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Anonymous
OK CALM DOWN EVERYONE, I AM HUSKY EXPERTER!
You did not buy a puppy. You bought a tornado.
What you have on your hands, if you choose to accept it, is a dog that is independent, driven, pumped on caffeine 24/7, fast, stubborn, with a high prey drive, not loyal at all (he will love you, but it's not common for Siberians to be cuddly. Mine lays down in the room across me.), who would sit down and watch someone beat the shit out of you if the guy had a treat on him.
You need a large yard, you need to be able to either train it on a treadmill, get a bike with a bike leash and let her run 1 to 1 1/2 hours a day, or walk 4 to 5 hours a day. If you have any nice furniture, get rid of it now and cut your losses. There's a story of a bored husky who destroyed $15,000 worth of furniture and house repairs in one hour.
He loves to roam, so your yard needs to have hot wire all around it. Cruel, perhaps, but better than him getting run over. My husky only needed to get shocked once to learn his boundaries.
You will never have him off leash unless you spend a HUGE amount of training and time on her. You'll need to read behavior book after book, learn training method after training method in order to have him off leash, ever. Even for five seconds. He will not stop or come back to you no matter what you do.
All that being said, I recommend postive reinforcement clicker training with huskies. It has worked well with them in my experience.
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