Name: Junior
Age: 4
Male or Female: Male
Owner: Aaron Peck
Musher currently running this dog: Aaron Peck
Junior is one of our main leaders.
Number of completed Iditarod races? 2
Current Location: Willow, Alaska
Date of Photo: March 6, 2022
Temperature: 28F Outside
What are his/her unique personality characteristics?
Junior has a unique personality. He doesn’t like being around the other dogs so much. When we loose drop the dogs, he hides under the trailer and sneaks out to grab snacks that we lay on the ground for him. He doesn’t like being handled by strangers, and he’s just very affectionate with me.
What is that litter’s “theme” name?…and other siblings’ names from that litter?
Junior has a sister on the team named Maya. Together, they’re two of our main dogs. They’re… don’t really have a litter theme, so Junior is just named Junior.
What is the bloodline?
It’s a long story, but Junior and Maya came from an accidental breeding. One of my handlers was out running the dogs and there was a pairing on the trail that resulted in Junior and Maya being born, and we’re so grateful that happened. Yeah, Junior’s bloodlines, the mother’s side, I would say, would come from my own lines, dogs I ran in the Wyoming Stage Stop years ago, ultimately descending from Martin Buser’s lines going way back. And the father’s side is descending from a dog that comes out of Jeff King and Ken Anderson lines. So it’s a bit of a mix up there, but he’s got something good going on.