simplify wrote:

This one is my favorite!  

A few from 11/30 and two from today! Mishka is 11 months old. We're only a few weeks away from his 1st birthday!

Can you *please* stop taking pictures?


Fine then.





From this morning: Why do you have to go to work?

I just love him! I can't believe they are almost a year old already! I feel like we just got our babies!!!

So cute! I wonder when the teenagery look goes away? He still looks like a puppy to me

olott707 wrote:

I just love him! I can't believe they are almost a year old already! I feel like we just got our babies!!!

I am sooo excited! I'm totally making a doggy birthday cake or cupcakes or something. Lol.

eddycaaa wrote:

So cute! I wonder when the teenagery look goes away? He still looks like a puppy to me

I really am not sure. He matured physically very fast. He's been the same weight, height, size for months now.




So my hubby bought me a bike for Christmas! I wanted to get Mishka used to it today. I hooked my Walky Dog to the bike and was intending to just have Mishka walk along the bike, well he had other plans! He took off and pulled/ran around a block. I was quite proud that he picked it up so fast. So I'm glad to know my plans of bikejoring with him when he gets a little older will not be for nothing. I just have to work on distractions with him. He nearly killed me when he saw a lady walking her two schnauzers earlier. But it's also been since high school that I've ridden a bike, so I am not 100% comfortable on it yet. We will take baby steps though. I'm so excited!

simplify wrote:

He nearly killed me when he saw a lady walking her two schnauzers earlier.

Lol, I know Lycus would have been done the same. I want to do bikejoring with him as well, but I want to to teach him the commands before I strap ourselves together lol.

Rocio_Caballero wrote:

simplify wrote:

He nearly killed me when he saw a lady walking her two schnauzers earlier.

Lol, I know Lycus would have been done the same. I want to do bikejoring with him as well, but I want to to teach him the commands before I strap ourselves together lol.

See, I've been working with him on our walks every day with commands. He knows them, but sometimes certain dogs will just set him off and all he wants to do is go see them and play. I'm hoping after some time he'll learn that biking is more of a work situation and he'll pay better attention.

He may always retain that puppish look to his face. I know a couple show dogs that are near the two year mark, but they still have a very puppy like look. He is so pretty!

Only 9 more days until Mishka turns 1! My handsome boy is growing up so fast! Happy New Year's Eve!

51 weeks!

Time for an update! Mishka is now 1 year and 2 weeks old.


Some pictures of him "sitting pretty":









And some pictures from our H2M2 this Sunday:

All the pics are so cute!! I love how he has those little faded patches of his mask by his eyes. Such a sweet looking face!

Thank you, dear! I really hope he keeps the little black marks by his eyes but I'm sure they'll fade with age.

Look at all of Mishka's husky friends Awww! He's growing up so fast!

Is it strange that I want to squeeze him for being cute? Maybe I shouldn't meet him in person... lol jk

But Mishka is definitely looking as cute as always!

He is so handsome! I love the sitting pretty pix, you must have had some great treats, because he looks so serious!

CavingSiberian wrote:

Look at all of Mishka's husky friends :)Awww! He's growing up so fast!

Thank you! You should see our Lafayette meets, we usually have about 14 huskies! He's getting lots of friends!

Rocio_Caballero wrote:

Is it strange that I want to squeeze him for being cute? Maybe I shouldn't meet him in person... lol jk

But Mishka is definitely looking as cute as always!

Hahaha. I understand. I smoosh him all the time, even if he's not much of a fan of it. Lol.

wpskier222 wrote:

He is so handsome! I love the sitting pretty pix, you must have had some great treats, because he looks so serious!

I had some new bacon and apple treats so he was ALL about it! Thank you ma'am. I'm happy to see him maturing well.

I love the row of four huskies at the meetup. It's a husky rainbow!

Layla has the black halfmoons under her eyes that I hope don't go away or fade either. Makes her look so cute.

BTW, you can tell Mishka I'm one of his biggest fans. He's one of the handsomest huskies I've ever seen!

Lol yeah, gotta love a husky rainbow

histi wrote:

Lol yeah, gotta love a husky rainbow

Haha, hope you don't mind me stealing your phrase. I just loved it too much not to reuse it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, no?

Nah I don't mind at all, not honestly too sure wether I came up with it myself, or wether I heard it somewhere previous anyway, and yes, imitation is a the best form of flattery, so Thanks

capellalayla wrote:

I love the row of four huskies at the meetup. It's a husky rainbow!

Layla has the black halfmoons under her eyes that I hope don't go away or fade either. Makes her look so cute.

BTW, you can tell Mishka I'm one of his biggest fans. He's one of the handsomest huskies I've ever seen!

The patches under their eyes just give them this "look". IDK how to explain it but they are adorable.

Lol. I will tell him. You're just helping blow up his ego.

histi wrote:

Lol yeah, gotta love a husky rainbow

Love it! If the white one was in the picture it would have been even better!

Mishka caught his first opossum last night!



Thankfully(?) he didn't kill it but we couldn't kill it either because we had nothing to kill it with. -_- So the nasty little bugger finally ran off at some point.


Here is a picture of Mishka and our little house guest Arthas playing in the back yard.



Puppy sitting definitely made me realize it's going to be a while before I get a second. Lol.

Oh, man, now I'm getting nervous about our new addition after reading the accounts of your babysitting stint, haha. Looks like Arthas is sneaking up on Mishka unawares in that pic!

Yikes, a possum! We have squirrels, deer, coyotes, skunks, foxes, snakes and groundhogs around us, but I haven't yet seen a possum slinking around. I'm just waiting for the day that Layla comes in with a half-dead "present," haha. Eep!

Ashleigh, I hear ya. After the first hour that we had Nikolai home, I was like ready to send him back and just realized that two was so overwhelming. Obviously, I wouldn't change anything now but it is a big adjustment to get used to as far as monitoring and watching them constantly.

Has he gone home now?