Why I choose to breed these dogs?

I have always had a special connection with animals, and I love unique looking dogs.  My best friend and teacher for 15 years was "Linda" a coyote/shepherd cross that found me while I played in a riverbed in California.  I wanted to be like her and would spend my evenings learning about coyotes and their brothers the wolves. I read everything that I could about body language and habits. It was at the library that I learned that the Native American people used to travel with wolves and wolf dogs, and I was hooked. If I wasn't out playing with Linda, I was in the library researching Native Dogs. 

 In 1991, my Grandfather contacted my father and informed him of our Native American heritage, and the pieces fell together about why my brother and I have an eerie bond with animals.  We could catch and tame wild skunks, weasels, raccoons and even bats and never get bitten. Wild animals had no fear of us.  It all made sense to me how we could handle and tame wild animals and we seemed to communicate, a gift that I still have, and I attribute it to my ancestors.  Wishful thinking? Perhaps, but fact nonetheless. Pop on the other hand did not have the "gift" and the wild skunks that we would hide in the garage always sprayed him.  My brother and I received many spankings for our pranks as children. 

It was less than two years later and Grandpa died, and I began a quest to research the history of my Cherokee relatives on the internet.  I Learned of the dogs that traveled with the Native Americans.  I purchased books through the Teddy Roosevelt museum as well as old books which were being sold on E-Bay. Recently, I visited the National Museum of the Native American in Washington D.C.  I found yet more information on Native Dogs. I will be up dating and adding more titles to my reference section of this web site.