September 2010
2 posts
Xapka
Xapka of Seppala is a small, conventionally-marked grey and white Seppala born almost four years ago, sired by one of my imports from Spain, Cocu de Sa.Ra.Be. de Cal Segu, out of Darka of Seppala. He is the grandson of Ramon Rojas’ Siberia import leader Shapochka iz Solovyev, and great-grandson of my own Siberia import Shakal iz Solovyev. Dog show people like Xapka because he’s nicely...
August 2010
9 posts
Tonya of Seppala, still truckin'
For years and years Tonya of Seppala was the poster girl for the Seppala Siberian Sleddog Project. She was Jeffrey’s main leader and constant personal companion. She’s spayed now, fourteen years and ten months old, hasn’t been in harness since 2006, is blind in one eye; and she won’t give up! Yesterday the vet found an enlarged lymph node beside her left foreleg, which...
Doghouses
I’m back to building doghouses again. I should finish #6 tomorrow. My design is simple but well suited to Canadian climatic extremes. Internal dimensions 22 inches by 36 inches, doorway 12 or 13 inches square, 4 inches of insulation beneath the floor and an inch and a half or so in the roof, integral legs put it 6 inches off the ground, flat roof with a 2 inch slope. Except for the internal...
New Directions
Yesterday saw the beginning of new directions for Seppalas in North America. Three prime examples made their way westward from Seppala Kennels in Rossburn MB to Snowy Owl Sled Dog Tours in Canmore AB, where they will begin serious excursion work this autumn, probably joined by several more of their kennel mates. This is the kind of work at which Seppalas excel. Carlin Arsenault and her mother...
"Getting out of dogs?"
Hullo? Hullo? I say, this must be a bad line! Hullo, can’t you hear me out there in the wilds of Sled Dog Central? #$*##/ Ouch! That’s really bad static! What a lousy connexion…
So “dillon husky” (whoever the hell he might be) thinks I’m “getting out of dogs”! In his weird little dreams! I went back and checked what I had said on SledDogBlog which...
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Whaddaya mean, "Seppalas Unplugged"?
After about fifteen years of trying to make the McFaul/Shearer Leonhard Seppala strain sleddogs into what they already were - a distinct dog breed in their own right - I gave up trying. Because that effort had very little to do with the dogs themselves; rather it was all about people and their perceptions of the dogs. And as I’ve known for a long time, every damfool that comes down the pike...