ALASKAN KLEE KAI KENNELETTE RULES AND REGULATIONS: 

        THE REASON FOR THE NEED OF RULES AND REGULATIONS:

Our Rules and Regulations are taken from the long standing Rules and Regulations for Ownership as written by Linda S. Spurlin, Developer of the Breed, and amended by the Alaskan Klee Kai Association of America, Inc. (AKKAOA), the original Parent Club for the Breed.

The basic original  rules have been carefully followed since the early 1970's when Linda started the Breed, until 1999 when United Kennel Club determined it should no longer be a requirement for any Alaskan Klee Kai to be approved, or disapproved,  for the breeding program by the AKKAOA.   I firmly believe that the adherence to these original rules is one of the main things that made our Breed what it is, and that our continuing adherence to the original rules is what has made our particular line of this breed as healthy and sturdy and beautiful as it is. 

The Registry for the Alaskan Klee Kai  is held by the United Kennel Club, and at the time of this writing  the UKC has determined that the AKKAOA should  no longer  REQUIRE adherence to  rules by owners and/or breeders of the Alaskan Klee Kai.

UKC will now register a new litter of Alaskan Klee Kai without  qualification/evaluation procedures to determine if the parent dogs should be allowed to breed.  It was Linda's opinion, and is my opinion, that all dogs that carry Disqualification per the Official Breed Standards or have presumed genetic medical or structural faults  should be spayed or neutered in an attempt to keep those faults from becoming firmly established in the breed. 

UKC only determines quality in the show ring, and now AKKAOA no longer carries the responsibility of determining quality, so it is now left up to the individual breeder to be honest and to breed only those that would have previously been qualified.  UKC Judges can disqualify a dog which has been presented in the show ring and falls short in quality.

The theory seems to be that anyone who is breeding Registered dogs will be a conscientious breeder and will only breed those dogs that would do well in a show ring, and the individual breeder should be allowed to qualify his own dogs without the benefit of a committee, and since the breeder must be conscientious and loyal to the breed, you are going to have the same dogs in the breeding pool as you would have if judgment had been passed by a committee.

I do not happen to agree with this theory as I have dealt with enough people over the years to know that even a conscientious breeder who is very willing to follow the guidelines of the organization can easily become “kennel blind”.  This means that an owner and/or breeder may not see within his own dog the faults that an examining person or a committee of people would see.  Thus even a great loyal breeder is subject to breeding dogs that someone else would have disqualified.  That would be an honest mistake, that could easily happen.

Then there are the people who  go into a particular breed for the purpose of making money.  They will breed anything that has papers and looks like it can withstand the delivery of babies.  They are careful to put only the best ones into the show ring to be seen by the public, and the others are kept at home out of sight so no one knows what else is coming from that person’s kennels.  The ones that do not meet the breed standards are still oftentimes bred so the disqualifications become more firmly implanted into the breed.  

I, personally, have many concerns about any two dogs being allowed to breed and produce litters of puppies, merely because both parent dogs carry the same breed name. I also am of the opinion that many people who breed dogs don't truly understand the importance of keeping a particular trait out of the breeding pool-- too many people think that it is okay to breed that faulty trait now, because five years from now when there are more dogs available they can stop breeding that trait. 

I agree with Linda Spurlin's belief that the best method is to keep those faulty traits out of the line in the beginning rather than try to correct things in the future.   Therefore, in my own limited effort to continue to protect the Alaskan Klee Kai as much as possible, I have Rules and Regulations that apply to any Alaskan Klee Kai that is housed in my kennels, and also any Alaskan Klee Kai  that I may decide to place with another party. 

I fully realize that this is unusual for a breeder of more commonly known breeds to do, but I feel it is the only way that I can continue with Linda's efforts to have her breed  not only one of the most beautiful breeds, but one of the healthiest, with the goal of producing puppies that will more consistently meet the Breed Standards as were officially approved by the Alaskan Klee Kai Association of America, Inc. 

United Kennel Club, now owning the registry and the copy-right to UKC Breed Standards can change the standards if they wish to, but The Alaskan Klee Kai Kennelette and a few other breeders of the Alaskan Klee Kai are dedicated to the Breed Standards as were established by Linda Spurlin and approved by AKKAOA.  I believe that we should not settle for less, as these requirements certainly have been successful for the first 30 years of the existence of these miniature huskies. 

 I don't think it is appropriate to try to "fix" something that is not broken, and therefore I, personally, will continue to follow the original Rules and Regulations and will accept only a very few minor changes where my own dogs and their offspring are concerned..  

The Rules and Regulations for Ownership of one or more of our Alaskan Klee Kai as endorsed by Alaskan Klee Kai Kennelette in Peyton, Colorado is on another page. All of our Purchase and Sale Contracts will include an agreement to follow these Rules and Regulations.  People who do not wish to agree to follow the Rules and Regulations will not be eligible to obtain an Alaskan Klee Kai from our kennels.  

Further if a person receives one of my babies and later chooses not to honor the mutually agreed upon Sale and Purchase contract, that person will not be allowed to obtain any additional Alaskan Klee Kai from our kennels, and I will feel free to advise other Breeders that the subject individual has a tendency to ignore the Contractual Agreements that they have willingly entered into. 

I challenge all other Alaskan Klee Kai Breeders to write similar Rules for their own animals. 

Please go back to the Information Page and click on the Link for the Kennelette Rules and Regulations.

I apologize for the length of these pages, but these are points that I am very dedicated to, and you need to understand them prior to asking for a puppy from our Kennels.

Eileen Gregory/Owner/Operator Alaskan Klee Kai Kennelette