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I remember, a few years back, hybrid wolf/dogs being a new trend to own.

UNTIL THEY STARTED REVERTING BACK TO INSTINCT AND STARTED KILLING!.

Hope the folks who buy the foxes don't have any pet birds.

Kind of like ferrets. They say they are domesticated. How can anything so destructive be domesticated?

A friend of mine owns three wolf/dog hybrids, as well as one full blooded wolf. The only instances I have ever seen where any of them acted in any way other than a dog would was with the full-blood, whose instincts cause him to challenge my friend about once a yr or so for dominance, which is settled quickly with a size 10 boot.

I remember when German Shepherds were the dogs everyone feared, probably due to the stereotype about them used as Nazi guard dogs. Later, Doberman were what everyone was paranoid about. Then it was Pit Bulls. Then Rottweillers.

I have had LOTS of experience with all these breeds, and none of them, of the dogs I encountered, EVER showed a vicious tendency.

It is my belief that a certain dog gets a reputation, usually by one or two scattered attacks, which are done by ALL breeds, and then the sort of people who want vicious dogs, like drug dealers etc, start buying up those breeds. Next thing ya know we have a lot of such attacks, because these people bought those dogs and TAUGHT them to be vicious.

I owned a Rottweiller/Pitbull cross, and it was the biggest baby in the world. My wife's stupid chihuahua would start barking at him and if he had more than a stub tail, he would been tucking it. Kids could crawl all over that dog, pull is ears, they could do anything to him and he just lay there. The only time I ever saw that dog go off, was when a strange dog came into the yard and approached the kids... which Bear (my dogs name) nearly killed.