A Man Adopted a Free Puppy and Later Found Out It Was Actually a Wolf

Goodhousekeeping ^ | OCT 11, 2016 | Caroline Picard

[Leaning Right]

A free puppy may sound great in theory, but one Arizona man got more than he bargained for when his new pet behaved, um, rather interestingly. The young pup acted very nervously, needing constant companionship and peeing and pooping all over his owner's car. That's pretty run-of-the-mill for a puppy, but the dog also became quite the escape artist.

[Leaning Right]

For those of you tired of political stories...as Monty Python might say, here's something completely different.

[Leaning Right]

Here he is:

[Scythian_Reborn]

Very cool looking, you can really tell by it’s jaw line too. To bad its not a black one, those are really cool.

[FourtySeven]

Good Housekeeping tip #1: don’t adopt wolves as pets.

Who knew?! Thanks Good Housekeeping!

[MUDDOG]

Neo's finally settled in at Wolf Connection, a wolf dog sanctuary in California. He loves playing with his new friends

A happy ending!

[BuffaloJack]

One of my neighbors has an albino wolf. Beautiful animal.
I thought it was a dog at first.

[Ditter]

I would have suspected a coyote!

[1Old Pro]

There are wolves in upstate NY, people often mistake them for coyotes.

[Sans-Culotte]

The dog in Jack London's White Fang was a wolf-dog, as I recall.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Sounds like what the liberals will get with Hellary.

[JBW1949]

Back in the ‘70’s, I had a Wolf/Long Hair Shepard mix...He was solid black...Weighed about 120 fully grown and scared to death of cats...LOL

[max americana]

I knew a neighbor who owned a hybrid Sheperd and Wolf dog. Didn’t believe it until he showed me the paperwork with the blood analysis on it. Didn’t even know you could make a report for that.

[Ellendra]

They cross so much that some coyote populations are mostly wolf, and some wolf populations are mostly coyote. There’s debate over where the line is drawn.

[RedStateRocker]

Knew some folks with a coyote, raised from a pup.

Most ‘cat-like’ dog imaginable. It could walk over a couch full of people and touch no one. Very pretty and seemed pretty smart, at least compared to my dog at the time.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Awwwww, bee-you-tee-ful. Looks like the one my best friend had when we were kids. Her family eventually had to find a nice family with a big farm for it to run around on. The 6’ pen wasn’t enough to keep it from escaping. Beautiful and sweet “dog” though. :)

[Ditter]

We have coyotes here in the middle of Houston, I have seen them myself. They look very much like theirs picture. We used to have Red Wolves but I think they are extinct now. They interbred with coyotes and dogs.

[D Rider]

Have a Golden Retriever/Husky-Wolf Mix. Very Sweet, very quiet, very protective. When younger she used to kill feral cats by the bushel full. Actually was quite the hunter. She’s retired now at 14.

[Twinkie]

Coyotes and bobcats range along the river below our house.
Sometimes at night, we hear the coyotes howling at the moon
and our dog, Dub, answers them with her own howling. We see
bobcat tracks from time to time. I used to walk alone down
by the river; but now I’m too old and slow to do that. -
Our former neighbors on the hill to the right of us were
what stopped me walking through those woods. The man would
run out of his workshed and down to shoot the breeze with
me JUST ABOUT every time I walked through there. Oh well.
Things change.

[Ditter]

I live close to central Houston, very near a bayou. Coyotes run up and down the bayou day and night. I have not heard them howl, don't know why not, but I have seen them in the middle of the afternoon running through neighborhoods. Amazing to me!

[peeps36]

They say they aren't in CT but I know what I saw while hunting deer in the northwestern part of the state. He was at least 200 pounds and had a gray and white coat. He perched himself up on a rock overlooking a deer trail about 60 yards away from me. I didn't see anymore deer in that area for the remainder of the season.