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Old 03-08-2005, 03:38   #1
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My family and I are looking into a dog finally, when I saw this dog, I fell in love with it, and the website describes the dog as what I'm looking for, but I'm hoping it's not biased. I'm looking for these qualities in a dog.

-**Good with cats**
-Light barker
-Good with other dogs
-Good with small, pestering children
-VERY loyal, to all family members or even one of them

This dog looks and sounds like an amazing animal, and I'm hoping someone will give an honest opinion about it
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Old 03-08-2005, 10:39   #2
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good with cats - forget it
light barker - more than that, no barker!! only when needeed (stranger near by, never barks on neighbours)
good with other dogs - depends how you raise him, you can not know until dog is grown up
good with children - I have four children 9, 5, 3, years and 6 months- very good with all of them especially with 6 months (always come near by and kiss her legs), absolutly no problem with kids
loyal- very loyal to all family members

Dog needs to run and walk a lot each day!!

PS: I described my dog only!!
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Old 03-08-2005, 20:57   #3
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good with cats - forget it
Well, it depends, I suppose
http://home.online.no/~perolav/images/slappis.jpg

Otherwise I fully agree
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Old 04-08-2005, 00:04   #4
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good with cats - forget it
Well, it depends, I suppose
http://home.online.no/~perolav/images/slappis.jpg

Otherwise I fully agree
it is all question of custom, an animal accustomed since small with cats goes to give itself well with them, my Beagle is an example of this, a hunting dog that simply loves cats.
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Old 04-08-2005, 01:36   #5
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Well, if I was to get this dog, I would get it as a pup, and I already have a cat who loves people and is constantly around, so I'm guessing it will learn to leave it alone.
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Old 04-08-2005, 12:01   #6
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I will give you my honest opinion with my 3 month old puppy. I have 5 cats and he gets along great with them. He does like to play and chase them, but that is to be expected as he is only a puppy. My cats have become accustomed to him so they tolerate him. Young children? That all depends on how you socialize them. My neices and nephews age ranged from 2-8 and he is great with them. Only because we have socialized him to be around many different people. The kids run and play with him and it seems that he is extra gentle with them. Another thing, I have an 87 year old grandmother and he seems to know her age and is extremly good with her. No jumping or anything. These are GREAT dogs if you raise them right.[/quote]
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My wolfdog loves our cats
just look here:
http://jantarowa.wataha.wolfdog.org/...le/index3.html

He is very good with children
He loves female dogs, tolerates male - but not always
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We also have cats and both our wolfdogs can get along well with them. The dogs understand, that the cats belong to the "pack". But other cats, for example on the street, they´d hunt, if they could.

Regarding wolfdog, I would suggest more that you go see some of them in real, before you decide to buy one. It is a very special dog, unlike any other breeds and it is not exactly the best choice for beginners. Especially the first few months, let´s say before the dog reaches 1 year of age, it can bring you many headaches. The puppy is wild, loves to bite and destroy everything, digs holes in the garden, will chase the kids etc. That is a fact.

It can grow up into loving family dog, but it requires a lot of attention, good socialisation and lot of time from your side. Do you have all that?
If not, go better for some lazy labrador.
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Note: Small dogs are not good company for children, therefore they hurt themselves easily and they can finish attacking the child, many times those breeds that are called "potentially dangerous" is the best option, therefore are strong, resistant and if accustomed with children are excellent friends. A question of treatment, if you is everything to treat the animal well, it goes to be yours better friend, capable to give the life to save yours and of your children. If to treat the dog badly, it, believing worse, can cause without intention an accident, but never he goes to leave to love the owner or trais it, exactly that this not pass of a delinquent with it.

In 90% of the attack cases, the potentially dangerous one is the owner.
And in 10% of the attack cases, the dog have a genetic personality problems ( in 9% of this cases, these dogs comes of the "breeders" called "breeders of deep of yard" who only want to know to gain money with the creation. )

Therefore, when it will be to buy its dog, it buys in a responsible breeder, it sees the kennel well and as it is the health of the animals. It searches well on the race before buying, the illnesses that it can come to have (and illnesses who comes with the bad genetic selection) Sees some kennels (In the purchase, she uses the head and not it heart) and mainly: never buys animals in Puppyies fair or "Puppy mills".
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-**Good with cats**
Depends how they grow up
-Light barker
Only when needed!!
-Good with other dogs
ehm....depends....my one was very submissive with all other males up to the age of 12-13 months...now....unless they are strongly subimissive...males should stay far away...
-Good with small, pestering children
U believe for this you need to make a very strong socialization when they are small, and also it depends on their own character.
At 60 days I spent 2 months going EVERY EVENING in the city center, crowded with people.
now, any human, but in particular children and females, will be loved by him.
-VERY loyal, to all family members or even one of them
No other dog can be as loyal!!

-This dog looks and sounds like an amazing animal, and I'm hoping someone will give an honest opinion about it
There are some pros but also some cons, beware.
Wolfdogs (from my small experience) tend to live in a pack, just like wolves.
Some suffer so much to be left alone that they destroy EVERYTHING.
It's not that they are crazy, only that they hate being left alone.
Also, specially males, tend to "climb the ladder of hierarchy".
So I think you must be coerent and strikt. A no today must be a no always.
During their growth they will put you to a test, to see if you are really worth being their Alfa.
My wolfdog tested me many times, around 6 months old, around 8, around 10, around 13.
Now we live a wonderful relationship of respect and love.
If you are up to it, if there will be nothing else (sofa, jewelry, precious objects, a beautiful house...) more important than him, then no dog is better than a wolfdog.
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