ABOUT US:
We are a family of eight. Jim and I have been married for 26 years. Our oldest daughter is 25 and lives in Maine. With us here at home are Tony(21), Marie(18), Troy(16), Tonya(12), and Katie(10): Pictures of each are at the very bottom of this page. They are/were all homeschooled.
Our whole adventure with dogs and dog breeding started shortly after I was diagnosed with the rare disease erythromelalgia which is an extreme insensitivity to heat. The disease involves my feet, lower legs, knees, hands, face, ears, breathing, and heartbeat whenever I am in a temperature above what each part of my body can handle. My feet are the worse with the need to put much care in preventing them from getting too hot, which is no easy matter. I am unable to go anywhere without great pain, so therefore, I literally go only to the dentist and doctor. And because I cannot go anywhere, then the whole family rarely goes anywhere except to our most visited place, our beloved vet clinic.
Our first dogs were Joe, Smokey (an Alaskan Malamute male that we used to use for breeding), Lady, and Baby. At first we were just going to start a sled dog team because we were anticipating a move up to the Arctic area because of my disease. But after months of Jim's looking for a job up there, we knew that we weren't going there at least right now in life because he couldn't find a job. Then, after so many litters were born, we fell in love with dog breeding. It is thrilling to see each puppy grow up to make a fine pet for someone. They each have their own individual personalities and looks.
OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR DOGS:
We will be the first ones to admit that some of our dogs do not have the best quality looks. When we first began to add dogs and puppies to our group of dogs, we were only interested in quickly building up a sled dog team. We didn't care what they looked like. But when we kept a puppy or bought a puppy or dog, we made a commitment to each that, unless they would be better off somewhere else, we would never get rid of them. If we had it to do all over again, we would only have a small group of highly quality-looking AKC purebred Alaskan Malamutes and Siberian Huskies. So, we have alot of great dog friends who are each unique!
Each of our dogs get their teeth brushed and their fur combed 5-7 times each week. We deem the brushing of a dog's teeth as essential. Our dogs' teeth are whiter and freer of plaque than any that we have seen. If we can brush ALL of our dogs' teeth very regularily, any and all people can brush their dogs' teeth regularily. Our dogs also get the best of vet care (Please see our references found on the home page).
OUR NEW HOME:
We are happy to announce that we are living in our new location as of the middle of August, 2005! We want to thank those folks that were responsible for us moving into our new home! For months, our 21 and 18 year olds had been saying that where we were living was too small. But I kept saying that we did not have the finances to move. It turned out that we were able to afford to move! We are now living in a 6 times larger piece of property! Not only is the place much larger for the sake of all of our dogs, but, boy, are our children enjoying country living! They lived in the city their whole lives.
Our new location will now allow us to do the following:
1. Provide a 6 times larger area for all of our adult dogs.
2. Provide a much larger and nicer area for each mother and her puppies.
3. Allow us to keep the "pick" of any litter that we want. We had absolutely no extra room for expansion at our old
property.
4. Add several more blue-eyed Siberian beauties from those wonderful Siberian Husky breeders that we bought Hurricane, Earthquake, Cyclone, Storm, Thunder, Leaning, and Standing from.
5. Provide a place for our dogs to retire and stay with us.
6. Provide a home for rescue dogs. We currently have 14 rescue dogs. Unfortunately, we have no available areas for any more rescue dogs at this time.
As I already said, we had absolutely no room for anything extra at our old property.
As well as all of the above, we want to lastly thank those folks that were responsible for our move for making it possible to meet a wonderful man named Joe who finished building an addition and making alterations onto our new home that will help accommodate the rare disease that I have. If it were not for moving, we would never have
met this man Joe. We had come across one dead end after another in seeking these alterations and this addition from everyone that we contacted. We certainly are thankful that we did not have this extremely expensive work done on our old house before we moved.
Mom and puppies' houses.
Our dogs live in groups.
One of our areas for our dogs that is currently under construction.
This is where most of our Siberian
Huskies live. Do you see the boards
angling in to keep Crystal in?
This is one shelter for rain and
storms as well as where the food
and water are kept.
Our 21, 18, & 16 year olds built all of our new dog areas by themselves!
This is where Silver Star, Chaos, and Whirlwind Fred, our new AKC purebred Siberian Husky male, live. Also, different groups of females rotate in and out of this area. When one group goes into heat, they come out, and a different group comes in. Most of the time the female group is Sheba, Tundra, Cherokee, and M & M, Missle and Power's daughter..
There is royal Joe Kool ("Joe Cool"), our neutered black and white Alaskan Malamute /Siberian Husky, laying in the background. He is 8 years old and tied for our oldest dog. He could get over and through every type of fence, including a 6 foot wooden fence and over a 4 foot chain-link fence with wires on top while being zapped by an underground electric fence. We couldn't watch that for very long before we resorted to chaining Joe just like he was when we obtained him when he was 7 months old. But, now we have an 8 foot wooden fence, and he cannot get out and is unchained 24 hours a day for the first time in his life! Joe thanks those folks who were responsible for our move!
Some of our Siberian Huskies.
Marie & Joe (our first dog)
Tony & Cyclone
Tonya & Baby Katie & Lady
Lady & Baby came on the same day as our third and fourth dogs.
Troy & Blizzard
