Huskies 🖤 anyone else?

[Coops Dad]

My dog is a Husky GSD mix, and she's awesome. Her prey drive is off the chart so we have to keep her segregated from the chickens and turkeys. Her name is Luna but I give her mashup nicknames constantly, like Looney Toons, Luna McTuna, Looners and such but her spirit name is MurderDog because of how roughly she plays with my wife's beagle. She sounds like she's in a death match.

She's a shelter dog who spent almost 4 months in the pokey before she was adopted the first time due to her excessively dominant personality. She was adopted out and brought back twice, and was in foster care to avoid euth when my wife brought her home. Luna was very stoic and nonreactive for 3 months before she started coming out of her shell, and she became awesome. I cannot fathom how she dealt with going from her original owner, to the shelter (in a solitary kennel due to her drive to dominate), through two adoptions, to foster then, finally, to us. We've had her since March, and she's not going anywhere. She's my dog. My dog.

She plays very gently with the beagle now even though she still sounds like she's committing murder, and she does the husky "talk" when she wants food, or to go out, or butt scratches, or general attention. If I ignore her, she'll use her nose to flip anything I have in my hands, or she'll mouth my hand or arm and be a pest. She definitely communicates.

She LOVES car rides and knows she gets to go inside the feed store and Cabela's. The feed store we go to has a treat jar and the counter girl always does smooshyface to her before giving her a treat.

She is a very good dog.

 

[Coops Dad]

We tried to put her in a 10'x20' kennel while my wife mopped our kitchen and living room. She pulled a strand of chain link wire loose from one of the panels, effectively unzipping it and creating a vertical slit theough which she escaped.

I'm trying to find a pic of it. Her jaw and tooth strength- and her determination- are impressive and a little scary.

 

[TwoShepherds]

What beautiful photos and stories! I pined for a Siberian husky as a teen and young adult, but when the time came to contact breeders, they scared me off, lol. Don't think I'd enjoy worrying about a dog that bolts out of open doors and gates and doesn't come back. Ended up with German Shepherds and haven't looked back. Now, if I ever wind up living in a place with lots of snow, I might have to rethink things.

 

[DaisyG2317]

Imma post a pic anyway

She's not a husky, she's half malamute but too cute not to share‍♀

 

[GregnLety]

Our pup Maya

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

Some people don't like the way huskies play. I thought one was going to die the first time I saw them play together. Now, it's a normal to us. Shadow is completely capable of hurting her but he is such a sweetie that he just let's her go crazy on him.

 

[Aapomp831]

I don’t know if this baby is a Husky but he’s close enough!
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This sweetie lives nearby. He has loving owners but I still want to take him all for myself! Look at that face

Gorgeous, he looks like a husky / wolf mix

 

[FloorCandy]

My grandmother raised and showed huskies most of my life until I was in my 20s. We had a husky mix growing up, and they’re loving and sweet dogs, but I had enough getting up at 3 am to chase an escapee, er vet trips from swallowing anything they can get their jowls on etc. our family dog when I was young was a husky Doberman, ice blue eyes, short black and tan doby fur, crazy hyper like a husky lol.

Dealing with those huskies my whole life made me go polar opposite for my own dogs, I raise French bulldogs lol.

My husband and I got an English bulldog as our first, and when he passed I decided that I wouldn’t be able to carry an elderly bulldog up and down stairs when it’s too old to do it alone, and I’ll be in my 50s, so we decided to go with frenchies, but then we also got a big English bulldog, sharpei mix because I saw his sad situation on Craigslist, alone in a too small cage, no toys, just an empty bowl, his toes were all stretched and separated from living on wire because he got too big and the people couldn’t handle him. So I have a big dog now too, and his first action was to jump sideways off the stairs and he tore his acl at 4 months old, so guess what we had to do? Carry his chunky butt up and down steps for like 6 weeks lol.

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

I don’t know if this baby is a Husky but he’s close enough!
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This sweetie lives nearby. He has loving owners but I still want to take him all for myself! Look at that face

Oh. My. Goodness. He has the sweetest face!! So beautiful, definitely looks mixed. I can see why you'd wanna have him omgoodness. He almost looks like he has wolf in him.

Well since we got him as a puppy, it was easy bc he was raised around them. I taught him that the chickens are mine, not his... I did luck out though because he’s just easy going by nature. He does have a huge prey drive and is excellent at catching mice/squirrels; I’m not sure how he differentiates between chickens and prey. But I think the key is normalizing it as a puppy.one thing you could try is holding one of your chickens and petting the dog at the same time - almost like reinforcing that we’re all from the same pack.

I have tried holding the chickens and petting them by the dogs. I didn't know if it actually worked but that was my thought, maybe they'd see them as part of the pack. I keep hope with time and dedication they'll improve. I want to raise/train from a puppy; thinking in 5 years I should have more time on my hands to give it a go

Yeah, idk, I’ve just never been into changing avatars, making signatures, or any of that haha.

my username is thanks to my pug, she’s pushing 14 now, but in her prime she was constantly eating anything she could find, so it was always no Raisin, no floor candy, drop it!

That is a cute name, very creative! I got mine from a roller derby name generator and I don't even play roller derby.

Mine was just a big fluffy thing, pretty much looked 50% husky 50% Akita.

I wouldn't be surprised if you boy had some Malamute in him, he has a bit of that look and is pretty hefty too.

A few people have said he kind of looks like a malamute. He does gave a heftier body, and his fur is much thicker and fluffier. One of these days, when we can afford $100 on dog DNA test , we shall find out! Haha

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

My Huskies like to howl with the clucking chicken..