I would find out about their personalities and see if any really fit the bill because the dogs personality and how that will fit in with you and your lifestyle/activity level will be more of a determining factor than sex/color IMHO. Ultimately it's entirely your decision.

I was set on getting a black tricolor long coat female Chihuahua as my second dog since hubby wanted a Chi and I already had a sibe. I was set to pick up a perfect long coat black tricolor from an amazing breeder (which is saying a lot because I have higher standards than most when it comes to breeders). I had waited months for the perfect dog and was set. Then a friend told me about a female smooth coat blue tricolor that almost lost its life and was in need of rescue from a byb. I asked for a picture (this is Faith we're talking about) and as soon as we saw her hubby and I both immediately knew we had to take her. I got back to the breeder, explained the situation and we forfeited the puppy. And I don't regret it one bit.

Hmm, I would honestly wait for the next litter. If your heart is set on a grey and you get first pick, you can visit the pups when they're born and see all their personalities before deciding which one you want

After meeting Abby's Maya and Sophie, I knew I wanted a red husky. I still do. I had gotten Cloud and will never regret it, he has been the best companion I could ever ask for. But somewhere in my heart I still knew I wanted a red sibe. Someone at our dog park had a gorgeous husky that I asked them where they had gotten him, and they told me some Frosty breeder and showed me a picture of seven puppies (Yuki's litter). Somehow I knew it was fate and immediately set up a visit with the breeder, where I fell in love with miss Yuki in my arms at 2 weeks old. Yeah, she's not the gorgeous red puppy with blue/green eyes that I've always wanted, but she is a little demon puppy that I will never regret getting <3

I'm sure if something like that were to come up in my situation the breeder would be just as understanding. And while I totally stand behind rescuing and commend people for doing it, my first dog I want to get as a puppy. I do plan on a second dog in the future to be a rescue. Right now, for me, is just not the time.

I don't want this topic to end up starting the whole breeder vs rescue debate again since I know how strongly people feel about it.

Just saying in the situation where your breeder is 10+ hours away and you can't exactly "meet" any of the animals before hand. People do it all the time, not just for sibes or dogs specifically but for a lot of breeds and animals.

Ultimately I know it is my decision, but I did want to get other people's feedback for if they were to make the same decision or not.

Mobezilla wrote:

Hmm, I would honestly wait for the next litter. If your heart is set on a grey and you get first pick, you can visit the pups when they're born and see all their personalities before deciding which one you want

After meeting Abby's Maya and Sophie, I knew I wanted a red husky. I still do. I had gotten Cloud and will never regret it, he has been the best companion I could ever ask for. But somewhere in my heart I still knew I wanted a red sibe. Someone at our dog park had a gorgeous husky that I asked them where they had gotten him, and they told me some Frosty breeder and showed me a picture of seven puppies (Yuki's litter). Somehow I knew it was fate and immediately set up a visit with the breeder, where I fell in love with miss Yuki in my arms at 2 weeks old. Yeah, she's not the gorgeous red puppy with blue/green eyes that I've always wanted, but she is a little demon puppy that I will never regret getting <3

I know regardless of what I choose to do, the dog I end up with will become my baby. I love animals and despite my selfish reasons involved in the coloring, I will love that dog with all of my heart and not regret anything about the one I choose.

Thank you for your reply!

To be honest, I never wanted a husky. I wanted to get a cardigan or griffon lol

but i chose Izzy, so for her friend I told my husband ( since he agreed to a second dog) he could pick the breed and everything. So he has always wanted a husky, and I've dealt with them before so I was kinda disappointed, but figured I could talk him into a 3 rd dog and get a breed I wanted.

then he chose a red, which I didn't like ( and its still not my color of preference). There were 2 red males to chose from and the other was being kept by the breeder to show.

I then really started to research the breed and fell in love with the wild look of wolf greys/agoutis. I would have passed on either Keno or Klutch if the personality wouldn't have fit, as hard as it would have been, because the existing pack is most important, so I got lucky. I am currently in talks with an alaskan breeder for a future litter and the colors of the pups could be anything!

