Available Alaskan Klee Kai

'PR'Widdershin's Digs Rock-N-Roll

"Diggles"

DOB: April 15, 2009

Standard,  Gray / White Masked,  Double Brown Eyed,  Castrated Male

Sire:  GrCh'PR'Shalimar's Neon Sky V Skyline

Dam: GrCh'PR'Widdershin's Sweet Sonata Song

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Diggles Needs A Great Loving Home

Diggles is the good ending to a tragic tale.

Back on January 2, 2010 during a windy / snowy (about 8inches of snow on ground) / cold night (wind chill sub-zero), we sent 5 AKK out for their bed time run....within minutes we realized that a couple of vertical slats of our privacy fence had blown out in the wind.  Three of the AKK were right around and came in....BUT HORRIFYINGLY Sonata's two sons Liggles (LG) and Diggles (DG) were missing.

Frank and I bundled up and started searching for the missing 8month old brothers.....Frank found Diggles laying in a snow bank with an obvious injury to his hind leg.  Tragically, Liggles is still missing and we will never stop looking for him....sigh....

and 2 months of strict confinement, followed by 4 months of slowly reducing the level of confinement and slowly increasing the level of exercise......The good news is that since the fracture was mid-femur and the plating and screws do not come that close to either hip or stifle joint, it's unlikely although not impossible that he'll be more prone to arthritis developing in that leg than any other AKK who never fractured their femur.

Diggles has recovered and will make a wonderful companion for a very special person / family willing / able to spend a lot of time dealing with a sweet boy with some special needs.

Some of Diggles good and not-so-good current traits:

• He's 99.5% housebroken which is the best rating I give any dog...but if he has to go and cannot get out....he'll go on newspaper.

• He's crate trained.  Sleeps in crate, eats in crate and is use to being crated whenever we are not home.

• He's very vocal (more barky) than I prefer, but, therefore, is a great watch / alert dog.

• He behaves more like a 6month pup than a young adult.....he still likes to chew on buttons and anything left lying about.

• He loves to give kisses but his idea of approaching one to kiss is sort of open mouthed so it is a tad intimidating....but he's never nipped when giving kissing

• He's a bit mouthy as far as when trying to get one to pet him.....mouth over hand / arm again not to nip just to attempt to drawn one's hand to petting him and away from petting others in our pack.

• He's the master of the you-can't-catch-me game which is typical for all AKK

• He's leash trained but needs a lot of socializing in crowds, around other people, and around other dogs / animals.

• He's not a super cuddlier but loves lying near his person and getting petted / stroked.....but stiffens when put into a submissive position like being cradled like a baby.

• He's a butt-bopper.....he's so excited to be with us, that he follows us from room to room....jumping up behind us and bopping our butt.

• He's had little exposure to children, but with patience and training both Diggles and the children....I believe he is both bite-inhibited enough and has a gentle enough temperament to learn to accept children.  Although like all AKK, he shrinks away when people he doesn't trust try to pet the top of his head.

• While we own a cat.....currently 15yrs old....back when we got our first AKK, our cat made a decision that she didn't like AKK.  Currently our cat lives in our master suite and our AKK other than when they are very young pups (between 3 and 5 weeks), our AKK at that time get hissed at but that ends of their interaction with our cat.  IMO, the cat defines the relationship between cat and dog.....Cats that stand up for themselves will earn the respect of the AKK.....cats that run become self-propelled squeak toys.

• Despite his one tragic and previously documented escape from our backyard, Diggles does not appear to be either a digger or jumper or committed to being an escape artist.

• Like all AKK, Diggles has a well developed instinctive prey-drive sense and ability.  He's caught birds as they take off in flight as well as rabbits and baby groundhogs that were stupid enough to come through our fence into a yard which basically houses a pack of wolves.  This prey-drive is one reason why AKK should never be allowed offlead.  If an AKK sees something to chase....regardless of training....there's a good chance that hunting (prey drive) instinct will overcome training and the prey might make it across a street....the chasing AKK might get hit by a car.

Many or at least some of these less than positive traits will likely fade away when he's in a smaller pack situation....remember we live with 9 AKK in our house....so they all compete for attention.

So if you have room in your heart for a young adult AKK with a bunch of metal in his leg, who missed out on a lot of socialization, and will need special love, attention, and training.....

You might be the forever home for Diggles.

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