Our Iditarod Dog of the Day: JoAnna is not the most energetic. At least at first. After a rest, she isn’t jumping and yipping like her teammates. Instead, she saunters up to her harness and coolly starts to run. But once she starts, she doesn’t stop.
He said that after a rest, JoAnna isn’t jumping and yipping like some of her teammates. Instead, she saunters up to her harness and coolly starts to run. Once she gets going though, she doesn’t stop. She’s also a strong leader, despite her young age, and she’s extremely obedient.
“If I tell her ‘haw,'” he said, the command for turn left, “and if there’s no trail, she’ll jump off into the snow.” This year will be JoAnna’s first Iditarod. She belongs to five-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey. Maixner said he connected with her right away. “For some reason, she was one that I just kind of honed in on and really liked her from the beginning,” he said. Boomer is part of our “Dog of the Day” series. Each day during the Iditarod, we’ll feature a new dog making the 1,000-mile dash to Nome. Earlier, we met
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