From Kyle Hopkins in Anchorage --

Name: Thelma
Age: 7
Gender: Female
Weight: 46 pounds
Position: Lead
Musher: Lachlan Clarke, Colorado

“She’s small, but she’s got a lot of leg on her,” Clarke said.

The Buena Vista horse trainer traded three harnesses for Thelma, who proved herself a lead dog in her first Iditarod. Clarke and his wife Linda nicknamed her “The General.”

If other dogs are goofing around behind her, Thelma “turns around and barks at them,” Linda said. “She takes her job very seriously."

Thelma’s sister, Louise, didn’t make the team this year.

Previously: Skunk