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...nice bed for that matter. Butcher slept only 22 hours during the 11 days of this year's race. However, she allowed her dogs to rest every four hours. "If you sleep too long, you've lost the race," Butcher says. "But dogs need a lot of sleep...
...anyone should know that, Butcher should. "That's now I learned about life, was from my dogs," she says. She has spent most of her life with dogs, getting her first one when she was four, and her first Siberian Huskie when she was 15. She had a special pass to bring her dog to school, the Wharehouse Cooperative School in Roxbury...
...time I couldn't go do what other kids could do, but I had a real sense of responsibility. It's never been a burden," Butcher says...
...Butcher studied to be a veterinary technician in Denver, after which she moved to Alaska, homesteaded in the Wrangell Mountains, and started to raise and train sled dogs. She and her husband David L. Monson now own a kennel of 150 dogs in their Alaskan home. They live in a log cabin, 12 x 16 feet, without running water. Butcher melts ice in the winter, draws water from a nearby stream in the summer, and generates a limited supply of electricity. The closest neighbor is more than six miles away, mail is 25 miles away, and Fairbanks--the nearest town...
...days a year, 12 to 15 hours a day, she trains her dogs. Butcher and Monson race five to 10 teams a day, building up the dogs' endurance like marathon runners until they can run 26-30 miles. "Then I can go anywhere with them," she says. "This is our basketball team, we have to pick our players, then we have to condition them physically...there is little for anything else...