REUNITED

Missing Iditarod Dog Found Healthy After Three Months

Leon, a three-year-old husky, traveled 150 miles from where he originally went missing.

After escaping from the Alaskan Iditarod sled race in March, Leon, a 3-year-old husky, was reunited with his owner. The pup was part of French musher Sebastien Dos Santos Borges’ team and ran off while at a checkpoint. Dos Santos Borges had to leave Leon and continue with the race but searched for him alongside local authorities for weeks after the competition. Though Dos Santos Borges eventually had to leave Alaska, the Iditarod committee circulated posters about Leon, and locals in a town 150 miles south of the checkpoint began spotting him around at the end of May. According to an Iditarod spokesperson, Leon is a bit skinnier but appears healthy, and he was reunited with his owner on Saturday. After chronicling the emotional search on Facebook, Dos Santos Borges summed up the saga with three joyous words: “Life is gooooood !”