Wolf hybrid/ Saarloo

Ets said:
Thanks Alec, yes i think she is lovely too! As far as i am aware her "breed" was created to look like wolves and to be a family pet, we liked the looked of huskies but wanted something that could be let of lead, her recall is a bit iffy sometimes though!

With the TV she is not bothered by it most of the time and ignores dogs barking but stops what she is doing if there are wolves on the tv and the howl!

She also never barked until we got the JRT.......
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I know a couple of Saarloos and another I think is a czech wolfdog but can't recall 100%. The saarloos are nervous sorts, clingy and wary of strangers despite good socialisation. These dogs lack the kind of confidence you may expect from their looks and are IMO of poor nerve. They did not appeal to me at all. If I was forced to have a wolf-alike I have rather liked the few utonagans I've met though.

Good luck with your new dog - temperament is so variable and their numbers so few that these little snippets really mean nothing, just take him as you find him.
 
I know someone with northern inuits, with very traceable breeding who are frequently mistaken as wolves. To the point she has had visits for keeping an unlicensed wolf. I know rumour has it they were originally wolf crosses, but certainly none listed in recent generations. The male looks like the typical film version of a timberwolf, however anyone who's ever studied wolves doesn't think he looks like anything but the inuit he is. However the female imo could easily pass as a wolf cross, much closer to that lean rangey build than the stockier male. And she has frequent morons asking her if they can be first in line for a 'wolf pup' when she has a litter. The female is very convincing imo when sat howling.
As a child we had a dog we believed was part fox, found as a puppy. Nobody knows, but he basically looked like a stockier version of a fox. Face, colour, brush etc. And very intelligent & well honed instincts. Even as a toddler I knew he was different to our other dogs. I was largely unsupervised when little, & I clearly remember recognising his warning signals for me to stay away when he was chewing something or eating, his face was somehow more expressive of intent, even though I was only a toddler, I could read him before I could other dogs. Suprisingly though, when our big alpha male died, he became very attached to me. I remember when I was 5/6 him trotting after me everywhere, & generally looking after me. And being able to sit next to his food bowl when he'd not let my parents within a few feet.
 
I think we have a wolf hybrid, he was from a rescue who had got him from the police, all we knew was he was removed from a house that had eastern europeons living in it, the dog had spent his life tied to a tree in the back garden.
We were told that he was a difficult dog who could only go to experienced dog people, he had been fostered but that hadn't work out as they found him too difficult.
But we have found him to be the complete opposite! But he is huge, he weighs 74kgs & doesn't bark, he makes a noise like Chewbacca in Star Wars.
It was the vet who told us he thought he was a wolf hybrid, he said he was pretty sure & that we should just keep quiet about him.
He's a lovely boy but looks extremely tough, he's never had to be aggressive as every dog he's ever met has been submissive towards him.
I was at a market with him & a guy working on a stall (who had a Polish sounding accent) came up to me & told me that he hadn't seen a dog like him in this country but in his country there were lots of them.
The vet thought he'd been smuggled into the country in a car & was unlikley to have been bred in this country.
 
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