Sled dog

And when I started to look into nutrition myself, it was not out of curiosity.

It was out of working with sled dogs and actually racing sled dogs and seeing how I was getting beat by people that were much older than me, feeding a food mixture that made no sense.

What's all this meat? What's all this stuff that they're putting together? And how do these animals perform so well? And that's what spurred my interest into nutrition.

I've taken some continuing education on it.

And I thought, "Wow, this is gonna be a good place to try to get some customer base." But little did I know that most mushers have no money, and I would actually find myself really enjoying it.

I hunted and fished on everything like that.

What I found working with the sled dogs, training them was really fun, and I really found a liking for it.

Pretty soon, somebody bartered with me for four dogs, and then I got eight, then I got 16 dogs, and I was racing starting in about '94, I think it was.

Oh, yeah.

And then before the train ride, we visited sled dogs.

So there are three main things there.

And so I think the – was the first one? I don't remember.

So it was impressive.

Uh, and then we went, uh, I guess we went to next, maybe other way around, but whatever.

Uh, we went and saw some sled dogs and a sled dog, uh, demonstration real brief.

Uh, and Oh my God, these Alaskan dogs.

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My name is Carl Mandrioli and with me today is Jesse Manti, a man whose national anthem is Who Let the Sled Dogs Out? Who?

Who? Who? Who? Who? I don't know what the Canadian version of that would be like.

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of sled dogs, 10,000 miles, my friend.

She's like 10,000 miles.

I, this is where you had the trees 300 years old and it was a really neat experience.

And then after you do the cart ride, um, You get time with the puppies because they're also breeding, you know, the next generations, I guess, of sled dogs at these camps.

And you get to, oh, yeah.

So you're bringing up probably one of my favorite pictures from this trip.

Next segment, one thing I think, one thing I think.

I think that sled dogs are the best dogs.

I think this because I grew up with two Malamutes.

And I would tell you their names, but I don't want my identity stolen.

And then later on, I had a Siberian Husky, like a black and white Siberian Husky when I was a little bit older.

And those are the only pets that I've ever had.

So I have an affinity for the sled dogs, for the Alaskan Malamutes, the Siberian Huskies.

I think Samoyeds are cool.