ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Veteran Iditarod Musher Mille Porsild posted a tribute to Charley, a dog on her team, who died just before the Elim checkpoint during this year’s race.
Through the multi-paragraph Facebook post, which was filled with a message from the heart describing the four-year-old sled dog, Porsild described Charley’s life and what she was like. She also explained how losing Charley impacted her.
“It broke me,” she wrote online of Charley’s death, saying the “crushing shock was instantly suffocating.”…