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What do you think he is?
He was sold to me as a Siberian Husky, but his siblings were advertised as Norwegian Huskies. Was then told he is half Norwegian half Siberian Husky. Google doesn't come up with much for Norwegian Husky (does that even exist?). I'm thinking he could be half Siberian half Norwegian Elkhound. What do you think???

PS I will get a better pic in the morning it's 10pm here at the moment.

Husky crosses are usually revered to as Alaskan huskies. Cute pup!

His face looks kinda short to be all husky. Idk ive never had one as a pup. Seems to me your " breeder" doesn't exactly know what he/she is doing. Ive never heard of a Norwegian husky.

Probably siberian husky / norwegian elkhound cross. His colors look like norwegian elkhound colors. There is no such thing as a norwegian husky. Did you see the parents? It's probably like the people around here who breed their siberian huskies and samoyeds together.

OK just found a pic of his parents. Mum on left dad on right. No idea what the mum is! Wish I had looked at her properly before paying what I did. They WERE trusted friends and I had only really seen the dad.
It was an accidental litter.

They made you pay money for a mutt pup out of an accidental litter? Not trying to be rude buy jeez. I hope it wasn'tmuch, just enough to help pay for shots if they did that for you.

They WERE friends, I trusted them not to rip me off. Not any more though.
No shots, not as much worming as they were supposed to do... I could go on and on.
I fell in love with him. Then his dad attacked his brother and broke his jaw. There was no way I wasn't going to take him asap.

Besides being a really cute puppy, its hard to say! Mom looks like she could be a dirty faced siberian, but she could also be a mix. Neither of them look like purebread norwegian elkhounds. The dad looks really tall! Based on the fact they were advertising them as norwegian huskies, I would say that he probably has a little bit of norwegian elkhound in him somewhere, but is mostly husky.

i<3neo wrote:

They made you pay money for a mutt pup out of an accidental litter? Not trying to be rude buy jeez. I hope it wasn'tmuch, just enough to help pay for shots if they did that for you.

This.

Jeebus, that's so not cool. Glad you rescued him, but people like this make me so angry.

Mom could be a mix or a Norwegian Elkhound. Your pup is a mutt either way, but an adorablely cute one.

In the future though (as I'm sure your lesson has been learned) BYBs will never stop being stupid unless we stop buying from them.

I'm assuming backyard breeders are something in the US? It's not really like that in NZ.

But then again I read on facebook that they plan to breed again (as soon as she is on heat again). I have a really nice pic of the dad but the owners daughter is in the pic so I can't really put that one up.

Hate to say it about your former friends, but they sure do sound like BYB's. If it was an accidental litter they should have given you the mutt for free. He's a dollbaby though. I can't wait to see how he looks as he gets older.

Thanks everyone If we ever get another husky (likely) we will be getting a pure bred girl with NZKC papers.

Why are they breeding again! Please go hit them upside the head with something hard.

i<3neo wrote:

Why are they breeding again! Please go hit them upside the head with something hard.

Made me laugh but yeah they do need a good bitch up side the head.

jessandmika wrote:

I'm assuming backyard breeders are something in the US? It's not really like that in NZ.

But then again I read on facebook that they plan to breed again (as soon as she is on heat again). I have a really nice pic of the dad but the owners daughter is in the pic so I can't really put that one up.

BYB is probably an American term, but it's used to describe a global practice. Anywhere in the world, it should be stopped. Please don't buy from them again and yeah... hitting them on the head would be the least I would do.

i<3neo wrote:

Why are they breeding again! Please go hit them upside the head with something hard.

This made me laugh pretty hard lol! But yet, please go knock some sense into these people!

That's crazy! I bet they're only breeding them again because they realized they could profit off of their "pets"