past dogs

[Charlene]

looking at the pictures of glacier, i am SO reminded of my long-deceased siberian huskies. i loved my sibes with a passion and even though they have been gone many years and i now have two other big dogs (well ok, maybe not...they're corgis but they THINK they're big!), i still miss them and i have such fond memories of the huskies and thought i would share a couple of pictures.

this is "flag ontheplay"...

i also had a red/white female, juneau. i'll have to load some pics of her so i can show her off, too.

i know most everybody here must have some special dogs in their past.

 

[Sterling]

Oh what BEAUTIFUL dogs!!!!! I have always thought about getting a husky....never did tho. They always remind me of wolves, with their beautiful blue clear eyes and that intelligent look.

I wish I had my photo CD when I took pics of my past dogs. They're in picture albums tho and if I can round them up I could try to scan them. I remember one special dog back before I got married...he was a cocker mix, but looked more like a yellow Bearded Collie. He was VERY special to me.

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[Shelley]

He was beautiful. They are never with us long enough.

Here are pictures of some of the Sibes from my past:

Snickers (Am.Can.Ch. Snoking's Satisfier)

Blossom (Am.Can.Ch. Sno Dream's A Breath of Spring)

Rocky (Poco Lobo Sno Dream's Majesty, CGC)

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Oksana (Sno Dream's Olympic Gold)

Dawnie (Karnovanda's Sno Dream Dawn)

Glory (Snoking's Glory Bound)

and my beloved Saluki boy Suede (Am.Can.Ch. Jatara's Touch of Suede) who we lost

very suddenly 6/8/06 at the age of 11.

There are Suede grandpuppies on the ground, and I will be traveling to VA at

the end of October to bring one home.

Shelley

 

[Charlene]

oh shelley, WOW!!! just positively gorgeous huskies!!

sterling, please see if you can scan some pics, i would love to see them!

here is my female, juneau. she died suddenly at age 9 of a ruptured tumor on her spleen.

 

[anoki]

Ohhh, they are alll sooo pretty!!!

Shelley, did you ever meet Sue Bain in showing sibes? just curious....

~kathryn

 

[MeadowRidge Farm]

What BEAUTIFUL huskies

: . I would have to scan pictures of my special kids in my life, all were Great Danes, and one Newf, and of course my very special boy, Shado, my black lab who we just lost 1 month ago at the age of 13. Corinne

 

[SunQuest]

Charlene, what precious dogs you had. I bet Flag ontheplay was a real character wasn't he. He has the look of a sibe that is a real happy go lucky type of dog. And Juneau... I love those reds. Sad that you lost her so untimely. Funny thing is that the same thing happened to one of our sibes at almost the exact same age.

And Shelley, you know I LOVE those pictures of your dogs!

I wish I had pictures of the other 2 that I grew up with, but they were gone out of my life when I was young. Bandit was our first and we just didn't totally understand the breed or pet store practices. Then there was Sweet And Sour Candy. She passed away by the time she was 2 of liver failure. We think that a rawhide treat was toxic and caused it, but have no proof as she was really healthy acting as a young puppy.

Then there was Misty, my pound puppy. She was a German Sheppard Siberian Husky cross. She was a really good girl, lived to be an amazing 15 years old. She definately looked part sheppard, had the voice of a sheppard, yet was marked like a sibe and had those sibe ears. I am not sure that I have a picture of her as I didn't have a camera when I was first married.

Here are 2 others of ours. Actually these were my parents, but after playing with them almost every single day at the farm and housesitting, they were almost like my own. I even would take them with me places sometimes.

The dog on the left is Artic Sadow. She was a real escape artist and would plot ways to run out the gate as you came in that gate. Shadow passed away while I was house sitting at the all too young of an age of 11. We don't unerstand why, it was just sudden virus type of thing and even though I got to the vet with her within hours of her showing symptoms, she passed the following morning. It was so hard as the vet really thought she would make it. And when I got that aweful call, Arty and I sat together crying.

And the dog on the right is Artic Wine. Arty was no relation to Shadow. Notice the right eye, it is a bicolored eye and made him look like his eyelid was droopy. He was very much Shadow's soul mate and his whole goal in life was to do what ever he could to please anyone. Arty was 9 when he passed away. We say he died of a broken heart, but it was a ruptured tumor on his spleen. This happened not even 2 months after Shadow passed away. Arty never did get beyond his greiving over the loss of Shadow, and I will say that I am at peace knowing that the two are together at the rainbow bridge. But boy do I miss the two of them.

