Posted on 02/25/2017 2:02:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
He self-identifies as a dog.
Re: wolves
Hyperactive and impossible to potty train
They knew it was a wolf when they took it in.
“If it wags its tail, it’s a dog. If it goes for your throat, it’s a wolf.”
Wow! That is easy.
While Mals are more strongly curled than Siberians, they can flow out their tails abit in action or when not interested. As all dogs the tail moves up when active or alert and down when passive and calm.
This looks perfectly possible to be Mal, but could be mix with other spitz dogs like Siberians, whose tails more readily go saber.
They don’t have their tails up all the time. For photos though “tails up” is de rigueur.
Nope. Not a wolf. Your turn. :)
He cleans up nicely, though.
Having been owned by a 7/8 hybrid, I’d say that’s a lab-wolf, based on the color. Maybe they thought they could sweeten up the blend.
I say not a wolf.
Had a wolf like dog take a bite out of my dog’s @$$ yesterday at the bark park. She was tall lean, beautiful and quite friendly right up until my boy got disrespectful.
He tried to do that dominance thing with her like he does all the dogs on occasion and tried to mount her. Never seen him do that with a female before. She objected strenuously and took a small chunk out of his flank and came back for more. Went for the soft tissue and Almost ripped him a new one.
Me and the other owner got them separated and we took them home.
When one is said to cry wolf it is an expression that means to “raise a false alarm”, derived from the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_Wolf
The tale concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking wolves are attacking his flock. When one actually does appear and the boy again calls for help, the villagers believe that it is another false alarm and the sheep are eaten by the wolf. In later English-language poetic versions of the fable, the wolf also eats the boy. This happens in Fables for five year olds (1830) by John Hookham Frere,[4] in William Ellery Leonard’s Aesop & Hyssop (1912),[5] and in his interpretation of Aesop’s Fables (1965) by Louis Untermeyer.[6]
The moral stated at the end of the Greek version is, “this shows how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them”. It echoes a statement attributed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laërtius in his The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, where the sage was asked what those who tell lies gain by it and he answered “that when they speak truth they are not believed”.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
Wow! Look at the size of that one! It’s as big as a U-Haul Truck!
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-22904,00.html
According to Steve Jones in his book “Almost Like a Whale” the international committee which rules on taxonomic problems like this has decided that dogs are really just domesticated wolves that have been artificially bred into funny shapes, and consequently the species designation Canis domesticus (dog) has been formally abolished: they’re just a subspecies of Canis lupus (Wolf). The interesting bit of all this is that there is such a committee.
Christopher Young, Sheffield England
The dividing line between species is not always clear-cut, but is usually drawn at the ability to interbreed. Precisely for this reason, the domestic dog and the wolf used to be considered as seperate species, “canis familiaris” and “canis lupus”, but the dog is now regarded as a sub-species of the wolf species “canis lupus familiaris”.
Campbell McGregor, Glasgow Scotland
Could be a White GSD or a Czech Wolfdog.
He’s certainly beautiful.
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