Elizabeth & Michael Wells
Grand Haven, Michigan

We are a small hobby kennel located in beautiful western Michigan near the shores
of Lake Michigan. Mike and Liz met in April of 1999 at an event sponsored by a local
kennel club. Liz had Samoyeds and Mike had Pomeranians and we were both
active in showing and breeding. We became best of friends and were married
in December 2003 and are now a blended family of Pomeranians, Samoyeds and one
very large Maine Coon cat named Wrangler.

Mike is a pharmacist and Liz is a 4-H Youth Agent and a full time doctoral candidate (ABD)
at Michigan State University. We enjoy breeding, training and exhibiting our dogs in
AKC shows and are both active in the Greater Muskegon Kennel Club. Liz competes
in conformation, obedience, rally and agility and enjoys occasional sledding with her dogs.
Mike is more interested in conformation showing.

We are members of the Samoyed Club of America, the Samoyed Association of
Metro Detroit (SAMD), the Greater Muskegon Kennel Club (GMKC), the
American Pomeranian Club (APC) and the Michigan Pomeranian Club.
Liz has served as president of SAMD, Chair of the Awards Committee of SCA,
on the board of GMKC and as a show chair of the fall AKC show of the
Muskegon club. Currently she chairs the Junior
Handler committee of the Samoyed Club
of America. Mike is Vice-President of the Michigan Pom Club.
We both judge AKC and 4-H matches in showmanship and conformation and
Liz judges obedience, rally and agility 4-H shows in many counties in Michigan
and at the State 4-H Dog Show. She also teaches obedience and conformation
handling when possible and she is a certified Canine Good Citizen tester for the AKC.
In May of 2007 Liz judged Samoyed sweepstakes in Pennsylvania. She
will judge sweepstakes again in California in May 2009.
Together along with Mike's sister Linda who shows Pomeranians with us,
we have finished over 20 AKC champions to date
with several from the bred by exhibitor class.

The name "Solid Gold Samoyeds" comes from the musical The Music Man starring
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones and Ron Howard. Ron Howard plays the little
brother of Shirley's Jones' character and when he gets a shiny new coronet
from the traveling salesman he says to his sister "Sister, sister, isn't it
the most scrumptious solid gold thing you ever saw? Oh sister!" When I first
brought Sammy Jo home in 1991, she was the most scrumptious solid gold
thing I had ever seen and she became Scrumptious Solid Gold Sammy because I
didn't want to call her "Thing". The Sammy Jo call name was based on the
character Sammy Jo in Dynasty which was played by Heather Locklear.
My hope was that she would grow up to be as beautiful and sassy as
that character and I was NOT dissapointed! Now all of our Samoyeds
carry the Solid Gold name in her memory.