-------------------------------------------------------------HERE YOU SEE AMERICAN CREAM PUPPIES...AND AN AMERICAN CREAM SERVICE DOG IN HER UNIFORM, WORKING. BELOW IS A COPY OF THE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN CREAM DOG HOMEPAGE, IT WAS CREATED FOR THE ACPBA (AMERICAN CREAM PUPPY BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION). THE ACPBA BEGAN A BREEDING PROGRAM TO ESTABLISH THE BEST AND SMARTEST PUPPIES INTO A NEW BREED- THE AMERICAN CREAM. HOWEVER, A RARE BRITTLE BONE DISORDER APPEARED IN TWO LITTERS, AND BREEDING EFFORTS WERE DISCONTINUED. THE ACPBA SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED A PUPPY TESTING SERVICE AND TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SERVICE DOGS AND TO SCREEN DOGS FOR SERVICE AS GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND. WE HAD OUR OWN DOG SHOW IN AN INDOOR ARENA IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA, IN 1996. THERE WERE OVER 100 MEMBERS IN 1997.
THIS WAS A LABOR OF LOVE, AND THE PUPPIES THAT DID NOT QUALIFY WERE SOLD OR GIVEN AWAY TO THOSE WHO WERE ON A WAITING LIST. ANY CHARGE FOR THE PUPPY INCLUDED ALL SHOTS AND TRAINING, AS PUPPIES WERE KEPT FOR 12 WEEKS: SOME PUPPIES WERE SOLD FOR AS MUCH AS $400. NO MONEY WAS MADE ON ANY SUCH PUPPIES. AS TO THE CLAIM THAT THEY WERE 'MUTTS,' BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT YET RECOGNIZED AS A BREED, ALL NEW BREEEDS BEGIN SOMEWHERE.
THERE WAS ALSO DEBATE FROM CRITICS CONCERNING THE JUSTIFICATION FOR CREATING THE AMERICAN CREAM. OUR LONG-RANGE GOAL WAS TO SUPPLY A BETTER SERVICE DOG/GUIDE DOG FOR THE BLIND AND FOR THE HANDICAPPED, ESPECIALLY FOR THE ELDERLY, FRAIL, AND CHILDREN, THAT WAS SMALLER AND EASIER TO HANDLE, WITHOUT HIP PROBLEMS, AND LONGER-LIVED THAN THE STANDARD LABRADORS--SAVING MONEY BECAUSE THEY ATE LESS, AND ALLOWING EASIER TRANSPORTATION ON AIRLINES, TRAINS, ETC. WE WERE THRILLED THAT AMERICAN CREAMS DID NOT HAVE 'DOGGIE ODOR' AND THAT THEIR HAIR WAS EXTREMELY SOFT, YET NEVE MATTED. THEIR BEAUTY, INTELLIGENCE AND PERSONALITY CHARMED EVERYONE.
THE FINAL FORMULA FOR THE AMERICAN CREAM: TWO PARTS BLACK OR GOLDEN LAB,FROM CERTIFIED GUIDE DOG LINES, PLUS ONE PART NORWEGIAN BUHUND (INDIVIDUALS HAD TO BE CALMER AND LESS VOCAL THAN THE ORDINARY BUHUND), AND ONE PART BORDER COLLIE OR, IF NOT AVAILABLE, TRY THE AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD (INDIVIDUALS HAD TO BE LESS NIPPY THAN THE AVERAGE BORDER COLLIE/AUSSIE). ALL WERE TESTED FOR HIGH INTELLIGENCE AND A COURAGEOUS, YET GENTLE PERSONALITY. THE ORIGINAL PROTOTYPE WAS HALF NORWEGIAN BUHUND AND HALF (GUIDE DOG CERTIFIED) GOLDEN LAB. NEXT, TWO STRAINS OF LABRADOR WERE MIXED WITH A NORWEGIAN BUHUND/LABRADOR GUIDE DOG, AND AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD. LATER, A BORDER COLLIE WAS INTRODUCED. THE RESULT AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS OF CROSSBREEDING WAS A DOG WEIGHING ABOUT 40 POUNDS, INTELLIGENT, GENEROUS-HEARTED, AND BEAUTIFUL. WE HAD A LINE OF SHORT-HAIRS, BUT THE LONG-HAIRS WERE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND SOUGHT-AFTER (THIS AS MUCH THE SAME RESULT AS JACK RUSSELL TERRIER BREEDERS OBTAINED--- NOTE THAT JACK RUSSELLS WERE NOT RECOGNIZED AS AN AKC BREED UNTIL RECENTLY--WE HAD TO HAVE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF DOGS TO START TO QUALIFY). BREEDING STOPPED AFTER 1998, WHEN THE BRITTLE BONE DISEASE APPEARED. ONLY THREE LITTERS WERE BORN IN 1998, WHICH WAS HERATBREAKING. WE JUST COULDN'T AFFORD TO DO DNA TESTING BACK THEN TO SEE WHERE THE BAD GENE WAS. SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES TOOK THE AMERICAN CREAM DOG GENOME UNDER STUDY, HOWEVER, BECAUSE THE CONDITION IS SO RARE, AND IT HAS HELPED TO ESTABLISH, I WAS ONCE TOLD, THE LOCATION OF THE BRITTLE BONE DISEASE GENE IN HMAN BEINGS.
