I find it amazing that a person who has seen a few sled dog races is suddenly an expert and knows how everyone in the sport treats their dogs.

You mushers out there, I can comiserate. I'm a racing greyhound owner and the stupidity and wretched ignorance I deal with on a daily basis is appalling. Nobody gets into these labor-intensive sports because they hate or want to abuse animals. Nobody stays up 'til all hours of the night helping a bitch whelp pups for the "glory" of winning or the "money." I haven't made a dime, but I'm madly, madly in love with my dogs, this breed and this sport.

Most Anti-Racing "experts" have never been to a track, seen a kennel or been on a farm. They are nothing more than internet busybodies who read web sites created by other ignorant internet busybodies. The furor created these past few days by an outfit that knew nothing of the circumstances of the Plainfield closing alarmed thousands of people for no reason. They didn't have a single one of their facts right.

My guess is that the AI (anti-Iditarod) activists know as little as AR (anti-racing) activists.