Shed much??? pics...

**gini** · 06-22-2007, 03:47 PM

Oh, good gracious, what a beautiful dog! I would just be lovin on him all of the time!

**Ginger's Mom** · 06-22-2007, 03:56 PM

Oh my, he really is molting. You know I love that boy, and even with all of that hair, he still has a movie star gorgeous face.

**Canis-Lupess** · 06-22-2007, 03:59 PM

LOL, I want to brush him looking at those pics, haha. Our Mist used to get the clumps on her stifles but I used to groom her every day during moulting so they didn't have chance to form as much as Antares.

I'm still grooming our Jess daily and have been for about 2 months and getting massive clumps out each time and she's only just starting to finish and is looking a bit bare and puppyish. She's across her season so she's having a major moult. I can't wait until she's done because I'm sick of the hairs everywhere, lolol. It does make a change for her to moult at the correct time of year mind. She usually waits until autumn and so she's bare in the winter.

If I'd have saved her hair, I'd have been able to knit about 20 sweaters out of it, haha.

My dogs always loved being brushed so grooming them daily was never a problem. I take it Antares isn't like that?

**Glacier** · 06-22-2007, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by Canis-Lupess

My dogs always loved being brushed so grooming them daily was never a problem. I take it Antares isn't like that?

Antare is extremely timid and has little use for humans. He would prefer that I just drop his food off and leave him alone the rest of the time. He is not aggressive at all, but he does actively shun physical contact with everyone, except other dogs. He adores other dogs. I have corner him or lure him into the porch in order to brush him. Believe it or not, he's actually come a very long way. He was essentially feral when I got him. His brother, Delta, still is.

Unless I have his harness in hand..he will put up with just about anything if it means he gets to pull. This time of year though, he knows the harness is a trap!

**Freedom** · 06-22-2007, 04:36 PM

Antare, you love that scruffy guy look, huh? You are still a handsome guy! Let mom clean things up a bit.

**lizbud** · 06-22-2007, 04:44 PM

He's still a gorgeous fella, even with all the fuzz.

Smokey sheds like
that & I have to take him outside for serious brushing. (rakeing)

p.s. I love to pull out the tufts too. It's addicting.

**Canis-Lupess** · 06-22-2007, 06:00 PM

Ah, his current behaviour probably comes about from lack socialization with humans during the puppy period but still contact with other dogs. It is vital that pups have the human socialization period from about 7-14 weeks so that they learn how to bond with people. If they are left with their mother and siblings, they tend to not learn how to bond with humans and bond too closely to other dogs. From 0-7 weeks is when they learn how to be and bond with other dogs in the form of their mum and siblings.

How old was he when you acquired him? No doubt this is what happened to him being as you describe him as being almost feral when you got him.

Good luck ridding him of his clumps, lol.

**Glacier** · 06-22-2007, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by Canis-Lupess

How old was he when you acquired him? No doubt this is what happened to him being as you describe him as being almost feral when you got him.

Good luck ridding him of his clumps, lol.

Oh, I know why he's the way he is--it is because of a lack of socialization and a timid mother dog. Antare and Delta were born to a wanna-be musher who thought it would be easier to breed his own team. Yanno instead of answering any one of the dozen ads giving away/selling sled dogs that are in every edition of the local paper!

He bred one litter out of a timid female; decided this was way too much work. Found homes for all the dogs except Delta and Antare. He kept them until they were four, maybe five months old. Basically he dumped food in their pen a couple times a week and that was it. They went to shelter when a kennell opened up and stayed there until I took them, just shy of their first birthday.

**cyber-sibes** · 06-22-2007, 09:28 PM

I see as I'm reading thru the posts that a whole lot of us are willing to go up to the Yukon & brush huskies! Think we should just go ahead & charter a plane?

Tamara, how many sleeping bags will your little cabin accomodate? After all, Stewart's gone, you may as well have a few PTers over to lend a hand!! Woo-hooo, wouldn't that be a terrific PT get together?

**gini** · 06-22-2007, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by Glacier

Antare is extremely timid and has little use for humans. He would prefer that I just drop his food off and leave him alone the rest of the time. He is not aggressive at all, but he does actively shun physical contact with everyone, except other dogs. He adores other dogs. I have corner him or lure him into the porch in order to brush him. Believe it or not, he's actually come a very long way. He was essentially feral when I got him. His brother, Delta, still is.

Unless I have his harness in hand..he will put up with just about anything if it means he gets to pull. This time of year though, he knows the harness is a trap!

Every dog is different. My nephew's black lab is like that - it is more like "look lady - just throw the ball for me and knock off the huggy kissy stuff!"

**Jadapit** · 06-22-2007, 04:42 PM

LOL! He looks so proud in those pictures. How long does it take to brush out a husky when they are shedding like that? Do you brush out all your fur kids? If so, that must take you months.