HERE IS AN EXCERPT FORM A FINAL NEWSLETTER PLEADING FOR MEMBERS WHOSE DOGS WERE FREE OF BRITTLE BONE DISEASE, BT IN THE END, WE DECIDED WE'D HAVE TO START OVER. AT AGE 66 TODAY, I DOUBT I'LL HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO TRY TO BREED THE AMERICAN CREAM, BUT BY POSTING THIS INFORMATION, MY HOPE IS THAT SMEBODY 'OUT THERE' WILL WANT TO DO SO.
Excerpt from last ACPBA newsletter:
MANY Norwegian Buhund breeders sell only neutered Buhunds. Be sure you purchase an intact buhund (breed to another buhund at some point, if you can). Keep a little secret: most Norwegian Buhund breeders get angry if you breed to other breeds. But this is the only way we can create American Creams! We must breed buhunds to flawless yellow labs, to Australian shepherds, or to American Creams to SAVE the American Cream. Buhund males would be best, since Buhund females may be too small to have yellow lab or Aussie husbands (puppies may end up too big). MAKE HISTORY! SAVE THE AMERICAN CREAM! BREED A MALE BUHUND TO THE BEST ACEYS, AUSSIES, OR LABS!
----I independently continued to breed American Creams from my own stock after that, but I was being harrassed and threatened for speaking out. one bad incident that occurred in Louisiana was when my best breeding little girl, Veronica, who had had two guide dogs for the blind and four service dogs successfully placed, for free, to families on a waiting list-- Veronica was called from our yard deliberately, then a gun was shoved into her mouth and her head was blown off. I asked God to forgive these people for that.
HOWEVER, BEFORE DISBANDING, THE ACPBA SUCCESSFULLY PLACED OVER TWO DOZEN GUIDE DOGS AND SERVICE DOGS FOR HANDICAPPED AND VISION-IMPAIRED CHILDREN, AT NO COST, BY THE END OF THE PROGRAM. PUPPIES WHO DID NOT QUALIFY WERE SOLD FOR UP TO $400, (WHICH INCLUDED ALL THEIR SHOTS AND PUPPY TRAINING) THOUGH SOME WERE GIVEN AWAY TO FAMILIES WHO HAD LOST A PET AND THEIR CHILDREN WERE IN CRISIS BECAUSE OF IT. WE MADE NO MONEY AT ALL FROM THIS EFFORT, AS WE TOOK UP TO SIX MONTHS TO TRAIN PUPPIES BEFORE HANDING THEM OVER FOR FURTHER TRAINING, FREE OF CHARGE, TO GUIDE DOG TRAINERS, ETC.
THE AMERICAN CREAM DOG BREEDING PROGRAM WAS DEAR TO MY HEART. MANY REMARKABLE PUPPIES AND DOGS CAME FROM IT. IT IS MY DREAM THAT THE AMERICAN CREAM DOG WILL BE RE-CREATED.
BELOW IS A COPY OF THE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL WEBSITE, WHCH I CANNOT UPDATE BECAUSE I LOST THE PASSWORD WHEN MY COMPUTER WAS STOLEN. ALSO, MOST OF THE PICTURES ON THAT SITE HAVE SOMEHOW MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED. I HAVE BEEN CRITICIZED FOR 'SELLING MUTTS' --HOEFULLY, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND, AS DO ALL FORMER ACPBA MEMBERS, THAT WHAT WE DID WAS FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY. I DO HOPE SOMEONE WLL BREED THE AMERICAN CREAM ONCE MORE--THE RESULT WILL ASTONISH YOU! SOME HAVE DISPUTED THAT A DOG CAN LEARN 'AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE.' I ASSURE YOU THAT AUSSIE AND BORRDER COLLIE DOGS USED FOR HERDING SHEEP LEARN MANY HAND AND WHISTLE SIGNALS, AND "BLONDIE" -- PLACED WITH A DEAF OWNER --LEARNED A NUMBER OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE HAND SIGNALS FOR HER DEAF OWNER. BONDIE'S MOTHER LIVED TO BE 20 YEARS OLD. BLONDIE HERSELF HAD SEVEN PUPPIES AT AGE 10.
NOW-- HERE'S THE WEBSITE AS IT APPEARS ELSEWHERE:
----THE ORIGINAL WEBSITE----
The AMERICAN CREAM DOG -- Discover What Is Possibly the World's Most Intelligent & Best All-Around Breed!
THIS IS THE ACPBA HOME PAGE!
We're the proud owners of American Creams. We belong to the American Cream Puppy Breeders Association.
We'd like to tell you a little about these outstanding canines.
They are beautiful dogs. Clean, intelligent, wise. They are a new breed of dog, developed to be a special companion for home and family, and for every stage of human life. They were created in honor of an unrecognized American patriot.
A DOG THAT WANTS TO THINK
"Aceys" are mid-sized, up to 40 pounds. Some live 20 yrs. A 10 year old Acey may bear healthy puppies. Hypoallergenic hair, minimal "doggie odor." Little grooming needed. Thrifty, eat less food. Retrieve, Search-and-Rescue, Guide, Companion, family dogs.. Have been tested in psycholinguistics experiments at University of Louisiana. One learned American Sign language.
The American Cream will guard you, pamper you, and insist on being your very best friend. They have great compassion for the handicapped. "ACEY" genetics include Norwegian Buhund & yellow labs from guide dog lines. "Susan" has been tested to know more than 250 words. We are seeking people interested in adding greater gene diversity to the gene pool.. THE ACPBA is reactivating Sept.1st. WON'T YOU JOIN US?
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