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Woodland  Cottage/Europe
Klenot Toliary/Europe
Sprightly Fellow's/Finland 
Du Domaine de Luniray/Europe
Blue Moon Cottage/Europe
Cartoonland/Europe
            
          ~~~  Puppies Available  ~~~
                   As Of 1/25/2012
Parents imported with FCI registration
Male and female purebred Coton de Tulear puppies available. Tri color and white/creme. Born January 2012, ready in March 2012.  Please contact us by e/mail or telephone we will send updated photos of the puppies available.  Health guarantee, de-worming completed with RX of Panacur, injections current, house breaking started at six weeks of age. cotons@centurylink.net  Phone: 937.336.6173

 
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If you have an interest in this breed it is advised to do some research as the breed is currently going through many changes in the United States.  Clubs have been designed to basically create the Coton de Tulear to their standard and subsequently Cotons now have solid coat colors of brown or black and these colors never change as the puppy matures as the Coton coat should if the puppy is born tri color.

Additionally, Cotons now can be found that stand as tall as a Lab or Golden when they mature.  If a Coton de Tulear breeder belongs to one club they can only mate their Cotons to another Coton that is within the membership.  This limits the gene pool, which is not good.

The Europeans were the first to have their attention drawn to the Coton de Tulear.

FCI history states the following: Cotons "introduced to France long before its official recognition in 1970", this occuring long before Cotons had clubs or rare breed registry within the United States.

The FCI [ kennel club for all breeds and rare breeds ] is accepted around the world, the United States is not a member of the FCI. 

Another very important issue is that the Coton de Tulear is "not" accepted by the AKC, many breeders in the United States are supplying totally false information about the service that is offered to the Coton de Tulear and it is not a "registration", it is only a service to report the pedigree of the Coton puppy for a fee, you will not find a Coton de Tulear in the AKC show ring.  Look up the FSS service for the Coton de Tulear on the offical site of the AKC.

We are not involved with a Coton de Tulear club, our Cotons at the time of importing from Europe had FCI registration and we in turn dual register them with the UKC and ARBA which offer services for breeds that are rare in this country.

HISTORY OF THE COTON

The breed has been well known in Europe starting in the 1950's.    As we mention before, there is little written about the breed, most information we have learned from Europeans and from one lady that was born and raised in France is now an American citizen.  There is some history here in the USA that tells of Americans discovering the Coton de Tulear on the island of Madagascar in the 1970's, but the facts point toward the history regarding the Europeans importing the dog into Europe as early as the 1950's.  This importing began long before the stories of Americans discovering the breed in the 1970's, then with a limited number coming into the United States.  As well there are no kennel clubs mentioning the [Coton de Tulear] breed before 1996.   

During the 1960's the Societe Canine de Madagascar sought breed recognition of the Coton de Tulear from the FCI.   In 1970 the breed was accepted as a distinct breed on the island of Madagascar with the distinction of the first original breed standard.  The name of the club was Malagasy Kennel Club of the island of Madagascar. 

Within the same year [1970] the FCI  adopted a standard/confirmation for the breed.  The only discrepancy between the two was the perferred choice of coat color.  Today Europeans and those of FCI membership openly state they prefer the white and white with creme coats.  The tri color Coton puppies at birth do eventually have fading of their coat, the only color that remains within the coat is black hair, which fades to a silver gray color or remains black. Additionally; the FCI does not have high regard for the very rare black and white Coton de Tulear.  This does not mean that the tri color or the black and white Coton is not pure blooded or unable to be registered with the FCI, it is just a matter of choice.  There are many FCI International Champions and Grand International Champions of Europe and other countries that are tri color Coton de Tulears.
                                                                                 
J. Alexander WM