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In reply to the discussion: An Alaskan's epic response to Inhofe's snowball stunt [View all]hunter
(38,383 posts)... and everything else that might make any reasonable person think twice about adopting a husky.
Husky still looks at me like "what???" as he's peeing on the kitchen garbage pail and I'm yelling at him.
"Nothing good in there today," he says, "I was just leaving a note. What's your problem?"
Husky is always utterly sincere, utterly incapable of guile. If you scold him it hurts his feelings. Bad dogs among his ancestors were eaten.
Husky spent his first three years chained in a backyard with not much attention, which is how he ended up in the shelter. His teeth are worn from chewing on the chain. Dogs-on-a-chain-24/7 is not legal here.
Dingo escaped from her breeder and lived feral dog life for too long. Her breeder was exiled from California. She has guile. But she is very loyal. She knows we rescued her and she will never forget that. Just never leave any good food unattended. She will take it.
For all the trouble these two have been, husky and dingo both eat rats.
Our previous dogs saw all rats as household pets, even the nastiest chewing in the walls at night would-eat-your-older-relative's-or-baby's-appendages kind of rats, and we still have a dog who sees all rats as pets because one of my kids had pet rats when we adopted her. Kid's pet rats used to ride around on her head and eat her food. No problem.
Our kids moved away, and Dingo and Husky were adopted into a household with no pet rats. These two see all rats as food and occasionally drop dead brown roof rats, random mice and voles onto our bed as gifts.
Um, thank you...