Golden Years Alaskan Malamute Rescue

Mission Statement

1. Education

To educate potential and current adopter owners and breeders

To help make available, information on the breed's history and temperament

To help owners make appropriate decisions about housing and training

2. Service

To take in Alaskan Malamutes (space available) who have no other place to go

and place them in permanent homes

To serve as an adoption referral for any other Alaskan Malamute

3. Evaluation

To make a temperament evaluation on each dog, and to place the dog in a home

suited to his/her temperament

To see that all dogs are adopted sterilized, and to ask Adoption Referrals to do the

same

To provide each dog with a veterinarian exam, heartworm test, rabies vaccination,

annual booster vaccinations and deworming

To provide each dog with healthy food

To introduce each dog to indoor living

To crate train each dog for eating and sleeping

To (try to) socialize each dog to male and female dogs, children and cats

To introduce each dog to grooming, bathing, teeth checking, toenail clipping and

ear cleaning

4. Adoption

To place each dog in a permanent home

To screen carefully for dog experience, especially energetic, double coated, stubborn

and highly intelligent dog experience

To place dogs in fenced yards or as full time house dogs

To provide the new home with the dog's vet's name and phone number for ease of

record transfer

To match adopters with dogs, whether it is a dog from our program or another

To get and check vet references from potential adopters

To follow up with the adoptive home to make sure the adoption is working out

To ALWAYS take back any dog that goes out on our contract