Race to the Sky leave on their grueling, 350-mile run this morning, they'll have plenty of watchful eyes making sure they stay healthy. A team of seven international sled dog ...

That’s right. Wiener dogs. Racing. The Wienerschnitzel Wiener National race will raise money for Arizona Adopt a Greyhound, an organization that finds homes for retired race dogs. So if you’d relish ...

Mark Stamm has had his share of trials along the dogsled trail, but nothing on the scale of this. The 58-year-old musher from Washington watched last August from the fairgrounds in Tonasket, Wash., as ...