Gary's+Dogs

On this page, write an essay about Mr. Paulsen's dogs. Be sure to include information about the Iditarod, how he cares for his dogs, and the training process. Refer to #8 in your packet for additional help. (Karly)

Gary Paulsen is a writer but he also loves his dogs and every year he takes place in the iditarod. The iditarod is a big dog race that happens every year and takes place in south central alaska. he ran his frist iditarod in 1983. Gary paulsen has about 13 or 14 dogs and he said if i get down to 10 or less dogs then i won't run. Every morning he gets up at about 6:30 he gives his dogs a nice warm breakfast then he exaims all the dogs feet and rubs there shoulders to keep in shape for running. some facts about the dogs are that they are usally smarter then people, they give an unconditianal love, and they also love to be around people.

Gary paulsen has one lead dog named Flax and they are best friends and two words that would describe Flax would be dedicated and athletic because he is always running with gary and he is athletic beacuse he can run so many miles during training every day and then he also runs all the miles during the iditarod.

in his story older run let his dogs go because they ran into an end point that his dogs couldn't run through. When gary paulsen went to let cookie go he thought that he would stay with him but he didnt and gary was sad but after gary was walking for a while he saw a lot of dogs coming close to him and he didn't think it was his dogs and he was wondering how they got back here. He thought to him self that Flax must of gone to get them. This is some facts about Gary's dogs. Aren't they cute!