'There's no brake on the cart': The hilarious true story of professional sled dog, 'Grinch', who both broke and accidentally saved his team

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Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager
Oct 14, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

We love our dog, and she is smart…. for a dog. Dogs are known to be filled with boundless love and pawsitivity, but they are not the rocket scientists of the animal kingdom. Fur example, our doggo is very scared of flies. Flies. She is at least 400x bigger than the average fly, and flies don't do anything except buzz around annoyingly until they decide they're bored. But to her, they are terrifying. She can't settle if there is a fly around. She will come to us, pleading for help, until we find the fly and shoo it out the window. She may be a derp, but she's our little derp.

But like we said, our doggo is smart. There are doggos who are dumber than a box of rocks, and this is the pawfect time to introduce you to Grinch! Grinch is a pawfessional sled dog who is awwdorably lovable but terribly derpy. He may run like the best of them, but he often causes hilarious chaos for his team because he just can't figure things out. He went out for a run with his musher, then accidentally (and howlariously) broke their team entirely, and then saved them all in the same trip. Read through the whole story below!

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    5 1715 1.612 Blair Braverman @... He has the biggest heart of any dog I've ever met- 00 1757 2.397
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  • There are some dogs that look incredibly intelligent; we can't really describe it, but there's just something about them. And then, there are dogs like Grinch, who look like they only have a head full of hot air and not a single thought to be found in there. It's a good thing he likes running.

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    Blair Braverman @.... Another time, the dogs were resting in a baseball diamond between 40-mile runs and he barked WAKE UP LET'S GO so many times that he had to go in exile by the fence so that his teammates could sleep. 23 19 2.305 go
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    Blair Braverman @... And he likes pulling things! Which is what we took him to do the other night. 27 14 1.650 Blair Braverman @... We're using a wheeled cart for dryland training, since we don't have snow right now. 2 22 7 1.166 @... 11. Okt. 2018 Blair Braverman Historically, Grinch has had some issues with the cart. 11 17 50 2.299 Blair Braverman @.... But the other night, as we set out, everything seemed great. Grinch ran with Jenga, galloping down the railroad grade. They were having a blas
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    Blair Braverman @... Grinch was ready to run. "ABBWABABAA!" he screamed. 11 140 2.753 бо Blair Braverman @... "Cool!" I told him. "I'm with you on that. Let's go!" 1 277 1.377 бо
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    Blair Braverman @.... Guys, we'd been running in one direction. And now we were facing the other direction. It was very confusing. 19 17 22 @.. Blair Braverman 2.033 бо To be clear, there is no brake on the cart. The only reason it wasn't moving is because Grinch wasn't running. CC Add Subtitles angezeigt night, Jenya! he could just run. 0:18W110.532 Mal 30 1776 2.662 бо
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  • Grinch! You're holding everybody up, bud. Get a move on! It's cold out and it's dark, which means that we're already late for dinner. If there's one thing you can be sure will motivate a dog, it's food. And Grinch looks like he loves food.

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    Blair Braverman @.... I kept thinking that Grinch would figure it out. CC Add Subtitles oth 0:16 122.129 Mal angezeigt we're facing a different direction than we went before 30 17 127 2.906
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    Blair Braverman @.... After a solid 20 minutes, during which time Jenga aged ten years, Grinch suddenly started running. I think that we basically waited out the span of his short-term memory so that he no longer recalled having turned around. 54 ↓ 145 4.727
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    Blair Braverman @.... Success! 0:01 87.055 Mal angezeigt 17 17 23 2.424
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    Blair Braverman @.... And that, my friends, is the story of how Grinch saved the day and got us home. The End. 106 [ 59 4.717
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