It was during a beautiful and wonderful sunny day. Not a single cloud was up in the sky to cover any single of the sunlights. It is on this day of January 17th I first saw the day. But, I wasn’t alone to be born on this same day. I also had plenty of brothers and sisters. My mother was a wonderful husky and my father too but he was a bit different ; from another species.

In my first days of my young life, I learned to find the mammals of my mother with my very developed ability to smell. But, it was not always easy… My eyes were still closed as well as my brothers and sisters crew were. We were so many puppies trying to drink the fresh and warm milk of my mother that we had problem to get to it all at the sametime. I remember getting my head stomped by a feetpaw or a handpaw. Oh, but don’t worry, we were all young and not really councious of our acts, only trying to satisfy our very first and important thirsty need.

A few times after this, my eyes started to open very slowly, my body was getting bigger and stronger and I even begun to wag my tail! I was not very good at first to wag this long thing it was behind me. Looking just like anything else I should get to learn eventually. I also, very slowly and gradually learned to walk on my weak feet. It was pretty difficult and I was shaking off from left to right at every first tries I was giving at doing this. But, with time and perseverance, I made my little brain to remember how to put one feetpaw in front of the other without losing my balance. It was such an awesome moment, everytime I was able to perform walking for a longer time without falling aside.

The days kept passing by, one after the other I was getting stronger and more resistant. But, no matter how strong I was at this moment, my mother was always here to care about me, my brothers and sisters too. She was giving us a warm body to stuck on at night, she was giving her precious rich milk to us every days. Sometimes she was so asked by all of us she needed to go out of the nest to relax somewhere alone. I bet it is not that easy to be a mother to such a lot of puppies at once, but I am sure she knew what she needed to do and so there we were. She was one of great mother for us as caring for every of our needs and more. She even was licking us clean by time to time when we were getting dirty. I loved the soft feeling of her tongue on my body, like it was a very sign of affection and attention from her to me.

Days were passing again, I was able to notice a heavy change to myself since I was now eating the food this human was bringing to us. It was not hard to bite… Needed to be chewy since my tooth were not ready to handle something harder like my mother’s one does. And, by doing so I was also starting to get my independence from my mother. Instead of stucking myself on her and whining for attention or milk, I was not walking outside the nest myself to discover what was lying behind these walls. We could not get outside, me and my family crew, until the human was coming in and open the door that lead outside. My very first moment outside, in this new whole universe I haven’t saw before was looking so beautiful, yet so scary too… Since it was all new to me and also leaving my mother from several close or long distance was something hard to do. But, again, with time and with the help of my family crew, I learned to trust the outside and learn about it. My nose was catching new smell coming from the barn I was born onto. Also, the wind was blowing some nice and smelly breeze in the air I could just not forget about. There was so many odor to learn and so many beautiful things to see. Just a whole new world to discover!

Yet, for a long time, I wasn’t really aware of what was happening around me since I was most of the time with my family. When outside, I was playing a lot with my brothers and sisters ; bitting to their legs into harmless fights and playing to run at them like we were trying to figure out who was the prey/submissive and the prey/dominant ones. As for myself, I was feeling like a submissive one because when another was acting dominant with me, I had the reflex to lie on my back and stuck my tail between my leg. It was my way to say ¨I am subordinate to you and I don’t want to fight back!¨. That is really important in the pack : to learn who are going to be the first to eat and such. It is nothing bad, only something to make sure our little pack was functioning correctly. I could never imagine our family being all dominant, we would fight all of the time and if we were all submissive, we would just all lie like scary baby at everything. It is almost the best way I can use to explain this packship we were all sharing together.

Some weeks after, I was able to notice more changes to my body : my tail was now fully working and I could even lift it straight in the air without having too much trouble and I was also able to run a lot faster than my first days off the nest. It is such an incredible feeling to be able to run freely outside with my sisters and brothers. I am sure our mother was going crazy, trying to look at us all at once. But, her job was not far done about us since we were now strong and not so far, ready to handle Life as well.

