Name: Ophelia
Age: 4
Male or Female: Female
Owner: Joe Taylor
Musher currently running this dog: Joe Taylor
Team Position(s): She spends a lot of time running lead. She’s one of my best leaders, but can kind of run anywhere in the team.
Number of completed Iditarod races: This will be her first day at Iditarod, as well as mine.
Current Location: Ceremonial Start Anchorage, Alaska
Date of Photo: March 5, 2022
Temperature: 34F Outside, Dumping snow
What are his/her unique personality characteristics?
So, Ophelia is kind of like a very, very sweet dog with a little bit of a troublemaker bend. Ophelia’s personality is a combination of sweetheart and troublemaker. She’s usually responsible for getting other dogs into trouble and leading them astray but she’s really sweet and can never do anything wrong herself, of course. Yeah.
What is that litter’s “theme” name?…and other siblings’ names from that litter?
And her litter theme, I got her from my buddy, Jacob Witkop, and he named his dogs after the Lumineer songs. And so she’s Ophelia and there’s a Cleopatra and stuff as well.
What is the bloodline?
And she comes from Jeff King bloodlines. Jesse Holmes actually bred her, but her parents are Bailey and Clipper, which were two phenomenal dogs for Jeff King, as well as the phenomenal breeding dogs.