Internationally known 4 time Iditarod winning musher Martin Buser, has recently acquired quite the rarity of dog training assists. Maggie the Elephant, previous owner of a 22 foot tread mill, has moved to a new home, hence the treadmill beginning its new life as dog exerciser. Martin has said that he doesn't expect the threadmill to be up and running until the 2010 Iditarod, however, he looks forward to getting to work with the new piece of equipment soon after. He said that monitors allowing him to do health and fitness tests that were not a simple task while  out on the trails, will now be much easier to carry out.

"All that stuff is really hard to do when the dogs are running up and down the trails, but really easy to do when the dogs are on the treadmill,"