About Haukola Utonagan.
My love of the Utonagan dog began when I met my friend's pack. She had several dogs, all stunning in their own ways and all beautiful creatures, with amazing personalities. I spent many hours with her pack, getting to know them and learning to understand them, til one day, I brought home the love of my life, Redkite Kiwani (pronounced Chi-wah-nee).
He soon had me smitten and I wanted another. I resisted the urge but in the end I had to admit defeat when I met his great grand-daughter, she attached herself to me and wouldn't let go. I went away to consider it and told myself no but for a week she was sneaking into my thoughts and seemed to take root. Even my dreams were about her and soon I had returned to bring home my second. She's Sulin Welela (Way-lay-la) and Layla for short. She was 13 weeks old, full of adventure and comical too, just like her great grandad, she always had fun. She was proud and feisty but a big baby too and now I was hooked, and my pack grew and grew.
I went back for her mother two weeks later when I heard she was being re-homed. Sulin Tumi (Too-mee) was next to arrive and oh what a joy, the sweetest of ladies and so full of love. So my pack was complete, or so I thought. I bred sometime later and Haukola was born. Haukola is my affix and means Hello Friend in Lakota Sioux, which is apt for these dogs as they greet everyone like long lost friends. So that's where we started but it's not the end.
My aim is to focus on the health of the dogs and breed for the best quality and healthiest of pups. It's a relatively new breed, in it's early development and after five years of research and study, I feel equipped to proceed. We have a very small gene pool so we need to take care, the health must come first before anything else. I'm on the Committee of a group called The Utonagan Association and we are collecting and documenting as much health information as possible on the breed to ensure it has a long and happy future, by selectively breeding with the healthiest stock. We are actively seeking dogs from the original lines, who may never have been bred from but may increase our gene pool a little, or at least go back several generations to dogs not used for a while. If you own one of these, please get in touch by emailing Carol at haukolautonagan@yahoo.co.uk as I would love to hear from you, especially if you have a dog bred by the founder of the breed, Eddie Harrison. Below is a photo of myself and my beloved Kiwani.
