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- Subject: Re: other ways to tell dog from wolf
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 23:43:44 GMT
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- m. writes:
- >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?
-
- i've never heard this before, and
- i certainly don't remember any little
- spurs on my previous terrier's teeth.
-
- i once heard a rumor about wolfiness
- being associated with the lack/presence
- of dewclaws, but i think this was only
- supposed to indicate "true wolfness".
- triss, whose mom was a german shepard
- and whose father was a wild alaskan
- wolf, did not have the classic dewclaws.
-
- >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?
-
- probably just an irritable animal that has
- problems with other dogs. triss was so
- painfully shy around other dogs we almost
- had to DRAG her into obedience school classes.
- she also enjoyed playing, sleeping, and
- socializing with the dog next door after
- the dog knocked a board off the fence and
- came to visit.
-
- however, a good friend of mine tells of
- experiences with breeding german shepards,
- and of the several chairs they destroyed
- trying to break up fights amongst the shepards.
- fighting with other dogs definitely isn't
- a good indicator of wolfiness.
-
- >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).
-
- it's not unusual. there's a dog called a
- rhodesian ridgeback that's popular amongst
- hunters that has this same strip of hair
- permanently standing on edge. i've also seen
- other varieties of dogs with the medium-length
- hair exhibit this tendency, but it's rarely
- seen with really short haired or long haired
- dogs.
-
- stormwind
-
- hell's amazon
-