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Breeding & your Wayeh dog

All Wayeh pet puppy buyers agree to neuter/spay their puppies and not breed their puppies at any time, even by accident. They agree to this in the application and the contract.

There are widely accepted social and behavioral reasons to spay and neuter. Intact male adults are more likely to be same-sex dog aggressive. Intact female adults are more likely to get accidentally pregnant (obviously). However,

There are no significant health reasons to neuter male dogs. There ARE significant health reasons to delay neutering dogs at least until they physically mature at 18m+ (reduces the risk of cancer, hypothyroidism, vaccine reactions, hip displasia, and obesity).

There is one significant health reason to spay female dogs (eventually) as 1:4 intact female dogs will develop pyometria (infection in the uterus), which generally affects mature female dogs. There are multiple significant health reasons to delay spaying female dogs until physical maturity at 18m+ (significantly reduces the risk of bone cancer, hypothyroidism, UTI, spay incontinence, vaccine reactions, hip displasia, and obesity)

Note: Medical research proving the benefits of waiting to neuter and spay until full height -- around 18m in Malamutes.

What about co-ownerships and breeding?

Sometimes we don't have room at Wayeh for all the nice puppies in a litter, or the puppy is a long-coat and wouldn't do well in a multi-dog household where he spent a lot of time outdoors -- but still has every other requirement to be a "potential breeding puppy." These I place on co-ownerships. Generally with people I already know, and generally with people who already have a Wayeh pet puppy and have done exemplary things with the first dog - like obedience, rally, or agility.

Sometimes a person will contact me about owning a "potential breeding puppy" but I don't have one available at this moment and they will have to wait till the next litter. Waiting shouldn't be a hardship if you are serious about a Wayeh puppy. If "just any puppy" will do, you can find breeders all over the internet who will sell you "just any puppy" right now.

Buying a puppy from Wayeh is going to be work on your part. Buying a "potential breeding puppy" is going to be more work before and after you get your puppy. If you want to learn to be a breeder, I will be happy to get you started. If you don't want to be a breeder, but you don't object to Wayeh possibly using your dog in the future, you will still have to do the necessary training. Owning a "potential breeding puppy" means the dog is intact dog (not spayed/neutered) and this means they have hormones. You will have to deal with hormones, which means additional training and fencing and diligence on your part.

Note: America is the only country in the world that routinely desexes their dogs. Every other nation understands that hormones are normal and necessary to a healthy dog.

The easiest Malamute to live with is the neutered dog who went through a lot of puppy classes and obedience AND was heavily socialized in the first year of his life EVERY WEEK.

The hardest Malamute to live with is the intact dog who went to the basics of puppy classes and obedience and whose owner left them at home or in the backyard until they were complete hellions -- then you're in trouble, the dog is in trouble, and you can forget breeding, you need to neuter that beast ASAP, which will help, but it is only the first, of a lot of extra, steps you will have to take to get back to a dog you are safe with and who is a pleasure to be with.

Owning a Malamute means you bear a responsibility to owning a dog who is safe in public and the home. Owning a Malamute with hormones means you bear additional responsibilities because hormones make them stupid. And more aggressive to same sex dogs. And stupid. And more likely to be escape artists. And stupid. And more likely to do any durned thing it takes to get to the opposite sex when the hormones are screaming in their ears and they can't hear a word you say.

Male pet puppies should be neutered between 12-24 months. The average puppy buyer is not equipped to handle hormones -- they don't have the patience, the training, the patience, the facilities, or the patience to deal with a teenager who won't shut up and has lost his brain and won't shut up and won't stop pacing and won't shut up.

My Summer at 18 months was on her way back to Billie Stewart's because she was a crazy lunatic monster -- picture a human teenager without any social restraint, not that human teenagers have much to begin with. Billie helped me through it, thank God. Summer stayed and grew out of most of it with a lot of serious training and constant socialization. My Tom T. at 18 months was also a crazy lunatic monster -- but I was his breeder and there was no one to send him back to -- so he got a lot of serious training and constant socialization. Maestro at 18m --crazy lunatic monster -- decided that he wanted to be the boss of Tom T. Well, THAT didn't work. And now they can't live loose together, although they live in adjoining kennels, they tolerate each other, with age, but they don't LIKE each other. Malamutes with hormones hold grudges against their same sex-pack members (some of them without hormones do as well) but once there is a break, it's broken. If you have 2 dogs of the same sex and one of them develops a grudge, you have to separate for the rest of their life. (Note: I won't even sell pet puppies to homes with the same sex dogs in them -- each and ever time there were problems, big problems. If you want a pet, neuter it, get one the opposite sex of your current dog, and train and socialize.)

So, if you are still reading after all that. here's the deal:

Pay pet price for a "potential breeding puppy"

Do at least the required 2 training classes PLUS socialize like crazy - especially the first year

Send regular pictures OR visit regularly for evaluations

@ 2y pass the OFA hips (Good or Excellent), CERF eyes, & thyroid normal

All puppy buyers must do the above

Bring the dog to Wayeh for a live cover (which we prefer!) OR

Collect the dog at your vet and ship the semen to Wayeh's AI vet for storage - Wayeh pays for storage and AI costs

If we get at least 2 live puppies (one to keep and one to sell), Wayeh pays back the owner the purchase price as a stud fee. AKC papers for males stay with Wayeh in our name until the puppy is neutered (if ever). AKC papers for females are in both names.

If you breed the dog to one of your girls, (Wayeh must approve the first breeding) Wayeh gets second pick puppy back as the difference between puppy price and breeding price.

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Wayeh Alaskan Malamutes last updated 09/14/2011

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