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pen:
How big is your house/yard?  Jeez.

TheDozarian:

--- Quote from: pen on 15 Jan 2009, 07:26 ---How big is your house/yard?  Jeez.

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It's a big place... and we've got a big fenced-in yard...  But only the bigger dogs ever get a lot of use out of the yard... The pugs are mostly content to stay in the house...  They're all potty-trained and are mostly well mannered.

Reed:

--- Quote from: redglasscurls on 14 Jan 2009, 12:01 ---Huskies are not at all easier than retrievers/labs- my grandfather used to board/breed dogs and he absolutely hated having huskies to deal with. Huskies can be really high strung and a lot of them have the brains inbred out of them in irreputable breeding places. If you leave them at home alone, they are pretty likely to eat your entire living room and probably crap in it since they're a pain in the ass to housetrain.
You need to be serious about training and asserting dominance, or your husky will make your life suck. If you have it from a puppy and really put in the time, they can be great dogs, but I wouldn't recommend it to most people.

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I had an Alaskan Malamute, which is a more stubborn, larger version of a husky and my experience wasn't like this at all. He was incredibly sweet, loved attention, only once became destructive when left too long. He was retarded stubborn, but with enough patience he was a great dog. We raised him around other dogs, so he never once tried to assert his dominance (he was actually so friendly that when other dogs didn't like him he didn't care and would STILL try to play with them). The prey instinct is a problem...We had two cats as well, and he liked to hunt them down if they were running around the living room.

His name was Atticus, I just had to give him away 3 weeks ago because when I moved out of the apartment I shared with my ex I couldn't find any apartments that I could afford that would allow a 95lb dog, and she could not spend enough time with him on her own, so it would have been really unfair to him. The sad thing, was that it was harder than her dumping me.

Edit: Sorry....didn't mean to turn this into the blog thread

Golani:
I've had 4 dogs, 3 cats, 12 fish.

My first dog, Keesha, was a Keeshond, wonderful dog, but was too friendly with the neighbors. he chewed through the fence and would jump up on people trying to play games with them. (This was before shock-colliers were popular).

Two dogs, Penny and Foxy, were enemys from Day one. Defiantly not a match made in heaven.

Cody was my latest, he was a wonderful dog, but too expensive to feed, we had to give him to friends of ours.

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Felines:

Stupid Cat, (Yes, that was his real name). {An american shorthair} Did the damnedest stuff, attacking roosting hens, getting himself pecked almost to death, licking electrical sockets, jumping into a deep fat fryer. Accidentialy sleeping in the washing machine. (Didn't find out until we heard his very upsetting and scary screaming. Oy, poor cat. Anyway, he died after going into the garage and knocking over antifreeze.... the sight of a twitching cat to my (then) 12 year old eyes) was horrible. We loved him the most though of all our pets.

Annie and Cathy were both Calico, we had them for their full lives, they made wonderful companions. (My aunt claimed annie was trying to kill her by rubbing her legs as the walked (tripping her three times.) this lead my sister and I to call her, The Auntinator.

All my fish... Oh Goldie, I know thee well... Goldie 2, Ben Gurion... Schwarzenegger, Amanda, Gypsy, Miri, Ehud... well, i can't remember all their names!

I am looking to getting a bird someday, though one that doesn't chirp too much.
 

Fenriswolf:

--- Quote from: RedLion on 10 Jan 2009, 20:29 ---That seems like an inordinate amount of pets to keep. They're all cute though.

What do people know about Huskies? How hard are they to look after, train, etc?

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Oh, whoops, this thread. Thanks, I think they're cute! It is inordinately expensive, even when everyone's healthy, not to mention time-consuming. But animals are better than people.  :-D

Others have answered the Husky thing but to reiterate I think they really are not a breed for many people. Incredibly high energy - ideally need a walk and a run a day, but not early or late so they don't overheat, fairly high upkeep coat (not like a woolly dog but still), often prey driven, super good at escaping, quite vocal (which is fine with the right owner), very independent and quite domineering. On the plus side not as big as Malamutes. :lol:

They are awesome dogs but they are a high maintenance breed and usually woefully mismanaged. With a dedicated and confident owner they're fantastic pets and apparently it's really fascinating living with such a "wolf like" breed. ie: A woman off the pit bull forum had a pit bull mongrel and a Husky and where pit bulls are very human-esque, snuggly and in your face, Huskies definitely watch your body language and respond to it, and are more aloof. Interesting contrasts.

It's just sad for Huskies that they're so beautiful as they just need so much time and work (really, they are a working breed) and most pet owners don't really fulfil the needs of their small breed lap dogs or low-drive show bred Labradors (let alone when they get a real, drivey lab).

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