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Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum Topic_readTopic: Lachlan had a seizure
Windfishin

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Search in: Medical Issues   Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum EmptySubject: Lachlan had a seizure    Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum EmptyMon Jul 20, 2020 6:00 pm
Update:

Lach went nearly 6 months over the winter with no seizures. We were hopeful that somehow we'd got past them, but this Spring they started again only worse. One day he had 3, morning, noon, and night. Weeks later the clusters started. The first 2 times we got him out of it with one dose of the rectal valium. The other day I was gone and he started clustering. I had recently returned from the beach with him and hadn't unpacked the valium so my wife couldn't find it. Thanks to a miracle of timing, I was able to take her call and direct her to it. She gave the first dose around #3 and a second dose when he went into #5. He stopped after a sixth and she and my son rushed him to the ER where he arrived with a temp of 106. Had she not been able to reach me, she and my son would've likely watched him die. We've got him on Phenobarb now and he seems to be recovering slowly. He acts drunk and the Ataxia makes his hind end wobbly. I realize now I took some big risks trying to avoid the Phenobarb. If I had to do it again I would've started the Phenobarb after the very first cluster. We've never been able to pin down any triggers. [img]Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum 20200711[/img][img]Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum 20200710[/img]
Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum Topic_readTopic: Lachlan had a seizure
Windfishin

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Search in: Medical Issues   Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum EmptySubject: Lachlan had a seizure    Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum EmptySat Aug 17, 2019 3:33 pm
<sigh> Make it #5 about 15 minutes ago. Sad

Was upstairs working and hear a chair knock over in the kitchen downstairs. Get down there and he's on his feet with foamy mouth.

He had a pair within days of each other 9 weeks ago and then they stopped. Hoping that pattern happens again.
Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum Topic_readTopic: 52 Weeks of Tetra
PollyR

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Search in: "52 Weeks for Dogs"   Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum EmptySubject: 52 Weeks of Tetra    Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum EmptyThu Mar 22, 2018 7:27 pm
#2. You caught her right in the act--priceless.   lol!
#5. Lovely and sweet.
Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum Topic_readTopic: 7 month-old Kiko is a terror! Please help.
Kiko's Mom

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Search in: Training   Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum EmptySubject: 7 month-old Kiko is a terror! Please help.    Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum EmptyWed Oct 21, 2015 8:58 pm
Hi, I have not posted here for a long time, because I really wanted to be able to post some good news about our puppy Kiko. He is now over 7 months old, and he is a nightmare! I do have photos all the way up to this point, but I just haven't posted them. Some day I will post them, as he is a beautiful pup -- but right now I am seeking advice and I am pretty much exhausted physically and mentally from this dog, as is my boyfriend.

Kiko has a heart murmur, for one ...fine, because that is the least of our problems. We are working with the vet on that, and the good news is the X-rays don't show an enlarged heart, so finally he is going to be scheduled for an ultrasound by a canine cardiologist who comes to town once a month.

But the main thing is his behavior. He is literally crazy. I mean he is extremely hyper-active, more than any dog I have ever known. I have trained many puppies ...well, 8 puppies, in my life, and this one is not normal. All of my other puppies learned to sit/stay/lie down/come by the time they were 10 to 12 weeks old, and do those things consistently. Even Tundra, my last Siberian Husky (who was 18 months old when I rescued him and had severe separation anxiety), learned to behave and already knew basic commands and followed them. He was very gentle and sweet.

Kiko terrorizes our home. Seriously. My boyfriend is retired and I don't work outside the home, so we are always here, at least one of us and usually both of us. This dog terrorizes us from before sunrise until after sunset, that is the only way to put it.

#1 - House Breaking: Kiko goes outside during the day. He asks to go outside. But every night he poos and pees in the house. He poos two or three times during the night. We don't understand this. He is 7 months old. I have never even heard of any dog who goes this many times, especially during the night. And yep, in the house. When he knows to go outside during the day. He gets his dinner at 5pm and we take him outside at around 10pm or 10:30pm for his last poo/pee. But every single night I am awakened by the horrible smell and I have to get up and clean like crazy. Most often twice per night. It is a very strange smell. Kiko's poo has always smelled very much like burnt rubber. It has a very odd smell.

#2 - Wakes us up before dawn (related to issue #1 above) Even though he goes outside at 10:00pm or 10:30pm to poo/pee, and THEN he still poos and pees in the house two or three times during the night ...he STILL wakes us up crying to go out at anywhere between 4:00am up to as late as 5:30am (which is like "yay" we get to sleep in!).
This is a horrible situation, because if we don't get up and take him out, he will go in the house yet again. So either way, I have to get up and clean clean clean. Or take him outside in the dark (and then we are up for the day). I basically get maybe 4 or 5 hours of constantly interrupted sleep every night for almost seven months now since we have had this dog. My boyfriend too. We are both so exhausted, and I cried today.

#3 - He doesn't understand the word "NO". He doesn't understand ANY type of discipline or training efforts. He fights us. He fights back, I mean. I have successfully trained/disciplined other dogs, but Kiko is just impossible. Okay, I know he is a siberian husky, but omg you have no idea what this guy is like. See next point (#4) below.

#4 - He bites us and makes us bleed. We have listened to our vet and tried her suggestions. He constantly jumps on us and scratches us and bites us ...she said to turn our backs and ignore him when he is like that. It doesn't help, he just goes crazy. We are both so beaten up and scratched from him. He does not let up, no matter what we do. He seems to think it is all a game. I have never ever known or seen any dog like this Sad

#5 - He eats/chews/destroys everything!!! We can take him out on a 30 minute walk, or let him run and run and run at the dog park, but even after that he is hyper and crazy. He gets what we think is the best of food/nutrition (?) (TOTW High Prairie Puppy Food) along with soooo many toys and good safe healthy treats ...but he still goes absolutely crazy the minute we aren't looking and even if we ARE looking. He eats the carpet, the couch, the bedspread, the floor, the linoleum, the shelves, etc ...and I mean he actually ingests them, not just chewing. He digs and digs on the sofa and eats anything that rips, and does the same on the carpeting. If we stop him he bites us and then keeps going. Our entire house is basically ruined and chewed up in the last seven months. And we are so worried he will get a blockage or a rupture from eating all this inedible stuff that he eats. Sad

I know I have probably left much out. Like how we love him, and how he is so cute when he finally is sleeping.
I must reiterate that I have raised and trained many other pups. But we are just at our wits end with this one. I know I will hear it from the behaviorists and trainers here on this site, and it's okay, I can take it. Let me have it, any ideas or suggestions or criticism. Anything that will help, please. We can't give him up. Nobody would keep this dog. If we did give him up he would be put down. I want to be able to live with this dog. Please help!

Any suggestions or even commiserations welcome. Smile

Like ...do any of you have any similar stories? Have any of you had similar troubles but it turned out okay?

Sorry I am just so tired. Please help!

Thank you.
Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum Topic_readTopic: Klaus' Scrapbook
RedFlashFire05

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Search in: Scrapbooks   Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum EmptySubject: Klaus' Scrapbook    Topics tagged under 5 on It's a Husky Thing - Siberian Husky Forum EmptyTue Oct 06, 2015 7:00 pm
Happy birthday Klaus!
Pic #7 of him by the car window is my favorite too, lol. also like #5 the wet face.
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