On 08/12/2016 4:14 AM, passerby wrote:
replying to michael newport, passerby wrote:
A couple (late 20's) who live in an adjacent St have a Husky dog. It
seems
uncontrollable and vicious. It's always on a lead
which is good except the woman is clearly at the limit of what she can
manage
to do to hold it back every time they pass
someone. Am pretty sure it would attack

I had a husky before. If she ran to you, it was to lick you to death. Or
ask
(demand, really) for your food, depending on the situation. Huskies are
very
social dogs, can't handle being alone well. If both people of the couple
work
all day long (seems likely in their 20s), that poor dog is hungry for human
attention, the opposite of vicious. You may be reading the intent wrong.
But they do pull really hard (and not only sleds), so suggest they use a
choking metal chain instead of a regular dog collar. The harder the dog
pulls,
the tighter it chokes, helps to control it.

The situation with the car also sounds familiar except the intent was,
again,
opposite: that dog loved cars. If you opened the door, she'd be inside
in no
time. She could run after a car, but to get in, not to "attack" it. Husky's
are not that stupid.


I love that response.

....Ray.