Colleen27
DIS Veteran
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- Mar 31, 2007
Ugh, I feel for you. This is a terrible situation waiting to happen - huskies are, as has been stated upthread, very high maintenance dogs. We had a husky-lab mix that we ultimately had to rehome because he could break chains rated for twice his weight, clear our 4' fence like it was a crack in the sidewalk, and even 2-3 walks/runs a day in a family with 3 active kids and a decent-sized yard wasn't enough to curb the impulse to run. He could be destructive when bored, up to and including tearing apart parts of his crate, and very very vocal when unhappy about being crated. He's the only dog I've ever had to give up, but after three incidents of him breaking out of our yard and finding him as much as a mile and a half from the house, we had to find him a family with acreage and more time for his own safety (he's now a farm dog on a 150-acre hobby farm/hunting property, and seems very happy!).
I think looking into the possibilities for getting out of the lease is probably your daughter's best option. But make sure whatever "out" she takes is a clean break, because that dog is probably going to do damage that the landlord will be charging the whole group of them for when they move out.
I think looking into the possibilities for getting out of the lease is probably your daughter's best option. But make sure whatever "out" she takes is a clean break, because that dog is probably going to do damage that the landlord will be charging the whole group of them for when they move out.