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Sorry if this might start a flame war - but this post caught my eye. Pit Bulls were bred to fight, yea, okay, you're right about that - but they were bred to fight DOGS, and only dogs. They're dog-agressive, but that has nothing to do with their attacks towards humans. It seems like everyday there's a new newspaper article on Pitbull attacks, but half the time it isn't even a Pitbull OR a Pitbull mix. I've seen articles with pictures of Rhodesian Ridgebacks and Black Labs being labled as Pitbulls. Plus, since you obviously don't know this, Pitbulls are NOT human-agressive. If they're fighting and the owners have to pull them apart for any reason and the dog bites them, it's automatically killed. They were never bred to attack humans, and it's NOT in their blood either. It's ignorant people like you who give them a bad name - I suggest doing some research before making a post like that again, especially on this site, because there are quite a few Pitbull lovers on here who wont be too happy.


Anyway, on the topic of owning wolf-dogs, I agree with the above statement completely. Everybody who "loves" wolves enough to want to own one should know how they behave, and that if you don't train it from puppyhood and keep training it 10-15 minutes a day, 7 days a week, 4 weeks a month, 12 months a year until it dies, then you'll have a poor-behaved wolf-dog like the one in the paragraph above. Wolves are wild, and people who breed wolfdogs are just idiotic, I mean seriously, there are few people in the world who even know how to train their own dogs (no pun intended), and wolves are WILD ANIMALS, that, no matter HOW hard you train them, will always have that wild instinct. They're just not ment to be kept as pets.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a wolf-dog, however, they're just not good house-dogs. I also with Maugrim, just get a Tamaskan.

First of all, you're above post made absolutely NO sence to me AT ALL. Second of all, EVERY dog of EVERY breed needs training. Wolf-dogs require more training because they're WILD ANIMALS. How can you even compare a Pitbull to a wild wolf? They're two COMPLETELY different things.

I didn't say anything in my post about me wanting a wolf, owning a wolf, or stepping-up to owning a wolf, so I suggest reading my post over again before making another smart-mouthed comment that has nothing to do with anything.

and thanks Maugrim for agreeing with me.

Wolves, wolf-dogs, regardless of the breed, if it has WOLF in it, then it's partly a WILD ANIMAL. Pitbulls, Dobermans, Rottweilers, etc. all require owners with experience, but wolf-dog owners require even more experience. In no way was I "restricting the ownership of the wolf-dog", and in no way was I saying that because I can train Pitbulls then I can train a wolfdog. It's common sence that wolf-dogs require owners who know what their doing, and, well anybody who doesn't know that shouldn't even THINK about owning one.

Every well-behaved wolf-dog I knew was an indoor only dog. Ie, we found that keeping them in the yard, or letting them sleep in the yard even, would cause them to be more unmanagable. It had to be a constant in the house dog, and only outside with the owners. And having said that, I'd say 98% of the population of humans do not know how to handle simple dogs, let alone large dogs, let alone wolf-mutts.

HOWEVER, having said all that, they CAN make good pets. I've worked with too many of them, trained too many of them, and seen too many of them live their entire lives without incidence. I've seen rescued wolf-mutts from the pound who were fixed and became great pets. The thing is, there's not many people who use appropriate methods. (For instance, most dominance theories are completely outdated and aren't effective for owners to try on wolf-mutts because wolf-mutts get large enough to basically bite back. Dogs are more forgiving. Wolf-mutts aren't.)

And every behavioral problem we saw in wolf-mutts we saw in every other breed of dog (we were, I think, the only training facility who would work with and train wolf-mutts in normal classrooms and one on one. No one else would.) The wolf-mutts though did tend to have EVERY behavioral problem crop up, while your average dog would have 2-3 out of the possible 100 behavioral problems.

With wolf-mutts, genetically, you could have a 25% mix and have it act/behave 100% like a wolf. Or you could have a 98% mix and have it entirely behave more like a dog. Behavioral genetics are almost a complete unknown at this time.

In any case, wolf-mutts aren't illegal where I live. You can have anything under 98% mixture.

In my experience, the wolf-mutts were just like any other normal dog. They had owners that had experience(I mean REAL experience. Watching some wolf movie, or "Living With Wolves" is not experience.), know 100% what their doing(Talked to people who worked with wolves and wolf-mutts for years, researched, ect), and so and so. Considering 95% of dog owners don't know what their doing, you wonder why there is so many dog attacks. heh.

They are not hybrids.

Anyways, no they are not just like any other dog, but behavior-wise they are just like any other dog.

Quote By LightFlow On FP: //"Genetically there is more difference between you and someone of a different race than between a wolf and your dog. Behaviorally, there are a lot of arguments whether or not any of the behaviors differ at all (from my experiences... they don't. The only difference is that wolves and wolf-mixes can act on those and make you sit up and pay attention better than a pomeranian can.) Size-wise, wolves typically are larger than dogs, but not all dogs. Intelligence, you can find some dogs who are as smart."