COOL ALASKAN MALAMUTES???????

I obtained an older puppy from Kool Alaskan Malamutes in June, 2008. She was being offered 'free' to a good home. I contacted Kool to inquire about her. I was told she displayed some evidence of 'same sex' aggression. I have lived with all female Mals for 17 years and wanted to give her a try in my home if she did well upon meeting my female I already had. I supplied my adoption application along with my vet references and was approved for the adoption. The day before I went to pick her up, I was told by the breeder that she had a red and white male she'd give me that she thought would do better in my home. I explained that I was not interested in the male and would still like to see the female. All of my suggestions on how to introduce the two dogs were nixed by the breeder. I was told, 'either they'll get along, or they won't.'

I never met the breeder, it was her teenaged children that brought the puppy to me. The puppy was very sweet, licking and kissing my whole family like she'd always known us. She even played with our female, both rolling over on their backs. I did notice, however, that she never carried her tail over her back like a Malamute should. When I asked what was up with her tail, I was told that was just how she carried it. We agreed to take the puppy.

Upon arriving home, I had a very difficult time getting the puppy in the house. It wasn't until I went to feed her, her tail curled between her legs and she showed extreme aggression to my other Malamute. I took my other dog out of the house and proceeded to feed the puppy at which time, she bolted the food down, choking on it like she was afraid someone else would get it. I put her in a crate for the night to sleep and the following morning, she became possessive of that growling at my other dog with her tail wrapped between her legs the whole time. If my children went to pet the other dog, she'd also growl at the other dog. Basically, she started guarding all of her resources.

I contacted the breeder to see if she could give me information on the puppy before I got her, things like her position in the litter. I told the breeder that the puppy seemed to be overly possessive. I was told by the breeder that through their experience with the dogs, they were known to be possessive and that her position in the litter did not matter.

Walking with the puppy and my neighbors male dogs was also met with many problems. She'd go into attack mode with her tail between her legs upon meeting them and once she got used to walking with them, if she'd see another dog not part of our group, she'd lunge out at the dog walking closest to her.

It took well over a month of working with her before she'd carry her tail over her back showing confidence and was closer to 3 months before she understood she did not have to guard her resources from my other dog. She still eats more quickly than I'd like to see but I'm somewhat confident she won't die from bloat taking in air while bolting her food.

I do not believe these dogs are well socialized or that the breeder has the knowledge to produce and care for as many puppies as she does.

This is NOT a licensed kennel. According to the county they're in, there are no restrictions on how many animals you have on your property and I was told that each dog is licensed individually, therefore, they do not have to conform to any kennel ordinances or standards set.

Other complaints on ripoff reports have been hidden and can be read here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/427/RipOff0427927.htm .

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Jolene Houghtaling, owner of Hudsons Malamutes & Huskies, involved in starving and abusing dogs to frame other breeders.

In September 2008, Kool Alaskan Malamutes came into the knowledge that Jolene Houghtaling, owner of Hudsons Malamutes & Huskies, was involved in starving and abusing dogs to frame other breeders for grudges that she held against these breeders. She possibly also did this to put these breeders out of business so that she could gain the entire Alaskan Malamute market. Jolene Houghtaling published starved and abused dog pictures on the internet stating that these other breeders did this. Jolene Houghtaling also spread the word around to stay away from buying from certain breeders. A number of Alaskan Malamutes breeders went out of business due to this tactic of Jolene Houghtaling.

Kool Alaskan Malamutes stuck up for one of these breeders in October 2008 that Jolene Houghtaling framed with starved and abused pictures. Jolene Houghtaling then had her lawyer shut down our website. Jolene Houghtaling then had Wildpaw Malamute forum members write Ripoff Reports and other bad reviews against us in the beginning of 2009.

Jolene Houghtaling also is using domain names for Cascade Alaskan Malamutes and Wakon Alaskan Malamutes in order to get puppy buyers to come to her rather than go to them. This is unethical and shady.

