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kailavmp In reply to Pawkeye [2017-01-30 10:22:38 +0000 UTC]

Ano.

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kailavmp In reply to Sitsi [2016-12-14 18:45:45 +0000 UTC]

Oh, that is awesome! Do you have any photos of him/her? Aaand what he/she is like? And yes, it is great enjoyment for the person, but I can clearly see dogs enjoy working with human as a team member just as much! And it seems to form the bond between the musher and dog like nothing else (if the musher behaves to their dogs like a decent human being, that is! )

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Sitsi In reply to kailavmp [2016-12-15 12:59:40 +0000 UTC]

I've uploaded a few to sta.sh for you: sta.sh/2y6koj844be

His name is Orion, but we call him "Bobbi" as a nickname a LOT. He responds to both names!
And he is a very interesting pooch! When we first went to pick him up, the man who sold him to us had him in his car, where he pooped and decided to sleep in it. I'll never forget that We had to wash him straight away when we got home which he hated, he made it sound like we were skinning him or something He's incredibly intelligent, though, and learned a lot very fast. He's eager to please, and you can see it in his eyes when you get him to even do just a simple trick. But he's also a trickster, and enjoys stealing my spot on the couch or my food whenever I put it on the living room table(we have a low table and it's tempting, I don't blame him! ) He's also incredibly protective when it comes to strangers, and people are scared of his wolf-like looks, so that's ultimate safety when out on a walk!
He also breaks a lot of husky stereotypes despite being quite a stereotypical husky We are able to let him run free in the garden, which has a VERY low wall, near ground level in some places, and a very weak metal fence over which we have a field with sheep. He stays in at all times despite knowing very well that he can run off anytime - though this is him knowing that I trust him - it's funny, because he did jump over once, and that was because the farmers were moving cows, and he was just very interested. He was scared of the cows even though he was interested and came home quickly

And mushing does form a really strong bond between musher and dog - Ori's favorite word is "haik"(the musher's word for "go") so when I ask him if he wants to go for a "haik" he's out the door and sitting by the gate. If I don't say it but even just touch the bike, he starts howling and getting the zoomies and pulling me towards the gate He's great at it. I started him out when he was 7 months old, gradually building up until I let him actually pull the bike at 10 months, and working up until I did long distances with him at 18 months. He obeys his commands perfectly, especially the "on by" command, you can just see that he listens to what he's being told.

Oh deaaar, I went off on a book-writing session here! As you can see I'm very emotional about mushing and my dog

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kailavmp In reply to Sitsi [2016-12-17 11:22:01 +0000 UTC]

Haha, this "one-sentence -boom!-half-a-novel" comments happen to me too, sometimes! And in case of dogs, it is totally reasonable, I think! He is lovely- and really seems like interesting husky! Especially the guarding part- I don't think I've seen more than one (well, a pair of huskies) guarding... It is so great he loves to please! A lot too uncommon in huskies I've seen, too- they mainly worked to please themselves, haha! Bu their love of running and work is endless, always!

I gave the picture name "mush go" as in competitions, the organizers typically yell mush go after countdown, although mushers each use different command- "go, go", "hike", or "hop, hop" (meaning "jump") seem to be most common.

My husky-mix girl, Kazan, that you can see in my id is, well-- really untypical as well and she is really small (12kgs)! She had a million fear issues due to her past, and although it's much, much better now, she will never be the "happy go lucky" type of dog. We go pulling, though in more like trekking/slow running fashion as I have no bike/scooter, and english commands so that people on tracks know which side we will go around them when passing, so as to avoid collisions. It really helped her to trust people more, and allowed me to form a bond with her. It taught her to let people take care of stressful situations. Still lots of work to do with her, but she's total sweetheart- although as far as pulling goes, she is old enough to understand the easy work is pulling down, but uphill she is careful to keep the leash just-so tense, so that she doesn't have to work hard, making her pain in the ass sometimes. 

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Sitsi In reply to kailavmp [2017-02-12 18:03:52 +0000 UTC]

Oh dear, apologies for such a late reply! Busy busy!
Yeah, Huskies aren't the best guard dogs normally, what with their friendly nature and all Though he does it very well.
And yeah, I know the part about them working to please themselves... He loves to please humans but he does get his moments :'D I'm actually going to enter a talent show soon, and I will be doing a canine freestyle routine with him!

Yeah, I get you! I usually use "haik"(I've always spelled it this way for some reason ) although he gets "let's go" and "yip yip" as well. 

Oooh she is pretty small! What is she mixed with? And awwww, she sounds really adorable, did you rescue her? And you could also try skateboarding if you have a skateboard and she doesn't pull very hard! She'd love it! My boy does it alongside the bikejoring and other things we do but I have to be careful if I'm on a skateboard because alas, no brakes, and he REALLY loves to run xP

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kailavmp In reply to Sitsi [2017-02-19 21:10:28 +0000 UTC]

I totally understand- sometimes, it takes me forever to reply! D:

Wow, freestyle with husky? That's sounds cool, let me know how it goes! And if there, by any chance, happens to be a video of it, I would LOVE to see it!

I don't really know what she's mixed with... She was found in my town few days before Christmas, ice cold in a lump of snow, with runaway (collared, but roamed around the street/road) female husky (that had pups recently, her nipples swollen with milk) close around her. The female snapped and nipped at the pup, sometimes chasing it away aggressively, whenever they were close to each other- either if pup that barely moved managed to go after her, of if she, by sniffing on something, happened to get closer... Kazan was around a month, month and a week old then? Barely open eyes (and with infection), inside of the mouth purple from cold... I took her in, nursed her to health and later gifted her to relatives who needed a new guard dog for the cottage and wanted her. At first, the cottage was occupied 100% of the time with me visiting almost every day and training her, but then I moved to different city due to my uni... And later, one of relatives' health got damaged, another died.... And soon it happened that 95% of time, Kazan was on chain, alone, with not-really-great-hunters and bands of gipsies with their packs of half-stray dogs going around every day. Someone sat on the bus, went over her, fed her and let her go for a walk (let her off-chain and didn't care as long as she was back by the time another bus came to take person home)... (and still, technically, all the law-mentioned dog owning rules were met, so she couldn't be taken away.) That went for several years, while she kept birthing puppies after each heat. My family didn't want to let her stay inside our home for a week she needed to heal the castration wound (I of course offered to have it done on my cost, even though Kazan technically wasn't mine. She had good shelters back there in that cottage, actually- the brick-walled, rather weather-proof shelter and another wooden one, but the floor of both was dirt-made with straw bedding, which is not good for surgical wounds)... later, a friend offered to have her for the time necessary and I had her spayed. Also, owners agreed to give her up if I found her a new home.... I was looking for a home for her for two years. Shelters? Full. Adoption sites? Either people didn't want to her, or wanted her on chain/to breed on her in mills or even to literally eat her. As soon as my own situation got better and I moved from uni-dormitory to flat where dog was allowed, I took her. For first week, she was fine, although scared of a city... And then the bike-tire broke near her with shot-like sound, and she "turned off"... She blocked off all people completely and all she wanted to was to run away upon slightest stress, up to the point of choking herself blue. I've been making her trust the city and people since then- first year, it was horribly slow progress, but it was there that our pseudo-mushing-attempts helped so much! Nowadays, she is quite scaredy dog, but can relax and made enormous progress! And that's about it for now.

Ah, skateboards... Not only I can't skate, but I hate the idea of dogs going full-speed on asphalt longer than absolutely necessary. Only a few things are more damaging to dog joints and pads than that! We mostly train in soily, hilly terrain, and I doubt the skateboard could cope with that.

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