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Lazy Sunday

My Alaskan Klee Kai, Shadow, is a 6M Female. Many of you know how vocal these dogs can be and we seem to hear no end of it when we place her in the crate.

We have tried many methods including feeding meals in the crate, putting her in boarding, making the crate cozy, adding toys, etc.

Shadow expresses immediate discomfort when placed in the crate (i.e, whining, barking, chewing the crate bars, pulling out the crate mat, etc.) and we have made many efforts to calm her down by remaining in the room and awarding treats when quiet.

The times we have left the house momentarily she screams relentlessly for up to 1hr and have received complaints from our neighbors.

So my boyfriend has an AKK and he has had him for about a year and the dog himself is 3 years old. When my boyfriend got him, he wasn’t aware the the pup was food aggressive along with other aggressions. He’s doing better with the food aggression (due to negative reinforcement training methods that I do not approve of. But was taught by a dog trainer in our area) but he’s still semi food aggressive. He also is aggressive in other ways and I’m not sure how to train him to not act that way. With other animals he doesn’t attack but he does side eye and a low growl but that’s as far as we have let it go before removing him from the situation. My boyfriend keeps the dog isolated and hasn’t tried to train him in any other way minus a few tricks. He also doesn’t do well around groups of people. We havent had many issues with just one or two people around but there have been some instances where he would start growling and we had to remove him before he potentially could’ve bitten someone. I’m not sure what to do. He has only ever had improvement from the dog trainer I mentioned above with abnormal training techniques which again I did not agree with. The pup himself can be super sweet but I am still a little scared of him just because he bites hard. I tried to desensitize him to his muzzle by using positive reinforcement and was met with being bit hard almost drawing blood. Sorry for the long post. I’m just at a loss on what to do.

This is my new girl Persephone who will be 6 years old in December. She has been in our home now for 17 days. She has been adjusting well except she doesn’t seem to want to eat. She will take treats almost any time offered. We have limited those now after the first week. In the time we have had her she has only eaten 3 times. We have tried the food she came with, canned food, fresh food from the fridge at the pet store (2 kinds), plain hamburger, toppers you name it. The only thing she had eaten is the hamburger and a couple spoons of the canned food twice. She eats a tiny bit then walks away from even those. Should I be worried?

My mom (desperately wants a Klee Kai) and showed me this breeder on good dog, who is just a few hours away. They have a Facebook but I’m not seeing any ofa health testing or embark results on any on their dogs. They also seem to have 5 dams and 1 sure listed on there and it seems like it could be a red flag.

Number one song after number one song.

My husband and I picked up a dog from a re homing site and from a family that spoke English well however it wasn’t their first language. She doesn’t respond to commands but I think that might just be her stress response to being re homed. The owner did say she had completed basic puppy training classes.

She is a sweet gentle 6 year old Alaskan Klee Kai. She is super skittish and afraid though. She backs away when we approach her and startles at quick movements. She was super friendly at the park when we first met her.

The previous owner said that she started hiding under the couch about 3 months ago. She had kids and said that one of them had been getting quite rough with her which was just one of her reasons for re homing her.

Any suggestions for how we can help her transition would be awesome.

I have a 1.5 year old girl who I absolutely ADORE, so my fiancé and I are thinking of adopting another one. She’s got pretty bad separation anxiety, so I think she would actually do well with a sibling to hang out with when we’re away (after the initial crated period, that is).

However, she resource guards. We’ve made a ton of progress on this and she doesn’t do it with either of us anymore, but if our cat goes near her food she kinda freaks out. It would be a lot of training to get this under control, but alas.

How do your Klee Kai like each other? Do they bond to one another? Do they hate each other? Are they indifferent? Looking for any advice!!

My husband and I are considering getting a klee kai, but I had a few questions about the breed. I've been researching and have heard that they are escape artists. How true is that? Are they very loud and how loud are their barks? (My husband is a veteran and really loud noises are disturbing for him.) Are they troublemakers, chewy, or bitey?

We have a 77lb lab mix that I would hope our new dog could be a companion to. Are klees good companion dogs? We also have a 1 yr old son, are they good with kids or no?

I would love any information you can give me, the good bad and ugly. I really want to be sure it's something we can handle before getting one.

Hey guys! I have a 4 month old Klee Kai that I’m currently working on training.

She has her recall down very well, but I’m having trouble getting her to relax in her pen during the day (she’s developed separation anxiety from my other Klee Kai and me, I keep her in there to help soothe her while I’m not able to watch her, or the other dog is relaxing) and tends to scream when I leave the room or not look at her.

She also hates other people, but is coming around to calm dogs. I’ve socialized her as much as I possibly could until this point but she’s very skittish and tail tucks when she sees someone. Instead of just letting them pet her, I’ve started to say “hey, she’s very tired right now and a little shy, I’d love it if you gave her a treat though!” Is there anything else I should be doing with her regarding this?

Any breed specific training tips for this? She is also very very yappy, especially when you talk to her. I have her go to obedience classes but I’d like to get any tips from anyone who experienced similar stuff because her trainers aren’t really versed in the nature of a Klee Kai.

Our health, financial, and living situation has drastically changed for the worse over the past year. We are no longer able to give our lovely Klee Kai the space and care she deserves. I’ve been putting off writing this post because I’m heart broken. We really cannot in good conscience keep her in our new reality any longer. How do you even start to find a family to adopt your four legged family member? ☹️