Vets are ALWAYS available at every checkpoint. You obviously don't understand the concept of racing. When the dogs are doing you well, you keep going. You camp on the trail because it's quieter there for the dogs. Mushers know when dogs need a vet and if needed they will carry a dog in the sled basket to the next checkpoint. You make all kinds of comments on things you just don't understand. Unless you have been a musher and been in a 1000 mile race you stop with your statements. Why don't you tell us about your dogs and what happened to them?