I need help naming my boyfriend's new puppy. He's 1/2 wolf, 1/2 german sheppard.. Any suggestions??!! I need help helping him name the pup. Bad.
off topic. but, if i find it scary that he is half wolf, and half sheppard.... i wonder how the sheep feel. :jester:
My mom's ex use to have a 1/2 wolf 1/2 G.S. He called hip Zeb/ Zebbie Short for Zebulon Pike. I always thought it suited him well. Or perhaps Kojak? Hmmm Duelly? I once had a puppu named Wahoo, I always loved his name. IDK
My cousins had a half GS/half wolf. Very common for a farm bitch to get knocked up by a wolf in these parts. King his name, and he was the most protective dog in the world. He once broke his large chain and took a salesman down to the ground by his arm because us kids were in the house alone and the salesman didn't listen to King's warnings. We had to call my Grandma to go uptown to find my Uncle because King would only "release" for my Uncle. This was back in the mid 80's, and in rural Saskatchewan.... am sure the whole thing would result in a law suit now days. Anyway... names. What kind of Wolf cross is he? Grey? Timber? Grey or Timber would make a cool name...
Our hybrid was Linus. He was pretty Beta, but also extremely protective of my sweetie: unless the attacker was a large male. What that means is in his wiring (and I think the close to 50 percent crosses are unstable) women and small children were to be attacked, but not something larger. of Linus' litter, I know that two of his sisters had to be destroyed for biting. As my sweetie's ex stole Linus and we saw him for a year afterward with her clan, but suddently not, we asked around, and found he'd bitten a child as well. seems the ex was fined thousands of dollars, none of which she'll ever pay. (when you live completely on the road, it's easy to avoid that) Youu have to remember, these are not dogs. They are wolves, even with the cross. If they get picked up by animal control, they are usually destroyed.
King was kinda the opposite way. Wolves are highly social animals, and are known to be very patient with their young.. in fact, they raise their pups as a group. King saw all of us kids are being his pack's current litter; we were allowed to go anywhere as long as we took King, as he wouldn't let adult strangers near us.. other kids were fine, but adults from other packs were not. The salesman that he attacked ignored King's warnings. King was growling and in a defensive stance blocking the door as well as he could being chained up. The salesman walked right by him, and knocked on the door. He gestured sharply with his hands too, but it wasn't until he raised his arm sharply (a gesture that could be easily mistaken by a human as one of potental violence) that King broke his chain and took the guy down. He didn't bite the guy, just firmly held the guys arm in his mouth... took him down by jumping on his chest. He stayed that way, standing on the guy's chest with his front legs, arm in mouth and growling until my Uncle, the Alpha wolf in King's world, showed up. Some are unstable, but like all dogs, I do think that a lot of how they behave depends on what they were raised around. King was always surrounded by kids, so he never questioned that they belonged near him. Also, my Uncle made a point to understand wolf behavior so he could help King fit in. Sorry that Linus got put down.
but they are wired as WOLVES, not dogs, so they have to be treated like wolves and respected as wolves. I'm sad so many of his mama's pups were put down. About a third, and most by age three. now his mama was high 90s wolf, couple differenttypes, and she had nothing doglike, so it was easy for people to respect her for what she was. but once the halflings came, everyone thought they'd be great doggies. We learned. Respect them for what they are and get lots of training for them. Did you know some vets will not give them rabies shots? Studies show that it does not work on wolves, or crosses.
I used to work at an animal shelter in Raleigh NC. We got a call about a grey wolf wondering around a neighborhood and sure enough, there was and we picked him up. Somebody dumped him. He had been raised in captivity as far as we could tell but that animal gave me the heeby jeebies! When children walked past his pen he just stared them down coldly. You could hear him thinking "I'm gonna eat you!" Seriously, he was a wild animal and a predator and there was no mistaking it! Eventually he want to a wolf rehab type place in Tennessee where he could live out his days wild like with other wolves. He was fixed of course.
