Wow! Do people ever love dogs! Over 40 million US households have them — and of course we skew those statistics here at Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge with our 75 dogs. Dogs are the first animals humans domesticated (12,000 years ago). We were in love with dogs before we had farms or villages or the written [...]
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Dogs In Space & Other Fun Facts
Posted by brucegs13 on June 28th, 2010
Posted in The Dogs 
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Blondi, canis lupus, Celebrity Dogs, Cold War, Dog Facts, Dog Training, dogs, Dogs In Space, Heaviest Dog, JFK, Laika, Pushinka, Sputnik, Suicide Pills, Tiniest Dog 
1 Comment »Never Let Go of the Dogsled!
Posted by brucegs13 on May 24th, 2010
A humorous, almost disastrous true story from Paul Schurke …. Though dogsled adventure tours has been a way of life for my family and I for nearly 30 years, I first learned the art of mushing back in the late ’70s from the famous adventurer Will Steger. My wife Susan and I lived in a [...]
Posted in The Dogs, The Tales Tags: Canadian Inuit Dogs, dogs, dogsled, mushing, survival No Comments »Sir David Attenborough’s Visit to Wintergreen
Posted by brucegs13 on May 24th, 2010
Today’s headlines includes news that among the “Top Ten New Species” discovered last year is the world’s largest carnivorous plant, the “Attenborough Pitcher.” Hmmm…that rang a bell for us. When Sir David Attenborough filmed his “Life of Mammals” series for Planet Earth (2002), he came here to Ely to film timber wolves at Ely’s International [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Dogs, The Lodge Tags: Canadian Inuit Dogs, dogs, dogsledding, Eskimo Dog, pitcher plant, Planet Earth, Sir David Attenborough 1 Comment »
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