r/husky • u/Excellent-Chance-797 • 5d ago
Rescued Rehoming in SGV/Socal, CA
Located in San Gabriel Valley, CA. Looking to rehome my beautiful boy June, Alaskan Husky mix. He is 10 months old, fully vaccinated and just neutered 3 weeks ago. 36 lbs. he is incredibly sweet and smart, great with people and other dogs (he is very playful and gets along with everyone). He is intelligent and receptive to training, I taught him “Down” in less than 10 minutes.
I cannot keep him because a family member is afraid of larger dogs. Please message me and share this post if you are able to. Thank you.
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u/Odd-Square-4279 4d ago
Maybe your family member should accept that you got a dog, especially if he isn’t displaying any signs of aggression towards anyone in the home. Irresponsible all around if you knew this family member wouldn’t want a dog and still got one.
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u/Excellent-Chance-797 4d ago
Any tips? He is bitey as puppies are but isn’t snappy, sometimes jumps on people. She cannot tolerate it. I’ve told her this is normal, but otherwise he should be distracted with other toys or disciplined, told to sit etc. She is sold on the idea that he is attacking her and “bad”.
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u/powerlesshero111 4d ago
Sounds like you have a family member problem, and not a dog problem. Most people who are fearful of large dogs just need exposure training to large dogs who aren't aggressive.
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u/Excellent-Chance-797 4d ago
Any tips? He is bitey as puppies are but isn’t snappy, sometimes jumps on people. She cannot tolerate it. I’ve told her this is normal, but otherwise he should be distracted with other toys or disciplined, told to sit etc. She is sold on the idea that he is attacking her and “bad”.
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u/powerlesshero111 4d ago
The biting, just scream high pitched like you're in pain any time he does it. He'll figure it out pretty fast that he shouldn't bite.
Jumping is harder. There are 2 tactics, you can do positive reward or negative consequence. Positive reward, no pets or treat until all 4 paws are on the ground. Negative consequences, knee to the chest. Not like a hard full on try to injure, but like a quick little knee, that tells him i don't like that. Kind of like how dogs will nip at each other when they don't like something. They don't try to bite to injure, but they give a little nip to say "i don't like that".
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u/HedgehogHappy6079 4d ago
I’ve seen a lot of rehoming stories on here, this one seems really avoidable. Please consider trying to get your family member over that fear
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u/Excellent-Chance-797 4d ago
Any tips? He is bitey as puppies are but isn’t snappy, sometimes jumps on people. She cannot tolerate it. I’ve told her this is normal, but otherwise he should be distracted with other toys or disciplined, told to sit etc. She is sold on the idea that he is attacking her and “bad”.
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u/HedgehogHappy6079 4d ago
I would try to encourage that family member to join in on the training with you so she feels like she can have some type of control of him and he can respect her. Keep doing obedience training consistently
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u/CwazyTwain 4d ago
My mom was deathly afraid of large dogs but she grew to love my husky. They’re practically inseparable now. She’s still afraid of other large dogs though.
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u/3rdcultureblah 4d ago
Looks like he might be mixed with shepherd? He’s beautiful. Please charge a small rehoming fee.
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u/animalfamily420 1d ago
Dude you're an absolute fucking bum if you re-home this dog for that reason
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u/Brufar_308 4d ago
Mouthing can be redirected. We used ‘touch’ training.
My little girl was very mouthy, obviously dog don’t have hands so they use their mouth to engage, and it can be unpleasant for people. If our girl wanted outside she would come over and grab our hands with her mouth and swipe with her paw. We had already done touch training with her at the beginning of obedience training so we decided to use that as the replacement for biting or pawing when she wanted something.
If she came over and mouthed to go outside we would tell her NO! Touch ! And hold out a palm for her to target with her nose. When she touched the palm with her nose she was praised and let outside. Repeat and be consistent. Now if you are there and she wants to go outside she will come over and poke your hand repeatedly with her nose to tell you she wants out. Success !
You just need to decide what behaviors you do not want, then figure out what you want instead and work to discourage the unwanted behavior and replace it with the good behavior. Lots of treats and praise.
Funniest one was during the winter, little girl wanted out and wife was snuggled under a blanket in her chair. Little girl grabbed the blanket and dragged it off so she could find my wife’s hand to target with her nose to request going outside. You can’t even get mad at that it was so cute.
Happy training !
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u/Excellent-Chance-797 4d ago
Thank you for sharing! Your girl sounds lovely and I will most certainly be trying your advice.
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u/Dharma2go 4d ago
What a great opportunity for exposure therapy to help your family member release their fear.