Leave a bone for Icy Nicknames: Ice Bear, Turmeric, The Dork, The Big Dog, The Nicotine Stained Dog, Icicle, Mum's Helper Dog Doggie Dynamics:
Energy
sleepy
energetic
Intelligence
silly
genius
Friendliness
aggressive
affectionate
Playfulness
not playful
very playful
Disposition
anxious
calm
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Quick Bio:
-service dog
-dog rescue
Gotcha Date: December 8th 2008 Birthday: June 21st 2007 Likes: Cuddles Pet-Peeves: He is not fond of small dogs. Through training he has learned to ignore them for the most part. He also hates being blown on. Favorite Toy: Any soft white toy puppy that he can love up Favorite Food: He loves his chicken flavoured toothpaste and has been known to eat soap! Favorite Walk: West End Park because of it's wonderful old trees Best Tricks: His Malamute talking woo woooOOOoo's. Any of you other Malamute Owners will understand. He does it on request. Arrival Story: Icy came to live with me on December 8th, 2008. We had just a week before lost our white German Shepherd Kavik to Degenerative Myleopathy (DM or CDRM in the UK). Kavik's grieving widow, German Shepherd X Ookie, needed another friend. I was then in touch with a few people through-out the UK who work in Alaskan Malamute Rescue. Within days I was offered Icy. He then lived in Carlisle with a very mentally sick woman who could not care for him. My mother in law and I drove down to get him. He was in a sorry state. Due to stress he was nearly bald with "stress shedding". His fur was as short as a Labrador's and for those of you who know Malamutes, that isn't right! Because of this state he was not accepted into the regular Malamute Rescue channels because he was believed to be a possible X. I can now say that Icy's coat has grown into a wonderfully thick coat. From the moment we met we meshed. He couldn't take his eyes off of me the whole time we were at his prior owner's home. He happily jumped into our car and never looked back. We are his 4th home and he is my second Alaskan Malamute. Bio: Icy came to us with a severe aggression problem with other dogs. When he met Ookie he wanted to kill her. I had this impulse reversed with some quick training and within 20 minutes they were the best of friends. They often lay together on top of each other much like puppies. I have had to work with Icy a lot to be able to walk him without problems. He is very smart and he has the sweetest temperament. That has helped. After eight months of work I can say that we have cracked his problem and now he ignores other dogs for the most part. Training is ongoing. When Ookie died I adopted Alaskan Malamute/Siberian Husky Star. We had an instant sucess of a meeting between Icy and his new mate Star. So we're definitly getting somewhere with our training! Icy and Star are as close as life mates can be. I'm so happy for Icy since Ookie had Kavik in that way. I think Ookie would have approved. He's being trained right now to help me around the house as my Service Dog along with Star. Forums Motto: Soap Surfer The Groups I'm In: FANCYPANTS CAFE, For the Love of Malamutes!, Husky's and Alakans Malamutes Way, service dogs, wolf warriors I've Been On Dogster Since:
Please check Lone Star's diary for more information on my training efforts. Because I thought I would be using her, I have been writing it in her diary.
Now that I have switched to Icy, I still write there so readers don't get confused.
