![Jack Civic, a Jamestown resident and co-managing veterinarian at Newport Animal Hospital poses with one of the dogs in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Civic was one of 45 volunteer veterinarians stationed on the nearly 1,000-mile course. [PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY JACK CIVIC]](https://www.SledDogCentral.com/ImageStore/Ve/Vetrinarian500x320.jpg "Jack Civic, a Jamestown resident and co-managing veterinarian at Newport Animal Hospital poses with one of the dogs in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Civic was one of 45 volunteer veterinarians stationed on the nearly 1,000-mile course. [PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY JACK CIVIC]")
Jack Civic, a Jamestown resident and co-managing veterinarian at Newport Animal Hospital poses with one of the dogs in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Civic was one of 45 volunteer veterinarians stationed on the nearly 1,000-mile course. [PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY JACK CIVIC] - Wasilla, Alaska 
For Jamestown veterinarian, working Iditarod was ‘gratifying’ experience
The co-managing veterinarian at Newport Animal Hospital was one of about 45 volunteer vets stationed on the nearly 1,000-mile trail of the sled dog race.
At about 3 o’clock in the morning, Jack Civic emerged from his 20-foot-by-20-foot tent and under a full moon took in the majestic view of Finger Lake in Wasilla, Alaska.
“It was surreal,” he said. “With the mountains in the distance, the glaciers in the distance, it was just beautiful, like you’re on another planet. You see it and you become awe struck.”
As intoxicating as this gaze was, Civic couldn’t stare too long — he had a job to do.
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