Meet our Chinooks

Our first and most wonderful Chinook. Juneau was born in the Summer of 2015 and is a beautiful, fit and tall (86lbs) dog. He is the reason I am devoted to the breed! He loves everyone and every thing but he is devoted to his mom. He gives his heart to us all. So not surprisingly, Juneau won the Chesterh Sweetie Award at the Chinook National Specialty in Kalamazoo in 2018.

The Perfect Chinook: Intuitively Helpful and Exceptionally Smart

Juneau is the perfect example of a great Chinook and the reason I am so in love with the breed. Like other puppies, Juneau went to puppy classes. We didn't have to teach him much since as he taught himself ways to help and please us, simply by paying attention to his humans and their ways.When I do groceries, he will insist on bringing them into the house (he will even carry raw meat or fish without eating it!), and he watches me doing my daily barn chores, I can always feel his presence and I know he is nearby watching and making sure I am ok. He also enjoys the other animals on the farm, he plays with the cats, and is respectful of the horses and teaches our other dogs how to behave around the farm.

Juneau is not a barker, he talks (like many Chinooks) and at times he has a lot to say!

Smart, funny and entertaining beyond believe and a true lover of people and any creature alive, a companion, the kind of dog many us dream of.

Our sweet, smart and energetic Enya came to us in 2017 as a breed-potential puppy and I got to pick her up from the Schiller's in Fort Collins on my birthday. What a wonderful birthday present she was!!! She became a UKC Champion at one year of age and made the UKC Top 10 List for Chinooks in 2020. In 2023 Enya earned her UKC Grand Champion title at the Chinook Specialty in Loveland, CO.

Enya is a wonderful Chinook, pretty, loyal, sociable and like her foster brother, exceptionally smart. There is not a door in the house that she doesn't know how to open and of course she likes to teach her canine family how to acquire such skills.

Enya is very friendly and has a particular love for cats. Overall, Enya is a sweet, loyal and an amazingly healthy young lady, with good hips (OFA) and healthy eyes. 

Enya's great conformation, good temperament, and overall health as well as her excellent genetics made us excited to breed her. Enya produced 2 beautiful litters and we kept Kiana from the first litter and Malina from the second. Please check out the two litters by clicking on their respective tabs.

Optimal Selection testing shows that Enya is genetically more diverse than the average Chinook as she comes from a line of breeding that was geared towards generating genetic vigor and hence greater overall health. Enya is also free of all tested genetic disorders.

www.wisdompanel.com/app/s/yx3qpd 

Kiana is our female that we kept from the Wine Club Litter. She was the first-born, the first to escape the whelping box, the first to climb over the puppy fence outside and the first to maneuver onto the sofa for cuddles- that settled it... She is as sweet as can be and does have a spot in my bed, curled up right next to my head all night.

Kiana is a very smart and happy Chinook. She loves people but she adores toddlers and babies! She will follow the young ones around and give them lots of kisses.

Kiana is a very tall and athletic girl, with very expressive eyes. She is of good size and weigh in at a slim 68lbs, with excellent bone structure. She is a phenomenal mover. It is so much fun to watch her, as she glides effortlessly over her terrain. 

Due to COVID Kiana's training was a little delayed. However, she earned her Puppy Class Obedience Certificate at 4 months of age and we started to familiarize her with conformation showing by taking her to some conformation classes. This really paid off! We expected nothing of Kiana other than gaining experience when we took her to her first UKC show in Punta Gorda, FL in May 2021. Kiana sure surprised us when she took 5 competitive wins and earned her UKC Champion title during that long Memorial Day weekend! She was not even 9 months of age then. (See UKC Show pictures below) Kiana became a UKC Grand Champion in Fall of 2022. She was in the Chinook Top 10 list 2 years in a row. She became third in 2021 and first by a large margin in 2022 and earned the National Best of Breed Title at the Chinook Specialty held at Premier in Kalamazoo, June of 2022. Kiana is CGC (Canine Good Citizen Award - AKC) and SPOT (Socialized Pet Obedience Test - UKC) certified.

Kiana started to show in AKC more recently and already earned her Champion title early in 2024 and took Best of Opposite Sex (BOS) against steep competition at the Royal Canin in December of 2024.

Kiana has been DNA tested by Optimal Selection and she does not carry any tested genetic defects. She was also found to have very high genetic diversity for a pure-bred Chinook at the 34th percentile (typical range 25-31%). Link to Optimal Selection: 

https://www.wisdompanel.com/app/home/pets/c69e166f-8822-4060-a06d-59cef21582c9/highlights

Embark Genetic Health:

For breeding purposes, we recently switched our genetic testing to Embark and had Kiana re-tested by Embark with the same great results: Clear on all tested genetic defects.

http://embk.me/mystiquepondkatyaaqkiana?utm_campaign=cns_ref_dog_pub_profile&utm_medium=other&utm_source=embark

 Kiana has "good" hips and "normal" elbows and eyes (OFA). We are very excited to have Kiana be part of our breeding program.

Malina is our keeper from the Back to the Future Litter. Malina is a gorgeous, stout, well-boned girl, resembling the Historic Chinook sledge dog. Malina has grown up to be a beautiful, tall and well-muscled young lady and weighs in at a slim 78lbs.

Malina is very sweet and outgoing. She loves people, especially toddlers and all other creatures but most of all, she LOVES to eat! She has plenty of energy, plays with her pack and swims in the pond. She is very smart and thrives with mental activities and engagements including dog puzzles, playing tug-of-war and having tasks to perform on our walks. Malina is still young and has been known to self-entertain by exploring her environment. Malina is the quintessential extrovert and happiest when she is out in public - a natural for the show ring or any public setting! 

Malina will make a great working dog (we hope to get her into carting and possibly weight pull). She is just one fun love-bug that keeps us all on our toes! 

Malina's recent adventures: Malina went to the Chinook Specialty at the UKC Premier/Kalamazoo with us in June of 2022. It was her first conformation show and she had a great time! Unfortunately, she was too young to show in the licensed classes but it was a very valuable experience for her and she provided great entertainment for anyone who came by to visit us at the crating area.

At 7 months of age she earned her UKC Champion Title and at 1 year old, she became a UKC Grand Champion! She was number 2 on the Chinook Top-10 list in 2022 (behind Kiana) and is number 1 in the Top 10 for 2023. Malina also scored Reserve Best in Show at a UKC show in Florida in 2023. 

Malina started showing in AKC too and is working on her Championship title. 

Embark Genetic Health

Malina is clear of all tested genetic defects. 

http://embk.me/jenniferyellow?utm_campaign=cns_ref_dog_pub_profile&utm_medium=other&utm_source=embark

Malina has good hips and normal eyes (OFA) and she joined our breeding program at 3 years of age. She had a beautiful litter of 6 pups in April 2025. You can follow their growth and adventures on our FB site!