Meet SeQuoi Tenk (or Quoi for short), the incredibly beautiful, chocolate-brown Siberian Husky. He could be mistaken for a wild wolf—with his piercing blue eyes and unusual coloring—but he’s 100% Siberian Husky. His wolf-like appearance suits his nomadic lifestyle, though.

He’s currently traveling around the lower 48 of the United States with his mom, Nikki, as they search for a new home. Nikki documents their adventures on Instagram, where Quoi is captured exploring the stunning wilderness of the U.S. Unsurprisingly, he’s amassed more than 22,000 followers in just eight months.

SeQuoi Tenk might seem like an unusual name, but there is meaning behind it. “His first name SeQuoi, is after a sequoia tree,” Nikki tells My Modern Met. “They say a name can really shape a personality, and I wanted him to be big, tall, and strong like a sequoia tree is.” She continues, “Tenko is Japanese for ‘heavenly fox,’ and as much as I wanted him to be strong, I also wanted him to be sweet, which he totally is!”

Quoi is almost entirely brown, apart from an adorable white spot on his chest. All-brown huskies are extremely rare, so it’s no surprise that Quoi attracts plenty of attention.

“Everywhere we go, people stop in their tracks wanting to pet him,” reveals Nikki. “I get asked at least three–five times by strangers ‘what is he?’ and when I say ‘Siberian Husky,’ no one ever believes me, but he is AKC certified and is 100% Siberian Husky.”

Nikki originally wanted to adopt an older dog, but because she doesn’t currently have a permanent home, she struggled to get approved by the animal sanctuary she was in contact with.

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“The puppy route was my only choice to get a dog,” she explains. “While he wasn’t the dog I was searching for, he was exactly the dog I needed. Full of attitude and goofiness.”

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Earlier this month, she helped to rescue seven newborn kittens who had been left to die in a cardboard box in the woods.

Whitney Braley says that she knew something was up when Banner suddenly became distressed and started to pull on her dress outside their home in Georgia, USA.

‘She had been acting really weird all morning,’ says Whitney.

‘I couldn’t understand what was wrong with her. She wasn’t listening to me when I told her to come, which isn’t like her as she is always very well behaved.

‘I knew something had to be wrong. She was getting really distressed.’

Whitney let Banner lead her to the nearby woods and says that her dog dived straight in after she opened a cardboard box, and pulled out a tiny white kitten.She was astonished to find six more ‘barely alive’ kittens inside. And after bringing them back to her house, Whitney says that Banner refused to leave their side – cleaning, cuddling and napping with the cats as if she was their mother.


Whitney says: ‘Someone must have just put them into a cardboard box, closed the lid tight and left them there to die. They probably thought that no one would ever discover them.

‘I don’t even know how Banner knew they were in there. The kittens were freezing and weren’t meowing or anything. ‘She just knew somehow. She is a true hero. If she didn’t find the kittens, they would have all died. I think they were pretty close to death. They only looked around a day old.


‘It makes me sick that anyone could do that to these tiny innocent animals. It’s so cruel and heartless.’

Whitney says that the dog now like ‘their adopted mum’, who won’t leave their side. ‘She is a really maternal and loving dog. I’ve never met another dog like Banner. The kittens are really lucky. If she didn’t find them, there is no way they would have made it.


"I’m so happy that now because of Banner, these kittens will go on to live their lives with loving families."
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The 7-year-old husky helped rescue an injured hiker last week in the Eagle River Valley of Alaska. “He’s Alaska’s version of Lassie,” Lt. Eric Olsen, with the Alaska State Troopers, told the Anchorage Daily News.

Amelia Milling, 21, was hiking and fell hundreds of feet when one of her poles broke. Nanook showed up soon after. Milling read his tag, which proclaimed Nanook to be a Crow Creek guide dog. His owner’s name and number was on the tag. Dogs like Nanook frequent the area and escort hikers. Nanook guided her back to the trail, staying with her as she made her way back to camp.

Milling fell again while attempting to cross the Eagle River and Nanook helped pull her from the water. She attempted to lie down and recover, but Nanook would not stop licking her. When Milling finally activated her emergency locator beacon, Nanook relented, lying down. A rescue chopper showed, and she and Nanook rode it to Anchorage, where she was treated for bumps and bruises and released.

Milling, who hails from Tennessee, is deaf. She attends Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Her mother, speaking from her home in Chattanooga, told reporters for the Democrat and Chronicle that her daughter has been an avid hiker for five years and doesn’t let her deafness stop her from anything.

She had planned a three-day hike and was fine until she encountered more snow than expected.

“I’m a Southerner, so I wasn’t thinking about snow,” Milling said via an interpreter.
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Nanook was returned to his owner.

