We are not only dedicated to breeding to improve on the parents, but to also improve the over all breed.  Anyone can breed to improve upon the parent dogs.  But the parents have to be of a certain quality to meet Heart of Texas Standards to be bred.  They not only have to have something to donate to the gene pool for the future of the Alaskan Klee Kai Breed, but Health, Conformation, Temperament is a trinity....You cannot breed for one or the other but all three must be present to qualify for breeding potential.  (For those who say that structure is not as important, picture an old German Shepard, with hip displaysia that has to be medicated daily to be ably to walk and eventually has to be euthanized to end the poor dogs suffering.)

Breeding stock for the  Heart of Texas breeding program must, at minimum, be healthy and of champion caliber.

The temperaments of the Heart of Texas Alaskan Klee Kai are friendly, social, and loving.  They are our children and our babies.  

There are people who say, " I wouldn't even breed his dog if it wasn't for _______________".  Maybe they shouldn't be breeding it then. 

I see many post that they guarantee their puppies for a certain amount of years for genetic and hereditary disorders.  It is easy to say it, quite another to stand behind it.  Some of those who post it have actually declined replacing their puppies or blamed it on the puppy owner to avoid it.  Most health issues like that will show up in the first year.  We will replace any puppy with genetic or hereditary disorders with a like puppy within the same bloodline or not, which ever the preference of the puppy buyer.