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Just returned from the vet. Turns out her bad breath is from infection due to slab fractures of both her lower large molars. They will both have to be pulled as there is no repair possible. I suppose she is in some amount of pain - she hasn't been chewing on her rawhides like normal and we've had to add water to her kibble to get her to eat it the last couple weeks.

She has been in a frump for a couple months... ever since her bud moved out. When she wasn't getting attention from one of us, she was chewing on her roommate and instigating trouble. Lol. She almost demands attention when I'm home (we've been very close since her rescue) and I give her as much of my time as possible. One thing I need to add is she is very jealous of me. She'll verbally chew us out when the mrs and I hug. She has always followed me throughout the house, makes sure I'm always within view and sleeps on her pillow next to my side of the bed. This would be the one thing that would make me nervous of getting a second dog. Well, that and the fact I'm not sure I want another one. She has a vet appt Friday for a breath issue and I'll ask about her depression.

Mydiamond, is sure is difficult to watch. She developed some pretty bad breath in the last week or so and we'll be heading to the vet soon to make sure it isn't something we need to address. We traveled a few days ago and made sure to place her bed close to the front seats and gave her a couple things she likes, like her blanket and a chewy. Rear seats were down in the van, with luggage and all, and she still chose to sit behind her bed facing the back of the van, with ears back, for most of the 4 and a half hour trip. Even with occasional pets and interaction, she only perked up when we reached our destination and even that was short lived. Poor girl.

Merry Christmas, everyone! Ok, down to business.... Our husky, Ahna, seems to be in a real slump since our daughter moved out and took her pit with her. Our daughter's pit, Maddy, is older and entering the "retirement" phase of life so she doesn't keep up with Ahna much of the time but, they were buds. The family spends time with her but when we aren't directing all of our attention towards her she mopes.... and mopes big time. Ears are always back as if she's in a huge frump. For example, check out this picture of her from last night. We've tried bikejouring but she seems happier to simply walk. She and I head to the local campground in the winter, when it's empty, several times a week to chase squirrels and I take her with me on car rides when I can and she goes outside with me always to play. We've had nothing but huskies for the past 30+ years and this one is the most sensitive and certainly the most moody. We've been told to get a play mate for her but I'm not sure if we're ready for that. She only seems to be truly happy with me. I'm not sure if it's because I spent 3 days visiting her in the shelter before we could take her home or what but, she latched onto me from the beginning even though she loves the entire family - especially the granddaughter. If I could direct my attention 100% in her direction 24 hours a day she would finally be happy. Breaks my heart. Man, do I really need to find another pocket husky? Arrrrg. :-)

Tire

If I had known I would have stayed longer! So, do the blokes participate in this hair removal tradition?

I'm game. Wait... there was cheesecake?!

I don't think anybody can compete with puppies!.... but is Ahna's new activity (new to me, too!).

Wow, I sure butchered the spelling in my post! Thanks everyone, I will see if I can get somebody for her to chase. Would be nice to have a seasoned dog for her to learn from, too. We'll give it another go today before the snow hits.

It seems as though there is talk on here all the time about what can be done to keep someone's husky from pulling on the lead. Well, I have the opposite problem. We started bikejoring today and ever time Ahna felt weight on the line she packed off. The only way I could get her to run at all was to keep pace with her. Any ideas on how to get her to pull? We are using a fully padded X-Back from Black Ice.

We were watching The Grey with Liam Neeson and Ahna was getting worked up during the wolf scenes. I noticed issues in the video quality but not sure why it's there. She sure kept her eyes on the movie! lol

Yes, I meant video. I will revisit youtube and give it another try a bit later, Thank you to both of you for replying.

Thank you, but I was questioning more the fact that it was going to take hours to load 45 seconds of video. Is this just the norm? I am on DSL and my connection isn't all that bad.

I have one video on youtube that I loaded a long time ago. I was going to load another to share here but it's been loading for 10 minutes and now says 227 minutes remaining. Really? It's only 45 seconds long! How do you all do it?