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Name: Shesh
Name Meaning: Brown Bear
Age: 2 years
Date of Birth: June 13th
Gender: Male

Occupation: Sled dog
Rank: Team dog
Sled Team: Sikanuwae

Breed: 50% Finnish Lapphund x 50% Samoyed
Height: 58 cm
Weight: 29 kg

Physical Description: Under all his fluff Shesh has thick muscles, giving him a big and bulky look. His tail curves behind his back and has small dark brown ears.
Scent: (smells like dog)

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Family: TBA
Orientation: Flexible
Mate: N/A
Past Mate(s): N/A
Current Attraction(s): N/A
Past Attraction(s): N/A

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Pre-Group History: Shesh was born to a litter of 4 pups, though he and another of the pups were the only two to survive. He was the older of the two, mothered by a strong and powerful Samoyed prided for her strength and endurance, and fathered by a small but fast Finnish Lapphund.

Shesh loved playing and wrestling with his strange looking brother (why did he have patches of fur that looked like mum, but also fur that looked like dad?) but was soon to be separated from him. One day their father was out for supplies with their breeder when a snowstorm hit. Their owner didn't stop even knowing the risks, leading to the sled team crashing. The man returned back to the town once the storm subsided with our injured father, quickly discovering his hind leg being broken during the crash.

As he and his brother got older, his brother became ill. At first it wasn't all that bad, but as time went on without him getting any treatment by their breeder, he got even more ill. Shesh was sad and continued staying by his brother's side, hoping he'd get better all by himself. Why was our breeder so evil, refusing to treat him? He didn't understand how the man could let this be.

Eventually their mother caught the illness too, though it was so much worse than his brother's. Their breeder was angry at his brother, thinking all that had happened was all because of him. That night the man took his brother outside and when he returned, the fluffy brown and white puppy was not with him.

As the days went by without his brother, Shesh started to become depressed and his mother got worse, no matter what the evil man gave her to make her feel better. Weeks went by and his mother passed away, the illness taking her life. He stopped eating, and barely moved anymore. This wasn't fair! Shesh got thinner and thinner, refusing any food the monster of a man tried feeding him. One day the man gave up and took him away, giving him to a new human that wore a white coat. He hasn't seen the man since.

The new human fed him food through a syringe no matter how hard he tried to resist it, and he started to get his strength back as the weeks went by. The woman was a lot nicer than his breeder and eventually he warmed up to her, feeding of his own accord and chasing the balls she threw for him to play with. He liked her a lot.

Shesh got older and grew stronger, the memory of a half-starved pup long since forgotten. He started suppressing the memories of his mother and his brother that's probably long since dead, wanting to keep the past in the past.

His new owner took him to see sled dog competitions, and his fawning to be the best sled dog ever began. Every weekend they would see the sled teams depart the town for supply runs, and every week his ambition grew. One day when they were taking off, he couldn't be patient any longer and rushed after the team despite his owner desperetely trying to keep hold of his leash. As soon as her grip slipped he was racing along the sled and powering past the sled team in exhilaration. The exhilaration was short-lived though, as he was soon caught by a large man and dragged back towards his owner.

The large man and his owner talked for a long time, often looking down at Shesh during their conversation.

A few days past since that event and his owner took him to see the large man again as well as a new smaller man who he remembered from all the days and weeks he spent watching the sled teams come and go from the village (isn't he the Sikanuwae musher?!). His owner again talked with man as well as the musher about him, the musher even came over to Shesh and inspected him. Shesh didn't know what to do but did as the musher asked of him, checking his paws and feeling the muscles in his legs and shoulders. After the slight inspection the musher went back and talked to his owner some more.

Shesh learnt that he had piqued their interest after the incident earlier in the week (something about my enthusiasm?) and was talking it over with his owner about trialling him to become a part of the Sikanuwae sled team. He couldn't be more happier than hearing about that revelation.

A week passed and his owner finally passed him over to the musher for his trials, to learn if he was really capable of being part of the team. The next few weeks he stayed with the musher and learned what it took to be a true sled dog, always trying to push himself to his limits. Eventually the trials were over and the musher returned him to see his human, to tell her about wanting to keep him as a sled dog as part of his team. Shesh could see how excited she was to hear about the news, but she also looked sad, knowing she wouldn't be able to see him as much anymore.

They said goodbye and he left with the musher with the promise to see her often. He hoped he would.

That day Shesh became an official member of the Sikanuwae team and he couldn't be happier, even if it meant leaving his human behind.

Group History: N/A


Likes: Himself, sledding, good humans
Dislikes: Bad humans, snowstorms
Fears: Hurting himself when sledding, sickness
Ambition(s): To one day become the lead dog of a sled team

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