Animal Rights Poetry and Prose By Heidi Coon from All-Creatures.org

Opiditarod

Sled dog farming
Breeding
Annual culling
Slaughtering
Life nulling
Sled dog puppy mills
Iditarod dollar bills
Dog death toll nils
Runt of the litter?
That ain’t a race winner!
Cull & toss its body in a river
Unprofitable laborer!
Exempt from protection
Sled dog livestock abjection
Too slow to win?
Bash it’s head in!
Too old to pull it?
Kick to death or bullet!
Pull that sled!
Musher whip hand
Till you’re dead
You’ll run on demand!
Do you goddamn understand?!
Iditarod dogs
Ain’t pet dogs
Hard, barren ground
Dogs
Repeatedly paced on
Worn down
Dogs
No amenities
An un-life of extremities
Non-entities
Slave dog asperities
Iditarod obscenity
Joe Redington legacy?
Absurdity!
Beating dogs to death
Was his specialty
He killed dogs
To feed dogs
He shocked dogs
Media vs truth
…disparities
Corporate sponsors
Big cash suppliers
Money funding mushers
Vile monsters
Show kennels
Fiction
Surreptitious kennels
Non-fiction
They’re hidden…
NO Public admission
Foot long tethers
Chained together
At prison base…
By human waste
I’ll reiterate-
Iditarod race
Is
A
Greedy
Disgrace!

Yo,
Always peer behind the media curtain.
iditarod & yukon quest facts…
sled dogs are raced to death
sled dogs are kept hidden, on properties with no residences
Alaska EXEMPTS sled dogs from ANY protection laws (they’re classified as livestock)

©Heidi Coon, 2023

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