When choosing a food for your Eskie, make sure to select a good quality food. It's not that an expensive dog need expensive food, its that a quality food is much more healthy. Iams has a great selection of Dry and Canned meals.

The American Eskimo can be a very picky eater so it may take a bit of time to figure out what they like best. They may even simply not eat until they have to. Please watch this as its unhealthy - and cruel if you make no effort to find something they will eat. If your having issues with a type of food try different brands.

A good place to start is by doing some research on the best type of food for your American Eskimo by it's: Age, Size, and sometimes health.

You can find great information here:
Find the right pet food with Iams

The American Eskimo is known for it's quick learning and intelligence. They can be easily house broken in some cases but it is a dog - so they each have their own personality. Expect to be patient with your new puppy, don't expect them to pick up anything super fast.

Make sure to do some research on training methods and stick to them. The American Eskimo is much easier to train than most other dogs. There are many books available if you cannot find what you need with a google search.

Also: Have fun with it! Your Eskie is now a part of the family! Show him/her some love!

This is one of the most important parts of my lens! Alot of people never research this type of stuff enough and the Eskimo ends up untreated. Please consider the following common issues with an American Eskimo breed. If you can't care for a Eskie when they need it please consider another pet to help prevent them from ending up in a shelter or rescue unit.

This section was taken from the Wikipedia American Eskimo Page:

"The breed lives on average between 12 and 14 years, although some individuals might live as long as 20 years or longer. The Eskie is a fairly healthy breed, although close attention should be paid to its eyes and tear ducts. They are prone to hip dysplasia, Elbow and Knee degeneration, patellar luxation, Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease, progressive retinal atrophy, cataracts, epilepsy, urinary stones and allergies, especially flea allergies, that can lead to acute moist dermatitis 'or hot spots'."

Wikipedia page on American Eskimo Dogs

Heart Bandits is an American Eskimo Rescue unit. There are other similar organizations around you can try to look up. Heart Bandits has units across the US and Canada that you can look into if you require their services. They are a nonprofit organization that helps abandoned and neglected American Eskimo Dogs. They try to find adoptive homes for the Eskimo dogs that were brought to them under many different circumstances.

If you have been considering getting an American Eskimo PLEASE contact a rescue unit and ask about adopting from them and give a new life to one of these amazing dogs. Most rescue units will work with you to find a good match for your type of home and family.

You can contact Heart Bandits from their website at:
http://www.heartbandits.com/

If you cannot find the right addition to your home, do some research and find a quality breeder. Please avoid pet shops, alot of them get their puppys from puppy mills that have their dogs in horrible - unhealthy condtions. Bad breeders are there for the profit and sell unhealthy pups that will usually have bad health condtions later on from neglectful breeding.

Contact a breeder and arrange a meeting at their facility and decide yourself. Petland is know for selling puppy mill pups.

American Eskimo Dogs: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, Behavior, and Training (A Complete Pet Owner's Manual)
by D. Caroline Coile (Paperback - Aug 1995)





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