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Lawmakers pursue vet care access to ease Alaska’s chronic problems with abandoned and loose dogs
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (1777+ words) Rural Alaska has long struggled with an abundance of stray and loose dogs and high rates of dog bites, with young children as the most frequent victims. Pending state and federal legislation aims to chip away at that problem by…...
1,500 beagles released from Wisconsin research facility after recent protests
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (472+ words) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The first beagles removed from a Wisconsin dog breeding and research facility that was the site of recent protests seemed to know right away that they were safe. “They started within an hour or so coming up…...
Animal cruelty charges filed against Mat-Su woman describe dire conditions in sled dogs’ deaths
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (895+ words) An initial charging document filed against the Mat-Su woman accused of a slew of animal cruelty violations described dire conditions at the Caswell Lakes-area property where more than two dozen emaciated sled dogs were found dead last week. Misty Rehder,…...
Arrested Willow woman faces animal cruelty charges after discovery of dead sled dogs, troopers say
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (269+ words) Alaska State Troopers arrested a Willow woman in connection with 25 sled dogs found dead last week on a property in the Caswell Lakes area. According to an online post by troopers Tuesday, 35-year-old Misty Rehder was arrested and taken to…...
Volunteers are evacuating pets from a flooded Western Alaska village, one plane at a time
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (754+ words) SEATTLE — The special delivery arrived in a plastic storage box after a chartered flight in a bouncy single-propeller plane. Veterinarian Susan Shaffer Sookram snipped the zip ties securing the lid and greeted the cargo: four dogs, one with a gray…...
25 dead sled dogs found at Mat-Su kennel after months of complaints to borough
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (997+ words) Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a Thursday statement from Mat-Su Borough Manager Mike Brown. On Tuesday, Mike Dolinar found dozens of sled dogs dead at a kennel north of Willow. He and several other dog mushers had…...
About 150 small animals seized from Anchorage home during neglect investigation
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (400+ words) A seizure of about 150 small animals amid a neglect investigation led officials to say Friday that the municipality’s shelter would stop accepting some animals due to crowded conditions. Animal control officers and Anchorage police took the animals — mostly rabbits — from…...
Proposed Anchorage code change could ban loose dogs in pickup beds and confining animals too long in vehicles
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (1376+ words) Pet owners in Anchorage could be punished for keeping animals cooped up in vehicles or untethered while riding in pickup truck beds under potential changes to municipal animal cruelty and neglect laws. The proposed changes are part of draft code…...
Book review: A late-in-life dedication to retired sled dogs infuses meandering but charming memoir
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (694+ words) “In Gentler Valleys Roaming: A Memoir of Sled Dogs” By Julie Verrette; Northern Lights Media, 2025; 120 pages; $24.95. Sled dogs, like human athletes, eventually slow down. And, again like their human counterparts, when the inevitable moment arrives, they usually aren’t ready to…...
The race is on to rescue dogs that Western Alaska storm evacuees had to leave behind
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (1076+ words) BETHEL — Several days after the catastrophic Western Alaska storm forced hundreds of people to evacuate to shelters, another major airlift effort remains ongoing: rescuing dogs left behind in villages ravaged by the storm. Earlier this month, the remnants of Typhoon…...