From a deleted scene or rather story-boarded and not animated. Balto says to let Steele keep his golden collar. Balto do not care about fame- he just wanted to save Rosie. He never did it for fame, acceptance or even for Jenna. He did it to save the only human who was kind to him. It is her name he whispers as he thinks all hope is lost. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5h8xpeuor4

Follow up to: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61111298/

As a tribute to my favorite movie of the event I will upload (as far as it is possible) something Balto-related each day of 2025. Here the gallery starts so you can see them all: https://www.deviantart.com/emberwol.....years-of-balto
“Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxin six hundred miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the winter of 1925.”
Read about the serum run here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_.....um_run_to_Nome