Kamchatka Sled Dog

'Kamchatka riding dog') is a rare landrace of sled laika developed by the Itelmen and Koryak people of Kamchatka, Russia.

[2][5] Color is most often black, dark or light grey, with prick ears and oblique yellow, brown or blue eyes.

[2] Many populations of Kamchatka sled dogs are still maintained as a landrace using traditional methods including the occasional outcrossing to produce wolfdogs.

[2] Archeologists have uncovered evidence of sled dogs during thousand year old excavations in the Kamchatka Peninsula.

[5] Koryaks believe that the door to the afterlife was guarded by dogs which had to be bribed to allow the newly deceased to pass through.

[2][5] Prior to the introduction of reindeer, Kamchatka sled dogs were allowed to roam freely during the summer to find their own food.