He was a stray my mother-in-law started taking care of, but couldn't keep. At some point, he has been abused So, two? Three? days after my husband said "NO MORE ANIMALS!", we came home with this fella.



He just wants some luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv

10/24/2009 6:40:15 PM

love the name and pretty dog

10/24/2009 6:41:12 PM

beautiful!

10/24/2009 6:41:23 PM

pretty good find for a stray

10/24/2009 6:41:57 PM

10/24/2009 6:42:05 PM

oh he is a cutie! How'd he do in the car?

10/24/2009 6:42:43 PM

He was just fine...once we got him in there. The only way we were able to get him to go in the car on his own was to put my MIL's (female) dog in there. He's not neutered yet Otherwise, we have to lift him in there, and then he's ALL over the place, looking for a way to get out. Once he realizes there's not one, he just sits down calmly in the back. He's going to be a good dog to take camping

10/24/2009 6:44:44 PM

he looks so sneaky in the second picture

beautiful eyes on that dog

10/24/2009 6:45:36 PM

Huskies tend to have those

In that second picture, it looks to me like he's going HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY /H8R

10/24/2009 6:46:51 PM

DO WANT!!! so cute!!! love the name

10/24/2009 6:47:16 PM

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY LADIES

10/24/2009 6:48:17 PM

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh right there

10/24/2009 6:54:01 PM

Tanuk wants to come play.

10/24/2009 7:08:18 PM

Great name

that dog's very existence makes me think you're not so bad

[Edited on October 24, 2009 at 7:33 PM. Reason : asdf]

10/24/2009 7:29:06 PM

Who the hell abandons a Husky? Those things are expensive.

I have always wanted one.

10/24/2009 7:32:30 PM

10/24/2009 7:36:49 PM

GET OVER HERE

10/24/2009 7:40:01 PM

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"that dog's very existence makes me think you're not so bad "

ahahahahaha

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"Who the hell abandons a Husky? Those things are expensive. I have always wanted one."

I kind of assumed he was a mix, since
1) he's SO much smaller than a regular husky
2) he just looks different - more like a wolf (btw, he's black and white...with a red collar and harness GO PACK)
3) what you said, about who gives one up?

When we stopped at the shelter to have him scanned for a microchip, I asked their input on his mix, and they thought he was a purebred - ditto for the mobile groomer (open house at the shelter), who has owned multiple huskies.

I'll be asking at the vet.

If he is a full husky, my guess is that he was a runt?

A husky of any kind is not hte kind of breed I'd have ever pictured myself owning...not that that matters any more
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He's super scared of cars. That would explain why we had such a hard time getting him into the car today. Took him for a walk after dinner, and when cars would approach, he started pulling and hauling ass off to the side of the road. It's a fear that served him well, though

[Edited on October 24, 2009 at 8:37 PM. Reason : PS: there's snow at his namesake park http://ow.ly/woju]

10/24/2009 8:36:20 PM

WTB

10/24/2009 8:39:17 PM

PS: dog people
give me training pointers, and shit: my first dog never, ever got trained. He just lived in his yard, and was happy, and would pull my arm out whenever I took him on walks.

Then the second dog in my life ever is my husband's, who was mature, and very, very well-trained - to the point we think he may have been a show dog at some point.

So, by the time I recognized the importance and value of training a dog, my dog had lived with no training or manners for...ever.

This one craves attention so much I don't think it'll be overly difficult to train him...but I have no idea what one is supposed to train a dog to do. He's (hopefully) going to be an inside/outside dog, so housebreaking is a given.

[Edited on October 24, 2009 at 8:44 PM. Reason : sdf]

10/24/2009 8:43:30 PM

that looks like an australian shepherd w/ husky. BEAUTIFUL DOGGIE

10/24/2009 8:44:54 PM

I'd buy that. I've chalked up his flanking tendencies to the skittishness, and then the tendency to try to follow us (especially Z), to submissive behavior - but if he's a herding mix, that'd make perfect sense.

[Edited on October 24, 2009 at 8:47 PM. Reason : snse]

10/24/2009 8:47:23 PM

he is BEAUTIFUL! I like the spots on his nose.

10/24/2009 8:48:18 PM

Thanks!

^^^and thanks to you, too.

10/24/2009 8:48:39 PM

DO WANT.

10/24/2009 8:51:59 PM

i ♥ huskies

he could be a mix, but if he is, it's heavy on the husky side

10/24/2009 8:57:16 PM

an aussie! i knew there was something there

that face is so cute

10/24/2009 9:00:48 PM

In case we were somehow unsure of whether he likes us:

He got out of the backyard (squeezed through a hole in the fencing on the gate)...


And went nowhere. Just sitting outside of it, waiting for us.

