Jill Rosen is a reporter at
The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...
Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named
Leo Sesame and
Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named
Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.
Comments
Someone forgot to tell this man that huskies do NOT make good guard dogs
at all and once the dog runs off to catch his intruder he probably won't return either, all he's created is another cross
breed with a silly name.
Posted by: Lisa | October 13, 2009 10:46 AM
Ditto on they make poor guard dogs! Recall training isn't their strong point either. Actually .. based on their stubborness, training isn't a husky's strong point in general. :p This cross is not an improvement to either breed.
Posted by: ixnay | October 13, 2009 12:32 PM
Breeding two very different breeds of dog and giving it a stupid name is one thing. Reporting it and calling it news is a far worse crime. Why am I even wasting my time writing this?
Posted by: Rory | October 13, 2009 3:41 PM
A concientous breeder breeds dogs that combine to improve the breed. How does this attempt improve either breed?
You want an outstanding dog for military or police work? Such things already exist. The Belgian Malinois and the German Shepherd fill this role quite admirably.
A mix of two extremely disparate breeds like the Malinois and Husky will not produce a superior guard dog.
Posted by: sarah | October 14, 2009 6:50 PM