you DO NOT have to give the dog back.
Shirley will scream blue blazes about suing you or sending over thugs to beat you up and take the dog. Ignore her. She cannot sue you, and the RDMP in Airdrie, Lethbridge, Barhead and a number of other places know her by name. She has had a number of restraining orders against her. At this point, they are fairly easy to get . Keep the dog. Do not send it back to her grip. She screams a good story and is very scary. It is all crap in the end.

I am sorry but this comment is totally false I know that the dog was not an I P B dog.   This was a well cared for and loved dog the family had already one snall child.  This was a tragic accident and no one really knows what happened as locally people have respected the families privacy and allowed them to mourn the loss of their child.  
However I would recommend that people stay away from IPB snowogs.  We purchased a puppy from this breeder and have had medical and minor behavourial issues when he was young, however with love care and patience he is now healthy and a wonderful companion.   IPB have a bad reputation it seems but I have had no personl contatt with the breeder after my purchase.  All I do know is that she constantly has a supply of puppies available constantly on kijiji, with so many also on kijiji requiring rehoming we owe it to this lovely breed to put this type of breeder out of business, I am shocked that she still is allowed to be in business.

Real mature. It's common sense not to leave a child unattended with a dog.

Am I advocating for Shirley? No.
Am I against her? No.

Honestly would anyone leave their newborn unattended with a dog

Don't leave a small child unattended with a dog.
Even family dogs will attack out of the blue.

Breeder sometimes claims to have 42 years ON-LINE experience with huskies. Given that her Facebook page says she's 51, she's been doing it since age nine. Amazing! And not only that. by those numbers she's also had an Internet presence before the Internet as we know it was even invented!

Breeder claims to have upwards of 50 000 customers. Yes 50 THOUSAND! So assuming she has been selling them for 42 years and that's one dog per customer, that's 1190 dogs per year. Or 22 per week. Out of her small trailer in the middle of Airdrie with "one or two breeding pairs" (the later was a statement taken directly from her very website). They must be some tired dogs! By her own lofty personal standards, again stated on her website, she is the very epitome of the Puppy Mill breeder she so openly criticizes.

I phoned the CKC and while they could not comment officially, prior to being kicked out of that organization she was registering 20-30 dogs per years. A far cry from 1190 she is bragging about! And by the way, 1190 dogs per years is defined as a puppy mill by both the CKC and the UKC, the latter whose services she now uses. The UKC is a well known scam organization and there is a well documented case on-line of a person who was allowed to register their parrot as a purebred German Shepard.

Does this pass the smell test? No damn way, it stinks!

An open letter to Shirley Koyczan: So what is the truth? I doubt she'll answer. Or if she does. she's likely to say that this message is monitored by the RCMP and that I'll be going to jail. That seems to be her response to those that call her out for what she is.

It looks like the city is finally taking action.

http://www.airdrie.ca/index.cfm?serviceID=117 ... dog_abuse_cases

Shirley Koyczan, owner of IPB Husky Snow Dogs has been cited in numerous cases of animal cruelty, including endangerment, animals at large, biting attacks and unsafe or unhealthy conditions. The defendant has also been fined for operating without a city licence and under noise bylaws. Koyczan will appear in court at a undetermined date and animals may be impounded if actions by the defendant to are not taken to improve conditions and obtain proper licencing.

Let's hope they shut her down and rescue those innocent animals!

I've worked with Shannon from Arctic Sun kennels and can confirm it was NOT IPB whose dogs appear in the movies Snow Dog and Eight Below. Shannon supplied them and I know this as I was the one who transported them between shooting locations. The producers DID NOT use IPB, they did not even contact her. Lies, lies, lies!

Shirley is such a joke in our industry and it's amazing to us how the city of Airdrie and the local humane society allows her to operate with such a blatant disregard to her dog's well being. Like the one poster said, city council must be idiots. I have seen her ?kennels? and they are filthy, smelly and noisy and how the neighbours tolerate it is beyond me.

Shawn

A breeder has been raped in Airdire.

As a professonal breeder I support the guzoo zoo. I have delt with mr gustofson in the past and he is a competent and caring keeper of these animals. People get a f**icken life. He has adaopted many of my huskies, Nya and Foxtrot, and they are very happy and healthy. Now our website will be accessable by registration only since there have been many thets on our health and wel being and the phone is monitored by the RCMP and call blocking is not answered. This is due to Kim smiley and the shmeer campagn she has againt us. So in short, do no hate on us it is clear a smeer campagin is going on and guzoo and IPB husky snow dogs will continue business. We have been at it for many years and have 50000 happy cusoitmert and no b*ich is going to chnage that.

Bravo Guzoo and bravo IPB Husky snow Dogs. .
Demonsrating a sound professional business practice is Airdrie. Represenring the only polar white huskies worldwide in Airdrie. Polar white huskies $300, seventeen available.

Shirley was seen on the news again, defending the huskies that attacked the little girl in Silver Springs. Once again, she claims is was an aggressive child who provoked the dogs.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/06/10/19860846.html

"Huskies are not dangerous, I repeat they are not dangerous. If attached they will defend themselves, a right I believe all people and animals and especially huskies have the right to do. I sell a lot of Huskies, many to families with small children and let me tell you there have been only a few problems. I will stand by these huskies and while I feel for the child, she should not have been tormenting the dogs" Shirley Koyczan

They called my cell today and did not leave a message.

This breeder was seen on June 2nd illegally selling underage unhealthy pups near the Bass Pro Shops at Crossiron Mills mall. We notified security, who mentioned chasing her off many times before.

