Husky Dog Breed

Dogs hone in on any movement even a blade of grass in the breeze gets their undivided attention as they know something, which could be an animal, is making the grass move! That is why animals such as deer will often stay frozen in place as we pass near them to avoid provoking a chase which definitely is effective as a lot of times the dogs don’t even notice them when they remain still, but deer like some other wildlife will watch us like a hawk in a ready stance if they sense the dogs are going to chase they instantly takeoff.

Yes there’s always a chance of danger in almost any situation that’s why I am always overly cautious and protective of my Dogs in every aspect especially temperature related as heat is their biggest enemy. Cold can be challenging but again mostly for us humans. Just so you understand almost everywhere I adventure with my Dogs I have a team of peeps with me and very specialized equipment so if an unforeseen incident should G-D Forbid occur we can handle it in the timeliest of manners for the safety and well being of the Dogs. If you dive deeper into what I do you will see the extremes I go to for my Dogs safety and the out of this world like adventures we are so fortunate enough to do. That being said because of my watchful eye and the Dogs physical condition they are in from my style of training I am happy to report we’ve NEVER had any weather related instances where the Dogs were even the least bit compromised. For that matter I think it’s worth mentioning My Dogs have never had any debilitating incidents or injuries.  I understand what I am doing is hard to grasp as I am the only one going to these extremes with a traveling team of people, customized and specialized equipment to adventure with a my families of Huskies like no one has ever seen or even attempted before! 

I don’t walk them first as it would be almost torturous LOL:) to the other dogs waiting  for their turn! I don’t know if I ever shared with you, but one time I actually had the police called on us as the dogs were carrying on so much inside the van on our adventure when we were getting ready, that somebody thought it was children, and we were harming them… When the police showed up they actually told me just show them I don’t have children in there that I’m harming and they’ll let me go and when they saw the dogs they were cracking up…. they were actually so impressed with my set up that they called the commanding canine officer on duty, and he came and checked it out and just loved what we were doing!  But in all seriousness I don’t walk them before as I like to keep their fire hot so they direct it to the sled and can neutralize it on therE safely!

I can tell you that in almost 30 years and multiple generations of huskies traveling thousands and thousands of miles to trails, roads, farm areas etc… along the East Coast,  I have fortunately  never run into any situation remotely close to a dog injury. I travel with a team, usually two other people for extra sets of eyes, ears, and hands as their main job is to ensure the dogs safety to the best of our ability. I always have a dog first aid kit available.

For this rig (I call the Electric dog sled on wheels) we do bike trails. I’m always trying to find new ones or at least ones I haven’t done in many years just to keep it as exciting as possible for the dogs and my people team that accompany us. It really takes a lot of research and perpetration to find these trails searching on the internet and then you don’t know really how it’s going to be (especially) with dogs like I’m running) until you get there. So we can travel for 6 plus hours to a trail and it could be a bust… we therefore try to have a backup plan as another trail somewhere along our route if we need to go there instead. This is so important as the dogs really need to run after traveling a long way! by the way I also have off-road ATV like bikes that we can use on roads or dirt trails even like hiking trails if we get into a real pinch and need to get the dogs running and the bike trail is not gonna work. We call that plan B. There’s so much more to all of what goes on to make all this happen! PLEASE CLICK THE EIGHT BEKOW LOGO BELOW TO GO TO MY INTERAVTIVE MAP OF SOME OF THE TRAILS WE HAVE ADVENTURED ON OVER THE YEARS.

I don’t like to let them drink from water like at this waterfall as I’m unsure of the source/condition. I’ve got a saying called BGross water for Dogs not to drink or have interaction with -  Blue Green Road Orange Stagnant Stinky water as these signs can all mean  bacteria/hazardous contaminates in the water. Some can actually be fatal quickly! In fact I’m leery of all water I don’t know the source or condition. This water while appearing clear is coming off these clay/orange rocks which can mean amongst other things there’s an iron/oxidizing bacteria which while it’s said this is usually not unsafe for aquatic life etc…I just don’t want to take any chances. You know what the saying an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure! Checkout My Graphic Below About BGROSS Water

I abide by all permits on weapons some are different park to park and state to state so I do have to be aware of them! We always have ways to protect ourselves and of course the dogs. Now the skinny on that is in this part of the USA where we travel there’s not many predators that can or want to challenge a husky. Pretty much the largest possible wild predator that we may come in contact with is black bear. We have encountered a handful and they are always curious but never aggressive but that can change if they have cubs which we ran into once but the mama bear did not give chase to us. One thing about bears is that packs of wolves are considered predators to most of them even polar bears. In fact people that live in regions where polar bears roam will sometimes keep a few huskies (because they resemble wolves to other animals) in their yards as a deterrent to polar bears as the bears will usually yield to them or at least not usually choose to attack or go near them as the wolf pack threat is lurking in them. So we are fairly safe from black bears again though this is the animal kingdom out there where we roam so we’ve got to be prepared as situations don’t always work out like we think they will. Again we have bear spray and animal spray deterrents always at a minimum. Also, there are bobcats and from above they stalk and pounce their pray but with a pack of what looks like wolves  and two men (myself and copilot) in the area their probably not as likely to do that. We have rarely, but we have run into coyotes and they also don’t wanna mess with a pack of dogs (the size of huskies) either so their threat is pretty much neutralized also. I would say the situations that are most concerning are rabid wildlife. I have had a few situations which of course I am not positive they were rabid but the wildlife like raccoons and skunks acting very erratic and they have approached my dogs and the dogs will kill them if they get a hold of them and that’s a bloody mess and exposes the dogs to possible rabies… of course all my dogs are vaccinated but still it’s not great but it can happen

I've actually have ran into a handful of bears and one with cubs…. Fortunately we’ve never had any issue with them on any of our encounters… I feel one reason is that the huskies resemble wolves and a team like I have is like a wolf pack to some wild life. Actually in areas where polar bears roam some people will keep huskies in their yard as they say the polar bears don’t want a confrontation because they relate to a wolf pack as predatory. In any case I carry bear and animal sprays and other protective means because we are out there in the wild and no matter how much we think we know of course animals can be unpredictable so I like to be prepared as possible! In our part of the country a black bear is about the biggest possible threat besides a stray dog lol! There are some bobcats and coyotes in some of these areas but again I think they will stay away from a pack of dogs that look like wolves:) but that all being said my biggest issue are what I think are rabid animals. Of course I’m not sure they were rabid but I’ve had  raccoons, opossum and a skunk act very erratic and nearly stumbling into us. If they did it would be a bloody mess as unfortunately I’ve had my dogs get a hold of small wild animals not on the trail but at farms we free range on and it ain’t pretty! I can stop them if I catch it before it happens. But multiple huskies hunt like a wolf pack as some will flush an animal out of an area as the others are waiting to grab it when it is leaving the area. It’s really cool to see them do that but I hate for them to hurt or worse with another animal but it happens in the wink of an eye! I actually have 8 foot fencing to keep most wild animals out of my yard to avoid this at home als0.