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Wildpaw Malamute forum members are saying horrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes. Not only are Wildpaw Malamute forum members saying terrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes, but their own members are dumping Malamutes in animal shelters to be killed.

Jolene Houghtaling, owner of Hudson's Malamutes & Huskies and one of our competitors, has as her friends on Facebook Wildpaw Malamute Forum members.

Please read below for evidence that Wildpaw Malamute forum members are saying horrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes and dumping Alaskan Malamutes in animal shelters to be killed:

Kh6

Jefferson

U.S.A.

there's some false information...

Devil's Advocate: I'd rather not drag the name of the forum on here but the forum is the first one that comes up when you google "malamute forum". I've been a member for 9 years (even prior to the new format) and I'm not sure why your browser would alert to a problem. Contrary to what has been posted, bashing a particular kennel (using names) publicly is forbidden. We do however have posts about what to look for in a breeder, decoding breeder websites, etc. There are a few people on the forum who have purchased dogs from the Kools. One of them discovered this site and since the people know each other from the forum having had similar experiences, they let the others know about it. Nothing more, nothing less, not driven by any outside breeder, etc. I'm not directly affected by any of this but I know the people involved and have seen the posts on the forum, discussing their problems and looking for help resolving them.

As a breeder, the "evil" AMCA kind, I would question some of what has been said in the various rebuttals and would love to go to town pointing out everything that doesn't make sense but it's not my fight. In this case I think both parties share responsibility, one took on a dog with likely same sex problems, the other allowed it to happen.

Kh6

Jefferson

U.S.A.

Not sure where that came from or the relevance...

For starters, this breeder is not being bashed on the forum. It is not allowed. I believe anyone who wishes to read the posts on the forum are welcome to do so but you have to be a member to post. Feel free to do a search, there are no posts bashing this breeder. Some of the people filing reports are on the forum but there are over 700 members from all over the world--the malamute world is a small one and given the number of litters produced by this kennel, big surprise that some of their puppy people found the forum and joined. We have pet people, show people, working people, breeders, and rescue people on there.

It's irrelevant where the administrator is from. He maintains the forum from a technical standpoint and doesn't participate in discussions--I'm not even sure if he owns malamutes. The moderator is the one who polices the forum and mentioning breeders by name in a negative light is forbidden and may get you expelled from the forum.

It's not quite the conspiracy you want it to be.

Doris

Chesapeake

U.S.A.

The "Other" Forum

I am the moderator of the Wildpaws Forum. I am the one responsible for making sure that our forum rules are followed. We do not allow any negative comments about a person, business, or product by name.

I have done a thorough search of our site and Kool Alaskan Malamutes is not mentioned anywhere on our forum. With 700+ members, there are members who have purchased puppies from Kool's as well as many other kennels. The fact that they are members of our group does not make the Wildpaws Forum in any way involved in these Ripoff Reports. There is no mention of Ripoff Reports or getting together to file complaints against anyone. What our members do outside of the forum is their personal business and not linked to our forum.

I do not want our forum drug into any conflicts outside of our group. We are not linked to any breeding kennel and do not sell puppies on our forum, so are not in competition with any breeding kennels. Since the Kool Alaskan Malamutes name is not posted anywhere on our forum, we are not involved in any way with any of the complaints filed.

Please be careful about using names on a site like this, where the info can not be edited. Even if wrongly accused, the info can not be removed. Our forum is very careful to not post negative info about anyone by name to protect ourselves from legal issues and we expect others to do the same for us.