 

[Charlene]

shadow and arty were just beautiful! there is just something about that husky face that makes me melt!

and yes, flag was quite a character. he was such a "talky" dog, would howl at the drop of a hat. certain phrases would elicit a rousing howl session as would my body language or the sound of car keys. when he was in the house, i taught him to "whisper". he would put his head straight up in the air and it would look like he was getting ready to cut loose but there would be no sound. "whisper" meant just that. :bgrin we used to laugh uproariously at him, he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed but he oozed personality.

juneau, on the other hand, was SO smart! she was my lead dog and she rarely had to be told twice to do anything. she was so willing to please. flag had the power, he was my wheel dog. when he got tired, he'd just stop and sit down. until he lost his hearing as he aged, he was great at catching moles. he would walk along a mole run, cocking his head this way and that and then suddenly POUNCE. more often than not, he would come up with a mole.

juneau's sudden death was devastating. although my vet told me there was nothing i could have done, i have always had feelings of guilt that i did not know something was wrong. flag lived to the ripe old age of 15 and it was my decision to send him across the rainbow bridge. i agonized for months but i knew he was telling me he was tired and it was time. oh, how i miss that silly dog!!

 

[SunQuest]

juneau's sudden death was devastating. although my vet told me there was nothing i could have done, i have always had feelings of guilt that i did not know something was wrong.

Charlene, We felt the same way when Arty passed. He showed no signs. It was sudden. Yes, your vet told you the same that our vet told us. NOTHING ANY of us could have done, even if they were in the daily care of the vet. What was so hard was that Arty showed no signs of illness. He just passed away while we were at work one day, was fine that morning and by noon was gone.

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there is just something about that husky face that makes me melt

Me too. That breed just seems to call out to me. Grabs the heart every time.
Glad that I had your two nailed in personality. It clearly shows in the pictures. I was going to say that Juneau was a smart one and all business. Her profile picture really conveys that with that intent judging stare that she has in it. It is like she was thinking about what to do next. Our Shadow used to look at things the exact same way and currently Glacier does the same. Very much they took in everything in their surroundings and thought about things until they had the answer they were looking for.

Sounds like Flag and Arty were two peas in the same pod. No matter what Arty did, he always was cute about it, even if we joked that he was a dumb oaf. But boy would he howl at times. He yoddled and howled when we came home or if any other thing set him off. He had the neatest deep voice that actually sounded so wolf like.

The only trouble that Arty ever made was one day when my dad sat a glass on milk on the coffee table in the living room. Can't remember why, but he got up to get something and left he milk there. Now Arty has never taken anything off the table even if you left a plate on it. Well... The devil made him do it! Dad returned to see Arty lapping the milk out of the glass and Arty had the look on his face that was saying "I know I am in trouble, but I just couldn't help it! It was the devil's doing" and you know my dad who is can be strict about things just couldn't bring himself to repremand Arty, and that was saying a lot! Laughs.... Pretty good to only purposely mess up once in a lifetime.

On another thread someone asked what cute names they called their pets. Arty was called Mooseman because he always had the looks and personality that reminded us of a big ol' moose.

Anyway, dogs sure touch our souls forever don't they. And nope, don't feel guilty over Juneau. It is good to know that someone else has been there. It does bring some sense of relief to know that it wasn't just us being blind to the symptoms. (((Hugs)))

And I would love to see other breed picture posted of passed dogs. I am sure they all have great stories to their lives and it does the heart good to reminisce over them!!! So come on others! Lets see and hear about your loved ones!

 

[Charlene]

part of the reason i have blamed myself so much for juneau's death was because my then-husband and i had separated. i moved into an apartment and left both dogs with him. he promised to care for them until i could find a proper place. a couple of months later, my son was at his house one day and noticed that juneau just wasn't herself. he called me and said she seemed sick. i told him i would meet him at the vet's office and i went flying. when i got there, she seemed unresponsive, in the back seat of his car. when she heard me call her name, she opened her eyes, wagged her tail and died. it has torn me to pieces for all of these years and although i know there was nothing i could have done, and that what symptoms she had came on very suddenly, it haunts me and always will. i do not believe she had been sick for very long because she did wolf down her breakfast that morning and that gives me a little comfort.

you definitely had her pegged as the smart dog!!! i swear, she could read my mind and everything she did, she did with a vengeance! like your arty, flag was the big silly oaf and he never failed to keep us entertained. i was so thankful that my vet could come to the farm when we had to put him to rest. when i knew he was just minutes away from our place, flag and i shared a hershey bar. i took one small square and gave him the rest. it was something i knew he had been wanting for 15 years and i figured, what harm could it do now?

how funny about the glass of milk!! the only time flag tried my patience was one day when i was all ready for work and he was down in the woods barking and howling. i knew he had something cornered and wouldn't leave it. he had not had breakfast yet and i was running late. i tromped down to into the woods and found him at the base of a huge tree where he had a possum cornered. if you know huskies, you know he wasn't about to leave it be. i said to him "well, either get it or leave it, i have to go to work!" he reached down, grabbed the possum and proudly carried it back to the yard where i told him to "leave it", which he did, right under the hammock. i came back in the house to change clothes to bury the poor thing and when flag and i went out to do that, the possum was gone. he sat there with the most perplexed look on his face. possum - 1, flag - 0. :bgrin

gosh, i could go on all day!! SOOOO many fond memories!

