[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Huskies?
- From: "Carolyn Martello" <marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cinosamgsd@xxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:02:06 -0700
I take full responsibility for this thread going from whether or not "spooks"
show better than a "sound"
German Shepherd Dog...... to the trainability of a Husky......or lack
thereof..................sigh...........<G>
Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.Marhaven.com
-----From: Cinosam GSD To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 7:40 AM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Movement vs temperament/ Huskies
My family bred and raced Siberian Huskies for years.....I still have
one.....she slipped her collar at a dog show once and took off right out the
front gate of the otherwise completely fenced fairgrounds..........ran the
streets of Mason City IA overnight and was sitting outside my camper the next
morning........incredibily smart dogs....that have no interest in pleasing
their owners. I keep one just to remind me to appreciate my GSD's. Here is a
link to her page.
http://www.cinosamgsd.com/keisha1.html
Cindy
From: Carolyn Martello <marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I just brought Huskies in to make a point in generalities.....and I
agree.......they truly do love to go!!!
However, our youngest son owns one and he is a GREAT dog. He's a great family
dog and he will
do absolutely anything to please our son. AND I wish I had our GSD as well
trained as his Cody is.
This dog has caused a couple of his friends to get one ......and they are
just like him.
Of course our youngest daughter had a friend who had one for a family
dog.....and it was virtually
untrainable. But that family should never have had a dog anyway. ( whole
other story ) <G>
We used to live where they have the sled dog races and weight pulling
contests up by Squaw Valley.
We entered one of our GSD in a small local contest to pull weights and SHE
won ......out of sheer drive
to please our daughter who's idea it was. Never even had a harness on in her
life before that.
<G>
We also watched a small Husky ( with a lot of encouragement from it's owner )
pull 1,500 lbs by
itself to break the record one year. ( I would need THAT one to pull me on a
sled )
<G>
Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.Marhaven.com
From: Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx
Oh no <G>, not what is asked of them! They just love to
goooooooooooooooooooooo because
it pleases THEM! If you've ever tried to train a Huskie or similar breed,
you'll know what I mean.
In fact, Huskie owners have a joke, "what do you call a Huskie when its leash
breaks???...GONE!"
(Our family owned a Huskie once that lived to be 16; crazy dog, hard to
train, not at all spooky, she
just lived to please herself...you see VERY few in obedience <G>.)
I remember a sled dog ride in Alberta Canada...these where Huskies, Malamutes
and mixes,
(and I think there's some truth to their bitches being staked out when in
season and bred by wolfs...)...
anyhoooo...the sled was CHAINED to a sapling tree....one by one the dogs were
put in harness. The
barking, carrying on and straining against the harness was something to see,
smaller dogs in front,
powerful Malamutes towards the back...and a bitch in season named Wendy in
front, lol.....the tree was
almost on the ground by the time they were in harness. When we were in the
sled, musher standing on
the back and that chain released, he could NOT have stopped them for love nor
money for the first many
miles of trail. Thank God we didn't fall out or I'd probably still be in the
woods in Alberta <VBG>.
It was a lot of fun...good memory...thanks!
Kathy, member GSDCA, DVGSDCCelebrating generations of Dual Titled TC'd
Champions
visit _http://www.pinehillgsds.com/_ (http://www.pinehillgsds.com/)
marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Sled dogs generally are not spooky......they have a strong drive and
willingness to do what is asked of them
/
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