SLEDDOG LEGACY ONLINE is now freely available to the public at the following URL:
http://www.seppalasleddogs.com/legacy/index.html
Sleddog Legacy Online will have a very broadly-drawn set of objectives. Educational in nature, canine in focus, dealing primarily with "legacy sleddog breeds" in harmony with International Seppala Association objectives, it will be inclusive rather than exclusive in content. It will publish -- or link -- anything that is or should be of interest to sleddog owners, breeders and fanciers, but with emphasis on the historic breeds, dog-breeding, and recreational aspects rather than a narrow focus on racing alone, though racing items are certainly welcome. Its main item categories will be news, articles, opinion, announcements, links, genetics and breeding.
It will have the potential to become an "umbrella" and meeting point for a large and numerous diversity of different people, interests, organisations and entities. To begin with, it will provide a platform for news and public announcements from the following: The Seppala Siberian Sleddog Project, the International Seppala Association, the Working Canine Association of Canada, SeppalaSiberianSleddog, LegacySleddogs, and ChinookSledDogs Yahoo! Groups, Tullibardine Farms Chinooks, Seppala Kennels, and SledDogBlog! That's not intended in any way to be an exclusive list, just informing others that all news from those parties will be found on the new newsletter. (From our point of view, it's well worth doing if for no other reason than to provide a central bulletin board for the foregoing, and to obviate the necessity of individual organisation newsletters or bulletins.) But we hope Sleddog Legacy Online will quickly grow to have a much broader constituency and readership.
A special e-mail account has been set up for submissions to the new
newsletter; please make a note of it:
legacy (at) seppalasleddogs (dot) com
We invite the sleddog public to submit news items of interest,
announcements, suggestions for articles, interesting web links, litter
announcements of any sleddog breed, etc. The more you submit, the more
interesting and useful this newsletter will be.
We have a three-person editorial board in an effort to ensure continuity, especially through the difficult winter months. I would emphasise that this is a FREE, PUBLIC facility offered and underwritten by the International Seppala Association and the Seppala Siberian Sleddog Project. We hope it will be useful to all of us who share a common concern for minority sleddog breeds, for rare breed conservation, and for the preservation and promotion of recreational dog driving as a family sport.
With best wishes to all as we go into the fall training season,
J. Jeffrey Bragg
I. S. A. President and Chair
