[nickcarraway]

[Zuse]

No, no.
Ees a ‘ampster.

[reasonisfaith]

I’d say that’s a wolf.

[Varda]

Looks like a purebred Malamute to me. They can look really wolf-like.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

He was fully-automatic Wolf-R-15

[Hot Tabasco]

will be held at the county animal shelter for 5-7 days to be claimed by its owners before, being placed for adoption.

I have no trust in county animal control shelters, I suspect this poor dog will be put down before the 5 day minimum............

[yarddog]

I would guess it is a wolf-dog mix.

[lee martell]

Will he fetch a frisbee or play with a squeak toy?
Pets would do that.

[Georgia Girl 2]

That ain’t no malamute!

[yarddog]

I drove to town yesterday. Coming home I noticed a pickup with “animal control” on the door. The driver had a dog sitting right beside him in the cab.

At first I wondered if that was the only way they had to transport one but then noticed a low cage in the bed. Still wondering if the dog was the driver’s pet or one he had picked up.

[PIF]

Coywolf - cross between wolf and coyote are being found all across the East.

[ETL]

Here's a definite wolf...

[ETL]

Animal control officers in Maryland tracked down and captured
a loose dog many residents believed to be a wolf.

[faucetman]

The last time I saw one of those, it was getting on an ark with another one that looked just like it.

[Steely Tom]

Wolf	Malamute
Narrow chest	More rounded chest on mature animal
Legs proportionally long	Thicker legs (young or poorly bred dogs can look leggy too though)
Larger head, yelloww or gold eyes	Broader head, eyes usually darker and brownish
Gums and footpads are black	Gums and footpads can have pink spots
No clear definition of a "mask"	A clearly defined mask - whether all white or with dark markings around the eyes and down the nose.
Larger, often splayed feet	A tighter more compact foot
Tail is carried low	Tail carried over the back or lying on the back
Hyperactive and impossible to potty train	Trainable and laid back and relaxed in the home when nothing is going on
Suspicious of humans	Friendly to humans

Source: Malamutes have wolf in them don't they?

[ETL]

[MUDDOG]

He self-identifies as a dog.

[HandyDandy]

They knew it was a wolf when they took it in.

[Varda]

Purebred Malamute

[fruser1]

I say not a wolf.

[BwanaNdege]

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