The full roster, nineteen names

The roster is the sheet the whole the-dogs file hangs from. The record preserves dogs.html, the index page, and beneath it six male pages and thirteen female pages, nineteen named bulldogs in all. A marquee file of seasons files a presenter's years as dated dispatches; this roster files a kennel's population as a single dated list.

The six males

Sumo and Atlas carry the fullest files, each with a pedigree page. Behind them stand Frodo, Dude, Frankie and Acro, named and paged but thinner in the record. Six males is a serious bench for a small kennel: enough to plan litters against several females without repeating a pairing.

The thirteen females

The females' directory lists Atlantis, Baja, Gebi, Jubilee, Keiko, Lilian, Madam, Sky, Spell, Titka, Ub, Vicky and Vijaja, whose page was filed as lilly_.html, suggesting a name that changed or a nickname that stuck. Several carried portrait files named after other dogs, pepper-small.jpg under Jubilee, whoopie-small.jpg under Ub, which the bench reads as page images recycled or mislabeled, the small untidiness of a site maintained by hand.

What a roster page is for

A dogs.html index is the page a breeder's site exists for: it is the proof of population. Nineteen named adults is a working kennel, not a hobby pair, and the archive's preservation of the whole directory is what lets this bench read the operation's scale.

What the record does not keep

It does not say which dogs were home-bred and which were bought, which were active in 2013 and which had already left or retired. The roster is a census, not a biography.

Nineteen as a number

A census of nineteen named adults is the bench's best measure of the operation's size. A pet owner does not keep nineteen bulldogs; a show home rarely does. Nineteen is the population of a breeding program, enough females to run several litters a year and enough males to vary the pairings. The roster page dogs.html was where the site made that scale visible at a glance, the wall where the whole bench hung at once.

The recycled portrait names

The portrait filenames under the females' directories are worth a second look: pepper-small.jpg under Jubilee, whoopie-small.jpg under Ub. Either the kennel reused photographs across pages, or the file names kept the names of earlier dogs, placeholders never renamed. The bench does not decide between the two; it records the mismatch as the kind of seam a hand-built site leaves, the places where the roster's upkeep shows.

The limits of this sheet

A roster proves population, not quality, and the bench does not read nineteen pages as nineteen good dogs. It reads them as nineteen commitments: nineteen animals the kennel named, photographed and hung on its site, which is the scale and the care the record can actually prove. Read as a whole, the roster also shows the kennel's balance: twice as many females as males, which is the shape of a breeding program rather than a show string. Females produce the litters; males, especially documented ones like Sumo and Atlas, are kept for the pairings they make possible. The archive's preservation of the full directory, thin as some pages are, is what lets the bench make that reading at all, and the sheet keeps the census as the file's ground truth.

How the bench files it

The roster is filed as the file's spine: nineteen drafts, six males, thirteen females, one kennel in Greece that named them all and gave each a page.