It is a few days later, something strange happened… The same human who was opening the door to lead us outside for our day play time was now not alone. She was with another human and they were speaking in a language I could not understand. This strange and new human slowly walked to us, got on its knees and was staring at us. I had no idea what he was doing, but as a dog in his learning days, I felt the need to walk to it and smell its odor. It was nothing familiar but I think I was catching the odor of another dog but very different from my family one’s. Suddenly, it standed up again and I freaked out a bit as I needed to run to my mother again, but I was still interested into its new odor. I remember these both human went outside and again were talking a lot, again nothing I could understand and then the human I use to know cam back and leaded us outside. I could not understand why sit was letting us outside to early in the morning, but no time trying to understand, me and my family all wanted to go outside and play. But, something was going weird… This new human was litteraly staring at us, like it was looking at each of our moves. I could not understand why it was acting so, but I was not worried for me since I was with my family still. We were outside, together and playing like we always used to do and it is everything that was mattering to me. It is only when the sun reached a upper state in the sky the both human talked again and the new one left the place. I never saw him again in weeks.

I opened my eyes for another time, yawned loudly and looked by this hole in the wall. The sun was rising again, ready to give a us a new day full of great things we could learn about and play with. Suddenly, my ears, still droping down, were able to catch noises they wasn’t new to me. I remembered the sound of this big and thick monster from what humans were coming out and getting into when leaving the place for a long time. A few minutes after, the both humans I use to saw weeks ago were getting inside again. They didn’t really talked and the human who was leading us outside every days did its same routine to let us go outside. I remember the new human was looking at us with a weird face, starring at us again. But, I was not really paying attention as I was trying to run along with my brothers and sisters. But, this time it looked different, this human was sitting on a log and was really looking like starring at EVERY moves I was making. Not my sisters or brothers were the aim of its eyes. It was looking like it was only starring at me. After a very very long time of playing with my family, this human walk very close of us. Some were running to hide, some were not paying any attention and kept playing around and me… I was intrigated by this human and its new smell, so much I decided to walk to it. I was going very carefully and slowly because I never could tell if it would not hurt me or something like that. It was only looking at me, I could tell it as it was not moving at all not matter how close I was getting. I finally reached his legs, smelt this odor of it I was not familiar about. It never moved at all, no matter how much I was sniffing around it. It is only a while after doing so it started to move… It moved its hand in front of me, so I walked carefully to it and sniffed it, after doing so it moved its both hands under my belly and lifted me in the air. ¨Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee¨ It was a new feeling I never had before, to not have my tiny paws on the ground. It was so crazy since I wasn’t scared at all, keeping trying to smell its odor and to look at it is all I was caring about. Suddenly, it somehow hugged me, this human was giving me a sort of affection I always felt with my mother only. I was feeling great in its arms and so to show this I decided to lick its face. It smiled back at me and slowly walked away from my family or much likely to this big monster it went out earlier. We both got inside of it and I could again catch a lot of new odors. It is the first moment I felt scared and even started to whine for my mother to come. But, she didn’t… I guess I was about to get into a new life where I would have to get on my own but, this, was maybe too soon for me. So I kept whining and whining again, even though it was looking like affecting this human at all. All it was doing was to look at me walking from left to right to look through these huge holes. It is only after a long time he picked me up again and brought back to my family. It then pick up one of my brother and walked back to this monster to do the samething it did with me. It is only after a very very long time it finally came back and dropped down my brother back on the ground. It then walked in to talk with the other human for a long time…

I remember, after a while, the both humans came out of the place they were in and they shaked their hands before the human I use to know first leaded all of us inside again but me… What was going on now!? The human I knew first went outside and left me alone with this new human. I was freaked out! He picked me up and walked to its monster again. But, this time he sat in front, instead of the back and he have to put me on this comfy thing it was at its right. I suddenly heard a very loud noise after it turned its hand onto that hard thing. ¨AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!¨ I was shouting in my head. I was so afraid I decided to hide myself under the comfy thing. All I can remember is that we both stayed into that hard monster for a very long time. I was also hearing a lot of different noises : some were extremely loud and annoying and other were less.

After a time I felt like being an eternity, the monster finally stopped to make noises. So, I slowly came out of my hide and the human picked me up again, took me outside and walked into a very huge place. When we were inside, I was able to hear a lot of noises, some were sounding familiar to me but not exactly the same and also I was catching a lot of odors. This human showed me to another woman who was standing behind a huge thing. He dropped me down on that thing and they both stared at me and were talking and smiling. I could not understand what was going on since it was all new to me and I was also pretty scare. My mother was not with me and I felt like I was lost in a world I could not understand. A few moment after, the human who brought me there picked me up again and dropped me on the ground. I was so scared still I had to hide myself into a huge box it was containing things I was sure were smelling like foods, but I haven’t paid any attention to them. The human picked up a huge back and did some weird stuff onto that huge thing and went outside to put that bag inside of its monster and then came back to pick me up again and bring me in it too.

