Whoah how fucking big are wolves!
I’ve read that in the US lots of people nowdays have them as pets and that a lot of those end up getting put down because people just want a cool big dog and end up with a wild animal.
There's a guy with a few wolf dogs who frequents a dog park near me. They're great and beautiful animals, but according to him you have to dilute the wolf in them for multiple generations before they become safe to keep as pets. I guess training a wolf is technically possible but wolves and half-wolves just aren't domesticated animals and they can and will react unpredictably no matter how "well behaved" they seem on the surface - and that's with a professional working with them, now imagine the average dog owner!
Very. They're basically the size of (some) big cats, they're not just what we'd think of as large dogs. Like imagine the largest dog breeds and how huge those are: wolves are (or at least can be) bigger than that.
Like the wolf in that picture would probably come up past your waist at the shoulder.
Whoah how fucking big are wolves!
I’ve read that in the US lots of people nowdays have them as pets and that a lot of those end up getting put down because people just want a cool big dog and end up with a wild animal.
There's a guy with a few wolf dogs who frequents a dog park near me. They're great and beautiful animals, but according to him you have to dilute the wolf in them for multiple generations before they become safe to keep as pets. I guess training a wolf is technically possible but wolves and half-wolves just aren't domesticated animals and they can and will react unpredictably no matter how "well behaved" they seem on the surface - and that's with a professional working with them, now imagine the average dog owner!
Yeah, even part wolves can be very dicey. People really underestimate how much work tens of thousands of years of domestication are doing
Very. They're basically the size of (some) big cats, they're not just what we'd think of as large dogs. Like imagine the largest dog breeds and how huge those are: wolves are (or at least can be) bigger than that.
Like the wolf in that picture would probably come up past your waist at the shoulder.
Wolves are fucking cool. I wish they were still around. I hate deer, and ranchers, so to me it’s a no brainer
There was a report of how someone reintroduced wolves to a fucked up ecosystem and they fixed it quickly.