my dog is part wolf part german shepard i love him to death ive raised him from a pup if anything ever happened to him i dont know what id do it would be like losin a family member my whole family sees him as a family member and not just a dog hes a tough lil guy too hes been shot in the chest, bit by rattlesnakes,copperheads, had oil thrown on him for gettin in the neighbors chicken house, been hit with hoes and things to keep him out of ppls gardens and he still gets up and plays and fights with me and stuff lol we named him griz..short for grizzly bear about a week after we got him when he was a pup becuz he when ud play with him hed stand up on his back legs and smack you with his front paws and growl like a bear would do hes been the best friend ive had since i was about 7 or 8 but like others have said hes still got the wolf blood in him so u hafta pay alot of attention to em and show em alot of love or they will go back to their instincts
He might not even be "half wolf". Many breeders sell "wolf hybrids" but their isin't a ligit registry or reliable pedigree to guarintee a hybrid animals heritage. Most "wolf hybirds" are scam pups that have either very little wolf in them at all or are a mixture of northern breeds that slightly resemble a wolf. A half wolf would need to come from a full wolf parent - which would be pricey to purchase, illegal to keep, and difficult to breed(wolf's breeding cycle is much diffrent from a dogs) in most places. High % wolf hybrid puppies can only be born ONCE a year - in the spring - as that is the ONLY TIME that a male or female wolf or high % wolf hybrid can/will reproduce. If a pup is being sold as a hybrid but was born anytime other then spring it is a scam...and even then that's no guarintee.
A friend and his brother bought wolf/dog hybrids. The friends pet, "Ajax", was well behaved, reliably safe around humans, even children ... he only got his hackles up if another dog growled at him and he could even be controlled then. Beautiful animal, and a joy to be around. He was both happy by nature, and smart as well. Judging him by my German bloodline shepard at 160#, Ajax would have gone around 200-220# and with his long dense fur he looked as big as a black bear. The brother's pup from the same litter was also big, but aggressive, wild, and ended up being confined with difficulty 24/7 in a chainlink "dog prison" with lid and padlocked gate. Last I heard they were going to have to put him down, he had gotten so downright mean that even the brother couldn't feed him without serious risk. I've heard similar stories from others. If you get a good hybrid (one that acts more like a dog) they can be wonderful pets, but you still have to watch for that wolf blood to assert itself from time to time. If you do end up buying one, please be very picky, very careful, and knowledgeable before you commit, and keep an eye out for those wild traits to show at about the time he sexually matures. You might also look at one of the better breeders of German Shephards of German and/or Canadian bloodlines. They're big dogs, easy to train (but you will have to train them, obdience at least). My Logan would knock Sharon and Orrin down, so I sent him to a reputable trainer to learn that he had to respect them as well as me. Worked out great, and we loved him to death. I hope some of my babbling has been helpful.
Are you sure your GSD is 160lbs? That is waaaaaay oversize for a GSD! German line dogs tend to be more moderate - my German line girl is 23" at the shoulder and about 60lbs. She is within standard for a female which is 22 - 23". Standard for males is 24 - 26" although many show bred American lines are taller. To be registered with the German registery the dogs can not be more then I believe 1/4" over or under the standard for height. Even 100# would be pushing it for an in standard size male GSD who was not overweight. GSDs are not supposed to be a giant breed, 160-200+ pounds is a Mastiff or Saint Bernard sized dog. As for the issue of hybrids - I trust that Wolf Park is a good source of info on them and would suggest anyone thinking about one read all of their hybrid info.
Not to the exact pound, no. The last time I weighed Logan I picked him up (with great difficulty), and my wife steadied us while I stepped onto a 300# scale. The scale bottomed out, and I weighed 147 at the time. He's long gone, so I can't check now. Yep, he sure was big, and he wasn't fat either. That's why I had to have him obedience trained, he kept knocking my wife and small son down trying to "herd" them with his shoulder. We also had an American-bloodline shepherd named Max who was of normal size, he sorta looked like Logan's Mini-Me. I wasn't making a pronouncement on hybrids in general, just the one that I'd met. Ajax (the hybrid) was very noticeably bigger than Logan, but I'm just guessing his weight. Maybe he was all hair, he sure was fluffy.
