Husky Rescue Southern Africa is currently caring for traumatised huskies that urgently need loving homes. Speaking two weeks after a swarm of bees attacked the dogs housed in its kennels in Lanseria, committee member for the non-profit organisation Ian Jones said that huskies are misunderstood.
He spoke at Bryanston Park on 11 October, appealing to residents at the Vandia Gardens Resident’s Association Summer Bash at the Park to adopt a husky. Two dogs were killed in the bee attack, some were in a critical condition and 26 were traumatised, now sometimes cowering at flies and passing aeroplanes. This prompted a drive by the organisation to find loving homes for the dogs.
Huskies are cute when they are young, Jones said, but when they grow older, “people think they look ferocious and assume they would make good guard dogs, which is totally incorrect”. Huskies are in fact social-minded. They easily bond with people and like being around them. Instead of guarding a house, Huskies should spend a lot of time indoors with people.
As huskies grow older they need a great deal of exercise. If they cannot exercise enough, they become bored and a “bit destructive”. They are also “notorious escape artists” that will somehow break out from properties to stretch their legs. “But that’s easily solved by just giving them plenty of exercise, preferably on a daily basis so that they don’t have all that excess energy to waste,” Jones said.
He added that grown huskies also require a secure property that they cannot escape from. The organisation takes in stray and abandoned huskies and tries to find homes for them. “We always have a lot of huskies on our books,” Jones added. “So we are always looking for people to adopt.”
Details: Husky Rescue Southern Africa ian@huskyrescue.co.za, 082 851 9576.
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