Hi Cole – thank you for your lovely comment – we’re so pleased you like the article. Ty sounds lovely. I’m sorry to hear about his allergies. If you’d like to share a photo with us you can send it hello @thelabradorsite.com or share it on the Labrador Site facebook page. We’d love to see Ty. 🙂

We are outdoorsy people so this mix is perfect, and because he’s just a Siberian Husky, I find his overall temperament to be better and easier to care for. Oh and some obvious less shedding! Lol

I would like to share a photo of him as he’s such a handsome fella that people just have to see him!

I truly appreciate the article and how there is a variety offered of personalities as each one of these furr balls have very unique personalities. For a time I thought he may have been an Alaskan/Lab mix but he just doesn’t have that bulk for that to be possible.
He often gets confused for a Borador, but that’s usually from people that don’t own dogs or know better. I joke and say I wish he was part Border collie as he would stay closer to us if he was!

Ty is extremely sociable, even gives those bad dogs a chance to say hi. There has been a handful of aggressive dogs that were calmed by him and said hi …the owners just beside themselves and thankful for the encounter. Honestly best dog mix breed ever.
Winter time is just a blast! Sooooo much energy. That’s Ty’s prime time. Summer months are harder on him, especially since he’s 2 toned black on-top and white underneath. He does have what I like to call his ‘Husky Passport’ …just near the base of his tail going out, under the top coat of black furr he has the Siberian Husky furrr running just under! Only spot on him that it’s expressed. I imagine as he ages he will get more white furr around his neck and it spread into shoulders. He has a very good mix of lab/husky furr. Hard to explain in words! Lol

There are a couple draw backs though, unfortunately Ty has allergies. And these allergies have been found by process of elimination and veterinarian assistance. He is allergic to grass/pollen. Even in winter time he needs a medication to battle this. It come son very fast and aggressive and causes him to lick/scratch/chew his side’s, hips and paws. I won’t get into the medication currently used as everyone has their own preferences and some things work better for some dogs than others. But it can be costly, especially in today’s economy.

So I would offer a side of caution when one is thinking of getting a Labsky. From my experience and from what I have been educated on, they are very susceptible to allergens and typically require a medication throughout their lives.

Thanks again for this incredible article, I will continue to share it with anyone interested in adding one of these fantastic furr balls to their family!
Have a good 1

My dog Hopie is about 2 years old she is a black lab and has just become pregnant by a blue eyed husky. I have been doing a lot of research on them and hoping we have a nice litter of pups coming soon.

Hi. Did you ever find a good breeder of labsky pups? I’m looking as well. Thank you!

My baby is beautiful, affectionate, sweet, and listens very well. She barely barks (usually only if our other dogs start barking first) and is very polite when she wants something. If she wants up on the bed for instance, she puts her chin on the edge and stares at you while slowly wagging her tail. If you don’t notice, after a few minutes, she’ll make a tiny little woof to get your attention. She loves to cuddle, and wants to be right next to me wherever I am. She has been great with many other dogs, cats, babies, and even chickens and ducks (after much training). She learns easily and is eager to please. She loves meeting new people and new dogs. She is eager to run and play. But she is also just as likely to curl up on the floor and snooze for hours.

As a puppy, I had two issues training her. She would howl incessantly when she was in a crate for any length of time and she chewed a ton. Her chewed her leashes and harnesses up. She chewed up her dog beds. She cannot have any toy softer than a tough chew Kong or nylabone because it will be in pieces all over the floor in just a few minutes. She has stolen a few t-shirts and eaten the arms off of them. My mom called her Teeth for the first 6-8 months of her life because of it. She did grow out of all of that and now loves crates and almost never tears up anything. She also very rarely digs,, and usually only does so to find toys because our German shepherd mix likes to steal all of the toys and go hide them in the yard. She does not like water. She will not go swimming. She does like playing with mud however. Luckily, she is very good about bathing. She is a bit of an escape artist. For the first several years of her life, she was trained to walk with me off leash. But then, we lived with a pomeranian who loved to run away and go exploring. He taught her to do the same. Thankfully, she has always returned of her own accord whenever she has run off, but she is no longer allowed to be off-leash because of it. On one such escapade, she managed to get pregnant, and had a litter of 5 puppies 4 days after she turned 4. She was an excellent mom and took fantastic care of the puppies. They are all healthy and happy to this day, and I get regular updates on them as all but one went to various family members. She also handled the pregnancy and nursing very well, with no conplications or issues at all. Unfortunately, there were multiple dads involved and we only know what one of them was – a collie mix. Two of the puppies look like hound dogs, one looks like a full black labrador, one has the shape of a husky with a white coat and black spots, and the fifth looks like a squat Rottweiler. Two of them inherited their mothers blue eyes, and all of the boys got the curved husky tail. All of the puppies ended up having personalities much more like a husky than anything else, with varying levels of energy. She very rarely talks like a husky. Only when she is incredibly excited or when she is asleep. Listening to her talk in her sleep is one of my favorte things.

She does have some health issues. She was born with a large overbite. Luckily, her teeth and jaw shape grew in such a way that it barely impacts her and did not require doggy braces. It occasionally makes it difficult for her to pick up small objects off of flat surfaces, but overall, it’s barely a thing. She is also large, weighing in at 72 pounds as of two weeks ago. All of her puppies save one grew to be larger than she is by 15 pounds or more. She is surprisingly not obese or even much overweight for her frame. She’s just very dense and muscular. She spends all day running around and playing with our German shepherd and German shepherd mix.

As I said, her coat is a deep brown chocolate color. She has white toes on her front feet and a white stripe running down her chest and belly. As a puppy, she had a white stripe between her eyes, but that has since disappeared. She has bright blue eyes (that nearly glow in the dark). Her ears are on the smaller side, and are halfway between upright and flopped down, so they stick out to the side and have a slight curve to them. Her face shape is far closer to the husky side, just slightly less angular. Her general body shape is like a lab with husky legs. Her tail is upright and slightly curved with fringe all along the bottom of it. Her fur is on the shorter side of medium length. She has the softest, smoothest fur of any dog I’ve ever pet. It always has a lovely sheen to it also. She does shed, but she actually sheds the least out of our current dogs. One of her puppies inherited her coat, but the rest have vastly different textures. Three of them have very short somewhat coarse hair, and one has a long double coat. She has very dainty little feet and the webbing between her toes is present, but easy to not notice.

Overall, she is probably the best decision I have made in the last decade and she is an absolute joy to have in my life. This is a mix I would absolutely choose to have again.

Hi Susan
Sounds just like our girl Zoe
Shd is a beautiful golden colour too with big colour eyes.
Shd id now almost 11 and I hope to have her a bit longer but she is slowing up a bit now she is older
I will be looking for another Labski but Zoe is so special she would be difficult to replace.
I hope we can find a breeder in NSW, Australia

I have a dachshund, chihuahua, and a labsky. The labsky is so hyper, and my little dogs are scared to death. She’s way too rough.