Icebound; The Greatest Dog Story Ever Told

I'll make it my business to watch this The Call of the Wild is on my book shelf I have read it to all my DGCs over the years.

Sounds good, thanks Tegan.

I jusy know I'm going to be sobbing into my cocoa watching it.

I was wrong; The Call of the Wild was written in 1903 [perhaps Balto read it ].

Tegan, you might like the series of detective stories set in Alaska by Dana Stabenow. One of the 'characters' is a husky-wolf cross, named Mutt. The Iditerod is mentioned frequently, but in the latest book, it's reported that the race is in danger because of the lack of snow, due to global warming.

I used to love Due South [memories of the episode where I thought Diefenbaker had died ]. I'll check those books out anno.

Thanks for the tissue alert heads up Tegan! (At first I read it as "IceHound"!!)

Do you remember Northern Exposure - one of my favourite TV shows - a variety of wacky characters in Alaska? Lovely opening shot of a moose ambling down the main street of a settlement.

I loved Northern Exposure - just the sort of off the wall humour that I like, and is there a more impossible animal than a moose? If a camel is a horse designed by a committee the moose must have been cobbled together by the United Nations.