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A friend has just adopted an 8-month-old rescue Gerberian Shepsky. 'A what?' I said to myself It's a cross between a German Shepherd and a Siberian Husky. I thought that sounded like a challenging mix but apparently they tend to have an extremely gentle and calm temperament.
I have heard of people breeding German Shepards and Huskies.. or having that mix. I didn't know it was a mix breed though.. like a thing.. called Gerberian Shepsky.
Husky x GSD crosses aren't uncommon, comparatively, but I've never seen them given a designer breed name before (except on That One Dog Breed Website which has every imaginable cross listed and constantly touts alpha theory).
Yup! I'd be interested to know if this one was bought because of her looks/fancy name and then rehomed because of 'issues' - i.e. behaving in line with the individual breed standards. My friend owns and runs an upmarket B&B so I wouldn't have said a guarding breed was the best choice.
Prompted to come back to this ... ive now seen three of these in the last two months and they are all super reactive and very very bitey.
Very mixed up dogs who don't quite know what htey want and can't offer clear body language to make themselves understood andthus resort to biting really fast.
A mix I would recommend folk avoid like the plague!
We'll be staying near them in June so hopefully we'll find this one's an exception. Given that my friend runs an upmarket B&B with staff and guests coming and going, I sure hope she is.
Here'sthe training log of a knowledgeable person with this cross -- she is very well trained and seems to get along well with other dogs. But think of what a GSD or a husky turns into in the hands of someone who doesn't know how to Dog, and the cross of them doing the same thing in the same hands isn't a surprise.