Peter Orne, Sukee Kennels, & The 1977 (4) Dog Genetic Bottleneck: PG Raluk, Riki, Myrra, Noma

More stark realities and reminders from the past, in just how dire the Chinooks' straights were in by mid '70s thru '81 even, when both Peter Orne and Sukee Kennels, Warren, ME, had done their best by Peter R's remaining 10 Perry Greene Kennels Chinooks in 1977 (resulting then in a 4 dog genetic bottleneck finally, 2males [Raluk, Riki], & 2 females [Myrra, Noma, littersisters]).  And so read how the dogs & these 4 bloodlines survived those also hard economic and survivalist times (and understand what my real personal desa vu today remains between  '77 and '07 ongoing U.S.A./north american economic crises too, quite frankly!).

For these are some of the documents I also share now, simply because the dogs & their people did survive, and yet due only then to--
PG Raluk, Riki, Myrra, & Noma,
Sukeforth's & Orne's plea for more help finally in '81, and

SingingWoods, Alder Patch, & Yokayo's answer to that plea, Fall '81.

And I share these tidbit/replicas of those times, expressly NOT to further politic with today's surviving breeders (in their whelping boxes, or on sled trails, & in show rings yet in '11--  And so may EVERY Chinook at AKC Euk Nat'ls '11 & their humans SHINE this weekend, in fact!  Bless them and you all!). 
But indeed I do share expressly TO warn those of us who haven't also reviewed the--
'77 Four Dog Genetic Bottleneck', in both human and dog terms, of how we need not let the memory of Peter Orne, nor Raluk, Riki, Myrra, & Noma further down here forward. 

This my plea to further honor Sukeforth's and Orne's plea then all over again, by never putting this much genetic pressure ever again, on either the UKC or AKC Chinook breeds then, here forward. 

And may the spirit of Peter Orne continue to RIP today.  If memory serves, he died the way he lived-- flying the friendly skies, piloting his own plane(s), as he did then so many moons ago also on behalf of every Chinook.  I'll see if I can find his local Maine obit to link here later today too finally. 

But the man sure enough did what he could to the utmost then for the surviving Chinooks...rest his soul.  So this my page in honor of Orne's solid contributions too then, and to show again how we all do in fact remain resting on the Chinooks' '77 survival yet in '11.    And so what's 35years in evolution time?  Not much, for man nor dog.

And I will likely add an add'l page for add'l Sukee Kennels docs in times to come.  For I have a lot more to share and say about the Sukee Kennels Chinook pedigrees themselves.  In short though, meantime: 
PLS NOTE:  The simple 2 Gen peds listed in Harry and Katy Gray's Northdown/CCOA listings below are NOT representative of full depth of these surviving dogs pedigress.  I think PG Barrow's (born at Sukee) maternal ped is 4 or more gens deep, for example.  I'll add more useful detail this topic of minutia too then under separate post(s) later this winter. 

For again- Pls do not think these simple 2 gen peds are complete peds of dogs transferred then in '77 or in '81.  For in many cases, they are not.  These sketches obviously to denote the direct relationships/genetic bottleneck itself in '77, once the Gray's/CCOA began to study docs as transferred to them (in '86, if memory serves), from the Wollperts.  And the final typewritten Fall '81 Transfer doc I don't know who created.  But I believe it too remains an accurate reference based on solid source docs (same Sukee pedigrees).