Allyson Mitton will stop at nothing for her morning coffee.
The Sussex, N.B., woman hooked her two dogs to a dogsled during Tuesday’s nor’easter en route to the nearby Tim Hortons.
“It was just a stormy day and what else can you do, be stuck inside?” she said. “They love to run and they don't care about the snow so we just hauled out the dog sled and hooked up and away we went to Tim's.”
It took Mitton and her dogs about 15 minutes to travel the four kilometres to the coffee shop, turning the heads of a few people on the road during the storm and those working the drive-thru window.
“It was funny,” said Mitton. “All I could see was heads because I'm sure they saw us coming. I heard one woman say something like, ‘I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before in the drive-thru.’"
Once Mitton got to the drive-thru window, her dogs Breya and Shift received a treat of their own.
But no coffee, says Mitton, as they’re wired enough.
“They had their water and their timbits and that was good. They had a good meal when they got home,” said Mitton.
Mitton says dogsledding is slowly growing in popularity. She's one of a group of eight urban mushers in the Sussex area who may soon have their own lane at the drive-thru.
With files from CTV Atlantic’s Jonathan MacInnis.
