Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast.

I know we're getting the episode up a little late today.

You're probably tired of hearing me say that, but it's just been a heck of a week.

Full disclosure, I had to put my dog down today, Meg, who my wife and I adopted

when we lived out in Colorado. And long story short, she is a vicious killer when she's out

in the woods, but in the house, she's sweet as can be. But anyway, she attacked a raccoon, gotten a big

fight with it, and it hurt her really bad. She broke her back and was paralyzed. And this whole

week, we've just been trying to get her back on track, get her some mobility, get some progress.

And it just, she kept going downhill. And and today we she was really in pain for the

first time in the whole process and we just made the decision to put her down and you know she used to

go backpacking with us and when I take the boys to school she'd ride in the back of the truck every day

and you know we were fairly close.

And oh my gosh, just a few hours ago,

had to put her down.

It's so sad.

And I really wanted to hear an episode about dogs.

And I remember this interview with Kristen Knight Pace

talking about the relationship with the dogs

and just imagining them out there running through the

Alaskan wilderness, you know, loving it, pulling a sled, but loving it.

And I remember this was one of the first interviews I did when I first took over the show

that, that where it hit me that, wow, this is a really cool opportunity being able to talk to

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