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As I stated in my previous post (which is attached to a more recent thread), I won't be buying a wolfdog. If I come to adopt any, they will be rescues.

I like sharing my life with another creature who returns my love with a near-unbreakable bond. I like feeling needed. While I have not yet been a long-term wolfdog companion, from my studies and discussions, I feel my German Shepherd (domestic dog) companion's bond with me is similar to a wolfdog bond and its the most cherished relationship of any sort that I have had. She can't stand to be apart from me, if I have to go to the store for a few hours, she suffers ... that need she has to be with me helps me to thrive in ways nothing else can. I can go walking through a forest with her and, without any 'training,' she will stay within eyesight and earshot. If I move on while she investigates a scent, if I get too far, she will suddenly bolt from where she is (and whatever she is doing), and head straight at me at full charge. If she fears someone (or another dog), she sits beside or behind me, trusting me to protect her.

I have been around a few wolfdogs, all adult, two of which long enough to bond with me. (Actually, it didn't take long for either ... one was a malamute / timberwolf cross I was only with for two weeks, but he and I were inseparable after just one day and I hated to have him go, but I could not provide a good environment for him where I was; the other seemed to be low-content and I couldn't tell you the mix but he was a stray, highly submissive, and extremely gentle and even when someone took him, he escaped and found his own way back to me when he'd only been with me for a month or two)

Some may (actually, many do) say it a deficiency on my part that I can't find a human partner in life to thrive me and make me feel alive the way hybrids and strong-bonding creatures do, but Iyam whaddIyam and that's whaddIyam. I feel I could have no greater accomplishment in my life than to ease at least some of the suffering humans place upon creatures they don't understand, don't want to understand but want to own and control.