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*You'll bog down the sled with tons of dog food trying to feed them all, which not only means that the sled will go slower, but if a dog is injured on the trail, you may not be able to put them into the sled and get them to the next checkpoint/town.

*It gives more chances for one dog to botch the whole sled up by going the wrong direction or even flat out stopping during a run.

*Being a lead dog is stressful, and the more dogs on the team, the more stressful it tends to be.

*If ice cracks under the sled, or the sled tips over the edge of a drop-off, that's more dogs that'll get in the way, and more dogs that'll be injured, meaning you might not have enough supplies to treat them all.

*If the dogs run away, that's more dogs you'll have to account for

*Not every town/checkpoint will be able to house all the dogs.

If you are carrying a lot o weight for a short distance, then 14 dogs is just fine, but in a long race it's just a bunch of unnecessary luggage trying to keep up with all of them.

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