Only in Canada: N.B. woman takes dog sled to Tim Hortons
Digital Reporter
Wednesday, February 10, 2016, 11:36 AM - We guess we shouldn't be surprised this happened in Canada, but you'd think it would have been in Iqaluit or Whitehorse, or some other far-northern community.
Instead, this tale comes from Sussex, N.B., where dog trainer Allyson Mitton put a new twist on the time-honoured Canadian tradition of making a Tims run in bad weather.
Mitton hitched up her two border collies to a sled, and went out on Friday just as the Maritimes were starting to be hammered by its latest winter storm.
"It was just a slick sidewalk and stormy day, [there] was hardly any traffic, there was nobody walking, so that was our opportunity," Mitton told The Huffington Post.
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That particular storm dropped more than 40 cm of snow on some parts of Nova Scotia, with some significant amounts for New Brunswick and P.E.I. as well.
If you're wondering how two small border collies, energetic though the breed is, could pull a full-grown human and sled by themselves, Mitton says she used a light-weight "kick sled", designed for mushers to help their dogs with the occasional kick.
Luckily for the trio, the mostly-empty roads meant they didn't have to wait long for service at the Tim Hortons drive-thru (and the Huffington Post reports the dogs did, indeed, get their Timbits).
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