 

[palominogirl]

they're so gorgeous i had a huskey years ago named sheba she was a sweet dog but not the smartest one day she walked off and got lost and was only a road over. then we came home one day and the front door was open she was gone and so was alot of money we had. we looked for her for a long time and have never found her. she was a good girl then we got a little police dog pup who we had for 17 yrs and now we have a mini shnauzer and a rotweiler the mini is pushing 11 and the rotty is pushing 3

brittanie

 

[SunQuest]

Gosh Charlene, I would never have thought about sharing a candy bar with my pooch when the time comes. I love the idea as my dogs always want some but I never give it to them. What a better way to make it so special!

Don't let Juneau haunt you. I know easier said than done, but you didn't do anything wrong. Your Ex did a good job caring for her and she was with family at all times. What more could she want? Even if you were right there, you couldn't have stopped it. It has nothing to do with where you were. This could have happened at any time and you could have been with your Ex and you could have just went to the local grocery store and returned to find her gone. Just remember that you had a family that loved her. She knew it and she passed with you being there. It is the way she wanted it. And she wouldn't want you saddened by your memories and the what if's. It was her time and her gift was to let you know that she was ok with it all and that she loved you and waited for you. And yes, it was quick for her. No long suffering. And that is the best that any of us could hope for. Love, family, and a quick passing to the bridge. (((Hugs)))

Yep, one track minds when the huskies see something they think they should have as a chew toy. Here Glacier regularly "fences" (as in run up to the top of the wooden fence) the neighbor's cat. And no matter how much begging and pleading, Glacier has his earplugs in and is so "in the zone". Three days ago it was a mouse that Glacier ate for breakfast. Yuck! Makes me squirm. And of course he is a very good hunter and listens very closely for those things that tunnel below him. The worst part is that he is now teaching our pitbull to hunt mice. EEUWWW!

My mom's husky sits at the opening of the gopher holes and weights. It is so funny to see her hunting like that. She knows they will come out. You can almost hear her saying "come out come out where ever you are." Unfortunately, she is getting very up there in years and has cataracts and is now having a harder time of getting up and down. But she still waits and hunts when she can as she can still hear.

I had to laugh about the possum. I can just picture the look on Flag's face. Must have been priceless.

they're so gorgeous i had a huskey years ago named sheba she was a sweet dog but not the smartest one day she walked off and got lost and was only a road over. then we came home one day and the front door was open she was gone and so was alot of money we had. we looked for her for a long time and have never found her. she was a good girl then we got a little police dog pup who we had for 17 yrs and now we have a mini shnauzer and a rotweiler the mini is pushing 11 and the rotty is pushing 3

brittanie

Oh that has to be tough to not know where Sheba went. I can't imagine...

And WOW! Your police dog sure lived a grand life... 17 years! Amazing! Have any pictures of any of them???? Would love to see your lost ones!

 

[Shelley]

Oh she was so pretty! That dark copper red has always been a favorite of mine.

I can understand your guilt. I will never get over the horrible feeling that somehow Suede's

death was my fault, even though the vet said nothing could have been done.

Shelley

oh shelley, WOW!!! just positively gorgeous huskies!!

sterling, please see if you can scan some pics, i would love to see them!

here is my female, juneau. she died suddenly at age 9 of a ruptured tumor on her spleen.

Yes actually I did, she was from Canada (duh).

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I think she went under the kennel name of Bain's Northern.

It was a long time ago and I doubt that she would remember me. My last name

was different then, too.

How, how did it work out breeding little Moxi??

Shelley

Ohhh, they are alll sooo pretty!!!

Shelley, did you ever meet Sue Bain in showing sibes? just curious....

~kathryn

 

[Watcheye]

Good Grief my mom would FLIP if she was on this thread. She LOVES Huskeis. She had one and has a huskey mix now. They are definately her dog of choice. I will have to get the pictures on the computer. She had one named Fonzie (I think his name was something like Tundra Kennels Sun Tori - or something...) and her current dog is Dawson.

 

[Charlene]

LOL, i thought maybe a whole hersey bar would allow him to forgive me for anything i'd done in the past that wasn't to his liking.

