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No, absolutely not. He escaped a miserable life! I have seen dogs like this. Tied up in lousy backyards, left alone all of the time. They are miserable. Yesterday, while at my daughter's I saw a husky confined to a tiny 6'x6' cage. No one came out the entire day to check on the dog. He just paced. My granddaughter told me he is wild and used to jump the yard fence, and that is the reason he is confined. Well, duh! These dogs need exercise.

I have a Malamute/Husky/Lab mix. He was wild, too, until I realized he needed lots of exercise. I had him in the apartment in the basement with a pet door to the fenced in yard. He was miserable. Then I let him run, supervised, on my property. After getting lots of exercise he calmed down and was able to come back upstairs and live with me again without eating up all of my furniture. (I had had to replace an entire room of furniture which he had eaten.)

Now he is perfectly house trained, fairly calm, and extremely loving.