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SEPPALAS

Posted : 12/5/2008 1:05:17 AM

anyone ever heard of this type of sled dog? i was typing in separation anxiety... spelled it wrong.... but you know how firefox google will try to guess the search for you.... it turned up seppala siberian sled dog.....

http://documents.seppalasleddogs.com/html-documents/standard.htm

http://seppala-history.seppalasleddogs.com/postmark.htm

reminds me of one of those puffin hunting dogs. i forget what they're called.......

jennie_c_d

Posted : 12/5/2008 10:51:09 AM

It reminds me of Sofia. Something about the shape of the head and neck. It's a beautiful dog!

corvus

Posted : 12/5/2008 8:24:13 PM

Lundehunds are the puffin hunting dogs. They are smaller, though.

I feel like I came across this recently but the breed was a guard breed and looked slightly different. Must have been something that sounded like Seppala.

Debbie Stull

Posted : 12/5/2008 8:27:07 PM

The breed was named after a famous sleddog racer from some time ago. He had his own strain of racing Siberians.

DumDog

Posted : 12/6/2008 1:25:30 AM

thats what i understood too. just like Scott or Johnson American bulldogs.. its just a bloodline that separates this strain from others.

wasnt their creator the owner of one of the sled dogs that ran in the relay to Alaska with Balto?

Debbie Stull

Posted : 12/7/2008 11:33:41 AM

I think you may be correct. I seem to remember that Seppala was a contemperary of that time. Used to know where there was a real good article about the man and his dogs, but I can't find it!

AgileGSD

Posted : 12/7/2008 11:11:18 PM

I'm pretty sure this is a working line of Sibes, I was on another forum with someone who had them (she was a musher).