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What to do AFTER your Siberian Husky gets loose...

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• Dogs do not understand what you are disciplining them for if the offense happened a while ago (depends on the offense, usually over an hour or so and you've lost your opportunity to point out the 'NO-NO'). So after your Siberian gets loose but makes it back home (whether on his own or someone else returns him).  DO NOT beat/strongly discipline the dog, the dog is likely to associate your discipline with the act of RETURNING (not the original escape), and may remember that as a deterrent to coming home if he ever gets loose again.  Instead, DO PRAISE the dog and give him enthusiastic lovin's and belly rubs.  THAT is what you want your dog to associate with coming home.
  
• Regardless of what your Siberian did to facilitate his escape, your Siberian is an animal, and you as the owner are the one responsible for keeping it contained.  If you really feel the need to scold someone for the escape, go to your nearest mirror and while looking at your own reflection, wag your finger and sternly say "Shame on you!" (Now that you have been corrected, learn from your mistakes and make your Siberian Husky's home a safer place, REVIEW "What to do BEFORE your Siberian Husky gets loose..."). 

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