Well, my friend had a German Shepherd guide dog who was one of the
sweetest, gentlest dogs I've ever known. I have, however, known some who
were overly protective of their owners.
Miriam
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A woman in my neighborhood who is a police K-9 trainer says no German
Shepherd should be a house pet, let alone some half wolf/coyote. They were
bred to be working guard dogs and have that instinct, no matter how much
training you do. And to try to train their natural instincts out is cruel.
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Half is a pretty big percentage. If they are really gentle I would say
that you are lucky. Half wolves and half coyotes and certainly full
blooded ones can be quite dangerous even if they were raised by humans
from infancy. And they present a dilemma too. If they have been raised
by humans you can't just release them back into the wild. They would
never survive. I remember reading about how some Alaska natives used to
prevent chronic inbreeding in their dogs. In small wilderness
communities it was not possible to completely prevent inbreeding, but
they did have a way of getting some wolf genes into the population. They
would tie up a female dog in heat in the woods and watch from a blind.
When a wolf came up to mate with her they would watch and then shoot the
wolf before it could attack the dog after mating. The litter would be
half wolves, of course. They would then watch the puppies and pick out
the gentlest ones and kill the more vicious ones. After several
generations of this they could trust the remaining puppies and not have
to watch so closely for viciousness. The half breeds are, of course,
more trustworthy than a full wolf, but those wolf genes have to be
watered down for one or two more generations before you can be really
confident about them. I would say that if the Facebook guy really has a
coyote he had better keep it chained up if there are small dogs or cats
in the neighborhood and the first time it loses its temper with him he
stands a good chance of getting a pretty bad bite.
On 11/5/2017 8:59 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Properly trained, a coyote can be a fine companion. They, like<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
wolves, are very bright animals. I had a "half breed", half coyote
and half some sort of Russian dog. She was a gentle pet. One of our
clients has a half wolf, half collie or sheep dog. It looks very wolf
like, but is also a gentle animal. In fact, he is trained to be our
client's companion dog.
It's mostly in the training, but some dogs resist training. I know
that the dogs used by the Dog Guide Schools are carefully selected,
and some are turned back due to their inability to meet the required
standards.
While I am not a good dog trainer, I do make a good dog companion once
the dog has been professionally trained. I'm a firm proponent of
insisting that all dogs over 30 pounds be professionally trained.
Carl Jarvis
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There is a guy on Facebook who says that his wife brought home a puppy
that she found. She said that it had been abandoned and that she found
it in the weeds on the side of the road. They decided to adopt it and
went through the whole procedure of getting its vaccinations and dog
tags and so forth. But he says that the older it gets the more he is
thinking that it doesn't act quite right and it doesn't look quite
right. He is getting more and more suspicious that his wife brought home
a coyote. I wish I could see the picture. Several people have commented
and a couple say that it looks a lot like pictures of coyotes that they
have seen.
