Are Husky's the new Staff?

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Noticed quite a lot of people are taking a liking to Husky's/type dogs, especially young people. I've always liked them but i've a feeling that a lot of people see them more like a fashion accessory then a pet.

I love Staffs but it's a shame that their reputation is shitted on & i reckon it's going to happen with these Huskies too.

I watched a TV show about young people who own 'dangerous dogs' & it's quite obvious that it's not to do with wanting a friend or a pet, it's about image, which is why you don't see them walking a Collie or Alsation. If Pitbulls were legal, no doubt it'd be them instead of the Staff.

[Hazylogic]

I've seen a fair few huskys too. I don't think the owners know what they are getting themselves in for - I think that they just want a fashion accessory to match their sunday market fleece-with-a-wolf-howling-at-the-moon-jacket and their shite american indian tats.

It's annoying the reputations that staffordshires have got. As with the right training they are one of the most well behaved, obedient dogs you can have. Our dag has to put up with a five year old leaning/pulling/annoying it and he (the dag) doesn't bat an eyelid - they are called 'nanny dogs' for a reason.

Just look at all the staffies that need rehoming:

https://www.scottishspca.org/rehoming/category/dogs

So what have we learned? That people are cunts.

[Misc]

Yup, they do make very good pets but i think a lot of people who don't know a lot about the breed would be put off by them just because they're everywhere & now even have their own definition along side the word 'chav'. I don't think they would look past that even tho they are very good dogs.

And i personally don't think i've ever seen many young people with Staffs playing with it in a field. The only exercise they seem to get is to the local shops & back.

I dread to think what it's like for something as energetic as a husky.

[Spit-Fire]

i still only see staffs' and pits abouts, and less then i use to come to think of it
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[hellkat]

Oh I do hope that's not the case.

My boyfriend has a beautiful half husky/half lab which he brought back from Spain nearly 3 years ago ... ahhh, she's beautiful.

Lovely soft fur and a very good nature

Although she doesn't like being locked out of my bedroom, haha, apparently she's used to getting IN THE BED which I disapproved mightily of, so she sat at the bedroom door/window and whined for hours till I had finished with him

THEN I let her in
THEN I let him let her on the bed (eventually)

But no way was I going to let her push her way in between him and me.

NO. WAY.
Cheeky mare
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[Faldo]

I hope not too.

I've noticed a lot more Husky type dogs recently, but I must say I've not really seen them with chavvy owners, the chavs still have Staffies around here.

It really is a shame what has happened with Staffies. There was a Panorama program a few weeks ago about abandoned dogs, they went to a dogs home and 8 out of 10 dogs were Staffies/Staffie X. Not only that, they actually showed them putting down perfectly healthy dogs in a garage behind the vet's surgery (as it was too upsetting for the staff to see), then putting them in a bag and into the bin .

It's criminal how these dogs are (mis)treated, really boils my piss.

[hellkat]

It is true about the Staffies, and its a crying shame ... I went to the Battersea Dogs Home website about two months ago, thinking I might find a little doggie for myself, a Jack Russell or something, maybe a border collie if I was lucky, cos I was thinking about working from home again (but changed my mind since).

I would conservatively estimate that 90% of the dogs advertised on the Battersea website are Staffs.

I'm not hugely fond of Staffs. I don't especially like "chewy" dogs.
But I felt sickened by the fact that so many were abandoned.

People really do have *no* idea about the responsibility involved.
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[Deaks]

I maintain that if these chav pricks wanted to look proper hard they would go round with a miniture Poodle and show they dont need a aggressive looking dog to protect them!

Although that would require them being comfortable with their sexuality and not try to put out a 'look how I can dominate and control this dangerous dog cos I'm so hard' persona.

Idiots.
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[RussG]

Dog licences. Way forward.
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[hellkat]

Its not that they're uncomfortable with the sexuality, cos they all breed like fuckin rabbits.

Its that they're uncomfortable with their own self-confidence, and in that respect you're right, the only thing they can do is pretend to be hard cos they can control a dog. Big deal.

I always found my dogs responded better to firmly spoken and clear orders, rather than screaming and shouting.
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[Faldo]

[TeamMCS]

I'd love a dog, not bothered where from providing they are reasonably healthy.

It would be nice to have a dog around the house with the misses and something to bark at any passing scrotes. Sadly need to get a flat which allows animals.

My only concern is toilet training them. I've had several dogs over the years (mostly whippet dogs) and they just seem to be a giant can of red bull on legs - shooting around and chewing stuff up if they get bored. Very affectionate but a little manic
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[MinhDinh]

Maybe you mean Japanese Akita?

I have seen more and mroe fo them owned by Chav's, heck I'm from Hackney so proably one myself (I also own a RS125 LOL)

I have looked at Battersea dog's home and it is full of staff's. Shame really since they are very smart and peaceful.
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[Louise]

My sister has two.
Lovely dogs, only down side is that she needs to hoover at least twice a day now with the malting.
Recently she has been getting more and more hassle from other dog owners down the park. They simply do not want her dogs near theres due to them looking 'scarey' and like a pack of wolves One guy called the police on the dogs because of the above.
I love em to bits - but would never own one let alone two

[warped one]

Can i just say. First off everything to the unknowing looks like a Hisky. Weather it be Malamute,Samoyd, Akita, or infact a real husky.

The truth of the matter is Husk'y and other large sled dogs are not dangerous at all, and it has been said that your better off using a miniture dashound as a guard/attack dog. Purely because they have been bred to look after them. The old saying is that if you put a baby on thee floor they will lay around them amd keep them warm. I have seen someone do this with his 3day old baby and normally crazy as Mal. But the instant his hands were lifted away she was straight round and used her tail as a pillow.

The only 'bad' dogs are the board ones who are sick of just walking to the shops. And whats more amusing is that when they feel it's right some will even try to beco.e the alfaa
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[2E]

Huskies and associated dogs should never of been brought into the country. Our climate does not suit them, they are used to artic conditions, pack animals, they were never supposed to be tamed and used as pets.
Britian, suprisingly is too hot for them, even in our coldest winters, they're fur is much much too thick, they pant continuously and their life expectancy is shortened drastically, alot die prematurely of dehydration.

Artic explorers do not treat them as pets, they treat them as animals, if they start fighting then the explorer will beat them down to show authority, dog owners will gasp and scream abuse but that is how its supposed to be.

I doubt very much that chavs will take huskies on as pets, there dogs are for show and for fighting other dogs/animals, a huskie/similar breed dog are not really that sort of animal, regardless of training, a pitbull will do alot more damage than a huskie ever could.
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[warped one]

How does expense come into it?

The little shits will just mugmore people to get them. And when the name has been slurred, the price will drop to the floor.

And yet another Amazing breed of dog will feared and given the 'chav' tag.

Why don't they go for useless breads like terriers or chawawaas (sp?)
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amnesia - Never in the history of usernames has one been more accurate. Warped indeed. You sir are a fecking oddball.

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[Spit-Fire]

if you applied some common sense to your think you could have answered all your own questions

[Misc]

Fair enough.

But for the last quote, that was a bit of an exaggeration but wouldn't surprise me if they 'exchanged' the pups for something or equivalent value (between friends obviously) Not a registered breeder.

If you haven't seen the programme yet (on Youtube) it's worth a watch.

[Spit-Fire]

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