After being penalized by the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog for sheltering her dogs during a fierce storm, Yukon musher Michelle Philipps said she has no regrets about what she did.
Highlights
- Yukon musher Michelle Phillips was penalized for sheltering her dogs during a fierce storm.
- Phillips says she has no regrets about what she did.
- The decision to punish the mushers was made by Iditarod race marshal Mark Nordman.
- The three mushers were penalized by being dropped from 17th to 18th in the 1,510-kilometre race.
- The biggest critic of the decision, People for the Treatment of Animals, called for cruelty charges against mushers who shelter their dogs while they went inside their cabins, “Cruty is baked into this race and baked into deadly, baked into race,” PETA says.