We acquired our first Alaskan Malamute, whom we named "Babe" in 1992. She was a gift for Christmas for me from my husband. Not a good thing to do and we actually bought her from the wrong place as well: a pet store! But I had always loved the northern breeds. We had a Husky/ Wolf mix and we just were not able to keep her. She would go through windows to get out. So we placed her somewhere else. When I saw the Malamute at the pet store I had no clue about what they were like. I had never seen one before but, my husband told me that they were so much better for us than a Husky and he was right about that but failed to tell me how similar they are in other ways too. The dog walks were okay for the first few months and then it ended up being MY being drug more than walking the dog. The yard was dug up, even some birds that I had became a meal to her. But I still loved her with all of that. I loved her so much that I was one of those people that said: "let's get another one and have pups!" and that's were Dakota came in. It was great other than I had no where to put my male when she was in heat so I had a litter of pups and then another. So off we went to get him fixed. Problem was I found myself keeping one out of the first litter, which was Missy and then when litter two came along we wanting to keep a male so we kept Nantia. Well the kids were grown and I didn't have them so I soon found that my 800 sq foot city home that I had managed to raise 3 children is was just not big enough anymore. So we moved here July 1 st 1998 to this farm home. Now we are so much in debt, have more dogs that we ever wanted and have so much work that we have to hire people to help sometimes. The 27 acre's is just a lot to care for. But we love the breed and have made them our children. All the kennels have inside and outside access at all time. The puppies all have dog doors as well. The puppies start wondering out about 4 weeks old. My vet bills are in the thousand and my dog food bills as well. So now I spend long hour days just caring for my dogs. I love it that I can place puppies in good homes, some have not been so good over the years though. My heart has always been more into rescue but I have become overwhelmed with older dogs and homeless dogs that I just am not able to do the rescue like I want to. I retire my dogs at 6 years old, sometimes earlier. And they stay here till they are either adopted out or die. I would never think to take a dog to a pound or have it put down just because it is no more use to me. It is good to sell a pup but I have always been happier in placing an adult. So if you can find it in your heart to take a retired mom home with one of the pups that would be great. But please know the breed before purchasing a Malamute. There a beautiful dog but can really be a hand full if they are not worked with. And please spay or neuter. It is not the money that people think it is in raising them. Unless you are one of those cold hearted people that think nothing of losing a pup or an adult. I bottle feed some of my pups and that is just to keep them more into human contact. I don't like to mass produce dogs. I think that two litters at once is more than I can handle. So that leaves me having about 6 t0 7 litters a year.. Please be sure to check out care requirements, socialization and exercise. Kathy at Candy Rock 13701 Andress Road Berlin Heights, OH 44814 419-588-3170 kathy@alaskanmalamutebreeder.com Finely Bred Alaskan Malamutes |



Kennel Operations Our dogs are at our home so there is no worry about hours of operation. Someone is usually here. The kennel is ran through 3 buildings and the chances of someone answering the door is most likely not going to happen. So please call ahead. We would appreciate no one before 10:00 am and no one after 10: 00 p.m The kennel is ran by myself, my husband that is a repair man, not a poop scooper and my daughter. All sells go through me. Thanks , Kathy at Candyrock |
here. We have older Alaskan Malamute Adults are long retired and need their medication daily. Some will live their lives out there. Diesel and Dayna's mother Kele is still her and we also has her mother Kachina and her father Mingan still here. Although they are no longer listed on the sire and dam pages. All our dogs have inside heated building and outside runs. Our dogs are not kept in 10 x10 Kennels. We feel that is unexceptionable not to have building for them to come into . But in Ohio we do get lots of snow and cold weather where some other states don't have those problem. Future plans are to build a new nursery that will be set up that we can also do grooming. In the winter months it is hard to bath our mom's at this time. The nursery is set up with hot and cold water, air conditioning and washer and dryer. We cut wood all summer and burn all winter. The nursery and the main kennel in the back both have a back up furnace but our Barn doesn't. Our Barn is used for older retired dogs as well as smaller pups. We do have a couple Shiba Inu's but only have 2 litters a year at most. All of our Adults get heart worm meds every month in the summer months. All have access to food and water at all times and all the food and water is located in a dry building. We feed a premium dog food . But varies with each dog. We only have a couple dogs that are housed together and those dogs are retired. At this time there is only one pair that share a kennel. |
