British Utonagan

The British Utonagan is a new breed being created to resemble a Timber wolf, but with no wolf content. Some of these early breeders of the original dogs "the Utonagan" left little room to establish a healthy and diverse breed for the amount of popularity these dogs gained, there are not enough lines to enable the breed to grow. The British Utonagan is the foundation of a new breed using the backbone of the Utonagan, Northern Inuit and some of the founding breeds Husky, German Shepherd and Alaskan Malamute there by establishing healthy foundations for a breed that has a future. The British Utonagan is a new dog breed being creating in the UK and the creators hope to eventually apply for Kennel Club recognition for this new rare breed.
Appearance
The British Utonagan is a large dog, bred to resemble a wolf as closely as possible. The breed has a thick double coat that appears quite different in winter and summer. The guard hair Should be wirey and waterproof and the under coat dense and soft. The colours can be silver grey, timber, wolf grey and a characteristic wolf mask. It also comes in all white, all black and Ink Marked, meaning white with markings of brown, silver or black which look like ink spilled on blotting paper
Breed Standard with permission from the British Utonagan Association
British Utonagan Breed Standard
Temperament
The British Utonagan is a dog with a superb temperament towards humans; this in turn makes for a wonderful family dog and companion. They love the company of people plus they get along well with other family pets, they can however have a prey drive and when teenagers can sometimes suffer same sex dog aggression if not trained correctly. They are boisterous in play, and bore easily. A very intelligent dog that does well in most activities. They do not like being on their own and should have company canine or human at all times.
Care
The British Utonagan needs firm but fair handling and a good training regime when young, they can be quite destructive when bored or left alone, they are a very sensitive dog and react to their environment.
Puppy classes are a must and good solid ground lines need to be put in place at an early age if all these things are adhered to the British Utonagan will be a loving and well trained pet.
They like all large breeds should never be over excersised when young until they have fully grown to ensure against damaging their bones, but once mature they excel in all activities, agility, obedience, rigging, scootering, showing.
The British Utonagan's coat is very easy to manage and will moult twice a year at this time they drop all of their soft undercoat and you can get a load of hair out of them, a trip to the groomers at this time is advisable if the dog lives indoors.
British Utonagan do well living indoors or outside, when kept outside they will produce a thick dense coat like the Malamute which keeps them very warm and dry, care should be taken in hot weather not to let them overheat.
Health
Some of the ancestors of these dogs have had health problems so all British Utonagan Breeders test
Hip Scores
Elbow Scores
Eye Screens
There has been a few cases of epilepsy, addisons and heart problems which are being constantly researched to clear out of the older lines to enable the Founder Dogs to be Healthy good specimens as the grounding of a new healthy breed
Always go to an Accredited breeder and ensure that parents have had the relevant tests.
History
A select amount of breeders in the United Kingdom started off a club to breed wolf look a like dogs, at the beginning of this conception there was a split between the breeders and the dogs became Northern Inuits and Utonagan. The Northern Inuit Society have now a great many dogs on their database but sadly the Utonagan breeders all split up and what was left as a gene pool for this breed was far too small. Some of the original lines of Utonagan became bred in the mix for the Tamascan dog which has had recent wolfdog content mixed in, another group also decided to use this mix and again incorporated wolf dog.
This has caused much of an outcry as the Saarloos Wolfhound and the Czechoslovakian Wolf Hound have only recently in this country became available without a license, and the established breeders from where they originated are not happy with the breeds being mixed before they are established in the UK.
The Utonagan started off as a few breeders mixing wolf looking dogs together to produce a wolflike breed, this conception was taken by the British Utonagan Association who cleared out the health and removed inbreeding and started to find and put together a good founding stock, Utonagan, Northern Inuit, German Shepherd, Malamute and Husky. Thus the British Utonagan began. The records of all the foundation stock and their progeny are being meticulously kept along with health tests and results, and show and achievement records. The breed hope to produce a stud book for the Kennel Club once they reach the goal of enough clean separate lines and 10 clear full generation of British Utonagan. This is well on the way.
Apart from the Northern Inuit the British Utonagan is the ONLY wolf look a like breed that has not mixed in any wolf dog in their foundations this to ensure the best temperament for a family pet.
The British Utonagan has created much interest in America due to their wolf hybrid laws and also the constant campaigning to stop people having wolves or hybrids as pets due to natural state of their temperament and manner.

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