r/malamute

Riya is a 3.5 year old Husky x Malemute, who LOVES to cuddle. She'll come up and bury her head in my chest or lap at least 10-15x per day to cuddle. Even when we're in bed she has to touch me, and give me morning cuddles or she get grumpy ha. Any other husky owners experience this? I think it's adorable! I've just always been told huskies are so independent, and she is a stage 5 clinger.

Recently found out my 8.5 year old girl Denali has arthritis and bone chips in her wrists and shoulders.

She was fine, maybe had a slight almost unnoticeable limp in her front leg that I thought I was just imagining. Then she was really limping. We got x-rays, blood work, urinalysis, the works. The vet gave me painkillers and said surgery isn’t something they would do for this, that her bloodwork and kidneys were good. Oddly enough, her hips were fine.

I changed her over to a senior dog food, started feeding turmeric paste, green lipped mussel powder, and hemp oil. I give her carprofen in the morning and gabapentin if I notice she is more sore. She’s still eager to go on walks, eats and drinks fine, goes to the bathroom fine, and gets wild zoomies in the middle of the night. I just don’t know where we go from here.

Do we just wait? See if she gets better? Make her rest? For how long? Bone chips don’t go away right? We’re planning on moving across the country in a year. I’m worried how winter is going to go, how the move will go. We lost our other pup suddenly in October to seizures.

Any helpful advice or stories are welcome.

My boyfriend is in the coastguard. He was stationed in Ketchikan, Alaska. He fostered a Georgia coon hound whom got out and mated with the neighbors Alaskan malamute lol! Our sweet boy was the runt and also the only one with short hair like his mama! All of the litter went to great homes & we kept this big goofy boy! I love him so much but he forgets he’s as big as he is lol.