Shiloh Update! How often to Brush a Siberian Husky? FAN FRIDAY #61

Hi, this is Cheryl. This is Shiraz. We're up here at Blue Mountain Winery in New Tripoli, PA and we're here to say it's Fan Friday. It's time for Fan Friday! First question. Most of you have asked how Shiloh's feeling. Um, she's doing a lot better. She, as you can tell, she's still got stuff on her nose. We've been putting medicine on her nose because her nose is running and it's kind of dry and pink on the top. She's had that for a while. Um, but as for the eating, she's been eating well. She's been playing. She went for a WALK and she went for an RIDE. So she seems to be doing better. Everything seems back to normal with Shiloh. At least for now, right Shi? It's smelling. It's windy out here. So I'm sure she's smelling all that goodness in the air. Goodness in the air. Kristian wants to know, do you use your dogs for mushing and how much exercise do you give them? Um, we try to walk the dogs at minimum once a day. Plus they also get to play out here in the yard and run around and have fun. So they do get exercise doing that. And as for mushing, if you search our channel, if you just go to our main channel, youtube.com slash Gone to the Snow Dogs in the search box on our channel, search for dog sled or Canadian kick sled and you can see some of the videos of us using our kick sled with the girls. We don't race professionally, but we do recreational sledding with the dogs. Krista wants to know, how often should you brush your Husky during the summer? And is it possible to brush them too much? Um, when I get home from work, I usually come out here and try to brush the dogs a little bit every day. As you can see, there's some hair there and some fur over here that has come off of them. You can definitely brush them too much. If you notice that their skin's getting irritated or that they're getting irritated, you should probably stop brushing them. Um, but I usually brush them for about five minutes each day when I get home just to try to help combat the fur. Angela wants to know how Oakley's doing with her weight loss. Um, to us, she looks like she's gotten a bit smaller. Um, it's kind of hard to see on video. She is a very fluffy Husky. She's fluffier than Shiloh and Shelby. Her fur is longer. So she does look a little bit bigger in general. Um, we haven't been back to the vet and had her weighed lately, but she does seem to walk better and lay down better and things like that. So she's definitely losing a little bit of weight. As for biking, we haven't done much biking because it's just been a little bit too warm for that for her. Because she is bigger and fluffier, she seems to overheat faster than Shiloh and Shelby do. So until she gets more into it, um, we don't bike that often with her. Danielle says, there's a lady here in Georgia that makes sulky carts for dogs. Have you ever thought about getting one? Actually, we have. Jamie and I have talked about it a few times. He's talked about making a cart that we could hook all three dogs to and let them pull us when we take them for walks down the road. So you never know. Someday we may end up doing something like that. The sulky carts are really cool though, but they're pretty much designed for one person. Amelia wants to know, do you have any kids? Yeah, three of them. See? One, two, three. She also wants to know if we used clicker training to train our dogs. We did not. We used, um, food and preys to train them pretty much all the tricks they know. Debra wants to know if we're going to be doing more treat videos. Um, yes, actually we will be doing more treat videos. We were kind of waiting for the floor in the kitchen to get done before we started doing more treat videos because the videos looked funny without a floor. Oh my gosh, girl's right here. I'm sitting on the ground. What are you doing? Um... Husky play at its finest. Streaming up close. Don't run into me. Anyway, yes, we are going to be doing more treat videos for you guys. What are them crazy dogs doing? Crazy dogs. Here's crazy. A couple of you have asked us our opinion on the pet safe fence system. Um, I don't honestly know that much about it. I kind of looked it up a little bit and it looks like it's one of those electronic underground fences that instead of like a fence like this, you'd have the little flags and the wire would go underground and then the dogs would wear something on their collar. So if they crossed the line it would give them a little jolt. I'm pretty sure that's what they are. I hope I'm right. Um, you want to know if you if I think they'll work with huskies. Um, I think they might work with some. It would really depend on the personality. I don't think it would work with Shelby. I think Shelby would bust through one of those like nothing. Um, and just be gone because they don't I don't think they continuously like shock them. Um, but you know, I hear they work for some dogs. I don't know if maybe there's a place you could go test one with your dog or not. But I don't know. I I do have to say that I really like my six foot privacy fence and I know that that's not an option for everybody but it works really it works really good for us. In the mail today, we got a letter from Abby. Abby's dog Strider recently passed away and this is a picture of Strider and this is a picture of Abby's dog Ranger who is going to be her agility dog and this is a piece of Ranger's monkey toy. I thought that was pretty cute. She sent it to me and you're right. I don't think I can give it to Shiloh or Shelby or Oakley because they'd probably try to swallow it. Wouldn't you? You'd just try to swallow it. See that? That's Strider. This is Ranger. See Ranger? Check that out. Thanks for sending those Abby. We also got this really cute drawing of the girls from Jackson. This drawing here and this one here was a question of do the dogs watch tv and what is their favorite show? Um, Shelby likes to watch tv. Oakley likes to watch tv. Shiloh will sit in here when the tv's on but not necessarily watch it. They definitely like the movie Eight Below and Snow Dogs and as for tv shows they really like to watch dogs 101. I think I could put that on and Shelby would sit in here and watch it for hours. Thanks for sending that. That's all we have for fan friday today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for commenting on the videos. Thanks for leaving questions and We'll see you guys on monday Don't forget if you guys would like to send us anything in the mail Our p.o box address is gone to the snow dogs p.o box 12 alpena, michigan 49707 And if you have questions for fan friday, you can leave them on our facebook page or on our twitter page which are listed on the screen Thanks for watching you guys Randomly You