Thank you

Wildpaw Malamute forum states that nothing negative is being said on their forum about Kool Alaskan Malamutes, but please read the following email excerpts from a Malamute rescue group and emails from a previous puppy buyer who is/was a part of Wildpaw Malamute forum. All email addresses have purposely been omitted. The name of the Malamute rescue worker has been also purposely omitted. Maybe nothing negative is being said on Wildpaw's forum itself about Kool Alaskan Malamutes, but the members of Wildpaw Malamute forum are clearly saying terrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes:

1. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Britney Behling wrote:

"Hi Pat- Sargent is doing great, we love him to death. He is currently in Novice training, graduated from his puppy class with flying colors. He LOVES his sister and his favorite toys are balls, he has quite the accumulation of them at this point. (I have attached a couple pictures). We would love to find Sarge a playmate as his sister is getting a little older now and would much rather relax on the couch with us than run around and wrestle with Sarge. Unfortunately, we can only afford about 200-250 for another dog, so if you have any puppies that haven't found homes yet and their prices drop a little bit, it'd be great if you could let me know. Like I said, we would love to have a new puppy in the house. Thanks so much for your time.

Britney Behling"

On May 26, Britney wrote an email to the Malamute rescue stating that they had another male dog now, obviously adopted/bought after the February 22 email from Britney to us that is seen above.

2. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:41 PM wrote:

Please find below a message submitted on 2009-05-28 at 18:41 comments:

"Hello- We have been contacted about a pup you sold (out of Power and Montana) that the owners have to "get rid of". I'd like to make arrangements for him to be returned to you. Please email me at your earliest convenience....this pup doesn't have much time. Thank you."

3. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Britney Behling wrote:

"Pat- After receiving Sarge from you, we joined Wildpaws Forum and heard terrible things about you, your family and your "puppymill" as most would call it. We were told not to expect you to take any sort of responsibility for any defaults in your dogs by not only other malamute owners, but by other breeders and by the Alaskan Malamute Rescue themselves. What would you have done, may I ask? Driven the 5 hours to come pick him up just to sell him to another family unaware of the temperment problems you knowingly breed into your poor animals? He has a severe aggressive reaction with other dogs in his home and we did what was best for him due to the dangerous situation we were presented with in our home. He will go to Alaskan Malamute Rescue and any family interested in adopting him will be informed of his aggression along with only being placed in a single dog home."

Sent from my iPhone

On May 28, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Kool Family wrote:

"Britney, Per your signed contract, you were required to contact us if you no longer wanted your Mal from us. Why did you "drop" him off at a rescue?

The Kools"

4. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:35 AM, wrote:

"I was contacted about a mal by DuPage County - area shelters often contact breed rescue about dogs at their facilities. We have him listed on our website as a potentially incoming dog (he is still at the County kill facility at present). We frequently help dogs from area shelters. Can you help him? As you know, rescue is a small network of volunteers. We don't have a kennel setup or anything like many breeders do. Please just let me know if you are able to help Sarge, I don't want to see him die."

So, this great Malamute rescue worker took HER time and HER gas money to rescue Sarge and drive him to us shortly after the above email, and Sarge JUST left us in October 2009 for his new home. Not only are Wildpaw Malamute forum members saying terrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes, but their own members are dumping Malamutes in animal shelters to be killed.

While Sarge was with us for over 4 months, he lived in wonderful peace with 2 other AKC purebred Malamutes even sharing with them open feeding 24 hours/day as well as the same water.

Jolene Houghtaling, owner of Hudson's Malamutes & Huskies, is unethical and is trying to ruin other breeders' businesses:

1. Posting slanderous reviews and ads against other breeders.

2. Posting slanderous articles on her own website against other breeders.

3. Getting other people to post slanderous ads and reviews against other breeders.

4. Starving and abusing dogs to frame this on other breeders because Jolene was mad at these other breeders.

5. Is a friend of Wildpaw Malamute forum members. Wildpaw Malamute forum members are saying horrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes.

Jolene Houghtaling, owner of Hudson's Malamutes & Huskies, is also involved in unethical breeding practices:

1. Breeding dogs with hip dysplasia to get puppies from the lines of the dogs who have the hip dysplasia.

2. Using a cattle prod on her dogs when they dig out to teach them not to do it again. The proper thing to do is to cement under the fence so that they cannot dig out.

