I've never really believed in coincidence. So when my wife received a curious email message from a presumably neutral third party tonight, I could only conclude that if the post immediately below this one threw down the gauntlet, that gauntlet has immediately been picked up! (And I thought Seppala politics were heavy...)
The message in question "leaked" the news that The Parent Club (CCA) has indeed decided to fast track the Chinook breed into AKC Miscellaneous Class, and thence to full AKC breed recognition within the next two years! It further stated that not only the Chinook Cross dogs and their owners, but also the twenty-five breeders of Chinook "purebreds" who stayed out of FSS in protest at the biased and inequitable way in which things were being handled, "will be permanently excluded from AKC and the breed will split."
That's putting it pretty god-damned bluntly, isn't it! A lot of people have been sitting on the fence, trying to decide how this thing would play out. It now seems likely that all they'll get for their fence-sitting is a bunch of pickets up their butts.
C'est la guerre, ça.
Posted by ditkoofseppala at May 18, 2008 10:36 PMWith UKC recognition of the Crossbreeding Program won't the UKC dogs eventually become the healthier strain(?) of Chinook Dog?
Chris
"La guerre, la guerre - ce n'est pas une raison pour se faire mal"
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Guerre_des_tuques
Il faut agir maintenant pour assurer que les "Chinook dit de Walden", comme les "chiens d'attelages sibériens dit de Seppala" puissent continuer à faire leur travail avec leurs amis humains.
Cette guerre ne devrait pas retarder l'inclusion des "Walden's Chinook" dans le WCAC en tant que Race en évolution au Canada immédiatement.
C'est le temps de se "mobiliser" mais le mois de juin arrive rapidement et nous avons beaucoup de travail déjà - tous ne sont pas aussi flexible que nous.
Armé de mon fusil mais aussi d'une fleur entre les dents,
JM
Posted by: JM Belanger at May 19, 2008 04:52 AM