The Siberian Husky is a strikingly beautiful, intelligent, and energetic breed known for their wolf-like appearance and boundless enthusiasm. Originally bred by the Chukchi people of Siberia for sledding and companionship, the Husky is now a popular family pet and working dog worldwide. With their playful personality, endurance, and double coat, they thrive in colder climates, like Canada, but can adapt to various environments when given proper care.
Siberian Huskies are medium sized working dog, with a well-balanced, athletic build. With a height of 20 to 23 1/2 inches and weighing 35 to 60 pounds, a Siberian Husky is a nice size for a working dog. Huskies have a graceful and agile movement, making them excellent endurance runners. With their energy, alertness, and intelligence, they need plenty of training and exercise to help them behave properly.
Siberian Huskies are known for their friendly, energetic and independent nature. They love people and are rarely aggressive, making them poor guard dogs but excellent companions. Huskies are both intelligent and independent, this can result in a stubborn and willful side, requiring patient training. (We recommend Baxter & Bella, an online training course. A worthwhile investment!)
Their intelligence can get them into trouble as they live up to their reputation as escape artists. They can figure out how to undo the latch on their kennel, turn the door handle on your front door, or other ways of escaping where you have contained them. It is extremely important to make sure you have safely contained them, especially if you are away from home.
Siberian Huskies are born with a pack mentality. They enjoy the company of other dogs and do well in a multi-dog household.
Siberian Huskies love to run. As much as they may seem comfortable by your feet while you do office work, they would literally run all day if you let them. Walks and other forms of exercise are an important part of a Siberian Husky's life, which means you need to be prepared for additional walks if you do not have a place to allow your Husky to run around and let loose some of it’s excess energy. Some Siberians have been trained to be loose on their own property - we recommend proper training before attempting it!
Siberian Huskies are beautiful and unique dogs. Bred to pull sleds, snow is nothing new to them! They thrive living outdoors, even during the winter season. Don’t be surprised if you find your Siberian Husky outside of his/her doghouse or shelter you have provided for him, simply enjoying the blizzard. It’s part of their unique nature.
They are also relatively quiet dogs. They typically don’t bark, but “talk” instead. Their signature howl can be a beautiful song, but sometimes that howl turns into a conversation. They begin to “talk” to you as if they haven’t seen you in years, instead of barking like most other breeds.
Huskies are beautiful creatures. They are easily recognizable with their thickly furred double coat, erect triangular ears, and distinctive markings. They can be any colour and their eyes are equally as unique. We have personally been blessed with brown, grey, blue, green, amber, bi-eyes, and parti-eyes, including our adult dogs. While huskies do shed, usually it is only a couple times a year that it is really bad!
As you consider having a Siberian Husky join your home, take your time to do adequate research. We love their quirks, individual personalities, and beauty, and we want you to as well.
Snowsong is a Canadian Husky breeder focused on raising happy, healthy Siberian Husky puppies in Sounthern Ontario.
Our Husky puppies have have found their homes in Sudbury, Windsor, Toronto, London, Barrie, Guelph, the GTA, across Toronto, and all the way to Montreal.
Join our Snowsong family and you to will know the love that a Siberian Husky brings to your heart.