3. Has dogs that live together that fight to the extent of ripping each others ears off.

4. Lies about her dogs weights to sell her puppies.

5. Swindles Malamutes from unsuspecting owners to capture all of the Malamute bloodlines.

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Wildpaw Malamute forum members are saying horrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes. Not only are Wildpaw Malamute forum members saying terrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes, but their own members are dumping Alaskan Malamutes in animal shelters to be killed.

Jolene Houghtaling, owner of Hudson's Malamutes & Huskies and one of our competitors, has as her friends on Facebook Wildpaw Malamute Forum members.

Please read below for evidence that Wildpaw Malamute forum members are saying horrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes and dumping Alaskan Malamutes in animal shelters to be killed:

Kh6

Jefferson

U.S.A.

there's some false information...

Devil's Advocate: I'd rather not drag the name of the forum on here but the forum is the first one that comes up when you google "malamute forum". I've been a member for 9 years (even prior to the new format) and I'm not sure why your browser would alert to a problem. Contrary to what has been posted, bashing a particular kennel (using names) publicly is forbidden. We do however have posts about what to look for in a breeder, decoding breeder websites, etc. There are a few people on the forum who have purchased dogs from the Kools. One of them discovered this site and since the people know each other from the forum having had similar experiences, they let the others know about it. Nothing more, nothing less, not driven by any outside breeder, etc. I'm not directly affected by any of this but I know the people involved and have seen the posts on the forum, discussing their problems and looking for help resolving them.

As a breeder, the "evil" AMCA kind, I would question some of what has been said in the various rebuttals and would love to go to town pointing out everything that doesn't make sense but it's not my fight. In this case I think both parties share responsibility, one took on a dog with likely same sex problems, the other allowed it to happen.

Kh6

Jefferson

U.S.A.

Not sure where that came from or the relevance...

For starters, this breeder is not being bashed on the forum. It is not allowed. I believe anyone who wishes to read the posts on the forum are welcome to do so but you have to be a member to post. Feel free to do a search, there are no posts bashing this breeder. Some of the people filing reports are on the forum but there are over 700 members from all over the world--the malamute world is a small one and given the number of litters produced by this kennel, big surprise that some of their puppy people found the forum and joined. We have pet people, show people, working people, breeders, and rescue people on there.

It's irrelevant where the administrator is from. He maintains the forum from a technical standpoint and doesn't participate in discussions--I'm not even sure if he owns malamutes. The moderator is the one who polices the forum and mentioning breeders by name in a negative light is forbidden and may get you expelled from the forum.

It's not quite the conspiracy you want it to be.

Doris

Chesapeake

U.S.A.

The "Other" Forum

I am the moderator of the Wildpaws Forum. I am the one responsible for making sure that our forum rules are followed. We do not allow any negative comments about a person, business, or product by name.

I have done a thorough search of our site and Kool Alaskan Malamutes is not mentioned anywhere on our forum. With 700+ members, there are members who have purchased puppies from Kool's as well as many other kennels. The fact that they are members of our group does not make the Wildpaws Forum in any way involved in these Ripoff Reports. There is no mention of Ripoff Reports or getting together to file complaints against anyone. What our members do outside of the forum is their personal business and not linked to our forum.

I do not want our forum drug into any conflicts outside of our group. We are not linked to any breeding kennel and do not sell puppies on our forum, so are not in competition with any breeding kennels. Since the Kool Alaskan Malamutes name is not posted anywhere on our forum, we are not involved in any way with any of the complaints filed.

Please be careful about using names on a site like this, where the info can not be edited. Even if wrongly accused, the info can not be removed. Our forum is very careful to not post negative info about anyone by name to protect ourselves from legal issues and we expect others to do the same for us.

