I made it to the "Iditarod Teacher's Camp" and am making many new friends. First I met the people who own the Dream a Dream Dog Farm, Vern Halter and Susan Whiton. They are both great mushers who have done the Iditarod and the Yukon Quest dogsled races. Now, Vern and Susan raise and train sled dogs that other people use in the Iditarod. Susan is a veterinarian, too. When I arrived, she had just finished doing a small surgery on one of Gary Paulsen's dogs who had a hurt tail. Guess what? Gary Paulsen is one of their neighbors and is going to sign up to do the Iditarod this Saturday at the annual Volunteer's Picnic. Guess what else? He came and talked to all of us teachers here at the camp. Do any of you remember what books we read by Gary Paulsen? (If you haven't been in my Third Grade class yet, you will hear some of his books outloud next year.) Besides Gary Paulsen, I also got to meet some of Vern and Susan's retired dogs. These dogs have done lots of hard work over the years, and some of them don't have to sleep out in the dog houses anymore. That dog on the couch is Fiddle, a retired dog. Boy, isn't it nice the way Vern and Susan reward their dogs for all those years of loyal service?
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