 Can you believe that you can just do this for a class if you can just get credit to hang out with dogs? It's really insane, like when you told me about this internship last year I was very impressed. I'm very excited for it. Yeah, it was quite fun. Hi, my name's Anja Sampson. I use She-Her pronouns and I'm a junior studying computer science and information systems here at the University of Vermont. And today, a couple of my friends and I are going to bring you along on our day. Hi, I'm Adrienne Krause. I use She-Her pronouns. I've been bossing messages since I'm a psychology major. Hi, my name's Rio De Nauver. I am a junior animal science major. I use Eddie pronouns and I'm originally from Wilbur, New Jersey. And yeah, today we're driving to dog sledding. We've arrived at the dog sledding place and we can see as we pull in some garages and stuff with supplies. We've made it to Morrisville. Do you hear the barking? I hear the barking. You see how they don't really look like the classic Siberian Huskies. They have the floppy ears, different color. They're red for dog racing. But then other dog teams like that one, that's a Siberian Huskies. Wow. This is Shax. It means treasure enjoyment. He's the only one of his litter that survived. What? It's Amore. That's her sister. Amore and Smitton. They're the love muffin litter. There's more of them around. There's Cupid, Hart, and another one. And that's so far he's their dad. And this is Big Nick. He's big. Hi, Big Nick. Okay, we're getting the sleds ready to go. Hello. And then we're going to put the dogs on the sleds, right? Right Gaston? Should we interview Gaston? How are you feeling for this big race? Well, you know, you got there and you give 110 percent and you want to play good and you know, you hope you play good. Amore Valley Rail Trail, dog sled race. Six, five, four, three, two, one. It slides out out away we go. How was that? Fun, yeah. Yeah, I gave the dogs a pep talk, told them to go that way. Here we are. We're waiting for the teams to get back from the race. This is the times for yesterday. If you look closely, we have registered breeds, and that means that they're running with Siberian Huskies. And if you actually notice, their times are a lot slower than the teams that are running with Alaskan Huskies, because Alaskan Huskies are a mix of like German Shepherds, Huskies, and like other dogs. And they're like a super mutt bread for sled racing versus Siberians or like the typical Husky breed that you know. And so those are a little slower, but they're really sweet dogs. And yeah, we're waiting for the teams to come back today and it's been pretty fun. Kind of start your internship here and bring us all here today. So I actually got an email from the animal science department asking if anyone wanted to do a dog sledding internship. And I just kind of responded that email and I was like, hey, yeah, I run an internship. Some people did it for credit and you can get, I think people got up to two credits for the internship. And it was pretty fun because we just go on the weekends and help out with the training of the dogs. It was a great opportunity to kind of learn more about the sport. And it's really awesome because Fiona did this internship last year and then she's still able to come back and do like continuous opportunities with them. So it's really nice how they kind of just set you up and then you're there. Yeah, like us. And it helps you build connections in the community and meet people who like, this is like their life. They race dogs. They hang out. Can you believe that you can just do this for a class? Like you can just get credit to hang out with dogs? It's really insane. Like when you told me about this internship last year, I was very impressed. I'm very excited for it. Yeah, quite fun. This is just their hobby. The dog sledding team that we actually were helping out with is the librarian from the how library runs the team. That's crazy. I know. And they just have all these all these things. It's like, it's a fun hobby. Thank you so much for joining Fiona, Adina and I today on our trip to go dog sledding in Morrisville, which was a really cool opportunity given to us after Fiona had done a dog sledding internship last year. So last year they would go every single weekend during kind of the winter spring-ish season and go help Patty and Ingrid, two of the women who were dog sledding at that race, with all of their dogs and kind of help set things up and learn a lot about through dog sledding. And they actually got credit as an internship, which was really cool and kind of just a fun opportunity to go kind of really out in the field and do really cool things. And I really appreciated that Fiona was able to bring Adina and I to come experience it too, even next year. And I really hope you enjoyed the video. I thought it was really cool that I was kind of able to get right into it. You know, I just walked there and they were like, hey, you, you're going to be assistant timekeeper. Is that okay? And I was like, yes, that sounds awesome. So it was just a really cool experience. And that's kind of one of my favorite things about UVM is you kind of just get all these opportunities thrown at you and you get to do all these super cool things. Which was really, really, very exciting. So thank you so much for watching our video and I hope you have a great day.