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Originally Posted by wolfdogs16
2nd paragraph.. I dont understand...other than, there is a difference, both physical and behavior in a wolf-dog mix.... those differences, however..vary greatly in the amount of wolf in the dog... the physical difference will be pretty much depended on content, ie: 50% wolf 50% dog.. you will have half wolf physcical characteristics... but... the content of wolf spred to the pups from a gene standpoint can vary greatly. For instance, lets take the perfect match up: a wolf and dog. they mate. 3 pups are born... one of those pups might act almost totally like a dog... another may act like a wolf...and the third may act like an even tempered mix... thats because the genes inherited vary so much.
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No it is not lie that. The first generation will be almost the same, because all puppies have one copy of each gene from its mother and one from its father. But, the difference between wolf/dog and dog/dog offspring is marcant, because the behavioral phenotype of wolves is more dominant than that o dogs. You will get animals that, if not introduced to something in very young age, will be afraid of that, unlike dogs and woldfogd (menaning the breed).
Only in F2 generation is there a possibility of 25% of pups (if the genetics of behavior are Mendelian, which they are not) behaving like a dog (while they can look completely like wolf).
But, if you work with wolf/dog mixes,than you should know that there is a big difference between behavior of such animals (and the higher the wolf content the bigger the difference usually) and dogs.