What’s the difference?
Brief Overview
The Utonagon is not the same the Northern Inuit.
The Utonagon Society was started by a group of people who had been kicked out of the Northern Inuit Society due to mal-practice (cross breeding their Northern Inuit’s with Akitas, Collies and GSDs). These people took their own Northern Inuits and the crosses they had created and re-named them Utonagons.
These people claimed on their website that the Utonagons were no different from the Northern Inuit, that they had just decided to rename them due to the controversy caused by the name Northern Inuit (this is not true).
In January 2005 the new chairperson of the Utonagon Society agreed that the Northern Inuit and the Utonagon are not the same, and confirmed that the Utonagon is a cross breed of the Northern Inuit, Collie and GSD and that they would be composing their own breed standard in the near future.
So as you can see although Utonagons started out as Northern Inuits and indeed that some of the much older Utonagons are in fact Northern Inuits that had their names changed by these people, these dogs now look nothing like the Northern Inuit and unlike the Northern Inuit the Utonagons are known to suffer with many health problems.
The Northern Inuit Society wish the Utonagon Society every success for the future in establishing their own breed.
By Katharine