Is there any way you can make a weekend trip up to visit and meet the pups to see if there are any from this litter that click with you?
I know we got pretty much what we wanted with Tika, she was perfect timing and it felt like it was meant to be. Ripley was completely not what we wanted to get or were expecting. We did plan on a rescue, I even had the rescues all researched and we were getting a pittbull, then Rip sort of fell on our lap! Love at first sight? no. Absolutely perfect? Yes

@ Tiffany - Personality is very important especially when you have existing dogs. This will be the only dog for now, until I'm satisfied with the training and age of the puppy then will I consider a second.

I think it's just one of those things that I've always wanted since a child. I wanted a blue eyed gray/white husky and while I cannot choose the eye color since I'll be picking a puppy only a few days after they are born, I can choose a coat color.

Working with our breeder to match a puppy to us is in the works as well, but I know that with them being in another state, it will be a very difficult thing to get to meet the puppies before the selection process.


@ Kelly - If I were able to go before they send out pictures to all the potential homes, I would go. They just tend to have the selection process very early on and I'm not sure a 5 day or week old puppy shows it's personality that much? I haven't been around puppies in SO long so I may be wrong in that regard. If I could drive up there this weekend and visit, I would but I have scheduled wedding obligations going on. :/

Ashleigh, I wasn't suggesting that you rescue. I was sharing another one of the instances where I got a different dog than the one I intended when I shared that story about Faith. That had nothing to do with breeder versus rescue!

If color means that much to you then wait until the right color comes along. It sounds to me like color means a lot but the very fact that you are asking for opinions gives me the impression that color is not really an ultimatum.

You need to decide for yourself what you want more. Would you rather have a puppy now? Or would you rather wait for the sex and color that you want? No one can answer that question but you. Sure you can see what others would do but you will find responses and reasoning for both options and both will be good options. But none of us knows what you, in your heart, really wants. And that's what your decision should be based on, what YOU want, not what any of us would do.

FWIW, I have 3 dogs that were not what I intended and I really want my next dog to be exactly what I intend on getting. I am really hoping that I can stick to my resolve to get what I actually want next time but only time will tell if that actually happens or not.

By the way, a dilute black and white can very well end up looking like a grey and white in adulthood. My boy is a dilute black and white and he was very dark when he was younger but as he got older his coat changed dramatically and he looks more like a grey and white now than a black and white. I don't know if that helps or only further muddies the waters.

Huskyluv wrote:

Ashleigh, I wasn't suggesting that you rescue. I was sharing another one of the instances where I got a different dog than the one I intended when I shared that story about Faith. That had nothing to do with breeder versus rescue!

If color means that much to you then wait until the right color comes along. It sounds to me like color means a lot but the very fact that you are asking for opinions gives me the impression that color is not really an ultimatum.

You need to decide for yourself what you want more. Would you rather have a puppy now? Or would you rather wait for the sex and color that you want? No one can answer that question but you. Sure you can see what others would do but you will find responses and reasoning for both options and both will be good options. But none of us knows what you, in your heart, really wants. And that's what your decision should be based on, what YOU want, not what any of us would do.

FWIW, I have 3 dogs that were not what I intended and I really want my next dog to be exactly what I intend on getting. I am really hoping that I can stick to my resolve to get what I actually want next time but only time will tell if that actually happens or not.

I do know that it is ultimately up to me. I am just horrible at making decisions and feel bad about it seeming such a selfish thing to want to wait for the color instead of just giving a puppy a loving home. But after this thread and reading everyone's responses, I see that I am not the only one who has felt this way.

I know as soon as I see those pictures my heart will be gone. Lol. I will just have to see what my heart tells me because that will be the decision maker, despite what I may want in my head.

Good luck with sticking to that!

I too wanted another lab, but hubby has always wanted a pure bred husky. We had a few husky mixes so I was somewhat familiar. I just really wanted another lab. Well you can see by the profile pic we obviously got a Siberian lol. And we wanted Black/white with blue eyes, we saw this little red guy who was kind of a ugly duckling when small, I just new he would grow up to be a looker, and he has. When I held him at 5 weeks he just melted into my neck. That was all it took, and the rest is history. I love him!

