Last week, posting was light because the TravelMarx came to town. I was a bit of a nervous wreck (which ok, is not out of the norm) because one of them is my brother and knowing that one of the two quadrapeds living here is a bit of a lunatic (I won’t name names…but his [...]
It’s a well-known fact that Juno and Mr. Wild Dingo’s relationship hasn’t been easy. According to Juno, Mr. Wild Dingo is potentially a bane of Sibe’s everywhere, and on a mission specifically to steal her gumdrop nose. At the first sign of Mr. Wild Dingo, she’s often seen retreating into a fortress of solitude: any [...]
Juno has…well…an unnatural obsession with raisin toast. So much so, she’ll go against her own deeply-held values and belief systems in order to obtain just one square inch of the mouth-watering delight. Given the choice between raisin toast and a juicy tri-tip steak, it wouldn’t shock anyone at Wild Dingo to see her choose the [...]
“That is not your tri-tip. This isn’t the sibe you’re looking for.”
Coming soon! A video of a Sibe doing the unthinkable: Tricks! Here’s a teaser:
“Hey Daddy-O, this class is cramping my style. Let’s make like a tree and leave.” “Keep talking. I got a lot of room left in my ears yet.”
Mr. Wild Dingo’s been working Juno in obedience classes on Saturdays because Juno has a few, well, “issues” with Scott. For one, she’s terribly fearful. She never was the first few months we had her. For some reason, she developed it. We think it has a little to do with Loki being possessive of Scott. [...]
Last year, I took Juno to beach classes without Loki because she had to do a few special classes for her Therapy Dog certification. When I worked Juno by herself, I had absolutely no obedience problems with her. She did everything perfectly: stayed, came, heeled, sat on picnic tables. She even hurdled over BBQ stands on command. After she got her [...]
Can you? Wanna be startin’ somthin’…
Everyone sorely mistakes Juno for the shy, not-too-smart member of our family. But anyone who knows Siberian Huskies, knows just how crafty they can be to get exactly what they want. And Juno is no different. This past year, though Juno has always submitted to Loki’s bully behavior, she slowly has found devious ways of leveraging [...]
Every morning is routine here at Wild Dingo. Get up, go outside. Clean up dog yard and put up with the ridiculous antics of two very attention-needy dogs. Mr. Wild Dingo has a hard time believing that Juno can be a tough little gal and stand up to Loki. Juno never displays her confidence or strength in [...]
As promised, here are some more pix from the Fun Match! Julie/Juno, Christi-Ann (our K9 Clinic Trainer/Nikko, Christine/Yukon Here we are (Christine and I) the odd balls at our Saturday morning class who take their cats, err, huskies to dog obedience. We convince ourselves that obedience is working for them. Here, they sit pretty. Sometime later, when [...]
This month’s masthead celebrates one of America’s favorite junk foods. I don’t think I would ever got the Husky to do a single thing without the magic of hot dogs. Marker training rules. Even for low drive dogs, like the Husky. Loki? He’ll do anything just for his marker word and some praise. For a hot dog, [...]
Dog Training Class at the Beach: $40
Juno attended a Northern Breed dog show this weekend. I have to admit, I’m not into these “poser” dog shows. But it was a “fun-match,” meaning, not very official and useful for anyone who is slightly interested in posing, err, I mean, showing their pure-bred dogs. I entered the show because I thought there were [...]
“Hole? What Hole? I don’t see no hole.”
This month’s banner is dedicated to Juno and her tenacity to escape any man-made device to keep her contained in one 3000 square-foot area. It really is absurd how hard we try to keep her from her natural roaming desires and to think that we could out smart her crafty ways. She’s biten through wires, cables, [...]
We have a husky overvault in the main terminal causing a husky outage. The safety door has been compromised. There’s also a Q-tness factor that makes it difficult to correct the husky outage. Mission Control, what’s your response? Houston: Beat the Husky.
After last week’s busy training schedule, I had a chance to actually notice the Husky and Formosan Mountain Dog hair that had grown quietly into mountains of dense fur and had crept into the deepest crevices of my Mini Cooper. Rather than make a needless carbon foot print to drive 20 minutes to the car [...]
As in Juno is “mostly” well-adjusted. Just take a look at what my “mostly well-adjusted” dog did while I took Loki to training this morning.
