Elsa Samoyed & Alaskan Malamute Mix Vancouver, BC

About Elsa:
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Elsa is a sweet husky girl, around 58 lbs, estimated to be 3 yrs old. She is very friendly and affectionate with people and dogs.
She’s spayed and up to date on vaccines and on monthly dewormer.
She is potty trained at her foster home.
She’s also food motivated.

We are looking for an outdoor savvy home for her, so she can enjoy the outdoors doing easy to moderate hikes or go camping with her family. She is also chill at home and would just lie down around her human.

NOTE: available for adoption in WA state or BC Canada



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[IMPORTANT]
Below listed requirements are meant for everyone’s safety.

• If you have other dogs, then you must also be knowledgeable and have good hands on experience with running a multi-dog home to be able to adopt a dog from us. What's expected of the adopter is just keeping basic house rules like (1) keep the dogs apart when feeding, monitor & put away left over food, (2) help them build mutual trust before leaving alone with treats, toys around (3) keep dogs out of kitchen when handling food etc

• As with any dog, earn their trust around food handling. This is an essential training for every dog, so they learn to trust their new human. It takes only a couple of practice sessions around meal time with most dogs with no history of food guarding. Teaching to sit, then hand-feeding food & high value treats is one of the best ways to eat trust.

• If you have children at home, they should be at least 8+ yrs, and know to safely & respectfully interact with dogs, to be considered for adoption. We think families with younger children will likely not have the time needed to exercise and nourish a new dog. And the time needed to train little kids to safely interact with dogs, understand their body language & respect their space. If you think, you can handle all the requirements quite well, please reach out to us!

• We discourage the use of choke, pinch, prong collars on our dogs. We do not believe this is the humane way to train dogs for obedience, when there are science based, positive reinforcement training methods available in 2024. Besides, huskies are genetically prone to glaucoma of the eyes, and the pressure on the neck will only hurt them more. Training using a well fitted no-pull harness is encouraged. All our dogs come with a “no-pull” harness. Please note the harness doesn’t magically stop pulling. But you train them using it.
ps: You can use martingale collar and gentle-leader.


Thank you for considering to adopt a husky in need.
God bless!