HONIAHAKA

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 

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 for the 

last 10 years 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 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 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 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 we are very close to finding the gene which has caused 

these issues.

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.

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 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, and also saw our 3rd and final wolfdog puppy join 

our pack. We hope you enjoy our website and insight to our lives, our 

arms are always welcoming and the kettle is always warm.