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[ccdc11]

Mike,

I've got four right now, the oldest is an 8-year old female wooly Siberian Husky, the next oldest is a 5-year old Husky/Wolf mix, then the two youngest are a 3-year old Siberian Husky and a 3-year old Pomsky. Its hard to ever let them go, they are part of the family.

Louis I've had the luck to have 12 or so different breeds in my life and my Siberian huskys will always be my favorites. Great dogs.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Louis...yea...they're easy to fall in love with...you want to give them a good life...you want to spoil them...you value their friendship and loyalty...pets can be expensive...I bet your food and vet bill is huge...

Yeah, especially when you consider the three cats and two sugar gliders . . . {sm4}

 

[ccdc11]

whats a sugar glider?

 

[Louis Badolato]

whats a sugar glider?

Its a small marsupial from Australia that acts a lot like a flying squirrel, and looks like a cross between a lemur and a flying squirrel. My wife bought two from my son. The live in a huge metal cage in his room.

 

[Louis Badolato]

This is Sasha, the matriarch, an absolute stone cold killer (she has single handedly killed a big racoon), Sabre, the protector (my wife is 5'7, so you can get an idea of his size), Storm, the best hunter in the pack (sleeping in the kitchen fireplace, hoping a squirrel makes the mistake of coming down), and S'More (my daughter's lap dog):

 

[mikemiller1955]

Louis...I pity the fool that comes to rob you...

 

[Louis Badolato]

Mike,

You have no idea. Whenever anyone not a member of the immediate family is in our house, Sabre, the gray and white Husky-wolf mix who hasn't got an ounce of fat on his body and weighs about 100 lbs, stands between the stranger and us. If the stranger moves, Sabre moves. If the stranger moves suddenly towards us, Sabre gets this low, almost inaudible growl. If we get too close to the stranger, Sabre backs into us and pushes us away. If anyone ever acted threatening to us, I don't even want to imagine what he would do. {eek3} Believe it or not, with us, Sabre is an enormous lap dog. {sm4} He wants to be constantly petted and loved. He sleeps right next to my side of the bed.

 

[Warrior]

Louis...yea...they're easy to fall in love with...you want to give them a good life...you want to spoil them...you value their friendship and loyalty...pets can be expensive...I bet your food and vet bill is huge...

Pets are awesome, they are loyal and give unconditional love, I love having them around, you do WHATEVER you have to do regarding the vet, **** it, they are innocent creatures and you have to be a responsible pet owner and take care of them as they can't take care of themselves.

Those humane society commercials murder me, how anyone can mistreat an animal is beyond my comprehension, one of our cats came from an abusive home, the womans boyfriend used to abuse the **** out of her, my girlfriend told me when we adopted her never to ask what the guy did to her...…………...so I have not.

For his sake, I'd better never find out.

There are two kinds of people in the world; animal lovers.

And everyone else.

 

[ccdc11]

I thought that's what it was. I have never know anyone who had them as pets. I fear for your chandeliers if you have them.
The husky's are great. Both of mine had the most natural prey instinct I've ever seen in a dog. Gentle to humans but man if cat walks by. I had one bring home a opossum once.

 

[Louis Badolato]

I thought that's what it was. I have never know anyone who had them as pets. I fear for your chandeliers if you have them.
The husky's are great. Both of mine had the most natural prey instinct I've ever seen in a dog. Gentle to humans but man if cat walks by. I had one bring home a opossum once.

Storm (the 3 year old black and while male husky in the fireplace) got after my outdoor cat Thickett (she was an indoor cat until we got our first Husky . . . the other two cats live in a closed bedroom). My son dove under the front porch to save her. Storm turned on my son. The was the first, last and only time he ever bared teeth to a member of my family. Sabre (the big gray and white husky/wolf) **** near killed him. But you are right, Husky's are like wolves or coyotes, they will kill any animal that's not another family dog. They even hunt my daughter's little lap dog if there is nothing else around to chase. A family of mallard ducks once made the mistake of trying to cut across my backyard to get from one of neighbor's ponds to the other neighbor's pond. It was a massacre. The catch birds out of the air on occasion. I've never seen anything like them.

 

[marco55]

Mike,

I've got four right now, the oldest is an 8-year old female wooly Siberian Husky, the next oldest is a 5-year old Husky/Wolf mix, then the two youngest are a 3-year old Siberian Husky and a 3-year old Pomsky. Its hard to ever let them go, they are part of the family.

Sounds like some beautiful dogs.
Mark

 

[marco55]

I noticed one of my outside cats wasn't eating well and saw his mouth was swollen a little bit so I took him to the vet's Saturday.Had to sit out side for about 40 minutes before they came and got him.Sat another half hour and the vet called me.She said that they had to sedate him (he had never been in a cat carrier before,he has always been outside)gave him a rabies shot which was required as he had never been to the vet's before,tested him for feline leukemia,tested him for feline aids,gave him antibiotics.The bill was up to $320.Would probably send out blood work,that would be another $120 and would probably have to see him back Monday or Tuesday to pull any bad teeth{eek3}.So before long the nurse/aide brought him out saying he only had 1 bad tooth and he wouldn't need to come back.Oh yeah when they first took him in he went crazy,hit his mouth on the door of the carrier and the tooth came out.:rolleyes2: So the price with my senior citizen discount brought the price down to $268. I dodged a bullet.^&grin
Mark

 

[OzDigger]

They are cute little animal, most Australian states won't let you keep them as pets including Queensland. When I worked with a Road Grading crew several years ago the grader driver noticed one of these lying on the side of the road, a miracle since they'd fit in the palm of your hand. It looked sick/injured and we phoned Australia Zoo, which is on the Sunshine Coast, they sent out one of their rescue vehicles which arrived in about 20 minutes and took it away, hope it was a happy ending for it.

