SOUR FISH TAME TUMMIES IN TURMOIL

NIKOLAI, Alaska -- Forget the pink stuff.

Musher Charlie Boulding swears by rotten fish to settle upset stomachs along the Iditarod Trail.

Boulding said when his dogs began vomiting after he fed them a bad batch of food, he reached for his tried and true remedy - and it worked.

"Smell this," he said, as he opened a large bag of rotten fish, also referred to as sour fish. He tossed chunks of frozen rotten fish to his dogs, and they were readily gobbled up.

"It perked them right up," he said.

Boulding said his dogs became ill after he fed them some freeze-dried dog food that had gotten wet. The rotten fish works because it contains good bacteria that works on the bad bacteria, he said.