Amaroq was born on October 20, 1994. His mother, Scuba, had run the Iditarod with Susan Butcher. She arrived here, bred, on October 19th and the next day her pups were born, our first team: Amaroq, Geronimo, Nocturne, Stardust, Jasmine, Rosie, T. Merton and T. Rusty Bear. Amaroq is the lone survivor of that great team.
Amaroq was always a great dog. He ran lead and was highly competitive with his brother, Geronimo. One day we hooked up two teams and took off without Amaroq. He leaped two fences (8 feet, 10 feet), circled out ahead of us , surprising and intercepting us from the woods, far out on the trail.
He was also the great dog who broke four of my teeth one day as I was rehooking his harness having tried to get a red squirrel on our takeoff out the road. We called him Circus Dog because he could leap so high. He did lead a team down Highway 101 one night, dumping his driver, the most frightening of his episodes. A police man caught them. When I arrived he said he had never been happier to see someone . He didn't know what he would do with a dog team and a sled.
Sweet and tough and always dominant, he has succumbed to nerve deterioration in his spine. We've done extras to keep him comfortable in his aging but this is not reparable. I will miss him every day.
Godspeed, Amaroq! Thank you for many years of enjoying you.
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