Goals
I am trying to come as close as we can to producing a correct Samoyed besides the beautiful eyes, coat, and smile. Structure is very important! The way a puppy is put together and it’s past genetics has everything to do with the quality of health the pup will have as an adult. It takes years and knowledge to produce a disease free genetic background and a sound structure. It only takes one generation to produce a certain color of coat and eyes. I want your puppy to look and act like it should in structure and temperament.
My desire is to exceedingly avoid producing something that might look like a Sammy but does not have the proper structure and years of OFA and Eye clearances, or that doesn’t even resemble the true definition of a Samoyed by the AKC.
I am trying to provide you exactly what you would expect form a Samoyed. We want your dog to be the Quality it should! Even as a breeder, I am always learning and finding out what I can do in my own breeding program.
As A Breeder, you should always want to improve your pedigree or bloodline. In the future, I plan on slowly improving my own bloodline. Sometimes it even means starting over or branching out for a better stud or brood bitch.
About Me
I have been devoted to dogs for 10 years. In the beginning, I began with Siberian Huskies. I loved their beauty and adventurous behavior. My first Siberian was an adult female, black and white wooly. I was eleven years old and wanted a “big dog, not a yippy small dog”. That’s when my mother found Tasha in the paper.
Tasha was a beautiful dog. She was obediently trained and very smart. She was spayed and being placed in a pet home because she had an eye problem and was not the standard in coat. At that age, I did not understand what her former owner was even talking about. I just thought Tasha was beautiful. Tasha was bought as a family pet, but I was the one who went every week to obedience classes and was “trained” on how to keep Tasha trained. Tasha and I became very close.
About a year after my mother has bought Tasha, I wanted to start raising Siberians myself. My mother told me that I had to save up enough money to buy the kennels, food, materials, and then I would be allowed to buy a male and female Siberian.
After one year of saving all my allowance, B-day, and Christmas money, I was able to buy everything and my own first two Siberians: Aurora and Mister. I raised Siberians for three years and also trained mine to skijor.
In 2003, I attended a Dog Show held in Sullivan, Missouri. After seeing all the dogs and talking to breeders, I was very interested in showing. I began to realize that the dogs I was raising where not the “quality” they should have been. Later that year, I decided to place all of my dogs in pet homes and try to start over.
Once all my dogs were placed I began looking for other “Quality” Siberians, and unfortunately, many breeders would not have much to do with me; either because of my age or because the state of Missouri is known to be a puppy mill. After having trouble with finding a quality or standard Siberian, I decided to not purchase one. I was a junior in high school and wanted to devote my senior year to just school.
During this time, I took in other dogs and unwanted pets as rescues. I would clean them up and train them basic obedience with the knowledge I had obtained from Tasha’s previous owner and Cesar Millian.
After high school, I decided to stay close to family and take classes in Rolla and receive my degree from East Central College and Missouri S&T. Seeing as I was not going to live in a dorm and was able to devote time to dogs, I decided to look for a quality dog to show. By this time, I had decided to show Samoyeds.
Other dogs I was thinking about showing and raising were the Great Dane, and Shetland Sheep Dog: some the breeds I had rescued or had meet though friends. I loved the loyalty and devotion in the Great Dane, the temperament and beauty of the Shetland Sheep Dog, but the coat, loving and sweet temperament of the Samoyed was so heart taking. It reminded me of the breed I once owned and loved. They were so beautiful and great with all animals. They seem to just be exactly what I valued; the sweet temperament, the long coat, and medium size.
In 2006, I went to a Dog Show in Columbia, Missouri and planned on trying to talk to some other breeders about showing and purchasing another show dog. Luckily, I found some awesome friends who have taken me under their wing. And I have also learned my lesson by meeting not so awesome people. The few people who were nice enough to give me a chance have taught me the ropes and I have now been to several dog shows and am showing my Samoyeds.
Thanks you Jana, Jeanne, Chris, and Deb.
Jazmine