I was given a grown 7/8 wolf dog. It had a curl tail so it must have been a husky type dog it was crossed with. It was a female. It was kept in a pen with a chain on it to keep it from getting away. I had to do the same thing. It was starved for attention and was difficult to control when I went to see or feed her. It would have been impossible to keep in the house. when this dog shed in the spring I have never seen that much hair come from an animal in my life.
Still once she settled down she was a sweet dog. I'm over 5"11" and she could put her paws on my chest and was as tall as me.
She could dig a hole big enough to bury a VW beetle in.
She finally broke the chain for about the third time and I never saw her again.
If she would have been raised right from a pup and not left alone all the time she might have made a good pet.
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have had a pack of sibes & half-sibes. and a native american dog.
can't say i ever owned a wolf though.
animal control was tough.
they loved me.
Do you have a pic of the sibe? Never heard of that one.
his name was gus. blue-eyed redhaired, and could speak in 17 different dialects. he was also a wooly variant. that's why i had him, noone else wanted him.
sibe in my usage is short for siberian husky --- blue eyed wolves according to some.
the half sibes were crossed with anything and everything here locally in ne georgia.
they were all lovers not fighters. but would kill neighborhood chickens, etc.
Gotcha. Had and bred Siberian’s at one time.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
This guy owned, used, and bred, woofs and crosses.
Crosses are too wild to be pets. There are examples of “good” ones, but I wouldn’t trust one to be a pet. Frank had to beat and occasionally knock out an animal to maintain being the alpha. Also, rabies vaccine has a low efficacy in hybrids.
Basically, it’s a “boutique mutt”.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
Had one back in the early 70s. Gentle as a lamb around my old grandmother, but pretty rough and tumble with able-bodied folks. Not a mean bone in his body though. Strong as an ox.
Ran into a beauty of a wolf-malemute cross a couple of years ago. This one was also very gentle and calm. Just gorgeous. I'd rather have one of the crosses than some of the purpose-bred fighters that you see people walking around with, but I prefer wolfy breeds anyway, like this guy:
Had one once for few years...... Shepard crossed with a McKenzie Valley........ Pretty cool dog , but I didn't work with her enough as I should have. It was a hoot to watch her chase field mice in the pasture out front and she would bring them all home to share. Went to the breeders before we picked her up ...... Sire was one of the biggest damn dogs/wolf I had ever seen. Wev'e all seen great danes, but to have wolf standing there on all 4's staring you damn near eye to eye is a little unnerving.... I'm 6-3. Speaking of packs.....he wanted nothing to do with me, we just head a stare off.The owner,my Wife and kids, he let them pet him, licked them etc(through a fence, they got there before I did, or that [bleep] wouldn't have happened....Me nothing but a stare off.
Had a gal work for us who’s husband owned a 7/8th wolfXshepherd. They lived on a farm just down the road from us. The dog got loose one day and got into a pasture where a guy had some purebred goats which were being used to clean out leafy spurge. It didn’t end well for either the goats or the wolf hybrid.
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At least that makes them more useful than pits. They don’t have enough hair to make it worth skinning them
+1 wolf / dogs are on the same level as pits. Kill em on sight. Had one a few years ago chasing my kids bum lambs on the other side of the fence. He lived about 10 seconds past that. They can never be trusted, especially with kids.
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