Global Warming Shortens Alaska Dog Races/Seasonal Supremacy

Alaskan dog races are something of a colonial era anachronism of the days when supremacists ruled the waves. Dominating slave-dog’s pulling white men across vast distances of socially separate regions without encounters with slums and people unlike themselves there are many fans. Beside our objective perspective on the exploitation of animals for the sport of prosperous if not rich by worldly standards men (and a few women) how on others view the game?

Interview with an Alien

Question; what do you think of the Yukon Quest and Iditarod races?

Alien; that was a race? I was minding my own business observing a dog team in the cool minus 40 degree arctic night moving along the Yukon River on a drug smuggling training course that stopped now and then to excavate a cache of chemicals in a package from hidden in the river ice. The dog punisher used a g.p.s. tool to locate packets of illegal drugs to smuggle to consumers downstream. With 70 million Americans using illegal drugs and a lot of demand on the North Slope safe smuggling routes are being explored. So an executive action led me to cut out the heart of the driver, feed it to his dogs and liberate the oppressed dogs to run free returning to the call of the wild.

Answer; Yes that was a race contestant. I suppose it’s possible that someone supplements their sky- high annual earnings to keep an apartheid style way of life with a better Cadillac pick-up truck with off-road drug transporting, yet that’s no excuse for breaking the laws of the Yukon Territory or Alaska stalking anyone.

Alien-You must be from New York.

-End of Interview

If we don’t find too much in such an interview to inform us of public opinion about the Yukon Quest and Iditarod dog races at least it is known that the Yukon Quest finish line was moved outside Whitehorse this year some 30 miles because of thin ice on the river and that the Iditarod-the late spring race may move it’s starting line 360 miles north to Fairbanks in order to find some snow. Global warming is taking a toll on the race even more than the change of diet for many of the dogs.

While people were starving in Africa dog drivers used to feed their dog’s King salmon from the rivers before the runs largely collapsed. Now some of the slave teams are reduced to eating garbage from restaurant plates collected in buckets, run through a dishwasher and fed by the bucket load to the down-trodden beasts of burden.