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 www.cinosamgsd.com --- On Sun, 3/28/10, Carolyn Martello <marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Carolyn Martello <marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Movement vs temperament/ Huskies To: Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx, cherlyngsd@xxxxxxxxx, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 5:26 PM 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 ----- Original Message ----- 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 ===========================================================================POST is Copyrighted 2009. 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