After another time inside of that loudy monster, we stopped once and for all… It picked me up again along with the huge bag and brought both of us inside of a very very huge place. A lot of things were new to me in that place. It was familiar, not even looking natural and not smelling like anything I had smell before. It dropped me down in that place after closing it and walked to a door. As a reflex I got from my pack, I followed it. I suddenly heard a very loud smelling noise. I could not tell what it was but I did walked to the door to smell as well. I could tell myself, it was another one like me, but smelling very particular. The human opened the door slowly and I got the fear of my life when I first saw this big black thing walking to me. I use the reflex of the subordinate ones and lied myself on my back and stucked my tail between my legs. It was smelling me again and again. I was so scared but since all it was doing was to smell my odor, I could start to feel a bit better. After a while of smelling me, this big black think moved backward and took a pose I could tell was the ¨play pose¨. So I standed up on my little paws and tried to run at it. Holly….! It was moving so fast, even faster than the fastest one in my family. It was able to jump from left to right in a flash! I could not follow it or even catch it but it was keeping trying to make me play with it so I never stopped trying to catch it.

After this long and hard day, the sun completely hided itself and everything got very quiet in the place. I wasn’t familiar with anything I was hearing or smelling and it was particulary making me freak out. I was missing my mother and my family, sometimes was whining them to come to me, but they never… But! I could tell I was not in a bad place ; this human was taking care of my needs as much my mother was and it even allowed me to sleep with it in it very huge comfy and wide thing while the other black one was sleeping on the ground. I saw it come in the huge thing a few times but it never stayed on it. Maybe it was prefering to stay alone on the ground, maybe…. Then, the human covered me under very soft stuffs I had no idea what it was. I was feeling warm and cared about but nothing could take away my thoughs of my family which was making me to whine a few times during that night.

It is only a lot of days after living with this new pack I learned that I was about to live one of the best moment of my life and which would be a new start in the history of my Life…




Today, on this May 5th 2014, who am I? I’ll tell you this very clearly since I now know it very well. My name is Waldo and I am a crossed husky. I am now 4 years old and am the pet/subordinate of my master. I no longer am with the big black Newfoundland who use to be my mentor for my early years in this new pack. I love my new place, I love my new life and I even learned by myself to be a very good begy dog with my master. I can make him… Yes I said ¨him¨ since now I know there is two sort of human and even dog : mean female and male. So, I learned to beg my master when I need to go out or to spend my energy by doing something physical. He tends to enjoy to put a harness around me… Yes, I said ¨harness¨! I learned a lot of new things and even words they were using in their weird language. And, to come back to my previous line, my master tends to enjoy to put a harness around me. I know what it means and am use to it ; I even help him to do so by lifting my right paw and then the other paw. He give me a great help by saying ¨donne moi ta patte¨ and ¨donne moi l’autre patte¨. Yes, my master is French, so the command he gives to me are in french as well. When the harness is all set up, we both walk outside and he get onto his bike… Please, don’t make me repeat a third time because I said ¨bike¨, I know what it is. So, when he is sitting on his bike, he look at me as I already start to pull onto the leash like saying ¨Let’s go! Let’s go now!!¨. And, after a few second I can feel him moving his foot on the up and I know it is time to run when he says ¨vas-y Dodo! Vas-y, vas-y, VAS-Y Dodo!!¨. These words means the adventure of my day is about to begin.

I could tell a few more about me since I am still alive and enjoying Life as well, but… I am not gone yet and I have still so much things to learn and discover. I only wish my master won’t ever leave me alone from another family. I cannot stand to be without my master and can’t even obey to someone who is not my actual master. Even though I never felt like I would be left, ever. Anyways, since I am still alive and with my actual masters, I enjoy everything I do and cherish every moment I can spend with them. Life can bring so many new things to me and I have to learn a lot about it like any other dogs surely does. But… That is another story I am not yet ready to tell.


Again… My name is Waldo, I am a 4 years old crossed husky and that was my back-story. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope this will give you the wish to get a dog like me one day ^^