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    Post Stop coddling your dog—he’s 99.9% wolf

    Stop coddling your dog—he’s 99.9% wolf.

    I saw this article this morning and thought it was very interesting. I know that a lot of us are dog people. Your thoughts would be appreciated.


    https://qz.com/159513/stop-coddling-...hes-99-9-wolf/

    I just noticed this sitting at the edge of my lawn - she must be living in my woods:

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    I have had two wolf dogs. Asia passed a few years back due to old age. She was constantly challenging the wife for the number two position in our "pack" but never challenged me.
    I read up and studied about wolves before I got her. I understood the rules of "packing" and their social ordering.
    Now, we have Boomer who is 17% wolf. It is the borderline for "domesticating" behavior. He is house broken and listens. He was actually easier to house break.
    Never hit a wolf dog. A male voice has more control over them because of the deep male tones. If I am displeased with him, I simply ignore him until he comes around and "apologizes." If I am really pissed, I growl and give that "look" to quit. He reads my face very well and that would be the dog part of him, and he translates it to his wolf side. He is vey well behaved until strangers show up, then all he wants to do is take their measure by trying to play with them. Neither of my wolves ever bit anyone, but have gotten ugly when a stray dog wanders too close to his/the pack's territory. He is timber wolf and Husky mix.
    You cannot exhibit fear, but dominance. And he is an inside animal. To him, this is normal pack behavior and he accepts it.
    Since we live in the country, he spends a great deal of time outside. (We have a Petsafe Wireless fence and he wont leave the yard even when we take the collar off) This is his home, and he knows it.
    Now for the real treat. The local coyote wont wander near the house because they fear wolves.
    We've had lots of dogs, but the older wolf (now passed) and now this one, will curl up around my feet. The others favored the wife.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Stop coddling your dog—he’s 99.9% wolf.

    I saw this article this morning and thought it was very interesting. I know that a lot of us are dog people. Your thoughts would be appreciated.


    https://qz.com/159513/stop-coddling-...hes-99-9-wolf/

    I just noticed this sitting at the edge of my lawn - she must be living in my woods:

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    You have to own a dog to be considered a dog person.

    Not owning a dog and calling yourself a dog person is like living in $1.8 East side Home and saying you are a SJW
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    Quote Originally Posted by Admiral Ackbar View Post
    You have to own a dog to be considered a dog person. Not owning a dog and calling yourself a dog person is like living in $1.8 East side Home and saying you are a SJW

    Even if you own a dog, it has to be a real dog. Not a dog that your wife made you get. With a real name. Not a name that your kids picked out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Even if you own a dog, it has to be a real dog. Not a dog that your wife made you get. With a real name. Not a name that your kids picked out.
    A dog is a dog
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    Quote Originally Posted by Admiral Ackbar View Post
    A dog is a dog
    Nuh uh.

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    Here's my dog. Found him on the side of the road. He's a little bitey, but fine otherwise. Tried to find his owner but never did. I'm sure he will settle down any day now.

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    I own Staffordshire bull terriers, as posted by the op the human male of the house is pack leader, like the op I dominate my dogs, not by fear but thru face and eyes. They were both taken to obedience lessons, it’s me that got taught how to look after a dog, and the dog to learn how to be friendly with other dogs. Both of them loves interacting with packs they encounter in parks.
    When they were both puppies they liked to nip and bite me, but I simply picked up a paw and bit it, both had this lesson, after I bit the staffies they never once bit me or nipped again. showing my teeth is enough to show my displeasure.
    One good thing I taught both my dogs is to immediately lay down when I make a fist like soldiers do to halt a platoon in combat. It saves shouting the command, also they never take their eyes off me when off the leash.

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    It's funny, but just last night for some reason I was thinking about something that happened on a camp out in the woods that a few other guys from the neighborhood and I had when I was a teenager. One of the guys brought his big German Shepherd along. Before turning in for the night we'd been telling ghost stories, of course, and one story - a widespread urban legend, I later learned - was about something called The Goat Man. (Guy with the head of a goat, scratches on your back door late at night and then eats your face off or something.) For some reason I just couldn't get that story out of my head and I was lying there in a sleeping bag in the middle of the night, looking around at the trees and seeing The Goat Man behind every one, scared to death. After a while, that German Shepherd left his master's side and came over and lay down beside me - someone he didn't really know at all - because he smelled my fear and wanted to reassure me.
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    They know when we are sick, scared, sad.
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