BREEDING PROGRAM

We take breeding very seriously and always breed first and foremost for ourselves. On average we breed once or twice a year or so and none of our bitches will give birth before the age of 2 1/2 years. We are strongly against puppies having their own puppies. We don't breed or import to make a living and believe in quality rather than quantity. We will only breed to preserve the best qualities of the Siberian husky/Alaskan Malamute, breeding just because you have orders for puppies is not a justification to produce a litter. In each breeding we are looking beyond that litter to possible crosses in the future.

In popular breeds where careless or uninformed breeding is common, temperaments and appearances vary so widely that it's hard to believe that some of the dogs are even the same breed! Careless or ill-informed breeding has made many breeds shy, snappy, and unstable. We don't want this for Siberian huskies or Alaskan Malamutes.

Our main goal is to breed happy, healthy, sound, well adjusted Siberian huskies/ Alaskan Malamutes, with correct type, movement and temperament, with style and attitude. Movement is really important; what influences movement is construction - so if the dog can not move properly, he is not built properly.

We try to be objective with our dogs in our endeavour to breed quality Siberians & Alaskan Malamutes. We separate our love for each individual dog from our honest evaluation of that dog's good and bad points. In the eyes of its owner, virtually every dog is the best in the world, and as a breeder you must look beyond your love if you wish to have a successful breeding program.

To promote superior emotional health, our puppies are raised in our living room, not the kennels or outdoors or in a garage. Proper socialization is of great importance to us. The puppies are allowed to interact with our adult dogs from an early age, and are exposed to a wide variety of sights, sounds, smells, and people when young. In this way we can ensure that we have done our absolute best to raise puppies with the sound temperaments that are a trademark of our breeds.

All our puppies are de-wormed, microchipped, checked by a vet, registered with the IKC and have had their first vaccinations before they go to their new homes at 8 weeks of age.
As we know the personalities of the puppies better than anyone, we try to match each puppy with the appropriate family for its needs. We screen people interested in our puppies carefully and we have been very lucky to date and have made some very good friends through our puppies. We stay in touch with new owners and will take a dog back anytime during its lifetime for any reason.No dog that leaves LUELDAR can be re-sold or given away by it's owners, all dogs must be returned to LUELDAR.

The happiest dogs are beloved family pets, which is why we place puppies only in homes where they'll be loved pets.
As breeders, we have a lifelong responsibility for the dogs we breed. We can be contacted at any time during the life of the dog for help and advice.

Our dogs are all social and loving. We will not keep a dog with a bad temperament against people or dogs. All our dogs live as a pack- they either work out their differences or they can't live here. That is our main rule in the house. We do not give dogs away just because they don't grow up to be BIS -winners, they are still important to us, they are our family-members.

As breeders we are the guardians of the breed. We must keep the gene pool as diverse as possible by incorporating new lines and not just using the popular stud dogs available at the time. Therefore we also sometimes import dogs. We import dogs out of bloodlines that produce a type that we prefer and which we think will improve our own breeding. You should always import dogs for the right reason: To import just for the fun of it or because it's somehow fancy is not our thing.We spend a lot of time and effort in researching the breed.

We research pedigrees and the dogs (not just the names) carefully in each pedigree to learn of individual virtues and faults and bloodline strengths and weaknesses. We believe that to be a successful breeder, you have to know the pedigrees - not just the names, but know as much as possible about the individual dogs on it. For this you need help from other breeders around the world; we feel privileged that we have been able to get so many talented and good friends that are helping us in our breeding, we only hope that in time we will gain as much knowledge as all the people that have helped us, so that someday we are able to help out others in return. We feel that no-one can become successful on your own; co-operation is the key to success.

These are some of our thoughts regarding breeding, if you have any questions, feel free to ask more!