Real Kaltag!

Highland Wolf · **Posted:** Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:43 am

Kaltag will have been named after the town in Alaska, that is on the route of the Iditarod Trail. Kaltag is a popular sled dog name as well. But it is only the name, I doubt he was after a real dog. :wink:

Mighty · **Posted:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:08 pm

Kaltag is a checkpoint, on the iditarod trail.
When balto was in production, That's most likely how, Kaltag got his name.

RagingBalto · **Posted:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:25 pm

Is it me or did Kaltag not look much like a husky?

Banshee · **Posted:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:40 pm

RagingBalto wrote:

Is it me or did Kaltag not look much like a husky?

It's probably just you. there are some huskys that do look like that, especially Alaskan huskys.

Mighty · **Posted:** Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:00 am

RagingBalto wrote:

Is it me or did Kaltag not look much like a husky?

It was just how the character was developed.

heritage_of_the_wolf · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:18 pm **Posts:** 31

Kaltag was a Chinook, a working class dog bred for sled pulling. i happen to have a halfbreed of a chinook and a german shephard... it's really quite cute

heritage_of_the_wolf · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:18 pm **Posts:** 31

JerseyCaptain wrote:

heritage_of_the_wolf wrote:

Kaltag was a Chinook, a working class dog bred for sled pulling. i happen to have a halfbreed of a chinook and a german shephard... it's really quite cute

It has already been established, in this topic as well as other places in the community, that Kaltag was not a real dog. He's a work of fiction designed specifically for the cartoon.

Further, real Chinooks have drop ears...Kaltag has erect pointed ears. Chinooks are large dogs...the breed is quite large. Kaltag is smaller than Steele...and Steele (whom the trivia page on IMDB establishes is a Siberian husky, as the movie people themselves said), when he stands next to his musher, is not all that big. The only Chinook-like aspect of Kaltag is his coloration. And that does not make him a Chinook, no matter what the trivia page of the IMDB entry for the Balto movie says about him.

thanks for clearin that up, im sorry but i was just going from what i've seen on IMDB
I know kaltag is not a real dog lol

but anyways, i will try to get some pics of my dog up to show you, she has really pretty coloration

Mighty · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:28 pm

considering the age of this topic and that it has been solved, shoulden't it be locked?

Mighty · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:36 pm

Yes, but I meant the general age. This topic was created, Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:06 pm

MokiHunter · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:53 pm

I think that the person may have just named their dog that in coinsidence. Many people could name their dogs names after Balto characters.

Conay · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:41 pm

Oh, I know a girl called Ella - Dosen't mean she's under her Umbrella. I think they named Kaltag after the city of Kaltag, along with Kodi and the Kodiak Islands (offically known as Kodiak Archipelago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodiak_Islands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaltag,_AK

It is also one of the hosting towns of the Iditarod.

Mighty · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:06 pm

Conay_White_Star_Line wrote:

Oh, I know a girl called Ella - Dosen't mean she's under her Umbrella. I think they named Kaltag after the city of Kaltag, along with Kodi and the Kodiak Islands (offically known as Kodiak Archipelago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodiak_Islands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaltag,_AK

It is also one of the hosting towns of the Iditarod.

Dude, This topic is old. It also has been awnserd.

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