A veteran musher had to kill a moose after it injured his dog shortly after the start of this year’s Iditarod, race officials said Monday.
Dallas Seavey informed the officials with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Monday morning that he was forced to shoot the moose with a handgun in self-defence.
This came “after the moose became entangled with the dogs and the musher,” a statement from the race said.
Seavey, who is tied for the most Iditarod wins ever at five, said he urged officials to get the moose off the trail.
“It fell on my sled, it was sprawled on
