This July will mark one year of having Seppala Siberians here, it has been an eventful year......
It's raining out again and it seems we are in another monsoon season mud cycle..
Ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies the good the bad and the ugly...
Learned, and learning every day...
We got our litter as we had set out to do in this last year - 6 pup's of Seppala Siberian Sleddogs to build a team, MS pure no less ..
We lost the only Female and a fine male from the litter to a stupid mistake in judgment and basic kennel security on my part.
We joined International Seppala Association as part of obtaining our Seppala's
For any number of reasons it is at square one as an organization,
J.J. Bragg has announced he folded his Seppala Siberian Sleddog Project...
That was the organization that in effect tied it all together with the Working Canine Association of Canada.
Learned a lot in the last year about driving a team , training a team, the value of a good leader.
So a shake up in any organizational matters is still settling out and time may be all that's needed, Our team is fairing no better, We could not work out terms for(Xaros), the lead we had been training and performance proving and will be returning him to Seppala Kennels with a couple other dogs we had been helping out with, Our other lead in training (Vatyna) place in the team and kennel is still not determined, has had some issues fitting in, one of my favorite dogs, she likes to lead and please.
We just happened to fall into an affordable deal for a race experienced trail lead, Vixen of Seppalta. We hope she will help fill the void at lead... a 4 dog mixed, %, sorta, AKA, depends on who ya ask and the moon phase Seppala team,, ;-} (That's a joke people) is the best we will be able to manage this winter and the 4 yearlings to train. getting out meeting other like minded people, be it at races, fun runs or whatever is going to be a priority this year,
The International Seppala Association... Stagnant, No member involvement and the inquires I did of prior members on file produced no interest... We have put the ISA file at the bottom of the in basket for now.
