franco Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Hello everyone! My name is Kelly and my husband, children, and I just adopted Franco a week ago. He will be 7 in a few weeks. His previous owners went through a divorce and could not keep him. She was a stay at home wife and did nothing but spoil Franco lol. He came with bad walking, table, sleeping, furniture, and people manners. He was alpha in his mind. So this past week has been WORK needless to say. But we have been vigorously working with him and I have to say it is working. We are new to the husky breed but have been reading for months now and trying to learn as much as we can. I had a trainer that has 5 huskies come to our house yesterday and work with us. Taught us a lot. But if any of you have any tips or thoughts that would help us out we would be great full. Just want the best for Franco and for our family. Looking forward to chatting with you all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazz Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Hi Kelly. Welcome to the pack. Kudos for taking Franco into your home. I'm not much help on redirecting an adult Husky. Being consistent, firm, and fair would be important. I think working with a trainer is a great idea. There are some very knowledgeable members on this forum, that will be able to give you some good advice. In the mean time, if you have some pics of Franco, we'd love to see them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid_Wolf Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 hey kelly welcome to the pack Good on ya for taking him on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Welcome on board Kelly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamz Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Welcome to the site Kelly I am new to Huskies aswell....we have a 12 wk old male puppy who is a little raskel!!! Tami x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabresmum Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Hi there and welcome to the site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val (Zebedee) Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Hiya, Kelly, welcome to the pack Great to hear you've helped Franco out by rehoming him, shame he has so much to learn! By the sounds of things, you have started on the right foot with him, he is responding to you, you just need to keep it going, praise him loads when he behaves, ignore bad behaviour & walk away. Sounds like your trainer is helping you out loads too, huskies are quick learners, hopefully Franco will pick everything up & he learns his manners BTW, I love your pics of you both in the snow .... gorgeous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karly_larkin Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 hello and welcome to the site, pack and family Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BingBlaze n Skyla Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 welcome to the pack good on you for taking Franco in cnt w8 2 c MORE pics ov him hes a stunner anything you need feel free 2 post up every1 on here is rly helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqwidge Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Hello and welcome to the pack! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furbabys Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 hi there welcome xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkyries Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Hi Kellyand welcome to the site, good on you for taking him in, can we have pics please we love pic's xxxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emo kid Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 hey there n welcome to the site cant w8 to see lots of pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahNukka&Shadow Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Hello everyone! My name is Kelly and my husband, children, and I just adopted Franco a week ago. He will be 7 in a few weeks. His previous owners went through a divorce and could not keep him. She was a stay at home wife and did nothing but spoil Franco lol. He came with bad walking, table, sleeping, furniture, and people manners. He was alpha in his mind. So this past week has been WORK needless to say. But we have been vigorously working with him and I have to say it is working. We are new to the husky breed but have been reading for months now and trying to learn as much as we can. I had a trainer that has 5 huskies come to our house yesterday and work with us. Taught us a lot. But if any of you have any tips or thoughts that would help us out we would be great full. Just want the best for Franco and for our family. Looking forward to chatting with you all. Hi Kelly, Franco and family! Well done for taking this boy in! As has been said, best way with sibes (particularly ones who already think thier the boss) is firm but fair. We have two basic rules in our house: 1) Nothing in life is free... my girl has to earn everything, for instance she has to be calmly laying in her crate giving me full eye contact before she will get her dinner. and 2) the always or never rule, so she knows that I make the rules and I will always stick to them and so must she... for instance she is ALWAYS allowed on the sofa muddy or not is up to me to sort her out before shes allowed past me into the livingroom.. if I let her through before shes clean, I have to do the clean up but equally she must ALWAYS move when told to. It really important that dogs learn where they come in the household and little things like making them sit before you feed them and the family always eating first just gives them this information in a way they can understand. Anyway sounds like your doing great, already having a trainer who knows the breed will help a ton... any other questions tho just post um up and we'll all give you our best responces! Welcome and Good luck! xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hapa DC5 Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Hi Kelly, great to see that Franco found a good home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 hi, welcome to the pack Look forward to seeing you around and getting to know you and Franco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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