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To: noiseman

Had a Siberian. Used to let her pull me on cross country skis. Her favorite food was salmon heads after a good catch.
Do not approach a feeding husky. You will not have a good day. Central Ca. coast is hot in the summer. She’d sleep a lot but after a shave, she’d look up and smile.


8 posted on 03/08/2023 12:17:10 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: sasquatch
Do not approach a feeding husky. You will not have a good day.

I haven’t had a husky that was territorial over their food, but the one we had when I was a kid would defend a rawhide bone to the death. In general, he was the typical happy-go-lucky Husky, but every Christmas one of the things he got as a present was a gigantic rawhide bone. Once he got hold of that thing he turned into a different dog and would growl at anyone who came near it.

My funniest food story with him was how when we had steak I would feed him some of it, a small piece at a time. I would take a piece of his dry dog food and a piece of steak, keeping each in my closed hand so he couldn’t see them. I would toss him a piece of steak, which he would immediately catch and devour. I would keep tossing him bites of steak and then would try to fool him by unexpectedly tossing him a piece of dog food. In the split second that the dog food was suspended in air between my hand and his mouth he would somehow figure out that it wasn’t steak and would close his mouth and let it bounce off his nose. It was hilarious. I also saw him take dry dog food between his teeth and swing his head and let it fly, trying to hit grasshoppers in the back yard with it. The first time I thought it was just a coincidence, but I saw him do it many times after that, and it was obvious what he was doing.

And of course he had the typical Husky master escape artist skills. They’re very smart dogs.

10 posted on 03/08/2023 12:49:00 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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