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 was (in part) as follows:

Please note that neither kennel [i.e., Seppala Kennels or Atholl Chinooks] is “shutting down” completely. We are keeping the best of our Seppala and Chinook stock according to our own very personal preferences; by most people’s standards ours will remain a major kennel both in numbers and in quality of its canine stock.

In fact, the whole thread over there sounds more or less as if some of these folks never learned to read. It also gave me a weird dejà vu feeling, a reminder of the discussion that took place on somebody’s email list ten years ago when the SSSD Project site was offline due to webhosting problems (pioneer days of the web in the Yukon), and some smart New England dudes and dudesses decided my web material was up for grabs. Some of my photos wound up on ConKC teeshirts and coffee mugs, used without my knowledge and permission, and there was general hell to pay. I see these folks haven’t learnt much in ten years.

But Jeffrey “getting out of dogs”? You wish! But dogs like Lizzy Lineout and Prince Ivan will have to be pried from my cold, dead hands, probably over the dead body of my wife as well: