Seppala would lock Togo in the kennel when he ... After learning about Togo the sled dog, go inside the heartbreaking story of Hachikō, the most loyal dog of all time. Then, read about 11 of ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” for the way it suffocated chi ...

A statue of Balto in Central Park Pete LaMotte via Flickr under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Seppala added, “It was almost more than I could bear when the ‘newspaper’ dog Balto received a statue for his ...

Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...

This legislative session, between debating about how to create more affordable housing and reform our child welfare system, Maine lawmakers will decide whether to name the Seppala Siberian sled dog, ...

Maine lawmakers will decide whether to name the Seppala Siberian sled dog, spring peeper and wood turtle our official state dog, amphibian and reptile, respectively. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Before we go ...

FILE – Leonhard Seppala and his sled dog team are pictured on Oct. 12, 1928, in Alaska. In 1925, Seppala was part of the nearly 700-mile relay of mushers and dog teams to get diphtheria ...