In This Issue...
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FIDO: John Senter
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Developing a Culture of Mushers
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The Inuit Sled Dog Registry
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Arctic Inuit Sled Dogs: Life in Retirement
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Inuit Dog Thesis Update
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In the News
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Fan Mail
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Kennel Tip: Taking the Heat Off
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Book Review: The Lost Men
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IMHO: Filling the Woodshed
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The Inuit Sled Dog International (ISDI) is a consortium of enthusiasts whose goal the preservation of this ancient arctic breed in its purest form as a working dog. The ISDI's efforts are concentrated on restoring the pure Inuit Dog to its native habitat. The ISDI's coordinators welcome to your comments and questions.
ISDI Coordinator Canada
Geneviève Montcombroux, Box 206, Inwood, MB R0C 1P0; toadhall@mts.net
ISDI Coordinator USA
Sue Hamilton, 55 Town Line Road, Harwinton, CT 06791, qimmiq@snet.net
Editor's/Publisher's Statement
Editor-in-Chief: Sue HamiltonThe Fan Hitch, journal of the Inuit Sled Dog International, is published four times a year. It is available free online at: http://homepage.mac.com/puggiq. Print subscriptions as follows: in Canada $18.00 Cdn, in USA $16.00 US, elsewhere $22.00 Cdn per year, postage included. Send requests, with checks payable to "ISDI", to Whippoorwill Press, Geneviève Montcombroux, P.O.Box 206, Inwood, Manitoba, R0C 1P0, Canada or info@whippoorwillpress.com. Single copy issues and back issues (if not sold out) are available. Contact Whippoorwill Press for details.
Webmaster: Mark Hamilton
Print Version Publisher: Geneviève Montcombroux for Whippoorwill Press
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I continue to be amazed by the diversity of interest that brings people to the ISDI and The Fan Hitch. Folks who read of our participation in DNA research seek our advice and experience to help their own unique dog breeds. A fellow committed to bringing to the world's attention the hard life of India's cycle rickshaw drivers pedals his way across the Greenland ice cap on one of these conveyances. Living for a while in East Greenland and owning a team of local dogs, he, too, wishes to learn more about the ISD. Film companies making documentaries, a scientist seeking even more DNA samples, a retired military veteran who drove Inuit Dogs in Greenland during World War II, a curator of the French museum, whose Director of the Center of Arctic Studies is the world-renowned explorer-ethnographer-author Jean Malaurie (The Last Kings of Thule) - all seeking to tap into ISDI's resources. And now, more than ever before, it seems we are fielding even more inquiries about the "three Rs" - rescue, re-home and retirement for Inuit Dogs.
It is nice to feel needed, but it feels great to be pitching in to help others meet their needs. I have to believe that when others succeed, the Inuit Dog in some way benefits. What we have to offer and why we do it is not about ISDI, but about the ISD.
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others lives on. - Anon.Let's work together, each contributing however we can, to leave an enduring legacy which is the Inuit Sled Dog, forever an active part of the northern "land"scape.
Photo: Oana Spinu
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