Thank you

Wildpaw Malamute forum states that nothing negative is being said on their forum about Kool Alaskan Malamutes, but please read the following email excerpts from a Malamute rescue group and emails from a previous puppy buyer who is/was a part of Wildpaw Malamute forum. All email addresses have purposely been omitted. The name of the Malamute rescue worker has been also purposely omitted. Maybe nothing negative is being said on Wildpaw's forum itself about Kool Alaskan Malamutes, but the members of Wildpaw Malamute forum are clearly saying terrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes:

1. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Britney Behling wrote:

"Hi Pat- Sargent is doing great, we love him to death. He is currently in Novice training, graduated from his puppy class with flying colors. He LOVES his sister and his favorite toys are balls, he has quite the accumulation of them at this point. (I have attached a couple pictures). We would love to find Sarge a playmate as his sister is getting a little older now and would much rather relax on the couch with us than run around and wrestle with Sarge. Unfortunately, we can only afford about 200-250 for another dog, so if you have any puppies that haven't found homes yet and their prices drop a little bit, it'd be great if you could let me know. Like I said, we would love to have a new puppy in the house. Thanks so much for your time.

Britney Behling"

On May 26, Britney wrote an email to the Malamute rescue stating that they had another male dog now, obviously adopted/bought after the February 22 email from Britney to us that is seen above.

2. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:41 PM wrote:

Please find below a message submitted on 2009-05-28 at 18:41 comments:

"Hello- We have been contacted about a pup you sold (out of Power and Montana) that the owners have to "get rid of". I'd like to make arrangements for him to be returned to you. Please email me at your earliest convenience....this pup doesn't have much time. Thank you."

3. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Britney Behling wrote:

"Pat- After receiving Sarge from you, we joined Wildpaws Forum and heard terrible things about you, your family and your "puppymill" as most would call it. We were told not to expect you to take any sort of responsibility for any defaults in your dogs by not only other malamute owners, but by other breeders and by the Alaskan Malamute Rescue themselves. What would you have done, may I ask? Driven the 5 hours to come pick him up just to sell him to another family unaware of the temperment problems you knowingly breed into your poor animals? He has a severe aggressive reaction with other dogs in his home and we did what was best for him due to the dangerous situation we were presented with in our home. He will go to Alaskan Malamute Rescue and any family interested in adopting him will be informed of his aggression along with only being placed in a single dog home."

Sent from my iPhone

On May 28, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Kool Family wrote:

"Britney, Per your signed contract, you were required to contact us if you no longer wanted your Mal from us. Why did you "drop" him off at a rescue?

The Kools"

4. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:35 AM, wrote:

"I was contacted about a mal by DuPage County - area shelters often contact breed rescue about dogs at their facilities. We have him listed on our website as a potentially incoming dog (he is still at the County kill facility at present). We frequently help dogs from area shelters. Can you help him? As you know, rescue is a small network of volunteers. We don't have a kennel setup or anything like many breeders do. Please just let me know if you are able to help Sarge, I don't want to see him die."

So, this great Malamute rescue worker took HER time and HER gas money to rescue Sarge and drive him to us shortly after the above email, and Sarge is STILL with us as of 8/23/09. Not only are Wildpaw Malamute forum members saying terrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes, but their own members are dumping Malamutes in animal shelters to be killed.

Jolene Houghtaling, owner of Hudson's Malamutes & Huskies, has committed crimes against other breeders:

1. Posting slanderous reviews and ads against other breeders.

2. Posting slanderous articles on her own website against other breeders.

3. Getting other people to post slanderous ads and reviews against other breeders.

4. Starving and abusing dogs to frame this on other breeders because Jolene was mad at these other breeders.

5. Is a friend of Wildpaw Malamute forum members. Wildpaw Malamute forum members are saying horrible things about Kool Alaskan Malamutes.

Jolene Houghtaling, owner of Hudson's Malamutes & Huskies is also involved in unethical breeding practices:

1. Breeding dogs with hip dysplasia to get puppies from the lines of the dogs who have the hip dysplasia.

2. Using a cattle prod on her dogs when they dig out to teach them not to do it again. The proper thing to do is to cement under the fence so that they cannot dig out.

