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PoetryAccident — Bear and Boomer Play Fight
Published: 2008-08-09 04:00:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 5154; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 22
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Bear the wolf-dog and Boomer the labrador play fight. Bear is still larger, so he has the advantage.Related content
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awwww..I was the wolf one haha soo pretty
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Your right... I probably would have not posted the picture because of the blur, but the pose was really nice.
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if only boomer was biting down on bear's muzzle, then i'll finally have a ref sheet for my play fight picture.
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I have many more doggy tumbling pictures here on my flickr site:
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(On my flickr site) you're welcome to poke around my dog related picture sets to find a picture that would work.
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now thats useful. thanks 
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I believe there was another dog behind Bear and Boomer in the original picture on flickr. The DeviantArt version is clipped.
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i see, though i wonder. are these dogs staying at a shelter? cuz theirs a whole pack of em. and i've never seen anyone own that maany dogs before
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They all live at my mate's house. Three of the dogs will be coming to my house after I have a fence put up. She has a large fenced enclosure with shelters for each of the dogs: two labradors, one chow, and five wolf-dogs.
She has been a wolf-dog breeder for years, though she is mostly retired now. In the past she had many more dogs than what you see now.
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*O* whoa thats a lot of dogs!
wolf-dogs are safe to be kept as pets right? cuz over here on my side of the world we have no such breed so i don't know anything about em 
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It is safe in my mate's situation. The dog portion of the wolf-dog combination is Alaskan Malamute ([link] ). In my experience this breed of wolf-dogs are not inherently violent by nature. If anything, they are timid and careful of unknown humans.
My mate has a saying. She says that the temperament of a wolf-dog is not determined by the wolf in the dog. Temperament is instead determined by the type of dog in the wolf(-dog).
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so you mean if u cross a wolf and a more fiercer dog breed then there a chance that the wolf-dog is a potentially dangerous one?
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I could answer this two ways... I think the question you are asking is "are there bad choices in breeding wolf-dogs?" The answer is yes. This is true with any cross breeding of dogs.
Now for the second way to answer the question. In my experience, the wolf part is very wary, seeking to move away from conflict if not pressed. They are a pack animal so there are hierarchy rules to their behavior. It is not in their nature to be aggressive for the heck of it. So, the combination of wolf with an aggressive breed does not make the resulting animal MORE aggressive than the two parents. It would make it less aggressive on the whole when compared to a pure breed aggressive animal. However, the mix may be more aggressive than a wolf.
The aggressive/dangerous nature would originate from the more fiercer dog breed. To pin the shift on the wolf part would be short sighted. To combine with a gentle(r) breed with an aggressive breed, and then say it is the fault of the gentle breed, is not right.
Another thing to keep in mind is that animal temperaments can be unique. They depend on nature and nurture. The breed sets a foundation for behavior. The personality of the animal and the way it was raised provides the rest of the picture.
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so even if you cross a wolf with any sort of dog breed its temperament can depend on how you raise it. in other words...wolf-dogs are really "dangerous" at all
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Dangerous? In the relative measure of aggression, no... My lovely mate who has raised wolf-dogs for years says, "dogs are more dangerous than wolves are because dogs are more unpredictable. Wolves do not get into confrontations with humans and dogs will."
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ah i see, thanks for the lesson on this topic
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They were all good questions. Glad to help!
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