Behaviors and natures of sleddogs

Sleddogs whose energy is connected with a deep-rooted passion for hunting develop themselves thanks their big independence quickly into enthusiastic hunters and discoverers. If one leaves its unbound husky longer time to himself, one can reckon on getting soon the first complaints of the neighbors or the inhabitants removed streets.

One is also not surprised if the dog inclines in spite of farther excursions to loss of appetite. This probably lies with the fact that it has explained himself without further ado to the self-support and has plucked the freshly arrived ducklings of the neighbor after the next and has partly devoured.

One is sure: the husky always returns from its excursion home - however, he determines the moment of this return.

Sleddogs possess an almost indefatigable motor activity. They must have the possibility to diminish this energy at least partly.

Long migrations with its man prepare for the husky pleasure. However, one only releases enthusiasm with him if one sits down on the bicycle and puts back with him together a longer distance.

Irresponsibly it would be to allow children to go for a walk with a husky in the leash. No child has the force to hold a grown animal which has planned for something. In addition, children have the habit, in case of a dog's battle to go between the dogs to save their pet. However, this is very dangerous and the often difficult consequences of such an action are foreseeable.

There is no bigger joy for a sleddog than to run in the bottom plate before the training vehicle or the sleigh. However, in addition one would have to hold several sleddogs. An advantage would lie in the fact that several dogs are busy extremely well in playing with each other and diminish thereby a big part of their ebullient force. With several numbers of this race it is still more important to keep them under control under control, in the best backside of a fence (to approx. 1.80 m, in addition approx. 0.5 m in the ground, because this race digs very much gladly and effectively), because one can introduce himself light which damage in the animal population of the surroundings free-living (even if small) herd of this realistic and original breed could arrange.

The sleddog is a very confiding animal in spite of the love of freedom and its discoverer's pressure. Even opposite strangers he behaves openly and friendly. This behavior is to be led back on the way of life of the people who live in the width and solitude of the Arctic and which are glad if other bump to them. Their dogs should face this stranger friendly and not expel them by forced up sharpness.

Sleddogs are no watchdogs. Not every dog barks, as long as somebody approaches its area. They never will point to the stranger opposite an aggressive behavior, this would be a coarse nature mistake which in America leads incidentally the exclusion with exhibitions.

The distinct friendliness, the reliability of their nature and the almost silly playfulness make them to popular familydogs and companions.

Sleddogs love its man about everything; he recognizes the other family members as belonging to the herd. Children have only the rank of a puppy in its image. One plays with them, one educates them, but one does not take them seriously complete. The first and latter help the husky to master some nevertheless quite burned situations with a (small) child without problems. Their behavior accepts sometimes almost one certain indifference. If it should become, however, for the dog boringly, he also very often demands the child to play.

If comes once a smaller foreign dog on the property on which the husky is at home, it can happen that it removes it from the property, while it goes with snout among the dog, raises it and throws it in this way over the low fence. One has observed a similar behavior with wolves.

One should hold sleddogs as far as possible outside in the kennel to bend forward against an effemination. They can live with every weather beyond the house. With snowfall they let themselves often completely snow in, since then only small elevations point in the snow to the fact that there possibly lies a dog. The animals curl up and put their rod as a protection against the nostrils, the snow puts out to them nothing. If one expels its whistle, small snowy mountains start to move slowly and the husky comes out freshly and friendly.

Among the huskies one finds rarely real "yelpers". Of course they can bark, but they limit this to a minimum what is felt as extremely pleasant by the neighbors. Instead of barking, a husky howls now and then. This can appear going out from different situations as for example church bell ringing, sirens of an outpatient clinic or simply from the joy because its man comes home.

Can the dog endure actually our climate? This question occupies each who thinks of buying itself a husky. Fundamentally is to be said that huskies are held since a lot of years in the sunny California.

One must make clear to himself that in Alaska in winter temperatures from below 40°C rule, these can reach absolutely plus 35°C, however, in the short midsummer. The dogs adapt themselves to differences in temperature from almost 80°C easily.

Of course it would be unreasonable to hunt a husky with high-summery temperatures by the midday heat. Our healthy human intelligence 'forbids' us to perform too big efforts in big heat, also we should not expect this from our sleddogs.

The sleddog as a showpiece

If one decides on the acquisition of a sleddog, one may be sure to possess an animal which is any time an affectionate, attentive companion on all migrations and which excites sensation again and again. Whole bunches of people form often around one which have all many questions about the dogs.

This could tempt to buy a sleddog as a pure showpiece and to set him instead of a ground vase in the hall. However, they would have little joy in the unbalanced dog if it must fulfill only this function. Then, perhaps, one should decide rather on the purchase of a ground vase.

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