Shirley&Michael Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Well now, I may have goofed up the Gallery photos! What a way to introduce myself. Good grief. My name is Shirley. I'm married to a guy who isn't computer-challenged, who is asleep, and can not help the one who is. It's just about 11:30 at night here in Florida and I'm too sleepy to figure out much more than to apologize in advance when folks wonder who blew the Gallery to smithereens...(secretly I blame the cat). I have more photos but ought to wait till tomorrow to post anymore. Maybe the first thing I should do is fix the one already posted, although not sure yet how to do that; that photo just looks like I posted it wrong. Or something. It looks too big. I sure hope that the Gallery isn't broken. I have a female, one and a half year old, White Shepherd who we believe is part Siberian Husky. Personally, I am biased for Siberians, in fact, very much so. Siberian Huskies are magical! That aside, she came from a rescue, byway of my husband's co-worker's daughter. He, the man who works with Michael (my husband), placed a 5 week old puppy in his hands and said, this one is yours. That's how Keek came to be with us. Keek means "white-hair" in Cup'ik, an Alaskan Native word. I am from Alaska, but now live in Florida and I blame Michael for all these good things. Husky-owners.com has helped us figure out Keek, who we were told was pure blooded White Shepherd. But Keek has a blue eye; and as a pup, hit a note that ONLY Siberians can hit.....that sweetest high note that reverberates all the way to your very soul. I'll write some more later, after some sleep. I love this website, already. Instantly, when we first found it while searching for information on how to raise up Keek. Thank goodness all of you are here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkyries Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 There you go, once u upload your pic just click on it and copy the bbcode in here xxxx welcome to the mad house xxxxxxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra & Honey Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Welcome to the forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCouture Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Welcome to the forum. Hope you find everything you need and feel free to ask any questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cathy Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 What a fantastic introduction - welcome! Keek is just gorgeous, and I love her name! Looking forward to seeing you around the site! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabresmum Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Hi there and welcome to the site. Keek is lovely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahNukka&Shadow Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Well what a funny first post! Your going to fit right in here I can tell! paticularly love how you describe the howl, so true and quiet poetic! Welcome Keek, Shirley and Michael!! Keek is a stunner isnt she!? We do have another white GSD on here aswel so GSD or GSDxHusky Im sure theres going to be plenty of help here for you! ANy questions just post um up and we'll all do our best for you! See you around! Husky hugs xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Hi Shirley!! LOVE your intro!! As sarah said above, you're going to fit right in - apologies but you seem just as batty as we are Look forward to seeing you around!! Jump right in and get typing And no - you didn't break the gallery lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Hi Shirley - welcome to the site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Miss Bump Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 lmao shirley you're going to fit in in the mad house!!! there are others on here computerly challeneged (mentioning no names.........dum de dummmm) but there is a wonderfully fantastic guy called marc who will always fix your problems with a smile (and obv won't call u a stupid dizzy cow!!! LMAO ok so he DOES but he'll help u all the same!!) WELCOME!!!!! looking forward to hearing more from you xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 WELCOME. . . . We have a pure White GSD, Called Echo (Whom a lot of peeps on the Forum have been kind enough to make an Honorary Husky) You can see her in my Sig Pic below. With her eyes closed Keek does look similar. Pure Shepherds NEVER have blue eyes, and Keeks muzzle is a lot shorter that Echo's Sid_Wolf has a White Husky called Kira and I think if we merged a picture of Kira and Echo we would have Keek. Looking forward to hearing all your stories of coping with Keek as she has grown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Miss Bump Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 awwww andy you've changed koda's name on ur sig!!! i was hoping you'd change it back to koda!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BingBlaze n Skyla Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 welcome to the pack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikaani&Aiyana Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Great intro Shirley! Sounds like you are already one of the family, welcome to the pack! Keek is a awesome name, look forward to seeing you around on here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smooginz Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Heeyy welcome to the forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boshka Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Hi and welcome Great intro & Keek is lovely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqwidge Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Hello and welcome to the forum!!! What a fab first post and what a gorgeous GSD/Sibe! Also, am i saying Keek right, geek with a k? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KERNOWHUSKIES Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Hi ya..... yep all the above we r all a bit Husky mental n u will fit right in Look 4ward 2 gettin 2 know u. Emily, Scooby, Nanook n Mushu x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val (Zebedee) Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Welcome, Shirley, Michael & Keek, you sound like you've been part of the family for ages! Keek is a really beautiful girl, can't wait to read more about her & see more pics (as long as you don't REALLY break the gallery!