Wolves in people’s houses

[DarthPaula]

Those of you with big dogs, do you ever look them in the eye and think “you’re a wolf”?

We once met a dog that was 25% wolf in the southwest of the UK. He was with a man. I had a Cocker Spaniel with me, so I was a little worried for her, as she might have provoked the wolf-dog. As I said before, I had a dog that was 50% wolf, and he tolerated me very well, even though I was a slightly annoying six-year-old girl. However, I wouldn’t have taken that risk with my Cocker Spaniel.

Nope…….but I occasionally look at my daughters dog and feel I love her as much as the grandkids 🤷‍♀️🐶🤣

There is a couple of interesting videos on wolfdog rescues on youtube, where people have realised they can't manage them in a domestic setting, particularly the half or one quarter.

No. I have a 12 yo labrador. Fit enough, but no longer fast enough to kill rats and squirrels. She used to though.

No, but I sometimes look at my parrots and think they resemble pterodactyls or Archaeopteryxes. They behave more like Chucky though.

Thinking Shrek!

I don’t. I did an ancestry DNA thing. Zero % Neanderthal.
I was very disappointed because I like Neanderthals.

I got a little conure and when he moves i often see the mini dinosaur within. Have kept birds my whole life and they very much seem similar to the movements of dinosaurs in films

I’ve got a young golden so I do actually share a house with a velociraptor

I look at my all black cat and think “ wow you’re such a beautiful panther”!

No more than I think men/women are going to attack me to steal my cave/fire. I do appreciate that the dog could probably save my children in an emergency, just as a wolf would protect his family, so I suppose that gratitude is there, but normally I just think of the health benefits for kids of having a dog in the house.
TBH, dogs are safer than people, and domesticated dogs are far more different from wolves than we are from cavemen and women.

No, but I once (many years ago but never forgotten) caught something in my peripheral vision as I was washing up, turned round and for a nanosecond I thought there was a lion in my kitchen. It was next door’s enormous and fluffy cat, who had sneaked in as I’d left the back door open.

Only millennials (sorry)

Funny, that’s how I feel about most humans…

Oh I love woodlice! I used to drive my mum bonkers when I was a little kid bringing them into the house.
Those and hairy caterpillars. That i was highly allergic to.
I'd walk in the house with lips bigger than Katie price's and my mum would sigh and say you've been kissing caterpillers again haven't you. 🤣

It is kind of the law to call black cats 'panthers' isn't it? I LOVE IT!

No, but I do look at them and wonder how humans fucked up a wolf so badly (french bulldogs)

My Weimaraner has wolf eyes and he reminds me of Professor Lupin’s werewolf from Harry Potter, so I do think they are the wolfiest of the gundogs. Personally-wise he’s much more human toddler than wolf

Nah, love em.

Nah, but only because mine looks like a dingo that’s shrunk in the wash

I have two Irish wolfhounds and a lurcher and foster big dogs. I often think of them as hairy rocks not wolves.

Its the generations removed from pure wolf, so F1 (wolf x dog) and F2 (wolfdog x dog), you'd need a DWAL for, and not every county council will licence them.

There are however a lot of multigenerational crossbreed designer breeds meant to look like wolves, ie Utonagans, Tamaskans, Northern Inuits etc.

Then there are the breeds called 'wolfdog' like the Sarloos Wolfdog or the Czech Wolfdog (originating in 1935 and 1955 respectively), which are now a very long way (in the UK at least) from being even a droplet of actual wolf blood and are just rather wolfy racy looking German Shepherds.

They don't need a DWA licence because they're as much wolf as my American cousin is from County Cork...

For some reason people do like to pretend they own a dog with actual wolf content, in the UK, verrrrrrrrry few people do. In the US it is a bit more common because there are more wolves and more dickheads but even then probably 10% of the claimed 'wolf dogs' have any actual wolf content and even fewer still are high content, ie half wolf or more.

you and me both..good dog owners keep their dogs clean. Our bed would feel empty at night without the two idiots. I so do not care what anyone thinks of dogs in the bed, we love having our big cuddle monsters (most of the time. hate it when one takes up to much room or the the others spot, and they cry from the end of the bed ..so husband tells whatever one is there to move over...crisis averted.. but sometimes means we hug our sides of the bed so we do not fall off lol.

Not until he blew my lovely new straw house down.