Our Iditarod Dog of the Day: Meet Jet. This year is likely her last Iditarod, and Wade Marrs said it's hard to imagine where he’d be without her — literally. “She’s one of those dogs that knows where she is all the time and knows where she’s going.'
Jet and her brother Ozzy have run side-by-side in lead over thousands of miles in Wade Marrs’s team, but this year is likely be their last Iditarod. At 9 years old, they’re slowing down a little, but it’s hard for Marrs to imagine where he’d be without them — literally.
“I thought for sure we had to go left and I kept yelling ‘haw,’ and I even stopped the team and I went back and turned Jet to the left, and she kept going right,” said Marrs. “I was kinda tired and frustrated with the whole thing and I was like, ‘You just go wherever you want,’ and then boom! There’s trail markers,” he said.
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