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...most powerful tools animal-rights activists have is the video footage shot inside places like poorly run dog kennels, animal-testing facilities and factory farms, used as grim evidence of the brutality that can take place. But how do animal-rights crusaders actually get those videos? Through people like "Pete," a 20-something undercover animal-rights investigator who, armed with a hidden camera, surreptitiously got a job in 2006 at an Ohio hog farm. The resulting footage - captured with the help of a group called the Humane Farming Association - and eventual courtroom drama that followed are featured...
...identical things happen to animals on a mass scale. I felt that there were enough people in law enforcement but there weren't enough people working in animal rights. In 2001 a private investigator trained me, and my first job on my own was working at a dog kennel in Arkansas...
...Best Friend. For pet-lovers who can't bear to leave their companions behind, Washington State's Salish Lodge & Spa, perched above the Snoqualmie Falls about half-an-hour from Seattle, has for the first time opened its doors to dogs. In the rooms, each of which has a wood-burning fireplace, you'll even fresh-baked dog biscuits and an in-room pet dining menu. There's an additional one-time $50 cleaning fee you'll have to pony up, even if Fido is neat as a pin. Rates start at $229. 6501 Railroad Avenue S.E., Snoqualmie...
...necessity. In the winter of 1925, an epidemic of diphtheria ravaged Nome, which lacked the medicine to combat it. The nearest supply of antitoxin serum was in Anchorage-nearly 700 frozen miles away. In what has become known as the "Great Race of Mercy," 20 mushers and some 150 dogs teamed up to deliver the drugs in under six days, quelling an epidemic that threatened to decimate the town. Balto, the lead dog on the final stretch of the relay, earned national acclaim - and a statue that still stands in New York City's Central Park - for the feat, though...
...dissuade Page and venerable musher Joe Redington Sr., who mortgaged his home and sold a piece of land to help finance the event's start-up costs. Their efforts helped persuade officials to stage the first full-length Iditarod in March, 1973, in which Dick Wilmarth and his lead dog, Hotfoot, triumphed by covering the inhospitable terrain in 20 days. Since 1983, the Iditarod - the word is said to mean "distant place" in indigenous Alaskan dialects - has steadily grown in popularity, becoming both the most popular sporting event in the state and an international touchstone renowned for both the stamina...