Originally Posted by 54321

I have not been to this "attraction" and can not comment on whether it represents good value for money or not. However, as someone who owns and races a small pack of working siberian huskies I can comment on them! Please read and learn.

1) The huskies are chained because YOU CAN NOT LET A HUSKY OFF THE LEAD EVER, FULL STOP, PERIOD. This is because a husky has two major instincts - run and hunt. They are very good at both, and will go from nothing to scaling a six foot fence and running 50 miles at the drop of a hat or the lead. They will go from friendly doggie to efficient hunter and killer in 0.2 seconds.

Would you rather your kids saw the cute fluffy husky rip open and eat Santa's reindeer?????? I thought not.

2) I have never met these huskies but from the pictures shown they are not skinny or underweight! HUSKIES ARE LEAN, WELL MUSCLED WORKING DOGS. THEY ARE NOT LARGE/FAT FLUFFY HOLLYWOOD POWDER PUFFS. Those larger "huskies" you see in the movies are either malamuts ( a heavier set freight animal), mongrel cross breeds or poor OR FAT examples of a siberian husky. You have surely seen the documentary on Crufts and what happens when you breed for a show ring? Well, the huskies pictures are what happens when you don't breed for the American show ring.

3) HUSKIES DO HOWL: FOR FUN, OCCASIONALLY IF SAD, OFTEN IF HAPPY AND USUALLY JUST FOR THE SHEER HELL OF IT!!!! If you want quiet, subdued, you would never notice them dogs.... go look at a different breed!!!

4) SOME HUSKIES DO "TALK" OR "CHUNTER", OFTEN DESCRIBED AS MUSICAL, HERE BY SOMEONE AS "YAPPING". I have personally never heard a husky yap. Again, HUSKIES ARE NOT YOUR STANDARD PET POOCH.

5) I AM SURE THEY DID LOOK BORED AT TIMES. THEY ARE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT DOGS. THEY ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN MANY HUMANS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED... It has been said that you didn't get to touch them? They are living beings, why should they be mauled by hundreds of people and prodded by hundreds of children?????



PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE MADE NO EFFORT TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE HUSKIES OR THESE RIDICULOUS COMMENTS WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE. Perhaps if people had engaged in talking to the people on the stall they would have found them to be like most husky owners, only too willing to share their love of the breed and explain a day in the life of a siberian husky.

Or perhaps they did and didn't like the answers they got back?

Originally Posted by Tubbette

hypnorm and Terry, did you see this post a few pages back?