this husky is mad because he wants to take a bath but isnāt allowed to
let my poor baby take his bath
If y’all really knew. If y’all really knew what utter drama queens huskies are this wouldnāt surprise you at all.
This is my life.
Literally my husky is the same way. Heās only a few months and heāll cry to go back outside after being in the house two seconds.
I once ran out of my house in my pajamas at 2 in the fucking morning because I heard a dog screaming like it had been hit by a car. As Iām pelting towards the road barefoot I see an open garage with two people standing there and a husky in the back of a truck. I slowed down and asked them if that noise had been their dog.
Heavily embarrassed they admitted that it was. The reason for the godawful tortured sound the dog had made?
āWe took his running harness off.ā
And that was the moment I vowed to never own a husky.
I frequently pet sit for a friendās husky, who is completely normal and unremarkable for her kind with one crucial exception.
She is dumb as soup.
(You didnāt hear that from me: her owner thinks sheās a genius, bless him.)
Anyway, my dog Tribble thinks Arya the husky is one of her very own adopted babies, so she stays with us fairly often. Reasons I have heard this dog dissolve into a screaming, wailing meltdown include:
I followed my buddy up a mildly steep hill and now sheās gone and I canāt figure out how to get down
That one cat wonāt be friends with me even though all the others will
I hopped up on the sofa and the hardwood floor next to it is much more confusing than the laminate I have lived on since I was two months old and I donāt know how to get down
Iām mildly bored and my buddy yelled at me when I tried to bite her neck for the zillionth time
I want to play with that potted plant but you said I couldnāt
Iām overcome with joy because you took me on a walk to the hardware store
I want that biscuit but I forgot what sit means and now Iām frustrated
I havenāt seen you in two weeks and I forgot you werenāt dead and Iām overjoyed
You are not petting me enough
You are not petting me at all
I got lost four times in five minutes on the off leash trail and now you wonāt let me off again for a while
Thereās a brush and I need it
You made eye contact with me and didnāt immediately drop everything to pet me
Sheās a very good dog, and sheās a sweet dog who is never offended by anything, but the screaming has singlehandedly ensued I will never, ever, ever own a husky. I like having functioning ears too much.
To be fair, you and your friend may both be right: huskies, like border-collies, are just intelligent enough to develop Exciting Cognitive Neuroses, much like a toddler, which frankly dumber dogs will skip because they donāt actually have quite enough extra cognitive space to think up ways to be utterly fucking ridiculous.Ā
I kind of suspect this is going on here in part because of the dog being so very specifically upset that the one cat wonāt be friends, despite all the other cats being friends, and also the overcome-with-joy bits: youāll notice theyāre very similar to what makes toddlers randomly cry for no reason.Ā
Where a bulldog doesnāt care about the difference between laminate and hardwood, a husky is just smart enough to get VERY CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THESE ARE SUBTLY DIFFERENT AND POSSIBLY IT MEANS THAT GETTING DOWN WILL BE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE AAAAAUGH! and get hysterically anxious about it.Ā
āSmarterā, in animals as in humans, does not actually always meanĀ āmore sensible.ā XDĀ
I was feeling very lonely this evening and now Iām laughing down to my belly so thank you for this post
So, I drove up to a stop sign, and there were a bunch of farm animals fenced in by the road. I saw a goat staring at me and decided to record a video, but I forgot my CD was still playing.