: my old boy is buried in one of his favorite sleeping spots and for a very long time, i talked to him often. still do occasionally.

yeah, i know i should not feel guilty about juneau's death but it's just one of those things i've never been able to get past. she's been gone almost 10 years and i still think of her often. thank you for your kind words, it helps to know others have had to endure although i am so sorry for your loss as well. i have always thought that she waited till i got there before she died, just to say goodbye to me.

we added our first corgi to the zoo when flag was about 11 years old. she was only 2 and sure added a spring to his step. he watched over his little sister like a hawk and she returned the favor when he got old and deaf. all i had to do was tell maggie to "go get flag" when it was time for a meal or a walk to the mailbox or something else i knew he wouldn't want to miss. she would go to him, stand in front of him and bark her silly head off till he woke up...

when we lost flag, maggie went into such a funk. she mourned him terribly and when she was still morose after several weeks, we decided to add our second corgi. i swear, simon is old flag, reincarnated. he has SO many of flag's mannerisms, sleeps in the exact same spots and even has that goofy look on his face, more often than not.

this has turned into a HUSKY thread! let's see some of those other wonderful dogs who have given you all some wonderful memories. i'd love some great dane pics!

 

[SunQuest]

Charlene, Yes, she waited. I have no doubt about that. It has been about 10 years for us as well since Shadow and Arty passed. Kind of strange that we should be going through the same issues with the same breed at the same time. And yes, yes miss those two so dearly, but I can look back and say that we were so blessed with the joy they brought us.

this has turned into a HUSKY thread! let's see some of those other wonderful dogs who have given you all some wonderful memories. i'd love some great dane pics!

Laughs. Yes, Lets see some Great Dane pics. I love those dogs. Actually, Lets see some small dogs also! Didn't mean for it to turn into a husky thread either! So come on everyone, lets mix it up on this thread!

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[SunQuest]

I can understand your guilt. I will never get over the horrible feeling that somehow Suede's

death was my fault, even though the vet said nothing could have been done.

Shelley

Why Shelly, I think we all feel guilty because we so deeply love those best friends that have passed. I agree with your vet. It wasn't your fault. It was just Suede's time. (((Hugs)))

 

[Charlene]

Charlene, Yes, she waited. I have no doubt about that. It has been about 10 years for us as well since Shadow and Arty passed. Kind of strange that we should be going through the same issues with the same breed at the same time. And yes, yes miss those two so dearly, but I can look back and say that we were so blessed with the joy they brought us.

that is SO SO true! although the pain of losing them is unbearable, we are still so lucky to have loved them and to have been loved by them! so often i have said that's it. no more dogs. i can't bear to go through it again but then another special-in-his-own-way shows up and i'm hooked all over again! :bgrin

 

[anoki]

Yes actually I did, she was from Canada (duh).

:

I think she went under the kennel name of Bain's Northern.

It was a long time ago and I doubt that she would remember me. My last name

was different then, too.

How, how did it work out breeding little Moxi??

Shelley

Yes, she is!!!! She shows cardis for Moxie's breeder!!! She looovvvveessss miss Moxie!!!

She is a really nice lady, but she's had some serious health problems the last few years. But she helped me out a lot at Moxie's very first show (and was there to cheer me on even after Moxie went over her special for BOB!!!!!)

As for Moxie's little trip, well, it's wait and see!!!!!!

: I forgot to tell the owners of the stud dog that I don't do wait and see very well!!!!!! :lol: She's 2 1/2 weeks from her first breeding date (yep, she bred the night we arrived and was covered 4 times!!!! :new_shocked: )

I'll keep you all posted!!

~kathryn

 

[Shelley]

There is a blood test you can have done at 30 days gestation.

Hope you have better luck than me...hundreds of dollars spent in the past

year and no puppies. :no:

Yes, please keep us posted! Is she throwing up? Off her feed? Change in personality?

Shelley

Yes actually I did, she was from Canada (duh).

:

I think she went under the kennel name of Bain's Northern.

It was a long time ago and I doubt that she would remember me. My last name

was different then, too.

How, how did it work out breeding little Moxi??

Shelley

Yes, she is!!!! She shows cardis for Moxie's breeder!!! She looovvvveessss miss Moxie!!!

She is a really nice lady, but she's had some serious health problems the last few years. But she helped me out a lot at Moxie's very first show (and was there to cheer me on even after Moxie went over her special for BOB!!!!!)

As for Moxie's little trip, well, it's wait and see!!!!!!

: I forgot to tell the owners of the stud dog that I don't do wait and see very well!!!!!! :lol: She's 2 1/2 weeks from her first breeding date (yep, she bred the night we arrived and was covered 4 times!!!! :new_shocked: )

I'll keep you all posted!!

~kathryn