10/24/2009 10:24:11 PM

MY DOG CAN KICK YOUR DOGS ASS!

10/24/2009 10:30:43 PM

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"that looks like an australian shepherd w/ husky"

i'm really not seeing the aussie in that dog at all.

my aussie mix (half aussie, half whoknowswhat):
on left


on right

10/24/2009 10:41:47 PM

http://www.siberescue.com/Breed_Info/breed_info.html

10/24/2009 10:49:23 PM

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"He got out of the backyard (squeezed through a hole in the fencing on the gate)... And went nowhere. Just sitting outside of it, waiting for us. "

lol awwwwwwwwwwwwww this is so cute

10/25/2009 3:07:22 AM

At least you have two animals of the same species now.

10/25/2009 3:12:51 AM

bad insult?

10/25/2009 3:14:57 AM

Quote :

"He's super scared of cars. That would explain why we had such a hard time getting him into the car today. Took him for a walk after dinner, and when cars would approach, he started pulling and hauling ass off to the side of the road. It's a fear that served him well, though"

My German Shepard is a scared little bitch when he rides in a car, but he's not at all afraid of cars. He'll run up and try to sniff the wheels while I'm trying to move if he can get near the car.

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"In case we were somehow unsure of whether he likes us: He got out of the backyard (squeezed through a hole in the fencing on the gate)... And went nowhere. Just sitting outside of it, waiting for us."

My dog does that kind of shit all the time when he gets loose. He'll just walk over to a different part of the property that he normally can't get to and lay down and sleep. I think he went swimming and came back one day.

10/25/2009 3:41:41 AM

we stopped to unlatch the gate at our house the other day and we started driving down the path and my little chihuahua just very quickly hopped up on my lap and out the window. that little fucker is too scared to jump off a chair by himself sometimes

10/25/2009 3:43:45 AM

I once had my dog in the back of slingblade's truck while he was driving and I had a leach on him... fucker tried to jump out like 5 times while the car was moving.

10/25/2009 3:45:27 AM

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"bad insult?"

Observation.

10/25/2009 4:02:56 AM

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"I have no idea what one is supposed to train a dog to do."

Penny and I are in advanced classes working towards canine good citizen certification. If you want to know where to start with your dog, I can loan you or let you copy the handouts from the beginner classes.

You start with targeting: getting the dog to follow a treat because you'll use that to lure the dog to start teaching things like watch, sit, down, belly, etc.

10/25/2009 9:14:41 AM

COOL

DOG

BRO

10/25/2009 9:31:29 AM

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"bad insult? "

Like he said, observation: we have a fish, a rabbit, a cat, and up til yesterday, one dog.

Quote :

"Penny and I are in advanced classes working towards canine good citizen certification. If you want to know where to start with your dog, I can loan you or let you copy the handouts from the beginner classes. You start with targeting: getting the dog to follow a treat because you'll use that to lure the dog to start teaching things like watch, sit, down, belly, etc. "

yes, please!
--

I can't wait to get off work so I can go love on him

10/25/2009 2:04:26 PM

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"In case we were somehow unsure of whether he likes us: He got out of the backyard (squeezed through a hole in the fencing on the gate)... And went nowhere. Just sitting outside of it, waiting for us."

LOOK GUYZ, I FOUND A HOLE!
LOOK GUYZ, I FOUND A HOLE!
LOOK GUYZ, I FOUND A HOLE!

JUST WANTED TO LET YOU GUYZ KNOW... THERE'S A HOLE RIGHT HERE. /point

10/25/2009 2:14:05 PM

has he started digging yet? my aunt had two huskies and it was like having 2 little backhoes in your backyard.

10/25/2009 2:15:24 PM

He has not.

10/25/2009 2:20:36 PM

Shadowrunner ftw. that made me lol so hard.

10/25/2009 6:10:53 PM

10/25/2009 6:11:48 PM

he's really pretty--congrats on the new family member!

10/25/2009 6:17:47 PM

10/25/2009 10:14:56 PM

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"LOOK GUYZ, I FOUND A HOLE! LOOK GUYZ, I FOUND A HOLE! LOOK GUYZ, I FOUND A HOLE! JUST WANTED TO LET YOU GUYZ KNOW... THERE'S A HOLE RIGHT HERE. /point"

I came home to a note that said 'somehow, glacier got in our yard. he was playing, so I left him there. Maybe you'll be home when I get back from the dentist.'

I found the hole (aha! )

I'm almost of the opinion that maybe we should talk with the neighbors and see about connecting the two yards somehow. They've got a lab and a husky, and glacier is fiendin' hard for a playmate. Yall should see him try to get the 15+ yr old homo dog my husband's decrepit cocker spaniel to play.

10/26/2009 3:31:48 PM

set em up

10/26/2009 3:33:13 PM