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tayanita In reply to tristansedah [2011-06-13 12:45:19 +0000 UTC]

not sure what do you mean why "just a bred dog". czechoslovakian wolfdog is a registered dog breed, which was created by mixing carpathian wolf and a german shepherd. nothing else...especially not coyotes since we don't have them here in Europe .
your wolfdog seems definitely more robust than my dog, but that is certainly because a different wolf and dog were used in breeding. American wolves are usually much bigger and kinda fluffier than European ones . plus, you have a wolf-hybrid which may look whatever you want him to, but since mine is a breed under FCI it has to have certain looks in accordance with its standard...

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tristansedah In reply to tayanita [2011-06-13 21:28:34 +0000 UTC]

I know that. What I meant was: Is your dog bred by c. wolfdogs bred together or the tradition wolf and german shepherd?
And I see a lot of the differences, one of our neighbors got a coyote-wolf-german shepherd. And Waya's mother was a german shepherd - husky mix, and her father was a wolf. She was the most wolf looking of her litter and was left in an apartment with barbed wire around her neck after being dragged for two hours down a dirt road with it with the previous owners in the car with the rest of her siblings. Just because she looked similar to a wolf and that's not okay for dog fights and stuff.
And wow, lol, I had no idea there were no coyotes in Europe, learned something new today!

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tayanita In reply to tristansedah [2011-06-14 12:05:03 +0000 UTC]

I see. yeah, nowadays it's CZWs bred together, the wolf blood was used only in the beginnings (it was a former army experiment) in the 50s. there is this website - [link] , which is a database of czechoslovakian wolfdogs which also contains their pedigrees where you can see that, for example, my dog has a wolf in her 8th generation - this is her card: [link] and if you click on the pedigree, you can see it. it's quite interesting how all the dogs of the breed are related somehow, because, of course, there was a lot of inbreeding in the beginnings, which doesn't happen now at all since there is so many of them (especially in Italy).

what happened to your wolfdog is awful. Happened it here, the previous owner would have a bunch of animal activists about him in a whil. people usually don't keep wolf-hybrids here, because when they want a wolfdog or a wolf-looking animal they go for Czechoslovakian or Saarloos Wolfdog, where they have some guarantee of what their behaviour will be like etc., because during the breeding process certain qualities were preserved and others supressed. but still, the most important task is on the owner, if he doesn't socialize the dog or doesn't know how to work with him you can have a shy, unsocial animal, very much like if you took a wild wolf.

When I take my dog on a walk, most people think she's a wolf, and usually they seem quite interested, and friendly towards the dog. So I'd say that our country, and some other EU countries she's been with us in, is rather positive towards wolves. I guess I can't ask how is it in the whole of USA, but maybe in your state?

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tristansedah In reply to tayanita [2011-06-14 20:12:08 +0000 UTC]

Hm, I've been looking though it and its quite cool.
And it's good they've gotten rid of the inbreeding problem, so many problems that they must have had. o.o

Same here, we live 20 miles from the nearest town or hamlet, so, but we do have a few neighbors on the meadow we live on. We have had a problem with one family and their teenage sons terrorizing Waya, it was pretty bad at one point, but now they've stopped and we've done a good job of preventing it. When we go into the agriculture towns nearest, there are some problems, most people will avoid her while my teenage friends and I are just fine with her. The farmers mistrust her completely and when we brought her with us when we went to get our horse's shod, it made a lot of other people nervous, especially when I let her loose. Waya was just fine and the horses were alright with her after they realized she wasn't going to eat them but the owner's attitudes didn't change. They wouldn't let their dogs or horses near her, and avoided her. I live in northern Utah, near Wyoming and Idaho, so naturally there's always going to be a problem. It really just depends on the person.

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tayanita In reply to Czertice [2011-06-13 12:35:39 +0000 UTC]

a vlčí mák!

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