Chekody Kennels...
is owned and loved by Mark and Melanie Titley. We live on many acres just outside Canberra, Australia. The dogs have lots of room to run around and of course for ourselves and future family.
Mel has owned Malamutes since 1996, but always wanted a Malamute since she saw her first one at around 6 years of age while on a skiing holiday in Austria. Mark use to own and show German Shepherds for several years. After many years without a dog, he decided he wanted to get back into dogs. After he met a few Malamutes, he knew he had to have one and ultimately brought us together. We combined forces and Mark became a co-owner of Chekody Kennels and eventually fell in love.
Our dogs are not just show dogs. They are our family pets and they also do what they're meant to do, they run in harness. We only add Malamutes to our kennel who can show and work in harness and are good at it. Because of this, all our dogs are sound and have beautiful powerful movement due to their impeccable structure and good temperaments.With this in mind, Mel went to USA in 2002 to look at where Alaskan Malamutes originated from. She had a picture of the perfect Malamute in her head and decided on some lines to base our breeding program on, ones that can work in harness and are top winners in the show ring.
We've imported 3 Malamutes so far; Cola, Sadie and CC along with semen from USA's and the world's top winning kennels. These lines are Sno Klassic, Oakiok, Silver Ice and Nanuke from USA and Taolan from Canada.
We try and do many different activities with our dogs; showing, sledding, weight pull, obedience and backpacking, to make all our dogs as well rounded as possible.
Where does the name Chekody come from some people asked?
It was formed to give tribute to earlier owned Malamutes, Kody and Cheeba, for bring us into the world of Malamutes.We hope you enjoy our web site, and if you have any questions or would like a Chekody Alaskan Malamute, please don't hesitate to contact us.
