Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Equally important for dog-racing success, says the 32-year-old Butcher, is a love of animals. "I loved animals. That was part of where my hate for society--which is what I called it then [when she was a child]--came from," Butcher says...
...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...
Everyone in her neighborhood is also "mushes," the slang word for dog racing. "I know all the names of the dogs in the neighborhood. It's the only real topic of conversation," Butcher says...
...good mid-winter game" Butcher and Monson name their dog pups, she says. Often they name the dogs according to themes: Cracker's pups are called Ritz and Graham, and Gingerbread's pups have spice names. "Then we'll do books--shogun..." Butcher muses...
...While dog sleds are Butcher's sole from of transportation as she refuses to use snow machines "mass transport" in Alaska, she could not do without her dogs. "When your snow machine breaks down, you can't curl up with it," Butcher says...