3. Has dogs that live together that fight to the extent of ripping each others ears off.

4. Lies about her dogs weights to sell her puppies.

5. Swindles dogs from unsuspecting dog owners so that she can obtain bloodlines.

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Email Exchanges Between Lori Rago And Pat Kool Speak Volumes Against Lori's False Report Against Kool Alaskan Malamutes!!

Upon review of Lori and Jeff Rago's adoption application in June 2008, Kool Alaskan Malamutes turned Lori and Jeff down for not having a fenced-in yard, for having 2 cats, and for having a female Alaskan Malamute, all which are fully against Alaskan Malamute rescue groups' standards for successfully young adult and adult Malamute adoptions. After Lori Rago BEGGED Pat Kool over and over again to adopt the female Malamute being offered for free, Kool Alaskan Malamutes reluctantly agreed to let Lori bring her female Malamute named Venus over to meet our Malamute female that was for adoption. Upon seeing that all went well with the meeting of the 2 Malamutes, Kool Alaskaan Malamutes agreed to give the Ragos a chance at adoption of our Malamute that they begged us to give them. This was on 6/28/08. The Ragos promptly named their newly adopted Malamute Luna.

The following excerpts form email exchanges between Lori Rago of Harrison Twp, MI, and Pat Kool, co-owner of Kool Alaskan Malamutes, speak VOLUMES to the false report that Lori Rago has posted on this Rip-off Report:

6/29/08: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Lori Rago <Lori AT jrago.com> wrote:

"Here are a few pictures of Luna. We just got in from our 3 mile walk and she did beautifully! I don't think I tired them out enough though, they're running around playing. She was such a good girl for her bath too!

Take care,

Lori"

Again on 6/29/08: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Lori Rago <Lori AT jrago.com> wrote:

"I can imagine it must be hard for you. But just remember, you have made us so very happy by letting us have her. I feel so lucky that she was passed by. She is such a sweet dog! It is too bad that she was there so long for you to get attached to her. She is so good with the boys and seems to have really taken to Alex. I don't think she's had the time to think that you abandoned her. It was a pretty full day both yesterday and today. I didn't want to overwhelm her, but I want her to know right off the bat, what our family life is like here.

Venus seems to really like having her here and there has only been a slight bit of jealousy, as you would probably expect. We are making certain to give Venus ample attention too. When I thanked Alex for going over to Venus to pet her after he'd been with Luna, he said "you know Mamma, if Venus could talk, I'll bet that's what she would have said too."

Luna is also doing very well with the food change. She had a loose bowel movement last night, but this morning, it was almost normal. I'm so glad I thought to mix the beef, rice and cottage cheese. By the way, house breaking is going extremely well for the first day! Right now, I'm pretty certain it's me that's more trained than her, but there have been no accidents and she already seems to know what "do you have to go outside" means. Have you taught her to wait for people to go through a door first? I have been amazed that she will wait for me to go in the house first!

Thank you again!

Lori"

6/30/08: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Lori Rago <Lori AT jrago.com> wrote:

"That is wonderful that your kids made her sit down and stay still! It really helps with the obedience training here. I can definitely tell someone has worked with her.

2nd full day went pretty well. I worked on obedience with both Venus and Luna. We played a game too. We have a giggle ball toy that Venus used to love to play fetch with. Both dogs took turns to run after it and play with it while the other had to sit and stay. When I'd determined that time was up, I either had Venus bring it to me (well, sort of) LOL she drops it near me so it rolls to me and when Luna had it, I just told her to drop it, We also worked on sit stays and down. Luna is catching on to all of this in our household very quickly. These guys are so smart!

Lori"

7/1/08: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Lori Rago <Lori AT jrago.com> wrote:

"You can definitely tell she was worked with. Your kids do a great job!

Lori"

7/3/08: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Lori Rago <Lori AT jrago.com> wrote:

"This morning, both girls woke up and greeted each other with wagging tails and kisses.