Its a small marsupial from Australia that acts a lot like a flying squirrel, and looks like a cross between a lemur and a flying squirrel. My wife bought two from my son. The live in a huge metal cage in his room.

 

[OzDigger]

This is Sasha, the matriarch, an absolute stone cold killer (she has single handedly killed a big racoon), Sabre, the protector (my wife is 5'7, so you can get an idea of his size), Storm, the best hunter in the pack (sleeping in the kitchen fireplace, hoping a squirrel makes the mistake of coming down), and S'More (my daughter's lap dog):

I had an encounter with a Siberian Husky just Three weeks ago. We were doing some excavating out front of a house and the resident dog was barking like crazy and trying to get out to see what we were doing. It eventually got out and came over to us to check us out, it looked like a young dog, 12 months at most. It then made the best of being out by checking out its neighbors and attempting to start some fights with other dogs. At smoko it came back to us to see if it could get some leftovers and we took the opportunity to tempt it with some chicken to get it back into its yard. The double paling fence gate wasn't very secure so we put some largish rocks against the gate so it wouldn't get out again and annoy us and the neighbors. The dog started jumping and pushing against the gate like it did the first time but realised there was something stopping the gate opening. The dog looked under the gate and pushed those rocks away with its paws, pushed the gate again and was out in 30 seconds flat. Now I've had a lot to do with dogs over the years, including 'clever' dogs like Australian Cattle Dogs and Border Collies etc. However I can't recall seeing a dog figure out an escape plan that fast. How do you keep your dogs confined Louis? They must be the Dog Houdini's of the world ^&grin

 

[Louis Badolato]

I had an encounter with a Siberian Husky just Three weeks ago. We were doing some excavating out front of a house and the resident dog was barking like crazy and trying to get out to see what we were doing. It eventually got out and came over to us to check us out, it looked like a young dog, 12 months at most. It then made the best of being out by checking out its neighbors and attempting to start some fights with other dogs. At smoko it came back to us to see if it could get some leftovers and we took the opportunity to tempt it with some chicken to get it back into its yard. The double paling fence gate wasn't very secure so we put some largish rocks against the gate so it wouldn't get out again and annoy us and the neighbors. The dog started jumping and pushing against the gate like it did the first time but realised there was something stopping the gate opening. The dog looked under the gate and pushed those rocks away with its paws, pushed the gate again and was out in 30 seconds flat. Now I've had a lot to do with dogs over the years, including 'clever' dogs like Australian Cattle Dogs and Border Collies etc. However I can't recall seeing a dog figure out an escape plan that fast. How do you keep your dogs confined Louis? They must be the Dog Houdini's of the world ^&grin

They are absolutely escape artists. We lock our gate shut with a bicycle chain and lock, all our fences have chicken wire attached to them that goes down onto the ground and curves in towards out yard for about six inches. We also have an invisible fence that shocks them if they come within 3 feet of the fence. They still escape on occasion.{sm2}

 

[OzDigger]

They are absolutely escape artists. We lock our gate shut with a bicycle chain and lock, all our fences have chicken wire attached to them that goes down onto the ground and curves in towards out yard for about six inches. We also have an invisible fence that shocks them if they come within 3 feet of the fence. They still escape on occasion.{sm2}

I can believe that. I did manage to grab the young Husky by his collar at one stage but he struggled and yelped and made out I was hurting him so I felt obliged to let him go, I suspect he was an Actor as well as an Escape artist ^&grin

They really are an attractive looking dog with nice markings and Ice Blue eyes but I wonder how much they enjoy the climate where I live, the weather is usually like Florida here. However he'd like the weather today as its crazy cold outside at 8 C which is about 46 F, don't laugh that's cold for us {eek3}

 

[OzDigger]

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[tdubel]

The dog was street dog for 2 + years when we adopted him. By far the most conniving dog I have ever seen. We had to install child proof locks on cabinet and drawers.
He would bite the pull nob and walk backwards to get in the drawer. Any folding door he would push against one side to open it. No joke, we tried 17 different garbage cans to try to find one he could not open. He would jump on the pedal and stick his nose in when it opened a little. Ended up having to keep a weight on it. You could not stop him, he somehow got a loaf of bread off of the top of the refrigerator on time. Bread was stored in the microwave till this dog passed cause everywhere else he would steal it.

AT one point he learned to go to the door and bark if we were eating, to get us up from the table so he could try to steal food. That worked once or twice till we figured it out.

My dogs do not eat people food, but this one you couldn't stop him. I used to have to keep a book on top of a drink if it was on a coffee table or end table, If not it would be gone in minute.
He learned to knock the book off eventually. Jerk.. the list of food he ate is unreal. LB of butter, whole bunch of bananas, a whole chocolate cake, a whole lasagna still hot in the corning ware dish. and on on.

God I miss that dog.
chuck

Having 40 years of German Sheps, this post made me smile. They are a remarkable dog, we are on a break for awhile, but I see my son with them and I will get another at some point, probably a Belgian. I like all Sheps, but the Belgian is the best regarding a one person dog. He/She will tolerate my wife with training, but with her not being a dog lover, he/she will be my dog, which will work just fine!
TD

 

[mikemiller1955]

the future of crime...

 

[Louis Badolato]

the future of crime...

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are! {sm4}