Husky Adoption in La Quinta, CA: Husky Puppies for Sale in La Quinta, CA

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North

Siberian Husky

Female, Adult

Coachella, CA

Size

(when grown) Med. 26-60 lbs (12-27 kg)

Details

Good with kids, Good with dogs,

Story

Six years old, and she has never once been someone's dog. She has been a lot of other things. A survivor on the streets of Mecca. A mother, more times than anyone can count precisely. A regular at whatever back doors the neighbors left food by. She learned the desert, the traffic, the heat, the whole grim curriculum, and she passed. What she never got was a person, a couch, a name someone called across a yard because they were glad to see her. She is a black and white husky, about fifty five pounds, and she is a genuinely beautiful animal. Not beautiful in spite of anything. Beautiful. The coat, the markings, the pale-eyed husky look that makes people stop mid-sentence. She has some scars, the way anyone would who spent six years outside. They are part of her and she carries them without ceremony. Here is the thing about North that surprises people. Six years of that life did not make her hard. She likes dogs. She likes kids. She meets people with the open, unbothered friendliness of a dog who has decided that humans are, on balance, all right. Nobody would have blamed her for concluding otherwise. She didn't. That is a remarkable amount of grace from an animal who got very little of it herself. She is spayed and up to date on shots. The part of her life that involved raising puppies in the heat is finished permanently, and someone made sure of it. What she is now is a middle-aged husky who is out of the hardest chapter and has a lot of good years in front of her. Huskies are talkative, opinionated, funny dogs who like to be included in things and will tell you at length when they aren't. That's coming. She's still figuring out that food arrives on schedule and doors open for her and nobody is going to make her leave. Give her time and the personality underneath all that surviving gets to come out. The right home for her has a fence, some patience, and a person who understands that a dog learning to be a pet at six is going to need a minute to believe it. What she does not need is anyone's pity. She has done fine without it for six years. What she needs is a bed, a name, and one person who intends to keep her. Please visit our website desertpawssanctuary.org to learn more about this amazing pet and to see other available dogs and cats.

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