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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Thursday, 31 Dec 1992 16:47:04 CST
- From: <U23700@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92366.164704U23700@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.wolves
- Subject: other ways to tell dog from wolf
- References: <1992Dec22.234036.17372@inel.gov>
- <1992Dec23.163849.28211@inel.gov> <1hv1ciINNj27@uwm.edu>
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- hi, i have a dog which was a birthday gift, and all i know is she
- was reputed to be part wolf. (my sister found her and a bunch of
- other pups at a moving sale; she said the mother was chained up
- away from the puppies and when she asked why, the owners said
- the mother had turned on the puppies. my puppy and a few others
- had scrapes and scratches from the mother...) anyway, she's get-
- ting older and i've never known for sure. a couple years ago i
- took her to a dog obediance training course led by a woman who
- had an m.s. in animal behaviorism. the instructor told me that
- all dogs have little spurs on their teeth at the gum line, and
- that wolves do not. she looked at my dog's teeth and pronounced
- her all dog. does anyone know if this is a good way to tell?
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- just wondering. oh -- my dog's mother was supposedly half-wolf.
- obviously for some reason the mother turned on the pups. my dog
- also has picked many fights with other dogs, including our other
- dog whom she's ripped open a couple times (the last time so badly
- that we keep them totally separate now); she also picked fights
- with dogs in our obediance class. might this type of "social mal-
- adjustment" on the mother's part and on my dog's part indicate her
- being part wolf, or is she just a strange dog?
-
- additional notes: when i got her she was only 5 weeks old
- and just barely had her teeth. when she barks at people she
- doesn't like or know, a thick stripe of hair from her neck
- ruff down her back to her tail stands up. (i haven't seen
- this in other dogs, but i'm not ruling it out). she gets a
- winter coat and sheds it like crazy in the spring, but she
- also has beautiful reversed husky markings (light markings on
- dark gray body), so maybe spring shedding is a husky thing??
-
- any info would be helpful; thanks in advance.
-
- m.
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