Can't We All Just Get Along?

There are signs everywhere that things are really out of whack.

Have you heard of the Iditarod?  It's a race across Alaska using packs of dogs driven by a man or woman called a Musher.  The race takes days going through the wilderness and ends up on the streets of Nome.  I guess it's the ice and snow version of the Tour de France ending up on the Champs Elysees.

Nicholas Petit and his team of sled dogs were way ahead.  Then the dogs started fighting with each other.  So Petit yelled at them.  The dogs stopped in their tracks and wouldn't go on.  They went "on strike."  Petit said they were well fed, and there were no medical issues in play.

"It's a head thing,"  he explained.

Update:  I just saw a story that researchers are discovering that dogs can detect their human's malaise.
Hmmmmm.