How does a Siberian Husky dog look like?

Article was written by Kim Mei for a job purpose, source of info is collected from various sites throughout the internet.

What do we Siberian Husky look like?

Some people say we originated from the wolf packs,some say we look almost like the Alaskan Malamute dog breed.But in actual fact we share the same genetics as the Spitz breed. A breed of dog that rather resembles wolf but smaller in size.

We come in many colours, which can range from our fur colour, our paw colour, our nose colour to our eye colour. Our fur colour has a mixture of two colours. It can range from black and white , to copper brown with white. But the most common colours are black and white, copper- red with white, gray with white and pure white too! Our facial markings also differ. Some of us , have a round circular marking around our eyes, which makes us look really fierce, some of us just have a converging line coming down our forehead. Because of our unique face markings, it give us different looks, like the kind look , the fierce look, the adorable yet innocent look.

Because we are originated in the Arctic region , so our pigmentation tend to be a bit uneven,which is a form of albino in animals. Called the heterochromia, it is actually a common occurrence in our species because of where we come from. But it does not affect our health. The heterochromia are very obvious in our eye colour & nose, which means some of us may have 1 eye blue and the other eye brown and some of us may have what people call “snow nose” or “winter nose”.Meaning our nose is half black with certain areas having flesh like colour, mostly seen on the front portion of our nose.

Our fur coat is very thick compared to other dogs. We have 2 layers of fur. Why? Because our ancestors originated in the Arctic region so we need very thick coat of fur to keep warm. Our clothes are just like the clothes humans wear to keep themselves warm. One amazing fact about our fur is that our fur are able to keep us surviving in temperatures of -50 to -60. Plus,do you know though that our fur is so thick, but yet in the summer it reflects off heat as well?

Now you know why we do not get over heated during summers in the Arctic .

We’re not really considered a small dog breed nor a big dog breed, but in between. Our male clan are mostly in the height range of 53- 60 cm on when on four paws. Our female clan on the other hand, can grow to a range of 51- 56 cm tall when on four paws too.

How heavy are we? If you would wanna compare, I would say we are about the weight of an average 7 year old child. With the males at 20-27 KG, the females at 16-23 KG.

We can live as long as any dog breeds, which is 12- to 15 of humans years, if you multiply it with 7, which is the number of dog years in 1 human year. You will get 105 years. We can live up to 105 years old in dog years! That’s a long life ain’t it .