Northeast & Southeast Region Coordinator
Dorry Stone
508-873-4013
eskie@charter.net Southwest & Pacific Region Coordinator

Kathy Kozakiewicz
602-254-2328
kistari@cox.net

Midwest & Northwest Region Coordinator
Jon Herman
419-394-4234
jherman1@woh.rr.com

The AEDCA is committed to helping those that are looking for an American Eskimo Dog puppy to find one that is not only healthy and has been raised in the best environment but one that has been raised by responsible and ethical breeders. Those breeders associated with our organization agree to abide by the ethics set forth by the American Eskimo Dog Club of America and strive to produce puppies that are even better than the parents they are produced from, not only in conformation but in health and temperament.

Below you will find the current listed regions throughout the US that our members reside in and regional coordinators serving those regions above. They will be able to assist you in answering your questions and help direct you to those breeders that have or will have upcoming litters. Please direct your questions to the coordinators closest to your location, they will be more than happy to to assist you in your search.

http://aedcaclub.angelfire.com/BreederReferral_Regions.html

Why NOT to buy from a pet store?
The DISadvantages of pet shops
1.Pet shops acquire their puppies from breeders who don’t test their dogs for health problems. You can’t look at a pet shop puppy (or any puppy, for that matter) and say, "Well, he looks healthy!" and think that that’s the end of it! The health problems I’m talking about are inherited on genes. If your puppy has inherited those genes, these health problems WILL show up eventually, long after you’ve brought the puppy home.

2.There are health tests that can determine, with 100% accuracy, whether a puppy has inherited certain serious health problems. There are other health tests that can’t say for sure, but can predict the risk. Responsible breeders do these tests. Breeders who sell to pet stores don’t.

3.Pet shop puppies are frequently inbred. Most pet shops don’t even have a copy of their puppies’ pedigrees for you to look at. Instead, they mail it to you AFTER you’ve bought the puppy. And you receive only 3 or 4 generations, not nearly enough to evaluate inbreeding.

4. Pet shop puppies may have "sham" registration papers and pedigrees. More and more pet shops are avoiding the stricter documentation requirements of the AKC and registering their puppies with an "alternative" registry like the Continental Kennel Club, APR, APRI, NKC, and others. Now, the AKC definitely has its problems with people falsifying registration papers and pedigrees, but the alternative registries are even worse. If a puppy has registration papers from any of these registries, I wouldn’t believe that the parents listed on the papers are necessarily the true parents, that the ancestors listed on the pedigree are the true ancestors, or that the puppy is even purebred.

5. Dog with bad temperamentYou can’t see the puppy’s parents. This is a BIG negative because the parents’ genes can have so much influence on how your puppy turns out. If you can’t see the parents, how can you tell whether they might have passed on genes for unhealthy structure, bad teeth, or a bad temperament? Virtually ALL puppies look normal and healthy and are friendly and playful. But as the puppies mature, the genes they inherited WILL begin to assert themselves, and that’s when all the problems will start!

6. You can’t see where the puppies were raised. Another BIG negative. The majority of pet shop puppies are raised in small wire-bottomed cages in outbuildings. They’ve never seen the inside of a house. Many of them don’t even know how to drink water from a bowl because they’ve been drinking from hamster bottles since they were born.

7.Many pet shop puppies are hyperactive and noisy. Raised in a small cage, they haven’t been able to run and play and explore like normal puppies, so they’ve developed frenetic habits like running in small circles and excessive barking.

8.Many pet shop puppies are nippy. Some were removed from their mother before 7 weeks of age. You’ll remember that puppies need a full seven weeks with their mother so she can teach them "bite inhibition". If they haven’t learned this lesson, their nippiness will be hard to correct.

9.Other pet shop puppies have learned to nip from all the people who take them out of their cages and play wrestling games with them. This encourages the puppy to growl and nip and mouth people’s hands — bad lessons that can be hard to correct.

10.Housebreaking is difficult in petshop puppiesMost pet shop puppies are hard to housebreak. Where does a pet shop puppy go the bathroom? Right there in his cage. It’s hard to take such a puppy home and teach him NOT to go to the bathroom in his crate or bed when that’s what he’s been trained to do!

11.Pet shop puppies often come with illnesses. You bring the puppy home and a few days later he develops a cough, or diarrhea, or vomiting, or listlessness, or he starts scratching or losing hair…. this happens over and over with pet shop puppies. Kennel cough, parvovirus, coronavirus, giardia, coccidia, mange, ringworm — these illnesses are commonly found in commercial breeding kennels and pet stores.

12. Pet shops often overload their puppies with vaccinations and chemicals. Because the puppies are exposed to so many illnesses, pet stores often overdo the vaccines, dewormers, and chemical baths and dips. Overloading the poor puppy’s immune system like this is very damaging for his long-term health.

Finally, a major disadvantage of acquiring a pet shop puppy is . . .

You’re supporting a bad industry. When you pay money for a pet shop puppy, you’re encouraging the industry to keep doing what it’s doing.

You’ve emptied one cage, yes — which creates demand for another puppy to be born to fill that cage. Even if YOU are lucky and YOUR puppy turns out "okay", a large percentage of the others will not, and YOU helped provide the incentive for them to be born by buying the one who came before them.
So what seems like a simple, isolated purchase actually contributes to:

* The misery of female dogs who spend their lives in a cage, being bred again and again so people will have a "quick and convenient" source from which to buy.
* The misery of future puppies born with health and temperament problems.
* The misery of families who will buy these puppies and then struggle to cope with all the health and temperament problems.
* The misery of animal rescue groups who have to deal with all the pet shop puppies dumped on their doorstep when frustrated families give up on the health and temperament problems.

When you buy one of those cute puppies in the pet shop, you buy more than the puppy. You buy the budding physical, behavioral, and health problems created by the bad genes passed on by untested parents whom you never get to see or evaluate. And you feed a profit-hungry industry that’s doing a lot of harm to innocent creatures.

American Eskimo Dogs for adoption
http://www.petfinder.com/search/search.cgi?pet.Animal=&pet.Breed=American+Eskimo+Dog&pet.Age=&pet.Size=&pet.Sex=&location=Bc
References :
http://www.yourpurebredpuppy.com/buying/articles/petshops-and-pet-stores.html

No respectable breeder will ever sell their puppies to a pet shop; shops get their pups from brokers, who collect them from puppy mills all over the south and midwest and ship them to the cities. This sort of business generally kills half to three-quarters of the puppies. The survivors, of undocumentable parentage and without medical records, have generally never been seen by a veterinarian. The pet shops mission is to sell them for as much as possible while spending as little as possible on them.

This will show you what a puppy mill is like:
http://www.stoppuppymills.org
Buying a puppy in a pet shop supports puppy mills.

If you want an Eskie pup who can be a member of your family for the next 15+ years, get one from a reputable breeder, a member of the Canadian national breed parent club:

http://www.naedac.ca/
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