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>>221606 You'll definitely benefit from taking training classes. The dog shouldn't have any trouble learning no and down but you'll need to teach it a lot more than that if you want to keep it sane and happy (learning to come reliably is also essential for safety), and a trainer will make sure you're developing the right sort of relationship with the dog. god that sounded wrong, i just mean that if you do not assert yourself as a (benevolent!) dictator the dog can quickly get out of hand. Huskies are not the most easygoing dogs like goldens and they may test your dominance a bit. For a first time owner it would be good to start puppy classes as soon as the dog is old enough, and since you have time on weekends the dog would appreciate hiking or doggie sports. The main thing is keeping the dog from getting bored and spoiled. Also they're escape artists so don't leave it unsupervised outside even when it's fenced. Other breeds that could work are most retrievers (less independant, but more trainable) except curly-coated and duck tolling, Keeshond, shorter-haired spaniels (due to breeding for the show ring, the amount of hair on a spaniel seems inversly proportional to its intelligence, and those things can get pretty stupid), Basenji (also essential to take to early training classes), norwegian elkhound, German shepard (make sure it has good hips, you may want to check out Shiloh shepards), american eskimo (either of the larger 2 sizes. The littlest ones are yappy marshmallows), Belgian shepard (any variety, and like the huskies you had better keep them physically and mentally exercised or they will destroy your house. But they're great dogs), and collies. You can probably make most of the common breeds work well for you, so picking based mainly on looks is probably not that bad of an idea.
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