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Date Posted: 11:54:49 10/12/00 Thu
Author: SoloWolf
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 63.166.216.16
Subject: A viable option for the

Here's an idea, what do you think?
Say from now on that the only wolfdogs bred are the high contents (this includes keeping some pures in the lines, also...and not breeding anything further removed than,say,a highly wolfy F3). This --looking and acting like a wolf-- becomes the (tee hee)"breed standard" for what is known as the "Wolf Dog", and anything that isn't virtually indistinguishable from a pure wolf doesn't qualify to be bred under this label. (Of course, the other important breeding goal would be temperament.)

Now, for those wanting a low or mid content animal (and there are many reasons to continue this version of wolfdog): find someone who has bred a bona fide "Wolf Dog" to a husky,mal,or shepherd. YOUR animal is a "mixed-breed; he's half husky, and half Wolf Dog". You still have an easier to live with animal, with great looks and a fairly wolfy personality. BUT 1. you are no longer adding confusion to the conglomeration known as wolfdogs and 2. now we know what you have!! I have a pretty good idea what a "half husky, half Wolf Dog" will look and act like. OR a half shepherd, half Wolf Dog. But nobody really knows what today's "wolfdog" is going to look or act like without actually meeting it, because it can be any combination of a whole pile of breeds. (The owner of a lab/golden/shepherd/collie cross doesn't call it a "labrador hybrid"...)

This would give us the uniformity from litter to litter that critics of the breed always hang us on; establish clear breeding guidelines without getting involved with a lot of politics and registries; eliminate confusion about what is and isn't a wolfdog; get rid of the "97.25% red Timber Valley buffalo wolves" that are really husky/GSD mixes; and still let us preserve both the high and mid/low content wolfdogs.

Comments please?

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Ack!(continued)breeding situation? n/m -- Solowolf, 12:48:55 10/12/00 Thu