Icecrown Samoyeds

14/01/2025

Onyx was Winners Dog and Best of Winners and the SFCF Samoyed specialty on Sunday for his second major! He has really grown up to be a beautiful boy ❤️

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

19/11/2024

I wanted to bring up something important. Your pet being suddenly sick is very stressful. Rushing to the vet’s office, hoping it’s something simple and easily treatable, worrying about how much this may cost. I know these emotions are familiar to anyone who has had pets for some time.

When I first started breeding dogs I didn’t have pet insurance on any of my dogs and generally just recommended keeping a savings account for any unforeseen vet expenses to my puppy families as well. This has worked well for me for years because my dogs have generally been very healthy and we could afford a very occasional unexpected expense like needing a tooth pulled due to a dental fracture because we always kept some savings for emergencies.

Recently vet costs everywhere have been going up, as is everything else I suppose. More advanced treatments have also become available which is great to diagnose and treat conditions previously difficult to treat but this also comes with extra costs. A lot of locally owned veterinary practices have also gotten acquired by large corporations as local vets retired, this also increased costs. I know more and more people struggling to afford veterinary care for their pets as things can happen suddenly and unexpectedly.

A couple of months ago I was in a dog training class with Ysera and I noticed she was kind of low energy, which is really atypical for this usually very happy, bouncy girl. When we came home she continued being lethargic so I knew something was wrong. I checked her temperature and it was very high. Rushed her to the vet first thing in the morning, after running a bunch of tests with everything coming back normal, apart from elevated white blood cell count indicating an infection, we still had no idea what was wrong. She was sent home with antibiotics and I was told to take her to a specialist for more testing if she doesn’t get better quickly. Over the next few days we had 4 more vet visits, all together Ysera had X-Rays, multiple blood tests, ultrasound, urinalysis, multiple organs were examined with everything looking “normal” yet she was still clearly sick. On day 4 her skin broke out in a horrible rash and that’s when we finally got our diagnosis - post grooming furunculosis. She was groomed the day before symptoms onset and something she was groomed with was contaminated causing a very deep skin infection.

She has made a full recovery and is doing great now but it was a very stressful and expensive experience. We had to cancel many long made plans and extra expenses to cover those costs.

Things like that can happen suddenly to an otherwise healthy dog but sudden onset chronic conditions are even scarier as they will require ongoing treatment.

A year ago I got an accident only insurance plan for my dogs but after our recent experience as well as seeing many friends and other people in the dog communities I’m part of struggling with vet bills I’ll be upgrading their plans to illness and accident protection when we renew our insurance in a few months. I’m writing this post to recommend you do the same, whether you have one of our puppies, want to get one or have a puppy from another breeder please consider protecting them in case something happens because truly, you never know.

Here are some insurance providers me or someone I know use, I’m not affiliated with any of them in any way so please find whatever plan works best for your pet’s needs but I highly recommend getting a quote and signing up!

https://www.petsbest.com/

https://www.trupanion.com/

https://www.lemonade.com/

https://www.embracepetinsurance.com/

A picture of one of my daughters with one of our puppies to add something sweet to this otherwise serious post 😊

14/10/2024

Some pictures from our short visit to the Gulf Shores!

It’s been a tough few weeks for our family. First poor Ysera got post-grooming furunculosis from contaminated water after Helene most likely, could have also been an old bottle of conditioner. It’s a bad bacterial skin infection that is very painful. It didn’t immediately show on her skin but she was very unwell. After various blood tests, X-Rays and ultrasound with no answers her skin broke out and that’s when we figured out that was the cause of her high fever and lethargy. She is doing so much better now on an antibiotic, a lot of her fur did have to get shaved. I will probably make a more detailed post about this later because I didn’t even know about this condition so I hope it’ll be helpful to anyone else whose dog is going through this.

Then we had to evacuate because of Milton. Thankfully the damage to our house was minimal, our fence didn’t get so lucky! I really feel for the people in our neighborhood whose houses took a much worse hit.

Overall despite all of this we have so much to be thankful for ❤️

24/09/2024

Some pictures from our show last weekend. It was a great weekend! Onyx won his first major by going BOS over specials, thank you judge Dana Cline for spotting this young boy!

Then 5 year old Poppy got to show Ysera’s mama Waffles as a veteran in breed which was super sweet. Natasha (who is 7) then showed her in Veteran Groups and won Working Group 1! Thank you judge John Lucas.

It was fun to spend time with and cheer for our friends at the show 😊

09/09/2024

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07/09/2024

Pictures of the babies we took at 7 weeks old! Doing a special photoshoot we keep a secret to surprise each puppy’s family with a nice picture on pickup day has been a fun tradition here ever since our first litter in 2016 💕

This year we went with a beach theme since this is our first litter in Florida!

02/09/2024

It was Ysera’s 6th birthday yesterday and we took her and the last remaining puppy (now named Pearl) out for some birthday celebration pup cups! Today Pearl went home with her new family 🧡 She was the Orange girl in the litter just like her mama Ysera!

Seeing my sweet Ysera as a mother for the first time this year was very special. She is exactly the type of mother I thought she would be, very caring and intense but also a lot of fun! She loved playing with her babies and teaching them to howl. Happy birthday sweet girl!

29/08/2024

The final bath time for the puppies before they head to their new homes over the weekend 🥹

26/08/2024

Portrait shots of all the babies at 8 weeks old 💕

21/08/2024

Is our pen clean yet?

19/08/2024

Some more fun time outside leash training 😊 Valentina (Orange) says she is a strong and independent dog who can hold her own leash!

15/08/2024

Puppies got their first introduction to the leash today, they thought it was very oppressive 😂

13/08/2024

Ysera says “Hey pup, I’m gonna boop you on the head!” She is definitely a fun mama!

09/08/2024

Puppies having some fun with the tunnel today!

06/08/2024

Some pictures of the puppies from the last few days! They got a new “play station” in their pen with a bunch of toys which have different textures and make different sounds, it’s a big hit! They love jingling the bells in particular lol

05/08/2024

Samoyed is the breed of the day on AKC TV today! Check it out if you get a chance 🥰 AKC TV is a free app.

31/07/2024

Some portrait shots of the babies 💕

On Sunday we started clicker training with the puppies. This litter are all super confident and outgoing, nobody got scared being on the kitchen floor away from the littermates. Lioness (Green) and Volk (Blue) were real stand outs as far as training itself goes in terms of attention and engagement but really all of them did well and were receptive!