Hello!

I have a 3 year old Klee Kai (Shadow) that I ended up adopting as a puppy. My ex-wife and her boyfriend at the time got him as a puppy. He was never great around other people but he clung to me. I watched him for a week when they went out of town and he’s been around my other dogs since he was little. A few months later they broke up and because my daughters love this dog, I took him in. Not going to lie, he’s my buddy and he’s such a sweet dog with me and my girls and he gets along with my other dogs fine.

However, he’s never grown out of being around other people and dogs. I got him training where they kept him for 2 weeks and he was fine there after a while but I’ve never been able to keep up enough with him to make it stick. I have to muzzle him when he goes to the vets. In January of last year, I was laid off from my job and my new job I was traveling during the week. My ex wife and girls would take care of them during the week. Thankfully, I’ve been at a job for the last year where I work from home. I walk him everyday and during walks he’s fine. He ignores other dogs and people but if a neighbor tries to stop and talk to me, he goes nuts.

I guess my question is that is this normal for this breed or is he just like this?

My ex wife is getting a new house and she rescued a couple of dogs and they came over and he’s just nuts. I’ve tried putting him in his crate and letting the dogs around so he gets used to them. I had him on a lead and tried to get them to be friendly. I had them over tonight and my youngest accidentally let him out of my bedroom and he went after their small dog and I had to grab him or it would have been bad.

I am getting to the point where I think I need to rehome him. I can’t have people over here without worrying if he’s going to bite someone. God forbid if they have a friend over and that happens. It would kill me to have to euthanize him if he bit a person.

I try to get him as much exercise as I can. We walk nearly every day when the weather allows me. When I took him in, I spent $8,000 on a brand new fence for my yard so he’d have a safe space to run around in. With my job, I work from home but visit clients but even on days where I go out, I’m only gone 4-5 hours. He’s really good where I don’t even put him in the crate when I leave. He doesn’t chew anything and he’s potty trained so never has an accident.

I’ve had dogs my whole life but I’ve always just had rescue dogs who are muts and have never had these issues.

Sorry, I am just venting at this point. I am just sick over everything.

Our 4 mos girl is currently on a 90% raw diet and has had raw beef, turkey, and chicken from We Feed Raw as we don't trust ourselves to DIY raw at home. She has no known allergies and would like to expose her to different types of food that are safe for dogs but am not too sure if 4 mos is too young for 'exotic meat' or certain seafood. She has had and loves freeze dried salmon. I'm curious about freeze dried shrimp but never heard of dogs eating shellfish before. Rabbit is another one we would love for her to try.

We want her to try different things as we're not sure if she will develop an allergy to those later if we didn't let her try them while she is young.

Thanks for your input in advance!

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Hi there! Looking for some good quality high value treat products or ideas for my picky klee kai who is 16 weeks old. We have pupford beef liver, vital essentials salmon bites, peanut butter, and sundays for dogs beef recipe which she loves from lowest to greatest in that order. We're slowly introducing more foods to her. She'll eat pumpkin and most recently banana but she moreso loves her meat treats.

Thanks in advance!

They were afraid of each other for the first couple of days, but now they’re inseparable!

We have a 16 week old girl and my partner works fulltime on site while I am hybrid and in office 3 times a week. She is crate trained but is only in there at night and for really short periods when we are only out for 1-2 hours. For days I am in office we put her in a pen with a pee/poo area on the opposite side of where she sleeps and has her toys and I go home every lunch to play and feed her. She has gotten better but she still struggles and only recently started playing with her toys a little. She will cry and bark intermittently and sometimes will try to bite and rip at her kong bedding. She can't be left alone with any blankets or tents otherwise she will try to eat them. We've put crates in there but she will climb even though the pen has a top and we are scared she will hurt herself or get stuck between the crate and penroof. I do play white noise or music for her while we are away which does help. We give her high value treat filled toys before we leave to try to distract her when we leave but i feel this breed is too smart for that 😂 so it helps but it doesn't distract her completely. We're working on other ways to help her with this.

I have a 4 month old girl and she is a powerchewer and gets bored of things easily. I've bought teething rings but those she will munch through in minutes. I have the Purina Busy rolls and those are ok; they last really long but the ingredients are questionable. I have bully sticks which she loves but also gets bored of. Waiting for her to get older to give her yak cheese. I usually go for stick type chews just because I'm afraid of her breaking through flaky type stuff like ears too quickly and being a choking hazard. Any specific suggestions for edible long lasting chews would be greatly appreciated.

Hello!

I have a one year old male AKK (not neutered - waiting ‘til he’s 18 months).

We have just had our first pee accident in the house since he was five or six months old - on my bed no less 😩. I was literally calling him to take him out and there he was, peeing on the bed.

Obviously I’ll take the duvet for a wash at the launderette tomorrow but I’m worried about it reoccurring now it’s happened once. None of his puppy accidents were on the bed.

I took him straight out and he did more peeing, and I think it was probably my fault (he’d been whining in the kitchen because there was a box on the side he wanted to chew, and that must have turned into ‘please can I go out’ whining without me noticing).

Sokka's gums are black, always have been. I know when they're sick we're supposed to check their gums for the nice pinkness, but what do we do when their gums aren't pink anyway?

Hello! I recently adopted an Alaskan Klee Kai and have a few questions.

When crate training, have you found any effective methods for getting them to calm down?

Currently, he has to sleep in his crate at night because he eats things he shouldn’t and I have cats. He is also left in his crate for a few hours two days a week while my partner and I are both at work.

Since he’s adopted, he doesn’t yet know his name. What’s the best way to train him to recognize it?

How can I best train him for recall?

He pees when we put his leash on. Is there a way to teach him that we’re not going to hurt him, or is it just something that improves over time?

I have two cats. How have you introduced your AKKs to cats?

I’m a little concerned because today, while we were holding one of our cats on the couch a few feet away from him, he ended up nipping at her when we let him get near her.

Thank you for any help and advice! I grew up with many dogs but haven’t had one in about eight years. I found this guy at a shelter, and he’s 4 years old.

Don't know about you folks, but my girl likes to leave one or two bits of kibble floating in her water like "kibble soup" almost every meal time. I have never had a dog do this so intentionally before, and when I dump it and give her fresh water, she immediately sips a little and walks away, sometimes I'll find another piece a few hours later.

2 year old AKK, got his name because he was SO chill on the 2.5 hour ride home with him until Road to Nowhere by Ozzy Osbourne came on and he started hollering 😆 Also known as Oz Man, Mr. Stinks, and Dinky Dinky. Is favorite word is HECK and he thinks he is a big scary guard dog. Has personal beef with the mailman. Likes to play with the hair tuffs he sheds, but accidently eats them 🤦🏻‍♀️His gotcha day is 12/28/22 🖤

Recently became an AKK owner. Struggled with grief after my loyal Akita Inu passed away earlier this year. He is already filling that hole in my heart.