Date : September 15, 2007

Category : Film questions

Question :

Shelly

When exactly did Balto die & how, of old age pr a sickness?

Best answer :

Dragon Rider

Partially deaf and blind, and suffering from canine
arthritis in his rear legs, Balto was being cared for by the
team’s keeper (in the Cleveland Brookside Zoo), “Captain”
Curley Wilson. There were concerns about his failing health
in 1933, until a kindly veterinarian, Dr. R.R. Powell (a
member and trustee of the Cleveland, Ohio Balto Committee),
offered to ease Balto’s suffering. Wilson accepted for the
zoo, and carefully moved Balto over to Dr. Powell’s animal
hospital. Powell insisted on caring for Balto free of
charge, stating it was an honor to care for him in his last
hours. On Tuesday, March 14th, 1933, he injected Balto with
a drug to “put him to sleep”. Balto died at 2:15 P.M., under
the loving care of Dr. Powell and Curley Wilson. He had died
of natural causes…old age. His body was stuffed and mounted
by a staff taxidermist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural
History, where it stands (with Balto’s original lead) to
this day.

As quoted from the site "Balto's True
Story". I hope you don't mind I got the information there,
sense that I did'nt memorize it.

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