WELCOME

Hello and welcome to our website. We are Joan and Jeff Sheehan, we live in West Yorkshire with our two grown up kids and we currently own five Malamutes.

Our Kennel name is Amaqqut, which means "wolves" in one of the many Inuit dialects.

We entered the Malamute world several years ago now. We had spent a couple of years researching the breed on the Internet, at dog shows and visiting Discover Dogs at Earls Court before taking the plunge.

As the kids were growing up, we decided the time was right to fulfil our dream of owning a large breed together. Jeff had grown up with St. Bernards and Pyrenean Mountain Dogs amongst other smaller breeds, I had owned Cocker Spaniels and it had always been a dream for me to own a large breed. It was a long search but after a close call with the Tibetan Mastiff, we decided that Malamutes were the breed for us. We have never looked back. Our dogs mean the world to us and although it is hard work, we have never regretted our decision.

We are members of the Alaskan Malamute Club of the UK and the Siberian Husky Club of GB and Joan currently sits on the AMCUK committee. We are active with our dogs, showing, running in harness, backpacking and weight pulling. Kodi was one of the first two UK bred Malamutes to earn a working title in Jan 2007 and the first dual titled UK Malamute in April 2008. We like to see our dogs working in all disciplines.

Our thanks go to Walt and Kath Howarth of Hawkam Alaskan Malamutes and Canadian Eskimo Dogs in Lincolnshire who put their trust in us and allowed us to enter the Malamute world. They continue to support us in all we do and we consider them to be two of our closest friends.