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ok..i'm sorry..i wold try to not do this again..

i never even noticed their similarities...that's pretty awesome. maybe the creators of balto wanted to sorta have aleu in the third movie with Kody without actually putting her there? idk just a thought...

Well there are BIG design differences seriously:

Eyes
Aleu's eyes are big and very feminine-looking. The color is yellow-light blue-dark blue
Dusty's eyes are smaller and round-shaped. The color is white-dark blue-black

Ears
Aleu's ears are big darker than rest of her body.
Dusty's ears are smaller and the same color as rest the body.

Color
Aleu's fur is brown with creme underbelly.
Dusty's fur is more greyish.

Build:
Aleu's body shape is almost the same as Balto's.
Dusty appears to be smaller than Balto and also her build is very masculine.

Front legs:
Aleu's socks are similar to Balto's, but higher.
Dusty's sock are different shaped and about the same height as Balto's.

Back legs:
Aleu's socks are the same as Balto's.
Dusty's socks are full and doesn't go higher with a line.
Also Dusty have specific inner legs marking, different than any other dog. And this is not animation mistake.




I hightly doub they are related in any way. the one thing that makes them similar is the design, but both Dusty and Aleu have common wolf/husky design. There are about 10 coloration variations of husky's colours, so if the dwo dogs looks the same it doesn't mean they must be related...