HONIAHAKA WOLFALIKES

Having both been raised 

with Animals they have 

been part of our lives 

growing up.

Andy on a Farm and 

myself with every pet I 

could have. My first love were horses and German shepherd dogs.

Spending many years competing at all levels in equestrian sports 

which then led to breeding and spending many years with our heads 

stuck in a stud book or two striving to breed the best.

Having always had German shepherds we always loved the wolfy 

look and was led to a breed called Utonagan by a equine friend of 

ours. We purchased our first wolfie looking dog in 2003 and found 

our first backyard breeder, sadly our first experience wasn’t a good 

one and our beloved wolfie was PTS at 17 months old, after she 

could take no more suffering from severe hip dysplacia and a

crumbling spine.

2005 saw our love of wolfie looking dogs increase when we put our 

name down for our first Northern Inuit, born on my birthday it was 

sure to be an omen…..Persuaded to take her sister too we came 

home with Anya and Saskia they were 12 weeks old and the start of 

the love affair grew.

We have had many highs through the years, being asked to become 

breeders with the NIS and spending 9 years on the committee 

Introducing health testing and keeping the pedigrees in order. We 

have won many a championship in the show ring with our dogs and 

have put our everything into producing beautiful top class dogs.

We have also been doing breed stands across the country since 

2006 after a reccomendation from our dog training school, which 

has increased to around 15 a year now, which keeps us and our 

Honiahaka team busy. 

It’s a real pleasure being invited each year to attend such events.

We have sadly had many lows over the years too. Any type of 

breeding can be heart breaking especially when the founder animals 

were never health tested. We have had some health problems in our 

line which were brushed to one side as a one off, but when it 

happens again you know there is an issue that needs 

addressing.

Sadly for us we were hung out to dry by our breed society and were 

blamed for the issues. 

We have since removed ourselves from the breed club and 

with the help of the lovely people at the animal health trust UK

 (AHT) have surged forward to find out what’s causing these issues 

and where they originally came from. 

We are pleased to say our hard work and patience has paid 

off and the genetic markers have been found. You can read about 

the finding by following this link to one of our pages.  Click Here

2015 saw us venture out of our comfort zone and we imported our 

first American wolfdog and then in 2016 we added our second. You 

can read about these on their own page. Click here

2016 saw the start of cyber bulling and slandering toward us, Its just 

shown us that whatever good you try to do and achieve in life and 

are at the top of your game, you will always come across groups 

who will try to discredit you. We carry on doing the best we can and 

we still held our heads high even when we wanted just to give 

up...but that is what these bullies want.

2016 also  saw the start of our outcross programme. The Gene pool 

for the Northern Inuit dog is so small and the dogs are so inbred  

that it needs an injection of new blood., there is no point is saying “

we” have x amount of new lines when they all still go back to the 

same dog which is in one of my pedigree’s 15 times !!

We have opted to use some other wolfie breeds in our lines to give it 

the injection of good health it needs. 

Hopefully we will keep the wonderful soft temperament of our dogs 

and bring is some much needed new blood and better health.

2017 will see us carry on our goal to improve the wolfie breeds 

health, we will carry on health testing our dogs and hope to have 

some beautiful babies along the way, we will also carry on staying 

open and true to our owners and future owners.

Mid 2017 saw the start of the HWCC which is run by some lovely 

wolfalike owners, the committee have put on some great shows and 

monthly events. 

2017  also saw our 3rd and final American wolfdog Lola puppy 

join our pack.

2018 was the beginning of the International Wolfalike companion 

register, where people are invited to register their wolfalike breeds to 

help build a database, share the use of fully health tested stud dogs 

and be able to give out authentic pedigree certificates for their 

puppies.

2019 is an exciting one for us, we travelled to the USA where we 

spent 10 days with most of our USA puppy owners, we all rented 

houses and went on hikes in the mountains and paddle boarded in 

lake Tahoe, such an amazing time spent with our USA Honiahaka 

family.

We hope you enjoy our website and insight to our lives, our arms 

are always welcoming and the kettle is always warm.