The weather suddenly turned warmer, too warm even for relaxed bike runs with my leaders. So I had time to revise my website and finish up its new educational section, 'way ahead of schedule. I thought it would take me weeks to find enough spare moments to research and write up a dozen different historic Siberian Husky bloodlines and build web pages for them. Surprise, surprise! All finished, thirteen of them. Probably I shall add one or two more as they come to my attention and time permits. Here is the link for "Learning More About Siberian Husky Bloodlines":
http://www.seppalasleddogs.com/shbloodlns.htm
It's surprising how little information there is on the web about basic matters of that sort. I have run web searches for every one of the thirteen names on the nav bar on the above index page. All I came up with was names in on-line pedigrees, one Danish list of kennel-names and owners — and the pages of my own site, or articles I wrote myself years ago. For the major names, maybe a brief mention in the SHCA's capsule breed-history rundown. For a breed that registered 12,350 litters with AKC alone last year, that's a really lousy showing with respect to educating breeders! I know of at least four major Siberian Husky historians. As far as I know, not one of them has a website.
People will probably criticise me for slanting my bloodline information articles towards my own particular point of view, inevitably. Tough beans. My site is about Seppala Siberian Sleddogs, not about Siberian Huskies, so the articles are slanted towards explaining why various mainstream SH bloodlines are not part of the SSSD gene pool. Those who don't like that should maybe curtail their indignation in favour of putting up their own educational website to tell novice Siberian Husky breeders everything they need to know about historic SH bloodlines and other topics relevant to their hobby. Meanwhile, I know my pages will see heavy traffic, because they represent the only source of this information online.
Posted by jjeffrey at August 18, 2003 05:20 PM