Posts tagged dogs

The Dog Sled:

The idea of dog sledding probably brings to mind Alaska or the Yukon. But Andrea Thalasinos became a musher in Wisconsin. She tells us how she fell in love with Siberian huskies and recreational dog sledding.

Andrea Thalasinos is the author of the novel An Echo Through the Snow. More on Andrea, her work, and certainly her dogs here.

Photo by Pierre-Alexandre Garneau.

American Water Spaniel:

Every avid hunter needs a good dog to help find and retrieve game. Commentator Bob Willging tells us about a breed of hunting dog born in Wisconsin.

Bob Willging is a wildlife biologist, an outdoors writer and the author of On the Hunt and History Afield: Stories from the Golden Age of Wisconsin Sporting Life.