Bode's sister?

 

Bode and Bode 'clone'

Yesterday on a Near Island walk in the rain we were walking back towards the car when a little black 'Bode' but with a red rather than blue collar came bounding along the trail.  The dog was so identical to Bode that I thought it was Bode.  Same ears, nose, neck 'ruff', tail and mannerisms.  And they immediately began to play and chase each other through the bushes beside the trail.

The owner of the other dog was struck by the similarity too and we took the picture above and talked to her a bit.  She had adopted the dog from a dog rescue outfit in Wasilla and she was born 'sometime around November 2021'.  And she too (like us - click here) had done a doggie DNA test.  And like us her dog was lab (around 30%), Alaska and Siberian Husky, and German Shepard.  We did not get into the exact details but the DNA appears eerily similar.

When I got home I contacted Aubrey our AARF contact who had gotten us Bode.  Could they be brother and sister?  Aubrey replied that it is entirely possible - the Wasilla dog rescue people and AARF both get their dogs from Bethel Friends of Canines which is where Bode came from.  And Aubrey tells that she knows that another litter mate of Bode's got adopted out but not through AARF.

Way back when we first were interested in Bode Aubrey sent us a picture of him with other dogs getting adopted from the same village.  There he is with his sister (who is a lighter brown) and some huskies from another litter.  Could they be re united on Kodiak?  Funnily enough at the start of the walk Nora commented that 'Bode is so unique that only his sisters and brothers are like him'.  This in contrast with Brewster who as a yellow lab resembles a number of other dogs.  

Patrick

Bode (black in middle) and sister litter mate - huskies are another litter