Wolf Hybrids

[rjvamp]

Zen is so beautiful!!! I hope she gets a good home and maybe the volunteer will be able to take her. My second Cotton, a female started to really blossom before Lobo passed in February 2009. But when she met Angeles for the first time she was very upset that I brought a new dog home. She is finally getting used to things! She gets so jealous!

Glad to hear everyone is safe. That is horrible about the electrical.

[rjvamp]

here was Cotton playing with his stuffed animal in California.



When I brought our first Cat home and tried to pick her up to play she moved and he dropped her. The expression on his face was like "this one moved!" We did have to teach him she was a "baby" and he couldn't play ruff with a "baby". He was a smart boy.

I WISH I had pictures of the DESTROYED sofa - this was the living room they destroyed when we went to the Halloween party...the middle of the floor was piled with sofa stuffings and trash from the garbage - ready for a bonfire!!! LOL Notice the VHS tapes to the left in the picture? This SO DATES ME! LOL

[rjvamp]

Apologies - didn't mean to hijack the thread - this just brought back good memories for me today

[W.Oliver]

I don't think it is the animal at question, it is the mentality, the paradigm, of the owner that is at issue.

I also think there is a parallel that could be drawn here, in regards to wolfdog owners and the "pit bull/rottie" owners...you know the ones that drive the common danger perception, rather than folks thinking of Petie from the Little Rascals.

I am suggessting the psychological facet of a person's personality that makes them want to posess such an animal.......would statistically have some common characteristics.

Imagine a social environment where wolfdogs become so popular within a demographic!! Wolfdogs statistically become a dog bite problem, and common perception associates GSDs as part of the issue? We would be facing the same thing the aficionado of Staffordshire Terriers is facing with "pittbulls". Imagine that???

I think hybridizing is completely innappropriate. I have bred parrots for over 30 years, and during the 1970s hybridizing became quite a fad, especially with Macaws....it simply is a sin in my opinion.

If you need to compensate for your inadequacies as a man, do what I do, raise a nice GSD and train in SchH!

[SunCzarina]

Wayne02, I really hope your are trying to prove a point with sarcasm. Sarcasm I can certainly appreciate.

However, I have a few friends who own either breed and would really resent being generalized into your 'pitbull/rottie paradigm'. I also have friends who had a wolf hybrid. Fine upstanding members of the community. Live on Jamestown Island ($$$) and hold black suit jobs. Broke their hearts when that dog died. Yes they called him a dog, he was not too different from my shepherds.

[W.Oliver]

Originally Posted By: SunCzarinaWayne02, I really hope your are trying to prove a point with sarcasm. Sarcasm I can certainly appreciate.

Exactly correct.

[SunCzarina]

I'm glad to hear it. Pretty sure everyone can agree there's idiots who own even our beloved breed - how many heart breaking stories have you heard of a perfectly handsome GSD chained in the yard becuase it's cool to have one. Which reminds me, my pair is outside and I should probably call them in now (wait, there's fresh snow, they won't want to come in)

[StryderPup]

No apologies about hijacking (sp) the thread. Your dogs are beautiful! I like hearing the stories too!

I think that any breed can be "vicious and bite". It depends on the responsible owners to work with their pack. In all honesty, before we got Stryder I told my husband I did not want a GSD, because they were dominant and overprotective. Then I found this forum and gained a ton of knowledge and I am still gaining. Now that I have Stryder, I will forever have a GSD.

[W.Oliver]

Originally Posted By: SunCzarinaI'm glad to hear it. Pretty sure everyone can agree there's idiots who own even our beloved breed

That is my point exactly, GSD owners could find themselves in the same boat and Staffordshire Terrier owners.

[Jelpy]

I see two problems. One is the one Wayne 2 pointed out, which is that there will always be a portion of "I'm too tough for my jockstrap" guys who will think owning a wolf or wolf hybrid shows what a tough guy they are. These folks are likely to be-lets just say unpromising as potential pet people.

Problem two is like my mom. Now, I loved my Mom and she was a responsible show dog breeder, generally focusing on only shelties and later, on pappillions. Every now and then, however, she'd get interested in a new breed, get one or two, and inevitably get frustrated with them and sell them off after a year or two. I suspect most neglected dogs have the same scenario exept the owners never get to the selling off stage. I think some people will put research and time into choosing a wolf hybrid but a large number will get one impulsively. "Oh, look honey! This ad is for a wolf hybrid, wouldn't that be neat?" Nine months later this neat pet is acting like a bored wolf, getting out of the fence, eating the neighbor's cat, since he gets fed irregularly and people are saying how dangerous he is.
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