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You are invited to witness the most challenging sled dog race in the eastern United States!

CAN-AM CROWN International Sled Dog Race

Tips: • Park well off the trail so as not to interfere with other trail users. • If traveling along the trail during race hours, please watch carefully for teams and slow down as you pass any. • Some dogs are fearful of the noise of snowmobiles; turning your engine off while stopped will help! • Please don't allow children to approach the sled dog teams. • Please leave pet dogs home. • Bring extra warm clothing.

Begins March 1, 2025 8 am - 11 am All three Can-Am Crown races (the 250, 100, and 30 mile races) have highly accessible starts on Fort Kent’s Main Street.There are no fees to view the races. Bring your camera!

GUINNESS

Finish Line: Fort Kent (All 3 races finish at Lonesome Pines Ski Lodge) Estimated Finishes: Can-Am 30 – Saturday, noon – 2:15PM Can-Am 100 – Saturday, 9PM – 4AM Can-Am 250 – Monday, ALL DAY

Visit website for race checkpoints @ can-am-crown.net The Can-Am Crown organization arranges a festive dinner and awards ceremony after each racing event. Dress casually.

Photo by Pete Freeman - capture27 Photogrpahy

ROONEY

2 YEARS OLD, Mixed Breed

2 year old, Pitbull Mix

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Guinness has been waiting over a year for a forever home. He is the biggest baby you will ever meet. He loves every person he ever meets and wiggles with his entire body with excitement to give you love. He wants to be the only love in your life (pet wise) so needs to be the only animal in the home. He keeps his kennel very clean too so house training will not be an issue! Do you have a couch or bed big enough to share with this guy? Help us finally get him in a home!

This dude loves nothing more than fun, playing, and socializing with people and other dogs! He’s as smart as a whip and picks up on stuff very quickly! He enjoys training and loves to show off his little prance when he gets it right! Rooney wouldn’t mind meeting future dog siblings. Kids, 12+. When he gets the zoomies, he may accidentally take a kid down, he has no body awareness. Rooney also is in need of a home where someone is always with him, he can go to work with them etc. Rooney is currently looking for a foster-to-adopt home while he undergoes knee surgery.

Volume 20 • Issue 2 • FEBRUARY 2025

Meet Our Contributors! By Susan Spisak

s we continue to celebrate 20 years of Downeast Dog News (aka DDN), we thought it would be great to share a little about our contributors and why they love being part of this amazing publication! Don Hanson, PCBC-A, BFRAP, Owner/President of Green Acres Kennel Shop and ForceFreePets.com in Bangor said that in 1995 he left a medical device management career in Wisconsin to move here and take over that business with his wife, Paula. The Hansons also brought along their three dogs and elderly parents. In 2006 he wrote his first article for the paper, and that column became “Words, Woofs, and Meows” which focuses on behavior, training, nutrition, and general health. “If I could describe what I like best about what I do, it is learning about dogs and cats, writing about them, and educating others so that they and their pets can have wonderful lives together. Writing for DDN is just one piece of that, and I

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