Originally Posted by
wolf_Q
I think I only have one real husky. I had some issues with Nebo being really mouthy/bratty when he was small but he really wasn't hard to train. He's also always been quiet, never digs, didn't have a problem housetraining him. Skya took a bit longer to housetrain but she's always been super quiet, I couldn't really train her to do many tricks but she got sit, lay, stay, etc. just fine. The issues I've had with her is her complete fear of strangers which is not typical husky behavior. Keva is my real husky. She's always been a loudmouth, defiant, only listens to me if she feels like it. She used to be a counter surfer and I tried everything they said to stop it (have a jar of pennies fall and scare her, make the food taste bad -I doused it in bitter apple, tape so their paws stick) I don't remember what else but I tried a bunch of things. Didn't stop her at all. She downed that bitter apple pancake like it was the greatest thing in the world. Once she jumped up and took a bite of our christmas ham while I was right there, I got mad at her, and seconds later she did it again! She is HIGHLY intelligent, by far the smartest of all the dogs. She will actually weigh her options to see if it's worth getting in trouble. Like, "I know I will get in trouble for this, but it's totally worth it." I'd come home sometimes and she'd see me and hide in her kennel before I even knew she did anything, she knew what she did was wrong but she just couldn't help herself. She was also by far the easiest to train to do tricks too, food is a great motivator and clicker training worked well too. She learned all her tricks super fast I swear you could see the wheels turning in her head trying to figure out what was needed to do to get the food. The other dogs I had to coax a lot more into figuring out what I wanted, she was figuring it out on her own. I tried for months to teach her to stay out of our front room (didn't want the dogs to run out the front door and my mom wanted a dog hair free room), didn't matter how much I yelled, stomped my foot, made noises, anything...did not stop her. With Nebo I got mad at him like twice and he didn't go in there again. I don't really know what to tell you, if she's like Keva, good luck ha ha. Wait until she's 3, that's when Keva stopped being so naughty. She's actually really good now, hasn't counter surfed in years, she stopped since I've lived with Corby. She used to still chew up things in the yard but we moved into a house with a half acre and that stopped. Of course she's almost 7 now, so that helps, but she did turn out to be a very good dog just had to go through puppyhood and the terrible twos. She's still a loudmouth, she howls at me and won't leave me alone when she's hungry, Nebo and Skya hardly make a sound. Definitely make sure she's has lots of exercise and she's not bored, Keva was way worse when she was bored. Food is a great motivator for training huskies too, like Tamara said they do things because the reward is worth it, not because they want to please you.
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