Seijun

no, they won't breed the old one. I am hoping that they will give up on breeding the young one as well. ~Seij

For a long time now I have been having problems with my 4-5 year old husky shepherd mix. Whenever I approach a food item or an object that she has, she growls at me, with her ears airplaned and pointing slightly forward. Sometimes she slowly wags her tail as an added warning. I can put my hand on whatever she has, she growls more, sometimes nips, but never bites. However, if I force her to give it up, she will sometimes become VERY angry (depending on how important the thing or food was to her) and sometimes go as far as trying to attack or bite me. She has attacked me twice, not severely, but she intended to harm me. I have been told this is a sign that she thinks SHE is alpha, and she is punishing me for taking her stuff. I am tempted to agree, as I have read that food/possession aggressive dogs will often bite when you try to touch their things, but alpha dogs are more likely to bite after you take it away as punishment to you. One problem though, if she really does think of her self as the alpha over me, why does she act so submissive to me at ALL other times (except when around food or highly coveted possessions)? When I say she acts submissive to me at all other times, I mean that she keeps her eyes averted, ears back, licks lips, licks my chin, and will roll over to expose her belly. It

This just in, courtesy of an acquaintance of mine.. The said acquaintance gets a Shih Tzu pup. They want to get another pup so when the two grow up they can breed the two together (don't ask me why :roll: ) Anyway, they finally find a breeder and they buy a 6 month old pup from him. They take the pup to get it groomed and guess what--the dog isn't 6 months old, it has had puppies before, and it is actually the equivalent of a 60 year old human! Turns out the breeder had an old breeder dog he no longer wanted, so he sold it to these people as a 6 month old puppy. I never fails to amaze me how gullible buyers are. ~Seij

I am not against breeding mixes... That is, as long as the breeder is RESPOSIBLE, and doesn't breed in excess, plus has PREaproved homes selected before breeding. Unfortunately, after seeing the sheer amount of dogs placed in shelters every week, it would be nice if all dog breeding could be halted or at least reduced considerably for a while, both of pures and mixes. This, however, will probably never happen.

There was a group of people breeding beagles to mastiffs, or some large dog like it, as part of a test (don't remember what exactly), but they used artificial insemination. ~Seij

I am glad you agree, I was just making sure that you understood that it is unwise to tell someone to have there vet check their dogs teeth to see if it is part wolf. It is like saying that if it has yellow eyes and large paws, it must be part wolf, however wolves aren't the only canines with yellow eyes and large paws, just as wolves aren't the only canines with large crved teeth. "Some who've seen Topaz's picture have asked if Kia has some AID in her. Could be, but I don't think so." Topaz lookes like he is probably a husky mix. He does resemble the AIDS, but the AID is also mutt with a fancy name, not a breed. I could only find one AID breeder on the net, I am not sure if they are supposed to be the same things as NAIDS or not.. One "NAID" breeder, Majestic View Kennels, actually started out with genuine high content wolfdogs, and back then they [b]were[/b] called wolfdogs, not NAIDS. However, when wolfdogs were banned in MI, the owner decided to change the name of her wolfdogs in order to keep them from being euthenized (she did this not because she loved her animals, but because she wanted to continue making money off of them). The owner knew though that her higher wolf content animals were still too wolf-looking to pass as "NAIDS", so she shot them and sold their pelts. She took the remaining low-wolf content animals, and inbred them to create the ones with white spots, which she thought would sell better because they looked more 'exotic'. Many of the other "NAID" breeders out there, including Terra Pines, have NAIDS in their stock which came from Majestic Kennels. Regarding the article that Sanvean posted.. NAIDS aren't the only fake wolf-like breed out there. Kugsha dogs and North American Indian dogs are also fake. The Mississippi River Husky is another fake breed. Although there were dogs that were called Mississippi River Huskies, they were just a particular stock of Husky from a town on the Mississippi River, not a entirely seperate breed from the Siberian Husky. Many people have also been duped into buying "rare AKC registered white German Shepherds" which aren't rare at all, in fact, the AKC doesn't even recognise white GSD's since the white is considered a fault. ~Seij

Yes, but curved teeth ALONE will not prove that a dog is part wolf. You must understand, all the traits found in wolves CAN ALSO be found in dogs, that is why is is so very important to NEVER try deciding if a dog is part wolf based on ONE SINGLE factor! When determining a wolfdog from a dog, ALL factors must be taken into account, not just one. Also, for those of you who do not believe me when I say that the NAID is not a real breed, I would be more than happy to tell you the real story of how they were created. ~Seij

"Your vet shuld be able to tell you if it's a hybrid. Check the teeth (If he'll let you, that is) wolves canines turn under more than a dogs" You can't tell a wolfdog from a dog by its TEETH :roll: This is just a myth. Vets don't know anymore about wolfdogs than does any other person. Just because they are a vet doesn't mean they know the difference between a wolf, a wolfdog, and a dog. Here is a website I created a while back about some of the differences between wolves and dogs.. [url]http://www.geocities.com/durkriswen/[/url] Also, the NAID is a made up breed, just so you know. If it WAS a breed, they would look similar, just as all GSD's look similar, or all Golden Retrievers look similar. If you look at different NAID sites, they range considerably in size, shape, and color. Breeders 'create' them by mixing akitas, malamutes, hukies, GSD's, and sometimes even coyote. ~Seij