I honestly think I am going to pick from this litter. My desire to get a puppy is far outweighing my desire for a specific color. And I hate to pass on this opportunity and wait and the next litter not take or them not produce a male, then the cycle will just start over again.

I will find out tomorrow or Saturday!

Thank you everyone for your opinions / responses. They meant a lot.

Good luck! Even if you don't end up with your dream color right away your second might fit the description. Or you could end up like me hoping my 4th will be the color I've been hoping for.

Can't wait to hear how it goes!

Thank you so much!

Haha. I'm going to have a hard time convincing the fiance/future husband for the second one to be a husky. But I'm pretty sure he'll end up just letting me do what I want. XD

I didn't think i'd end up with the first husky, now we have 3 lol

and it is hard waiting when you want something specific, i spent a good year looking for an agouti and then another 5 months waiting to see a male was even going to be born. Klutch just kinda fell into our hands, so with him it was pure luck.

Our first wasn't planned....my then boyfriend and I were looking at dogs and the last thing I wanted was a Husky. I'd lived next to a musher for years and thought those dogs were nuts (and racers can be). But then we met Dakota and fell in love, our black/white blue eyed boy. The second was a bit more planned, though I disliked reds. Again when we met Juneau we fell in love and into our lives came a red/white blue eyed girl. After that there were a number of rescues with no expectation to what we were getting. Our next siberian was a very nice grey boy with brown eyes...I think he's been the biggest heartbreak in some ways. Some of his structural faults were not expected with the quality of his breeding, nothing detrimental but enough to be surprised they were there. The girls so far have been as expected, they are the shining examples of the health and quality lines behind them....I think the only thing unexpected about them is there are 2 of them! I wanted the dark brick red of the sire, and needed to bring more color back into the lines my boy is from. But the grey girl surprised me, she is more than I could have ever hoped for.

I had my mind settled on a lab or retriever. I prefered a Chocolate lab, male, his name would be Ben - After Ben Cousins, a former West Coast Eagles player from Aussie Rules Football.

My philosophy going into getting a husky or any dog really was I don't choose the dog, the dog chooses me.

When I met my 2nd breeder I saw Thane and his litter mates. What made him the one was he would follow me around and would sit on my feet. Then when all the pups were getting put back in their play pen he hid behind me and tried to do some sort of commando crawl to get away. I was sold.

xredrainx wrote:

My philosophy going into getting a husky or any dog really was I don't choose the dog, the dog chooses me.

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When I saw Freya I knew she was the one, her temperment, even though she was only 6 weeks old, she let me touch her feet, open her louth, lift her ears and tail. She let me spread her toes adn turn her on her back to rub her tummy.

She was home to me and she had me hooked from the second I held her.

I didn't have a chance to go pick Karli out, I could only see pictures. Her sibling was already taken and if I hadn't taken her, I would've had to wait for the younger pup to grow up more. But we had our hearts set on a black/white with blue eyes (Karli has one eye that is half brown half blue lol) so that's what we went with. My hubby was dead set against a red but I wouldn't have minded a grey at all, but Karli just fit us perfectly even though we'd never met her before.

I subscribe to the animal picks me route too. My cat ran to me when they were feeding all the others and sat headbutting my hand. Bella was fate, my then girlfriend and I had been talking about getting a dog for about a month in semi serious talks and a friends sister decided she wasn't able to deal with a husky pup she had just gotten. We went out to see her and we fell in love. When she left me there was no way she could care for the dog so I happily took her and the rest is history.

Delilah - well, she was just an impulse adoption and one of the greatest decisions of my life. I have always had dogs and I knew what I was getting into - but I feel in love with her and I had to have her.

Cato - He was the products of 3 months of begging the hubby for a puppy. I called all the reputable breeders in my states and she got back to me first - I was there in about 3 hours. There was no choosing, he was perfect to me.