Discussions around genetic diversity in the Seppala Siberian Sleddog never truly begin or end; they simply permeate. Seppalas have never enjoyed the luxury of wide genetic berth to pull from in times of need, or when inbreeding depression starts to rear its ugly head. This is true of all purebreds but even more so of Seppalas, whose initial guiding breed principle was that dogs outside a specific set from the 1920s Poland Spring Kennel, even if considered Siberian by the AKC, were to be excluded. It sustained for a while – An awfully long time in fact, perhaps owing