Iditarod officials say they're hopeful that attaching tracking collars to all dogs sent home by mushers can avoid a repeat of an incident last year, in which a dog spent three months in the wild after escaping Iditarod care.
Iditarod officials are hopeful a new policy of affixing tracking collars to all dogs returned by mushers at checkpoints can avoid a repeat of an incident last year, in which a dog spent three months in the wild after escaping Iditarod care.
Now, the dogs will wear tracking collars. Diersko Von Pfeil, a veterinarian with the Iditarod, said the program is in a preliminary phase right now. Veterinarians check on dogs that sustained minor injuries during the run into Rainy Pass. Dropped dogs this year were outfitted with satellite tracking devices.
“It’s really nice because just like in the human rescue situations you have these SPOT trackers, like the mushers can push the button, you have that on your sled and then you exactly localize where the person is or, in this case, they’re sending out signals now all the time since we have them on the dogs and then we know where they are and can track them,” he said.
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