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Keetoowah Kennels

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We are breeders of 'wolf-look-alike' dogs. We pride ourselves in providing the best possible care for our dogs and the pups that we breed. Every pup we sell has life-long after sales support and advice. We enjoy keeping in contact with all of our puppy buyers.


sakari pupHow I Became Involved


Dogs have been a part of my life since I was about 4yrs old. During this time I have learnt much about dog communication and behaviour. I have fostered many rescue dogs in need of rehabilitation. Thanks to the many courses I have taken over the years and training classes with my own dogs, as well as some of the rescues, I have been successful in regaining the trust of these rescue dogs and been able to place them in the loving forever homes that they deserve! Some of the dogs I fostered came from the rescue kennel I worked at as a volunteer. The first one from this kennel was a little rottie x gsd puppy, who had just had an operation on a very large hernia and had been dumped at the kennel along with his brothers and sisters!

I have always wanted to breed dogs, but as a young child I was unable to comprehend the hard work, stress and heartache that comes hand in hand with breeding. It wasn't until I was older, when my mum started breeding dogs, that I got an idea of what was involved. In her first litter a puppy faded and passed on; we both tried so hard to keep it going and it was very upsetting when she never woke up again. During the next 15 years I learned a lot about breeding. I was involved in all aspects and was always there at every mating, every birth and everything in between. The last litter my mum had was the most stressful of them all! Her best brood bitch Lucy developed eclampsia and did in fact die on the way to the vet, but thankfully the vet managed to bring her back. Sadly, due to her brain being starved of oxygen, she was left slightly brain damaged and was not the same dog as she was previously. Following this her 4 puppies had to be hand-reared, it was heart breaking because all Lucy wanted was to go back to her babies, but we knew if she did and allowed them to suckle it could kill her. It was also clear her babies wanted her too, as it took some time before they took to the bottle and we did at one point think we were going to lose the whole litter. Thankfully ALL the pups made it and lived long, happy lives of at least 15yrs.

I first came across the Northern Inuit "breed" at a training class I took my gsd to. When I first saw him I couldn't work out what breed he was, so I just had to ask his owner. The lady, Sandra of Sansorrella Kennels, told me he was a Northern Inuit. Anyway, later in the year I found this lady's website and arranged a visit to meet her other dogs. That was it I was in love with the "breed". Sometime after that I bought my first NI from a nice lady in Nottinghamshire called Jacqui who originally registered him and his litter mates with the British Inuit Dog Club. As my boy, Diesel, matured and I saw what a nice dog he was becoming, I seriously began thinking of breeding him and so had him hip scored at 14 months old and started thinking about getting a bitch puppy to also breed from.

Being around such wonderful dogs has filled me with so much joy and happiness, and through them I have met many new friends
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Timber, the frist NI I ever met getting a hug from my daughter Andi.