Thanks,

Lori"

7/5/08: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Lori Rago <Lori AT jrago.com> wrote:

"Thank you so much for helping deliver God's gift to us! As I've said before, he is putting our life back in balance. Luna is meant to be here and to assure you, will have a wonderful home with us as long as she lives.

Lori"

Again on 7/5/08: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Lori Rago <Lori AT jrago.com> wrote:

"Hi Pat,

I've attached a few pics of our new family member. She seems very happy here. I hope you enjoy them.

Lori" (In parantheses here from Kool Alaskan Malamutes: Most pictures sent on 7/5/08 from Lori Rago of Luna show Luna's tail curled up over her back!! Please email us from our website to request pictures of Luna taken on 7/5/08 by Lori Rago.)

7/11/08: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Lori Rago <Lori AT jrago.com> wrote:

"Hi Pat,

Everything is going fine! She is such a little joy and has finally found her voice! What a cute little puppy bark.

I've attached a few more pictures of the dogs in the pool! Luna really loves the water! I love to watch the antics of the two of them. They cool off then start running around the deck splashing through the pool every chance they get.

I hope you don't mind, I did copy pictures from your web site of Peace and Silver Star so I could have pictures of Luna's Mom and Dad. Whomever takes the pictures does a beautiful job! By the way, you have a great website too!

Talk to you soon.

Lori" (In parantheses here from Kool Alaskan Malamutes: Every pictures sent on 7/11/08 from Lori Rago of Luna show Luna's tail curled up over her back!! Please email us from our website to request pictures of Luna taken on 7/11/08 by Lori Rago.)

SO, these email exchanges between Lori Rago and Pat Kool, co-owner of Kool Alaskan Malamutes, speak VOLUMES to the false report here by Lori Rago. What is her motive? Perhaps money? On July 5, 2008, Lori stated:

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Lori Rago <Lori AT jrago.com> wrote:

"Hi Pat,

Jeff became 'self-employed' back in 2001. This was not by choice but out of necessity. To us, this is when the economy really started getting bad. The fortune 100 company he worked for wanted him to go to Kansas city for 18 months coming home every other weekend. At the time, Alex, our oldest, was only 1 1/2 years old. Family life is so important to us and we refused to let 'big business' interfere with our personal life. Jeff and I did a lot of talking and opted that he take the layoff. We figured while on unemployment, he could find another position and we'd be ok. That was not the case. We were in an adjustable rate mortgage because we'd refinanced to have our bathrooms remodeled (a much needed job). With Jeff's self-employed status, we did not think anyone would look at us to refinance. The interest rate adjusted up and mortgage payments were killing us to the point we started falling behind. The company would not work with us and actually tried forcing us into foreclosure by not accepting any payments unless we had enough to bring the account up to current. This all happened last August...We were going to end up getting kicked out of our home where we'd lived for 15 years with no where to go.

Lori "

Also, on July 11, 2008, Lori stated:

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Lori Rago <Lori AT jrago.com> wrote:

"Hi Pat,

...I guess the old saying holds true that 'money talks.'

Talk to you soon.

Lori"

AND, wouldn't you know it, that as soon as we are being heavily harassed by Jolene Houghtaling of Hudson's Malamutes because we have evidence against her of crimes that she has committed that we are about to turn into the authorities, that we get 2 Rip-off Reports against Kool Alaskan Malamutes within 6 days of each other!! A coincidence??? We never even heard of the Rip-off Report until 2/22/09. And, here comes on the first Rip-off Report 14 months AFTER Dawn bought her puppy, and the second Rip-off Report comes on 8 months AFTER Lori adopts her young adult from Kool Alaskan Malamutes! Again, I say: A coincidence??? Could it be that since Jolene Houghtaling of Hudson's Malamutes receives $2000 to $2500 per puppy that she is paying Lori, who has been in desperate need of money, to write this very negative Rip-off Report????

1 Timothy 2:5:

"For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus." Not the mother Mary nor "saints."

Psalm 67:3:

"Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You."

Psalm 104:1:

"Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great!"