Alaskan Malamute Facts, InfoYou do not need to be a member of ANY club in Canada to breed or own Alaskan Malamutes - or any other breed of dog. As far as registries (ie CKC, AKC, UKC) are concerned, 'purebreds' are about papers, tracking relatives and charging a fee to provide those services, and dog shows and other formal events. By law, in Canada, your dog requires registration papers to be considered a legitimate, legal, purebred Alaskan Malamute. It is illegal to sell a registered Alaskan Malamute puppy as 'purebred Alaskan Malamute without papers' in Canada - and the dog is considered a mixed-breed. It is also illegal to sell 'with papers' at one price and without papers at another price. And, remember, if you find a cheap Alaskan Malamute for sale - or an expensive one - price DOES NOT dictate quality. A $500 dog might actually be the healthiest dog you ever own - but it's not the standard, or average. Generally, quick, cheap sales of questionable pedigrees, backgrounds prove to be costly, long-term decisions.
Many people can 'say' they belong to a club or organization. Asking Alaska Malmute breeders to prove their membership, with their current membership cards (that is why they are given, after all) will let you know exactly what you are dealing with should they not have those cards or find a reason to not show them. Not one member of any club would mind proving they are a member. Not one. Only someone who did not belong to the club, has no ability to prove it, would have an issue with verifying their membership status. While it is a personal choice to belong to a club, normally most purebred enthusiasts belong to at least one breed-specific club (the AMCA or AMCC for example) and one all-breed dog club (in my case, TIKO but there is no shortage of all breed clubs in Canada or the USA). A few might also belong to a working club (Mush Larose in my case, but there are a number of show clubs that have 'working' in their title, but nothing to do with working events or excursions, which is fine, just different), or Alaska Malemute rescue (AMHL or AMAL in my case, there are other Mal rescues in the USA, too). But to 'belong' to a club one needs to donate one's time, energy, and commitment to participate in the club. I've also written articles and / or photographed images for the Alaskan Malamute Club of Canada; the Alaskan Malamute Annual (commercial publication), the Alaskan Malamute HELP League (Rescue); and have served as the newsletter editor / designer for both the HELP League and the AMCC at various times. I continue to edit the AMCCs Web site and have for a few years, was Regional Director for the club, for nearly two years and have helped on several other Web sites for different clubs. In 2009, I was honored with 'Alaskan Malamute Club of Canada's Member of the Year.' I have arranged or participated in many working or breed demonstrations, for the breed, obedience, agility, sledding, packing, and dryland - taking the dogs and equipment all over Ontario for the benefit of the general public - for more than 10 years for several of the Club's in which I am involved. As of 2014 I became a "Mentor / Distinguished Member" for an Alaskan Malamute Club of America's program to help provide information on a variety of topics related to the Alaskan Malamute. In my case, General Information, Conformation, Breeding, Weight Pull, Mushing, Dryland and Health issues. I'm in the processing of qualifying for the Packing - yes, we had to 'prove' we had experience in each of these topics, for which we were sanctioned, and it was a lot of paper work, titles, event wins I had to send in. It was worth it! Tink and Ernie have met the requirements for packing, Dozer is half done, as is Ooky (most of my experience is from competitions, not excursions for certificates). Their paperwork should be done before the end of 2014. |
Alaskan Malamute organizations, clubs, in which I'm a member:Alaskan Malamute facts are throughout this site but you can find other information at links on this page. I've also helped with many Alaskan Malamute info and working demonstrations, rescue events - and rescuing dogs - for many of the Alaskan Malamute clubs in which I am a member during the past 12 years. Below are the Malamute Clubs or Working dog organizations in which I am a member, or others that have something to do with purebred dogs - but you can't join - such as OFA or AKC.
Alaskan Malamute Clubs: •Alaskan Malamute Club of Canada (Breed Club, Canada) •Alaskan Malamute Club of America (Breed Club, USA) •World of Mals (online information portal) Alaskan Malamute Rescue: •Alaskan Malamute Assistance League (Alaskan Malamute Rescue) •Alaskan Malamute HELP League (Alaskan Malamute Rescue - Canada) Working and other Organizations: •Marmora Dog Club (Eastern Ontario) •Mush Larose (Eastern Ontario) •American Academy of Veterinary Nutrition Other Interesting Links: •Canadian Kennel Club (CKC) •TIKO (Eastern Ontario, All Breed Club) •American Kennel Club (AKC) Health, Disease Testing (USA) http://www.offa.org/ Wikipedia Alaskan Malamute Information (United States) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Malamute Sled Dog Central - http://www.sleddogcentral.com/ Alaskan Malamute Breeders related to my dogs: Yukonjak Alaskan Malamutes (Eastern Ontario, Canada) Cascade Alaskan Malamutes (Washington, United States) Snoklassic Alaskan Malamutes (Michigan, United States) Snowlion Alaskan Malamutes (California, United States) Alaskan Malamute Breeder Friends: Dragonmyst Alaskan Malamutes (Florida, United States) My old Web site base page: http://slushpuppy.50webs.com http://www.myalaskanmalamutes.com/ |
Technologies Employed for this site ...
I get asked a bit, usually by breeders of other breeds, what I am using for this site, seeing as it's pretty popular. Weebly is where the base shell of the Web site comes from. I have edited the code a bit, but really, if you want to edit the code, a lot, NONE of these 'cloud-based' Web editors and tools are all that appropriate. This, however, has been the direction of Web editing for a minimum of 5 years. It happened in the word processing industry (which originated as code-based, then went point-and-click or drag-and-drop), then happened to the desktop publishing industry (which also originated as code-based, then went point-and-click or drag-and-drop). Only die-hard coders would find fault with Weebly. Again. if you want to code, use Dreamweaver. If you want to spend more time on the content, use something like Weebly. I picked Weebly because it had the most features. While I did pay for the upgrade, it was a fair price, for what was received. Only once has my site gone down in all these years. I use a few of the Google Webmaster tools, etc. Statcounter keeps track of the hits. Basically, for ANY breeder or other small business out there, there should be no reason, any more, why you can't build and maintain your own Web site, whether large or small, with tools like these - they are simple! In fact, I start the students out with these same tools, before they get into the much more complicated code-based systems. It gives them excellent design structures to follow for their own Web sites WITHOUT worrying about code. By trade I was a journalist ... but this site is purely for me. I have no intention of working commercially, in design, photography or writing, again. The site is here purely to educated people, give me something to do, for my dogs, and not much else. Hope you enjoyed it!