Kittywhiskers, love the sled dogs! I went sledding in 2009 in Willow, Alaska, just outside Wasilla at 14 time Iditarod musher Vern Halter's sled dog kennel. Here I'm waiting for the dogs to arrive so I can climb on for an 8 mile ride on the back of a sled. It was incredible! Jodi-

The flight of a "cow chip" during a contest at the local pub?(There is a Pub about 2 miles from my house that actually hosts cow-chip tossing contests - claims the chips are biodegradable. (smile). When the chips are down, the buffalo is emply.

There is no shooting involved. The hounds search for and follow the scent of a fox that may have been there even a few hours earlier. The huntsman and the "first flight" of riders try to stay right with the hounds as they follow the scent. Other groups of riders proceed at a slower pace often riding to a hilltop where they can see the action. Occasionally this hilltop group will see a fox come bounding out of the woods, and crossing a field, and then ten or fifteen minutes later see the hounds come out following the scent. Inevitably the fox will cross a stream and cause the hounds to lose the scent or it will "go to ground" and hide in a hole or a wood pile. At which point the huntsman will call them off, and cast them out to find another scent. My wife has been riding with this group for four years, and in all that time she has never seen a fox killed and only once saw the hounds running close enough to a fox that the hounds could see it, and even that time the fox managed to make it to cover and escape. Since I don't ride, I've only followed a couple of the hunts in a vehicle or on foot, and the only fox I've even seen on them was the one pictured below, which one of the members brings to the tailgate brunches after some of the hunts. The fox had been killed by a car (not during a hunt) and she had him stuffed.

OT- @ caseynfld - My son was in St. John's for the weekend and on Friday did an Iceberg tour. He saw 2 of them but also said that the waves were pretty big producing a pretty rough tour with some people getting seasick. He also went to Cape Spear and to where Terry Fox started his across Canada run. He also mentioned how far away Newfoundland is, but then we live in Vancouver. :) I'm looking forward to seeing his pictures but won't seem them until the weekend.