We recently adopted a husky from a divorcing family. She's sweet and beautiful, but has a short tail. It looks like a docked tail..maybe eight inches long. The previous owners said that she was bitten as a puppy, but the vet seemed to think this unlikely. Any ideas, or anyone seen this before? Just curious. Also, thanks for this forum...it's been a lot of help as we adjust to our new family member...including affirming my suspicion that my daily runs with her are the key to her fabulous behavior!!

Pictures would help as i've seen some Siberians with just naturally shorter tails. Congrats on your new Husky!

Claudia's dog storm, who is a large scale husky, has a really short tail, especially for his size. I would say 8 or 9 inches is probably about what it is?

Heatherlee wrote:

Claudia's dog storm, who is a large scale husky, has a really short tail, especially for his size. I would say 8 or 9 inches is probably about what it is?

I think longer than that - it just look that short because he's big! But he can't curl his tail like all other huskies!

Here's Storm, and this is about as much as he can curl his tail.

I was trying to figure out how many inches longer it was then my foot.. lmao. That is a good picture to use- maybe it's 10 inches or so?

Here's another picture for reference.
It may be more like 12 inches long, but Storm is tall and long...I think his height measurement is 25-26 inches tall, and length is 34-35 inches from base of neck to base of tail.

I was figuring it's a little bit less than half as long as him from shoulder to ground.. now you have to measure when you get home!

Actually his tail goes a little past his joint in his hind legs....

Measure the darn thing....... ............ the tail I mean.

No pics convenient to put up, but 8 inches was a poor guess. It's more like 4-5. The upside is not having to deal with a tail knocking things (like our toddler!) over

I have a sibe with a very short tail but she was born that way. Her tail is about 7 inches.