Kadan
Kadan
Siberian Husky
Male, 7 Months Old
Born January 7th, 2008
This is Kadan. Or rather, this is Kadan at 12 weeks old when I first adopted him and brought him home. Kadan is the first dog I’ve ever owned and been completely responsible for. When I got him, he was worm infested and his coat didn’t have that puppy fluff to it, but he made a quick turn around in a short number of weeks after two rounds of Nemex-2 and some added supplements of Fish Oil pills in his meals. Kadan was about 20lbs in the picture above.
This is Kadan now.
48lbs and probably still growing. When I first brought him home, he wasn’t much bigger than the cats. Now he towers over them like the husky beast he is. Kadan is also the tallest dog in the house now, having grown taller than the girls Bindi and Pepper, much to their dismay. Kadan is like your typical Siberian Husky in that he loves to run, greatly enjoys cold weather, howls instead of barks, “talks back” all the time, and has the cutest, kindest face I’ve ever seen on a dog. Kadan is quite a pain to get to come inside at night due to probably the fact that it feels cooler outside at night that it does in the house. Siberian Huskies can live in weather that goes well below the negatives in Fahrenheit, so hot summer weather is a doozy and freezing desert winters are a blast. I can’t wait until the temperature starts dropping in the next few months. I plan to have Kadan learn to pull me around, and we’ll definitely be making some trips up in the mountains this year to frolic in the deeper snow. Our town hasn’t seen snow [that has stuck to the ground] in going on three years now, although the weather has certainly been cold enough for it. I’d also like to have him try out Agility once he’s of age. He’s certainly got the speed for it. I’ve had him pull me down our street on roller blades on a few occasions, and you can just feel the joy bursting out of him. He loves running and he loves pulling. It’s years upon years of pure instinct going through that body of his.
But then there’s the times where he comes off as a defect; he can be so lazy at times. When most people who know the breed think about a husky, they think runner, stubborn, hyperactive dog and is out of control and hard to train.
Well, Kadan does his share of talking back to me with his little roo-roo’s here and there, but otherwise he’s pretty well behaved for the most part. In fact, I’d go so far as to say he’s the most well behaved puppy my family has ever had. Knock on wood. Whereas Jake and Bindi took forever to potty train, Kadan grasped the concept in a short couple weeks. Puppy Jake chewed through a futon mattress, carpet, wood paneling, children’s toys, school supplies, video game controllers, boxes of laundry detergent and so on. Bindi was the same, albeit more controlled provided she always had a ball or kong around to put in her mouth while teething. Kadan has chewed very few things up. He got a hold of a bedspread when I accidentally left his crate pushed up against the bed when we left him for a couple hours. And earlier tonight, he bit through the cord of my mouse after becoming entangled in it without my knowledge. Kinda like a fox in a hunter’s trap gnawing off it’s own foot; only in this case, he just chewed the cord off of his foot and that was that.
But as I said [Knock on wood x 2] he’s very well behaved for a puppy of his age, and I’ve yet to have much trouble at all with him misbehaving. For the most part it’s all mistakes of my own for when he’s done something wrong.
Even so, people keep telling me “It’s coming”, “Just wait”, “It’ll happen soon enough.” So here’s to keeping eyes peeled for interesting stories chronicling my Kadan’s puppyhood and adolescence, in which hopefully he doesn’t get into too much mischief!
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