Name: Ilta

Sex: Female

Age: 8 - 9 years old

Breed: Siberian Husky

Parents: Unknown

Siblings: Unknown (possibly 4 siblings)

Mate/ Crush: Tundra

Pups: Jenna, Nina, Koko, Otso,  and Pyry

Appearance: Ilta is a black sturdy Siberian Husky with white underside, bottom half of tail, and small patch by her shoulder and neck. She also has some some gray markings on the tips of her ears, the outline of her leg markings, the little marks above the twin black blaze markings that curves directly under her eyes which partial covers both eyes and small snip on her muzzle, which appears in her old age, but there isn't any when she's younger. She also has sea green eyes 

Personality: Ilta is actually very out spoken female, which that sometimes comes out rude. In reality the black husky is very blunt and honest, which half the time doesn't realize her comments sometimes hurt others. Besides her blunt personality, Ilta doesn't get along well with many dogs easily for the fact that she has issues in the past. Very few gets to see her caring, compassionate side, which that usually puts her at odds with many other dogs that assume she's stuck up and spoiled. 

History: As a pup, Ilta's life starts out as any other purebred husky from barely knowing her family to being a showdog. Although, when Ilta was a yearling then known as Perla, her new owners decided to make her a showdog, but when she first enter the ring, it didn't go well for Ilta  at that time has no interest to show and for that she short attention span. After that, Ilta was then rehome to a musher that was looking for sleddogs to build up his team. At first, the musher wasn't sure about the black husky, but after some reassurance from his wife and patience, he renamed Perla to Ilta and put the young husky behind the lead dog after seeing promise from her training. From there, the black female husky prove herself as one of the few better sleddogs. 

Her life was set after being rehome and found something that kept her interest, but happiness was short lived when her musher decided he wanted to breed Ilta for money and a chance for new sleddogs. At that time at little over 2 years of age, Ilta has no knowledge of her musher's intentions except for the led dog of her sled team, Gale. From the start, the lead dog was interest in the young husky after she join the team, but Ilta has no intentions of ever finding a mate or have pups after she learn what she must go through to be a showdog. This didn't stop Gale, for he one day corner the young husky in pretence of wanting to help her improve. Seeing no harm, Ilta agreed and after they ran, Gale ask her to be his mate, which she declined. This didn't please Gale a bit which he let his temper get the better of him and attack the young female. 

Before the bigger husky could cause more harm, Gale was knocked over by a brown husky that heard the commotion. After the initial struggle, the brown husky scared off the other husky and help Ilta to her paws. After giving her thanks, Ilta set off which the other husky called out it wasn't safe for her to not go alone. This set off Ilta which growled to the strange husky that she can take care of herself and didn't need. Not phased, the brown husky introduce himslef as Tundra and just insisted that he go with Ilta either way since he won't leave her alone. Put off, the black husky conceded and from there is when she started to get to know Tundra. 

After that incident with Gale, Ilta became more withdrawn and agressive to strangers still thinknig back to her attack. The dogs that she truly still be herself is to Tundra, which she started to talk to and few members of her sled team, especially to Nanook who's the oldest member of the team and basically her father figure. From then on, Tundra repeatedly visited Ilta and at some point was then took to be part pf the team by Ilta's musher who spotted Tundra with Ilta. 

After Tundra became part of the team, Ilta still didn't give the brown husky a break and making him work for her trust. Sometimes this causes arguements between Ilta and Tundra, but the two will then make up and go through their day as if nothing has happen. At some point, Tundra and Ilta became mates and have a litter of 5 pups, which 2 of them are kept to be sleddogs, another 2 left with their new owners to another town, and only Jenna really stayed in Nome. 

Relation to Balto: Jenna's mother

Other: 

- Her owners named her Ilta and her pups, Otso and Pyry as way for them to remember where their family once came from. 

-  Ilta does in fact loves Tundra even if they arguement many times

- Ilta retires from sledding at the age of 8

- She didn't have another litter after her first

- She's visited by Jenna every few days

- Ilta enjoys telling her grandpups stories from her past and of course her daughter's mate's story from time to time