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirley&Michael Posted June 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 Wow! Thanks everyone for the terrific welcomes. Lesson learned: do not take a day off from Husky-owners.com because your thread will get a whole honking bunch of posts to reply to....lol. And thanks Valkyries for posting Keek's photo for me. It's really wonderful to see the Gallery chugging along despite the speed bump that was my photograph. My middle-aged misfiring brain-power gets revved-up, backfires (ka-pow!), and winds up embarrassing the ever-loving living heck out of me. Since it is all fired up right now, with a rusty spark plug or two, the most likely scenario will be I'm going to goof up this post I'm writing. How's that for fair-warning? lol Echo is very incredibly beautiful (and therefore, if she comes up missing...Andy, just come over to my house and say, ah-ha I knew it...now give her back). She looks like a real White Shepherd. I love all German Shepherd Dogs. We really thought that was what Keek was....except for her blue eye. I read that sometimes a GSD will be born with a mutated gene which will cause a blue eye but it's very rare; so we assumed the likelihood for Keek's eye was not a rare mutated gene. Then, later on, after she made the musical note, Keek began to develop other traits more commonly associated with Siberian Huskies, especially the inside of her right hind paw pad, then the tip of her chin. Keek suffers zinc-responsive dermatosis type 1, but we didn't realize it until we found Husky-owners.com---which fortunately spared Keek from all the wrong diagnostic starting points, and wrong medicinal remedies. We feel Keek has the very brightest future now, and will monitor it for the rest of her life. Keek's name, yes, does rhyme with geek===lol!!! What a great knee-slapping hoot! That's more true than can be fathomed. The backstory on her name is.... I spelled her name phonically, because {{{had}}} we spelled it the way it is really spelled (Qiiq), everyone would ask, what the samhill is that? Btw, I found out much later that Qiiq (pronounced the same way, pretty sure) is the word for Summer, in----get this---Siberian Yupik! Just some interesting tidbits of info, my family history lived near the Bering Strait Tradeway. It was common in the old times to speak several dialects for exchange to occur between Natives, but holey moley----I wonder how on Earth anyone could ever get past the word Qiiq??? "YOU MEAN SUMMER? No, woman, I was talking about the color of your hair. lol. Okay, now for the geekiest part....no actual evidence for conventional 'as-in-taken-for-granted' writing, or historicity of 'traditionally-thought-of' spelling, happened within the ancestors ways. So that means some other 'outside' linguistic type language(s) used their own alphabet-lettering-system(s), and applied it to the elders which were the youth of the era. Which, turns out, was a blessing in disguise, because I have the basic tools needed to raise up Keek! lol, Maybe that's too much information. But wait, hold on for just one more thing, really. Here gores... although I may never have solid proof to offer the scientifically-minded peer group belonging to academia or some other otherwise, I assert Siberian Huskies existed in Alaska long before the roots took hold of how the Iditarod began its legend. There now, I went and made the paragraph way too long. Dang me. Please accept my apology for the excessive wordiness. Back to the question at hand: very much yes, Keek rhymes with geek! And she is. Not me, though...lol. First day of Keek----a nice photo of her eye, and what she looked like as a little puppy: [ATTACH]5126.IPB[/ATTACH] We didn't know it that first day, but Keek was really sick. Poor pup. She's good to go now, thanks to Husky-owners.com! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqwidge Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 haha, your writing style cracks me up!!! So glad i got the pronounciation correct! Where abouts in Florida are you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 LOL!!!! Loving your writing style!!! Keek is stunning in that pic as a pup So glad that you've been able to find the right information here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirley&Michael Posted June 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2010 Hey, that's fantastic how you both got through that last post! I re-read it and thought maybe I should blame the cat for all those typos and bad grammars. lol. Here's Celesti, who sometimes hacks up soppy misspellings and makes little squishy piles of run-on sentences: [ATTACH]5133.IPB[/ATTACH] And here's me with Cristal (brand new adoption), who is the least affected by Celesti's improper punctuations: [ATTACH]5134.IPB[/ATTACH] I really, really, really thought there were a lot more recent photos on my laptop, but whoops, not even any photos of Michael. Geezy-peezy. I have some more that would be nice to share but will have to wait for Michael to come home and help me. We live about 50, or so, miles southeast of Orlando, Florida. The Kennedy Space Center is a short drive north of us, but I have forgotten how far up the coastline it is---maybe twenty, or something, miles. We can see the launches go across the sky, feel the boom in our chests, and hear the rumble approach our home. The Atlantic Ocean is just a little bit east of where we live. I swear, going to it makes me cry in the good way. It is such a deep powerful force of pure mother nature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Ohhh loving the pics Bet that's ace being so close to the pace centre! How does Cristal do with the nose or does it not bother her? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirley&Michael Posted June 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 It's been two weeks since Cristal came home with us. So far she is amazing! Everything about her is filled with heartwarming goodness. The lady (and her family members) who used to own her, but who could no longer take care of her, raised up Cristal to be very endearing and thoughtful-----all the credit belongs to the previous owner, who broke into tears, and me too, as we said our good byes to one another. We promised to keep Cristal in the same light that they did. So "Keekasauruswrecks" who is still in training now learns the meaning of stability, empathy, and other bright doggie behaviors from our "Cristal-chandelier" who, as-of-yet, isn't afraid of the noise. And Cristal learns from Keek too. Cristal watched Keek ring the 'outside' bells, and grasped the idea quickly. Also, when Michael comes home from work, he calls my cell-phone just upon his arrival to our property. The ring-tone is a unique sounding song which signals Keek for the best part of the day. Cristal totally gets the concept, too. Michael and I are blessed. We have God's "angels with teeth"! ......And fur. Boy-oh-boy, do we gots the fur. lol. Thanks for letting me go on and on and on about the dogs. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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