Help us stay healthy! We need to raise $3500 by June 1, 2017

We are Canadian Eskimo Dog puppies and there are less than 300 of our breed left world wide.

We live in a remote area of Manitoba, Canada, in a town called Churchill which, besides being our home, is also known as the Polar Bear Capital of the World.

55 of us are here and are cared for by the Canadian Eskimo Dog Foundation, Inc.

We don’t have a local vet, but one is coming to town soon and we need our shots to stay healthy.

Please help us by donating today!

Thank you in advance and, please, come visit us if you are ever in Churchill.

More about us: Origin and Purpose

The Canadian Eskimo Dog is an aboriginal breed of dog that has gone through many name changes. As a breed, The Canadian Kennel

Club has, in the past, referred to the dog as the “Eskimo,” “Exquimaux Husky,” “Esquimaux Dog,” and “Husky.” The Inuit of Arctic Canada called this dog “Qimmiq.”

The breed has an 1100 to 2000 year history of being interdependent with the Thule culture of Inuit (Eskimo people) who, following the Dorset culture, occupied the coastal and archipelago area of what is now Arctic Canada. Although within the spitz family of dogs, the Canadian Eskimo Dog’s origin prior to this is lost in the Inuit prehistory which includes the migration of the Mongolian race from the Asian continent to North America.

The existing strain of Canadian Eskimo Dog originated from stock primarily bred by the Eskimo Dog Research Foundation in the Northwest Territories. The foundation’s work over a six-year period was primarily funded by the Governments of Canada and the Northwest Territories and involved the purchase of specimens from the remnant population of dogs kept by the Inuit of the Boothia Peninsula, Melville Peninsula and parts of Baffin Island.

The Canadian Eskimo Dog, as a primitive dog, is primarily a carnivorous breed, whose natural diet consisted of seal, walrus, fish, or caribou. For centuries this breed was used as a draught animal and was capable of pulling between 45 and 80 kg. per dog, covering distances from 15 to 70 miles per day. He was also used as a hunting dog, to locate seal breathing holes for the Inuit hunters. As a hunting dog he would also attack and hold at bay musk ox and polar bear for the Inuit hunters. In the summer the dog was used as a pack dog carrying up to 15 kg.

Canadian Eskimo Dog Foundation

The Canadian Eskimo Dog Foundation was established to facilitate a better understanding of the Canadian Eskimo Dog, and to promote and SAVE what is one of the last remaining strongholds for this extraordinary breed.

Currently the CEDF is the largest and one of the oldest CED breeding kennels in the World, accounting for approximately 1/3 (one third) of the World’s population. It is the CEDF’s goal to provide the World a window to view, and if desired, an opportunity to support and save this magnificent dog from extinction.

The significance of preserving this rare and beautiful dog is important if we are to maintain the cultural and historical integrity of Canada and the rest of North America.

Extinction of the Canadian Eskimo Dog

The Canadian Eskimo Dog (CED) is on the verge of extinction with estimates of (300) three hundred or less pure CKC registered dogs left in the World.