Hopers Red Gem Nakita
aka
Nakita or Kita
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Nakita came to us in September of 1998. She was but a small fry of 12 weeks.
To us, that is not a long time, but for a puppy, that is almost a lifetime.
Already she was considered too old puppy in the standards of finding a new
home soon.
I am from Minnesota originally and siberians come a dime a dozen there.
I have always wanted one since I was a little girl. When we came across
Nakita in a pet shop in Missouri, I fell in love with her right away. Being
the niave new siberian puppy owner, she was my eye opener for the breed.
Little did I know that it was quite frowned upon to purchase puppies from
any sort of pet shop or from breeders who did not care too much about improving
the breed and didn't do testing such as OFA or CERF, and you know really
knowing any of the background of the line or heritage. These are known as
BYBs or Backyard Breeders. Like most people, I thought since my puppy was
AKC registered, it therefore came from champion bloodlines and could be bred
to other AKC registered siberians. Only after extensive digging did I find
any champions. While this is all true, it is recommended to leave breeding
to your respectible breeders that either work, show or do both with their
dogs. They have them tested regularly with OFA and CERF. PLEASE SPAY
OR NEUTER YOUR PET SIBERIANS.
I have also found in my years of having Nakita as a family member, that I
am quite lucky to have gotten one of her temperment and quality. By no means
is she a show quality dog, but she is treated as a champion all the same.
We soon moved to our current location in Orange Park, Florida and it is here
that Nakita showed her true art of being an escape artist. We had a deck
that must have had a rodent living underneath it as when one day we were
cleaning up the backyard, and letting Nakita run, this rodent ran out from
under the deck and across the yard. Nakita was on it faster than I could
say her name. The rodent went through a small hole in the wood fence into
the neighbor's back yard. It took Nakita less than that rodent getting half
way across the neighbor's backyard, to have dug her way under the fence to
catch it. Another incident was one night we were having a pool party when
I went outside to check on her on her chain and found she had maneuvered
the clasp of her chain to come off her collar and she was gone. We did not
find her for two days.
Nakita has also gotten us into trouble with the law and animal control with
her high pitched whine and howl, that if you own a 'sibe', you know what
I am talking about. This howl or whine sounds just like you are beating
the dog severely, when in all actuality you are not even near them, or a
child screaming. Where as she does not bark, she does "talk" to you by making
a sound that is like a "rowr rowr". She does this to me when I get her up
in the morning and when I come home from work at night. She loves sleeping
with either of my daughters, mainly my 11 year old Jessica, but I think that
is because of treats hidden under the pillow at night for that midnight snacking.
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