CANINE

Name: Grayling

Age: 3

Male or Female: Male

Owner: Gregg Vitello

Musher currently running this dog: Gregg Vitello

Number of completed Iditarod races: This would be his first long-distance race.

Current Location: Anchorage, Alaska

Date: March 4, 2023

Temperature: -2

 

 

What are his/her unique personality characteristics?

He’s a model dog. He likes to get his picture taken.

What is that litter’s “theme” name?…and other siblings’ names from that litter?

His litter mate is on Bailey’s team. My son, Rohn, he’ll be running with him. Neither one of them. This is their first distance race. Actually the furthest race they’ve ever been in would be 150 miles, so this is going to be the furthest they’ve ever gone though they’ve been in the training program all year long and they have a couple thousand miles on them, so they should be good. We’ll be testing them out and seeing how they do. We’re definitely going to make sure that they’re named after checkpoints. We figured they got to come along for the ride, right? They’re both great dogs. We bought them as puppies and had them flown to the East. We actually bought them here in Alaska and we’re from the East and had them flown to the East. We raised them and they’re great pups. They’re really good dogs.

What is the bloodline?

They’re out of Brenda Mackey’s kennel who bought them as pups. They came to us when they were 10 weeks old.

 

 

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