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How much do Alaskan Malamutes cost? And where do you buy one, pet store?

Where you get an Alaskan Malamute
Breed Club referal listed on this website

http://www.alaskanmalamute.org/wiki/Breeders%20List.ashx

Rescue

http://www.malamuterescue.org/

WHERE NOT GET A ALAKAN MALAMUTE petstore petshops
The DISadvantages of pet shops

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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