Wells Fire Department Captain Jeff Nawfel was able to save this beautiful dog who managed to get out onto his roof and got stuck. Thanks Captain Nawfel.

A Husky was so happy to be saved from a tight spot that he couldn’t hold back kissing the firefighter who helped him.

Authorities in Maine received multiple calls about a dog stuck on the roof of a home. Apparently, the dog had climbed out of an upstairs window but then didn’t know how to get down.

“Wells Fire Department Captain Jeff Nawfel was able to save this beautiful dog who managed to get out onto his roof and got stuck,” the Wells Fire Department wrote.

Video captured of the rescue by shows Jasper more interested in befriending the captain than getting down from his lookout.

Erin Fenderson commented on Facebook, “This is my friend’s dog, his name is Jasper and this is not the first time he has done this… he just loves to be outside, they must have forgot to close the window….thanks for rescuing him!


Eventually, Nawfel convinced Jasper to go back inside. We don’t doubt that he got more kisses from Jasper when back inside.
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Nubz, who is a Husky/Chow mix, lost two of his paws because his mom chewed them off in the puppy mill in Missouri where he was born.

'Puppy mills typically have a lot of caged animals. They don't' have a lot of access to moving around,' said Laura Magruder, veterinarian at Evergreen Veterinary Hospital in Salem.

A man from Oregon drove all the way to Pennsylvania to pick up his new two-legged dog. 'We don't know if it was the extra stress of the puppy mill or maybe she just wasn't ready to be a mom, but she ended up taking it out on her puppies unfortunately,' Magruder said.

Jim Havlinek drove across country from Salem to Philadelphia, which is about 2,900 miles, to pick up Nubz who is now 10-months-old. He said he was driving around 9 hours a day when him and Nubz drove back to Oregon from Pennsylvania. He said he started following Nubz when he was just two-months-old, according to KGW.

Havlinek couldn't control his excitement when he finally got to meet Nubz as he said: 'He's everything. He's more than what I imagined.'

'I just want to give him a good life,' he continued.


Every single day Havlinek has to attach two prosthetic feet to Nubz' back paws, which he's more than happy to do as he said: 'My life revolves around dogs'.


'Why not give a dog the opportunity to have the best life possible when they really deserve it. He deserves it,' Havlinek continued. Havlinek also has two other dogs Winston aka The Beast and Bailey. 'I think he’s [Nubz] going to do great. He has indomitable spirit. There’s nothing that’s going to hold him back,' Magruder said.

Huskies are being increasingly purchased, and then abandoned, by owners who are attracted to the breed because of the hit HBO show, “Game of Thrones.”

One tell-tale sign that a husky was purchased because of the series is that they frequently are named after characters from the show, according to a report by San Francisco Gate. A British animal charity had reported a 700 percent rise in abandoned huskies by 2014, while two Bay Area husky rescue facilities — Bay Area Siberian Husky Club and Northern California Sled Dog Rescue — have reported similar a major spike in husky abandonment.

“These people, they watch these shows and think how cool these dogs are,” said Angelique Miller, president of NorSled, to The Gate. “People can’t even tell the difference between a husky and a wolf because they’re always asking us at adoption fairs if these dogs are wolves — and it’s clearly a husky. They’re just following the trend of what they think is cute.”

It’s hard to explain why huskies are getting abandoned more than other dog breeds. Perhaps it’s that many of the buyers aren’t as interested in owning a pet as they are in connecting their lives to “Game of Thrones.” Perhaps it’s the fact that their coats require weekly maintenance, they can only thrive with regular exercise and they can’t be left alone with small animals.

This isn’t the first time that pop culture has had a negative impact on the adorable animals promoted by popular properties. The success of the “Harry Potter” franchise led to a wave of abandoned pet owls; while owls are cute in the movies, they are notoriously difficult to raise as pets. Similarly, after Dalmatians became popular following the success of “101 Dalmatians,” dogs were frequently purchased and then abandoned because their irritable personalities and tendency to dislike children made them a poor fit for many families.

Even the best intentions can lead to disaster. After sales of clown fish took off following the popularity of “Finding Nemo,” reports sprang up of children flushing clown fish down the toilet so they could be freed to the ocean — a plan that, though effective in the movie, does not apply to real life.

The ability of pop culture to impact pet sales has not gone unnoticed by those who could make hefty profits from that trend. The American Kennel Club admits that dog shows like Westminster exist in large part to drive up business for purebred breeders, pet stores and puppy mills throughout the country. The fact that there are serious ethical questions about how these dogs are treated, as well as how it would be more compassionate to adopt from shelters than purchase purebreds, seems to matter little.
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