Tell me about your Pomsky....

[stumblymonkey]

I was on the tube this morning and saw two beautiful dogs who seemed really friendly....one looked like a white fox and the other was like a small husky.

Obviously after gazing at them adoringly for a while I enquired as to their breed - Pomskies!

I've read up about them (both the Pom and Sky parts)....but I'm now a little obsessed....

Could you tell me about your Pomsky with photos?

There is one not that near us that needs a new home according to the internets

The dark one looks rather like a Finnish Lapphund. There's any number of small spitzy type breeds already in existence without the minefield that is crossbreeding, very eloquently explained by Trionic. FWIW I have sibes - they very often appear calm in public but they are not suitable as pets.

You said rehoming - but via the Internet. So is it via a rescue or someone saying they need to rehome their dog; circumstances beyond their control, baby allergic, moving abroad, new job and longer hours.

Because all of those would imply to me that they're backyard breeders selling, rather than a valid "rehoming". But I may be wrong

Any Huskies I've ever seen in the flesh been kept as pets in ordinary homes and had to be kept on the lead at all times when out.

The idea of keeping such a dog, one that is bred to work hard and has the ability and need to run for hours at a time permanently on the lead is just awful. Why anyone would bother to keep an animal like that and try to turn it into an ordinary pet is beyond me, it's so unfair and can only be for the way it looks.

And breeding them with a Pomeranian is so unethical it would only ever be done by puppy farms. No ethical breeder would touch such a cross. Horrible.

Awful combination in my opinion.

What about a Keeshond?

So it's a Pom/ Husky cross you mean?
When I read the OP post I took the " Pom and Sky parts" to mean a Pom/Skye cross.
Bit worrying I thought. I have Skyes & they're on the At Risk Nagive Breeds list at the Kennel Club with less than a hundred new Louis a year registered, one year recently it was only two litters in the whole of the U.K., compared with thousands of say Labradors.
The thought of someone mucking about with what is already an endangered breed had me worried.

Sorry, Native Breeds not Nagive Breeds. & Puppies not Louis, flipping auto spell!
Why can't this site have an edit function?

"Any Huskies I've ever seen in the flesh been kept as pets in ordinary homes and had to be kept on the lead at all times when out."

To be fair, until recently (he died at 16 years old) I had a husky cross. He was husky x podenco andaluz, from an abandoned litter found on a rubbish dump (ID by the vet - it's a common cross there used for hunting). Had I read MN back then I would never have taken him on - but he was the most trainable (and loveable) dog I have ever had bar none.

He did need a LOT of exercise, but had perfect recall (when he was young we lived on a very large property, when I wanted to go out I'd whistle & he'd come like a bullet from down in the riverbed where he used to lurk), when we moved to the UK he learned very quickly that he was allowed to chase foxes, rabbits and rats (farm again) but nothing else under any circumstances, and even if attacked by other dogs he never retaliated.

His only real flaws were howling (could be set off by piano playing, carol singing, etc etc etc - rather funny, but not always appreciated by others), and producing enough fur to knit another dog daily (lots and lots and LOTS of brushing required).

Which is a long way of saying I wouldn't automatically reject a husky cross if they come from a decent rescue - I would want to here what they say about them and their needs/traits.

I have a Pom x (not husky though) from a local rescue. I would not have chosen a Pom to be honest but we were not too bothered about the breed.

She is lovely but a nightmare.

She is also very active for a small dog and without long walks would be a nightmare. She barks at every squirrel in the garden and anyone who comes to the door (until they are in the house, then she rolls over to be petted). She had fear aggression with other dogs (improving) and despite being clever is much more stubborn. Her recall is hit and miss and if you leave the door open for a second she is likely to be off like a shot. Everything gets stuck in her fur, so every walk involves a big cleaning process. She literally stamps her feet sometimes likes a toddler if she doesn't get her own way.

She is fab :D

I'd look at other spitz type breeds
Keeshond
German spitz
Norwegian buhund

Even a rough collie?!

"I'm interested though (and not goading, genuinely interested) in what the issue is that people have with cross breeds?I've seen a lot of threads that pour a fair amount of scorn on cross breeds....but I'm not sure why?"

Very detailed answer from, TrionicLettuce. Were any of the issues she raised new to you, OP?

"Mince....the husky is always the female when they're crossbred because a female pom would have issues carrying larger pups."

No, you are wrong. Not every 'breeder' cares about the issues caused by disparity in size and far too often the bitch is the smaller breed.

Have you looked at Klee Kai?
Like a mini husky, very intelligent but can have a high prey drive.
It's a fairly new breed, it was bred to be more of a companion dog but still need someone who won't be pushed around.