Well it all started 4 months ago. My oldest daughter called me up one day and asked if she could have a husky. I told her no, but in the end I gave in. So we now have one here on the farm. Not that the husky minds, as I am quite sure he now has the best home he has ever had. He's about or just over a year old, but this is a guess on my part. The story goes he was kept in a 5X5 kennel, and rarely got out of it. My guess is this is right as well, as he has some habits of laying down to eat or drink, when there is plenty of room not to have to do so...in my shop. He has also do his best to rearrange my shop for me as well.
He came here shy and withdrawn, and cowered as I think some one had abused him badly. My voice was all he needed to hear to make him scared of me. He had belonged to a women we were told, so maybe a man was not what he was used too. He has become another dog, in 4 months. He is very happy and holds his tail proud. He no longer cowers from me at all. He is well behaved except for running the countryside.
His muscle tone was poor, and running was not something he did for very far. My german shorthair, has very much enjoyed the company of this husky dog, and they have run and played together for these months. Shilo, the husky's name the daughter gave him, has grown some more,and got into shape as well, by being free to run with the shorthair. Ty the other dog doesn't ever leave the yard here, as he was taught by an older dog, and is faithfull to those lessons from puppy hood...
But then came harvest, and the crops came out. I didn't realise it at the time, but those crops had been a "fence" around the yard all summer. Now the husky is thinking the whole area is the "yard" and it has been something else to keep him home...
dds and redsquel from the forum here have both been here with this husky. dds warned me that in AK they spend their lives on a chain. I think I now understand why....
I am hoping other members here might have some idea's as to how I might keep this husky from deciding the county side is his "yard" if that is possible...I don't want to chain him up very badly. Never done this to a dog before, but then again I have never had a husky before either. They are unique dogs that are hinged differeintly than other dogs. He can lay flat with all four paws out, belly flat to the ground. He is also displaying what I think are hip displasia symptoms in his rear end. Are husky's prone to this?
I like the dog alot, but we are now at odds. I get tired of his ways of running off and comming home at dark. I wonder if some day he won't come home anymore. I don't like that outcome at all....
Regards, Kirk
He came here shy and withdrawn, and cowered as I think some one had abused him badly. My voice was all he needed to hear to make him scared of me. He had belonged to a women we were told, so maybe a man was not what he was used too. He has become another dog, in 4 months. He is very happy and holds his tail proud. He no longer cowers from me at all. He is well behaved except for running the countryside.His muscle tone was poor, and running was not something he did for very far. My german shorthair, has very much enjoyed the company of this husky dog, and they have run and played together for these months. Shilo, the husky's name the daughter gave him, has grown some more,and got into shape as well, by being free to run with the shorthair. Ty the other dog doesn't ever leave the yard here, as he was taught by an older dog, and is faithfull to those lessons from puppy hood...
But then came harvest, and the crops came out. I didn't realise it at the time, but those crops had been a "fence" around the yard all summer. Now the husky is thinking the whole area is the "yard" and it has been something else to keep him home...
dds and redsquel from the forum here have both been here with this husky. dds warned me that in AK they spend their lives on a chain. I think I now understand why....
I am hoping other members here might have some idea's as to how I might keep this husky from deciding the county side is his "yard" if that is possible...I don't want to chain him up very badly. Never done this to a dog before, but then again I have never had a husky before either. They are unique dogs that are hinged differeintly than other dogs. He can lay flat with all four paws out, belly flat to the ground. He is also displaying what I think are hip displasia symptoms in his rear end. Are husky's prone to this?
I like the dog alot, but we are now at odds. I get tired of his ways of running off and comming home at dark. I wonder if some day he won't come home anymore. I don't like that outcome at all....
Regards, Kirk
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I never had the nerve to try it on myself !!!
