"Skijor With Your Dog" Available from University of Alaska Press

Updated "Skijor With Your Dog" Available from University of Alaska Press

"Skijor With Your Dog," now distributed by the University of Alaska Press, has just been released in an updated 4th printing. It is the definitive guide to being pulled on skis by a dog in harness. Readers of previous editions praise it as one of the best books available on dog mushing and skijoring.

The novice, recreational or competitive skijorer will find detailed information on choosing a dog, care and feeding, equipment, teaching your dog to pull, trails and trail etiquette, competition, touring and camping. The chapter on skijoring with children makes it clear that this is an outdoor activity the whole family can enjoy.

Authors Mari Høe‐Raitto and Carol Kaynor share their wealth of experience in a clear, easy‐to-understand style. The foreword by four-time Iditarod Champion Susan Butcher is a powerful endorsement of how much emphasis the authors have placed on dog care and speaks to the powerful bond that develops between dog and owner.

Much of the information in the book is applicable to other forms of dog driving, from sleds to canicross to pulka and even bikejoring. Published by OK Publishing of Fairbanks, Alaska, and distributed by UA Press, this latest edition includes updated resources and bibliography.

Skijor With Your Dog
by Mari Høe‐Raitto and Carol Kaynor
September 2009 / 200 pages, 6 x 9, 70 photos
$14.95 / ISBN: 978-0-9630854-0-5 (paper)
Distributed for OK Publishing

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Ask for "Skijor With Your Dog" at your local bookstore, sporting goods outlet, or pet store. It is available online for delivery in Alaska from University of Alaska Press at: http://www.uaf.edu/uapress/book/displaysingle.html?id=368

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