Recently, there was a two-year celebration of the Kamchatka Sled Dog as a purebred. On February 26, 1992, Russian Cynological Federation recognized our local dog breed. What is the origin of this dog?
What is his modern state? Does he have any future? I hope answers to these questions are interesting to people of Kamchatka and especially to those, who consider the breed their own. Now, not every part of the country in has its own breed. How many breeds created by wise people’s selection have vanished forever? Maybe someone, knowing more about the Kamchatka Dog, will take care of him and make a positive contribution to his future.
Let us take a look into the past going back about 10,000 years. Mammoths, hairy rhinoceros, muskoxen, and reindeer were scattered among tundra between frozen mountain ridges and plains. In the river valley, what now is called the Kamchatka River, there was a village of bison hunters. They already had Laika-like domesticated dogs. This was found by a noted archeologis,t N. N. Dikov, in the sixth layer of ancient burials at the Ushkopvskaya Site. Thus, history of the Kamchatka Dog is at least 10,000 years old.
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