ABOUT US

At Fire'N'Ice Eskies - Toy & Mini American Eskimo Dogs - We take breeding these amazing dogs very seriously with our primary goal always to produce healthy, happy, social puppies.  Of course, they are also gorgeous!  

 

We met our first American Eskimo, a mini rescue female named Mika, in 2005, and our lives were forever changed.  We learned quickly that this breed is something very special indeed.  Their personalities are absolutely engaging and we swear they believe they are human.  They are active, but they also can settle down well.  They thrive on playing with each other as well as with their human family.  They are very observant and watch what we do.  Their gorgeous white double coats are  amazingly resistant to dirt, and brushing them regularly not only keeps their coats beautiful, they love the time together.  After Mika crossed the Rainbow Bridge, we knew we would honor her memory with another American Eskimo.

 

Our first addition was from Barbara Beynon's Kennel, Sunfall's The Smoke Jumper, "Kota", who was the first of what would become our pack, a gorgeous mini male that was just needing to be shown.  And so another adventure started, and we learned about the show ring.  Our primary mission is to be ambassadors to this amazing breed of dogs.  After Kota, we added beauties from Frostiwyt - Carolyn Jester, both of whome ar enow retired but have continued their legacies.  "Anastasia" is the first born of Kota and Sassy.  We travelled to Vancouver to add two beautiful mini/toy puppies from Kellie McBride James, Wynnerias Fire N Ice Sure Shot, "Atlas" and Wynneiras Fire N Ice Star Shot "Athena" and then to British Columbia, Utah, and finally to Georgia for Arctic Angel Fire'N'Ice "Annabelle" She's Like the Wind from April Ellison.  We chose all our dogs for health, genetic diversity, temperament, confirmation and of course we think they all are absolutely beautiful!

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  Hannah started with training and showing very early, and is a "dog whisperer" as well as a graduate student in Clinical Counseling.  She continues to show dogs when she is able and is now the breeder of record as her parents focus on showing their dogs and retire to a more advising role.  Hannah lives in Manchester, NH, a short distance from Manchester Airport.  

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Fire'N'Ice Eskies works hard to ensure the very best for our puppies regarding health, genetics, socialization, neurodevelopment and placement with a well-matched forever family.  We test for all the known genetic disorders including PRA, PLL and DM.  Our dogs historically have been reviewed formally through the OFA at age 2 for Hips, and after advocating and getting PennHip approved as an alternate through the AEDCA and ultimately to the AKC, we use PennHip evaluations for all our dogs.  We also use the COI to determine appropriate pairings for the best outcomes in our litters.  Our dogs are all AKC and UKC registered.  Our primary purpose in breeding is for the betterment of the breed.  We have a very limited number of litters.  We are not commercial breeders but are lovers of the breed and want to preserve and allow other Eskie loves to also enjoy a beautiful life with their beautiful, happy, healthy puppy.  When we do have puppies available (we can't keep them all for ourselves) then of course the puppy comes with a one-year warranty for health.  Understand that we love each and every one of our puppies and know you will too!  We look forward to having you join us as part of the Fire'N'Ice Family!