I know its you Kim Smiley, you bloody bithch! You have raped this breader and your vile and perverze actions will not be tolerated any longer. You make fun of my speach, without knowing that I was a seriouz car accidunt that afected my brain centers!

A breader has been raped in Airdrie!!!!!!!

Let me get this straight, you are defending the dog who killed the baby in Airdrie? Are you for real?

I repeat, all those phone calls will not stop me. The baby was wrong as sad as it is. Threts will not charge that. A husky will be have around a baby UNLESS that baby tormented them. Can you blame the dog for defending themselves? The dogs name is Poope and is the son of Trylord, who has a litter right now. $300.
Shirley.

IPB supplied husky attacks and kills baby in Airdrie.
Breeder claims huskies are perfect for small children even unattended small children, it says so on their website. I guess they are wrong and now a young life has ended. Breeder quoted on the news blaming the child.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2 ... s-q-a-beck.html

As a professonal breeder I support the guzoo zoo. I have delt with mr gustofson in the past and he is a competent and caring keeper of these animals. People get a f**icken life. He has adaopted many of my huskies, Nya and Foxtrot, and they are very happy and healthy. Now our website will be accessable by registration only since there have been many thets on our health and wel being and the phone is monitored by the RCMP and call blocking is not answered. This is due to Kim smiley and the shmeer campagn she has againt us. So in short, do no hate on us it is clear a smeer campagin is going on and guzoo and IPB husky snow dogs will continue business. We have been at it for many years and have 50000 happy cusoitmert and no b*ich is going to chnage that.

Bravo Guzoo and bravo IPB Husky snow Dogs. .
Demonsrating a sound professional business practice is Airdrie. Represenring the only polar white huskies worldwide in Airdrie. Polar white huskies $300, seventeen available.

Since I bought a puppy from Shirley, she has changed her phone number six times. The reason I know? We have call her a lot since we have problems with her paperwork, the registration papers, the dog has been sick a lot and so on, and we keep a record of each number. Also, she only takes voice mail and can take days to call back. A secret to getting a quicker response: leave a message you wish to buy a dog. She'll call back much sooner that way.

As of December 1st, this is the phone number for IPB Husky Snow Dogs in Airdrie. These numbers change frequently as the heat catches up with them.

Our IPB Husky/Shirley Koyczan story......

We currently have one of this lady's dogs. A man re-homed her. We contacted her not knowing anything about this womans breeding practices and asked her about ckc papers and she lied to us to get us out here and then tried to suck us in to paying 3500 for a dog that is never really ours. She would not provide any references and now we have this dog, and we like her, but we are not signing anything period. So we probably have to give her back to this woman, who openly admitted bred her dogs ever 6 months. I feel very badly about this however I do not think we have any choice. It is unfortunate as I thought I was being responsible by contacting the breeder. What a horrible mistake.

She is crazy though, in the time we were there, she told us about how the CKC accepts labradoodles, goldendoodles and in a few months bishon shihtzu's. She claimed this AFTER we told her that our relatives bred CKC dogs. I mean COME ON! Who does she think she is fooling. Something about how the universe is shifting so dogs come in to heat earlier in life or something. If you ignore all that however, she does put on a very good show I must say... Does she beleive what she is saying, is she just that poorly educated? I was disgusted. Though I must say when we were there, in her trailer park, that the dogs were very well kept. I have the feeling if we would have signed that piece of paper that she would have made us keep this dog for 2 years, pay for her clearences, stud fees and then she would have either charged us board out of this world(62 dollars a day per dog for 12 weeks) or she would have found something to take her away from us so she can have her and all the puppies. She did admit that she had taken quite a few dogs away from people. That did raise a red flag. And she spoke of her dogs as "investments, money makers, expensive, profit" etc. Never once have I heard about how she loves them and that they are her pets. It is really very sad.

What I do not understand however, is why no one goes after her. If everyone who had truly experienced all these breach of contracts and bad experiences got together, and sued the crap out of her, you have a sure win. You could TRY and get your money back.(Though from the looks of it she has nothing to give... which confuses me as she has alot of litters of pups per year) Or at least shut her down and give those poor huskies a chance at life. How are all these complaints even on this site getting nowhere. How is it that she is still in business after ripping all these people off.

I am just very sad for this poor little girl I have here, who I really thought would be mine, and now I have to hand her over to a puppymill. And I cant prove that it is as she does keep all her dogs somewhere else then in town. She calls it "the ranch". But from what I SEEN no one can shut her down as she keeps her place in pretty good condition considering. So the only people who can stop this are all of you who have actual grounds and proof to stand together. I am certanely not going to purposely put myself in a situation where I could loose large sums of cash to shut her down. I am dissapointed that all of you who have been had, post all about it on here, but hope it doesnt happen to anyone else, none of you have talked about getting together and ending this. You would win and you could all get your legal fees back at the very least.
Just food for thought.

The man I got this dog from had a dying family member that he had to move in with and could not bring his dog. It is unfortunate that I have to hand over this dog to this woman and can do nothing about it. As her contract states that she does have the right to take the dog back as she was meant to have first right of refusal.

I hope someone puts a stop to this woman. And that people smarten up and do research before they purchase a puppy from a breeder. Because ultimately, the people who are purchasing her puppies are the ones keeping her in business. I honestly would not pay that kind of money for a dog unless I did some serious research into the breeder. I would not have taken this dog had I known all that would follow or even that she came from this so called breeder.