Ricky

One of our purebred Siberians - Northomes Ricky - has a terminal illness. He was in intensive care at the vet for a week, but the vet could not figure out what was wrong, so he sent him home to die. We think it is probably cancer. The first symptom was lack of appetite. He did not seem to be in any sort of pain but did have a raging infection that massive antibiotics did nothing to alleviate.

Ricky ran on my rookie Race To The Sky team and finished in 2002. He also ran on Mike's team in 2001. He was one of six dogs on the team that carried the Olympic Torch in 2002. Ricky was a wonderful leader and helped train some of our younger leaders, most notably Olive, our best Siberian leader. He is ten years old.