Obviously some breeds are smarter than others. We have a black Lab and he is the sweetest dog, most lovable dog and the most gentle dog, but he is literally as dumb as a box of rocks. I don't know if it's the breed or if I'm just used to German Shepherd Dogs and Shetland Sheep dogs. They seem to be extremely smart. Heck I used to think that all little dogs were just plain stupid until my daughter got (well, I guess he's my dog now since she's at school) a "Snorkie"; mix between a Yorkie (hate 'em) and a Miniature Schnauzer. He knows literally dozens of 'tricks' and will do them on command without having to receive a treat afterwards. He does them just for the verbal praise and petting he gets for doing something right.
The only thing that would keep the black lab (and I'm in no way implying your Husky is just flat stupid like Kippy 'the black lab') from walking out on our pool cover was using the Tri-Tronics "Trashbreaker" training collar. It's rather expensive, but it's good for 2 miles and can deliver a more powerful jolt than most. I had to hide and wait for him to start onto the cover and then just nail his ass. After a few times he just figured that walking on that pool cover resulted in severe pain and has avoided it since.
I've always used the training collars because I just can't spank a dog unless it's threatening to bite someone without reason. Then, basically, it's trying to prove it's the alpha male/female and I feel I need to assert that I am the alpha male in our pack. Since I've really never spanked any of our 5 (yeah, too many, but we have a dozen acre yard), I can be as mad as hell at one and yell very angrily at them if they are doing something bad, and they will come to me because they know I'll just verbally chew them out and they don't fear a beating (again, I'm not in any way saying you'd ever beat a dog; just saying dogs that have been spanked will NOT come to you if they fear a spanking).