I started hand feeding my rescued wolfdog girl almost immediately when she came here at 7 months... not only to prevent food aggression, but also because it greatly strengthens the bond. That's why I still feed her by hand from time to time. Here my girl had a lamb's head for a meal. ua-cam.com/users/shortsE7CTT8NCFr8
I just watched your reel, what a beautiful girl, thank you for sharing. I just subbed as well, I am very interested in stories about people who care about wild canine and wild canine hybrids. How does your girl stack up against a pure female wolf for size and weight?
@@intrepidworld Thanks mate, I also subbed you because you share interesting content... and yes, I too am a big fan of wild canines. Now you also get a long story.... My girl unfortunately has not yet been tested by embark DNA, because the test is quite expensive, and besides my wolfdog girl I have an elderly gentleman (mix of husky, akita, white shepherd and Korean Pungsan and some of almost 15 years old) to take care of and maintain, and another chronically ill shepherd podenco mix, to which I have a lot of extra expenses every year... so unfortunately the embark test falls by the wayside for now. I did see embark results of wolfdogs that had to be her 2 brothers and 2 sisters (total 4/12 animals from 2 litters) from two litters from the same claimed parent combination (2 very similar in appearance), all of which showed an equal starting mid content score. She was sold from a large trader and breeder in Western Russia to Western Europe with the (highly doubtful) claim that she would be a mid content cross between and Western European working line German shepherd (with negligible low content and far back breeding from the Russian Permian wolfdog/Volkosoby back to Gsd) and an anthropophobia-free Eurasian wolf (, and a nice sales pitch that this wolf had voluntarily bonded with a remote living old man and his Gsd. She came to me via a young couple in England who had originally bought her through the trader in Russia through many (inexperienced) hands totally confused by everything she had gone through in a short time, never to leave. Regarding her shoulder height of 64cm she would fall under the somewhat smaller European/Eurasian wolf females, regarding her weight of 31 kg she would again be quite heavy in relation to her shoulder height... but she also has a much heavier front and wider chest than the wolf. She would be more similar in size and weight to the western European working line Gsd male, her quite similar brother with about the same weight but a shoulder height of 71 cm, would again be much more comform to the proportions of the wolf. And she in physically unprecedentedly strong, I have had to feed, maintain and walk 3 rhodhesian ridgebacks at home 3 times a day in the past 5 days from good acquaintances who were on vacation, and the two females of equal size and weight together do not put as much force on reactivity on the leash, as my girl does. I've been volunteering with dogs at the local animal shelter for 1 or 2 half-days a week (sometimes more often) since 2007, and in all those years I've never encountered a dog of equal size that had so much primal strength in it. But most of all, the extraordinary social and emotional intelligence she has and how unprecedentedly sweet she is to me is also something unlike a normal pet dog. I don't share much on YT but if you are active on fb, you may add me or else send me a chat message so I can add you, and if you don't know them yet, I invite you to interesting wolfdog fb groups, which some dingo owners also participate in. Link to my FB; facebook.com/patrick.vantoorn/
Beautiful 🐶 😃 great job looking after them. Keep up the great work 👍
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I started hand feeding my rescued wolfdog girl almost immediately when she came here at 7 months... not only to prevent food aggression, but also because it greatly strengthens the bond.
That's why I still feed her by hand from time to time.
Here my girl had a lamb's head for a meal.
ua-cam.com/users/shortsE7CTT8NCFr8
I just watched your reel, what a beautiful girl, thank you for sharing. I just subbed as well, I am very interested in stories about people who care about wild canine and wild canine hybrids. How does your girl stack up against a pure female wolf for size and weight?
@@intrepidworld Thanks mate, I also subbed you because you share interesting content... and yes, I too am a big fan of wild canines.
Now you also get a long story....
My girl unfortunately has not yet been tested by embark DNA, because the test is quite expensive, and besides my wolfdog girl I have an elderly gentleman (mix of husky, akita, white shepherd and Korean Pungsan and some of almost 15 years old) to take care of and maintain, and another chronically ill shepherd podenco mix, to which I have a lot of extra expenses every year... so unfortunately the embark test falls by the wayside for now.
I did see embark results of wolfdogs that had to be her 2 brothers and 2 sisters (total 4/12 animals from 2 litters) from two litters from the same claimed parent combination (2 very similar in appearance), all of which showed an equal starting mid content score.
She was sold from a large trader and breeder in Western Russia to Western Europe with the (highly doubtful) claim that she would be a mid content cross between and Western European working line German shepherd (with negligible low content and far back breeding from the Russian Permian wolfdog/Volkosoby back to Gsd) and an anthropophobia-free Eurasian wolf (, and a nice sales pitch that this wolf had voluntarily bonded with a remote living old man and his Gsd. She came to me via a young couple in England who had originally bought her through the trader in Russia through many (inexperienced) hands totally confused by everything she had gone through in a short time, never to leave.
Regarding her shoulder height of 64cm she would fall under the somewhat smaller European/Eurasian wolf females, regarding her weight of 31 kg she would again be quite heavy in relation to her shoulder height... but she also has a much heavier front and wider chest than the wolf.
She would be more similar in size and weight to the western European working line Gsd male, her quite similar brother with about the same weight but a shoulder height of 71 cm, would again be much more comform to the proportions of the wolf.
And she in physically unprecedentedly strong, I have had to feed, maintain and walk 3 rhodhesian ridgebacks at home 3 times a day in the past 5 days from good acquaintances who were on vacation, and the two females of equal size and weight together do not put as much force on reactivity on the leash, as my girl does.
I've been volunteering with dogs at the local animal shelter for 1 or 2 half-days a week (sometimes more often) since 2007, and in all those years I've never encountered a dog of equal size that had so much primal strength in it.
But most of all, the extraordinary social and emotional intelligence she has and how unprecedentedly sweet she is to me is also something unlike a normal pet dog.
I don't share much on YT but if you are active on fb, you may add me or else send me a chat message so I can add you, and if you don't know them yet, I invite you to interesting wolfdog fb groups, which some dingo owners also participate in.
Link to my FB;
facebook.com/patrick.vantoorn/
@@PvanT1983 interesting she looks like the canine in Russel Crow's Gladiator.