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Monday, 27 August 2007 19:40 |
 At Eden Dog Sledding and Dogsledding-On-Wheels, we strive to provide a fun, educational, safe, and wonderful tour. Central to our philosophy is our commitment to provide our dogs with a quality life that respects the sensitive, loving, joyful nature that dogs bring to the earth and our human co-existence with them. We believe that dogs left their wolf origins to become loyal friends, helpmates and family members to help us live authentically here on the earth. Sled dogs evolved to live intimately with their human communities – pulling their people across the snow for hunting and moving supplies, sleeping with the family at night to provide warmth, playing with the children and generally being very important companions globally in Northern Native People’s community life.
We believe that all dogs – including sled dogs – deserve a full, rewarding life. To this end our dogs are kept free range – this means we do not chain our dogs. They are given free access to humans – sleeping on beds, helping in the kitchen, watching television, listening to radio and classical music, eating high quality food, getting frequent biscuits and specially baked dog cookies and playing outdoors – they love to swim in our large pond in the warmer months We plan our conceptions very carefully to time when there be plenty of time to give the pups the long, labor intensive interaction, socializing and training that all dogs of all breeds need to help them reach their full potential as good, trustworthy, fun human companions who serve and give pleasure for a lifetime. Eventual retirement to good families or here at the center is planned for from the time that they are whelped.
 We support many backyard kennels because they love their dogs and treat them well. However, In terms of proper, ethical dog care there are horrendous abuses of dogs within ninety-five percent of the Commercial, for profit, sled dog ride industry in North America. The abuses are often hidden from the public by slick marketers and tour operators – many whom have or claim to have run the well known, but actually often protested by animal rights activists, Iditarod. Puppies are chained early in their lives, have little human interaction, fed low quality diets and often end up euthanized or found starved or shot by Animal shelters – after they have made a tour operator fast money from operating cheap dog sled tours. Most of the public – including the well known, high priced ski resorts and Inns that surround them - have no idea that they are supporting horrible, unethical dog abuse because they are taken in by the self promotion and marketing of the tour operators.
 We are committed to giving an educational, fun, Discovery Channel type tour which centers on the dogs – who are the real hosts and stars. Our prices reflect the bare minimum in achieving an authentic, loving and proper life for our Alaskan Huskies. We believe the public will understand and support the true costs of ethical dog care in the industry once education provides people with understanding.
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Last Updated on Monday, 07 September 2009 20:01 |
