What Is A Mi-ki?

Pronounced (me-key)

• Rare toy breed - average adult weighs 3 - 8 pounds
  
  
• Share common ancestors with Papillon, Maltese and Japanese Chin breeds
  
  
• About 500 live in the U.S. -- thought to have origins in Penang off Malaysia and came to the U.S. in the late 1980s
  
  
• Calm -- excellent therapy dogs
  
  
• Great companion dogs -- happy, loving and sweet
  
  
• Very healthy
  
  
• Intelligent and easy to train
  
  
• Don't need to be walked, happy in condos and apartments
  
  
• Will use a litter box or newspaper or can go outside as you desire
  
  
• Long hair, not fur, that requires little grooming (typically combing once a week with a metal comb)
  
  
• Very little shedding, if any at all. Some people who are allergic to dog hair or dander experience no allergic reaction around these dogs.
  
  
• Love kids, cats, dogs -- large and small (but won't argue with being the only dog either!)
  
  
• Bi-colored, tri-colored and solids, but solids are rare and prized
  
  
• Colors include cream, red, silver, black, white, blue, apricot, sable, gold, brown, beige and chocolate
  
  
• Two coat types -- long and smooth (smooth coats do not have beard and mustache)
  
  
• Live into their teens
  
  
• Recognized by the States Kennel Club, International All Breed Kennel Club, National Canine Association and Bahamas Kennel Club
  
  
• Registry for pure bred mi-kis -- Mi-Ki Breeders USA
  
  
  
  
  
  Peaches as a puppy
  Pretty as a picture!