Smokey and stout

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Smokey and stout

Postby tanglefoot » Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:08 am

Alot of questions being asked out there as the necropsy showed smokey died of hyperthermia (high) and stout scott smiths dog also on the same flight is in pet ER for the same thing. Sounds like the temps in their kennel was 109f on the flight! Also the dogs waited 5 days from being dropped to be flown home.

Seen some posts from some pissed of mushers and owners of the dogs.
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Re: Smokey and stout

Postby libby the lab » Sun Mar 12, 2017 11:36 am

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Re: Smokey and stout

Postby libby the lab » Sun Mar 12, 2017 11:37 am

At least two other dogs on same flight ended up in ER.
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Re: Smokey and stout

Postby JeanieB » Sun Mar 12, 2017 12:10 pm

I thought it was 109 degrees body temp on Justin High's dog. When it got to ER
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Re: Smokey and stout

Postby mira » Sun Mar 12, 2017 1:25 pm

75 dogs, that must be almost every dog who were dropped at that time.

It isn't surprising that it take some time, sore wrists isn't anything they need to rush, and the dog must have been flown from Manley to Galena during that period as well.

Usually it is Mcgrath that is the hub (and unalakleet?) and the dogs dropped on the first cps is sent directly back to Anchorage. But I guess all this is different this year because of the reroute.

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Re: Smokey and stout

Postby dilli » Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:00 pm

Check out Jeff Schultz photos of dropped dogs /transport planes from Manley , Tanana and Galena checkpoints March 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th (scroll down), especially March 10th photos of interior of the plane .

http://iditarod.com/photo/

Educated guess based on the info Tangles posted and Schultz's photos that the dropped dogs in Manley and Tanana checkpoints were flown to Galena dog drop area before being loaded on the plane that transported them to ANK.
I always thought dropped dogs were flown out on individual IAF planes from each checkpoint directly to ANK or Nome ASAP. Obviously not this year .. maybe because of the logisitcs scramble when ITC decided on short notice to re-route the restart to Fairbanks ?

Expect the usual from the ITC PR machine .. deafening silence.
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Re: Smokey and stout

Postby tanglefoot » Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:05 pm

Was trying to keep The musher who posted about it's name out of the post as itc can issue sanctions on him as they had to sign that no bad mouthing itc rule. They are being very careful what is said, might be best to take his name off any posts, we know they monitor this forum
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Re: Smokey and stout

Postby mira » Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:09 pm

Dili, no they hasn't. They have used hubs earlier too, transporting dogs between checkpoints before putting them on bigger planes to anchorage or nome.

I'm quite sure that the logistics is a bit different this year because if the new route. Just the difference in distance between for instance Yentna and Anchorage compared with Manley-Anchorage. Can't haul them back on a snowmobile..
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Re: Smokey and stout

Postby dilli » Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:14 pm

Gotcha, (((Tangles))) . That's why I'm being veeery careful what I post too. 8-)

I didn't know that (((Mira))) Thanks for the info!
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Re: Smokey and stout

Postby private stock » Sun Mar 12, 2017 4:17 pm

"Iditarod officials say they are changing transport procedures after dog's hyperthermia death"

http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Iditar ... 91093.html
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