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Originally Posted by lupis
I seen many photos of Layla and I see nothing on wolf - no wolf characteristics. She is blackmasked with dark eyes and strange head. Nothing similar to wolf but many similatiries to shephard. Much worse than italian dogs in dog shows.
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Dear Lupis,
Michael was joking because this discussion is so very silly, especially the fur in the ear thing.
If you would have real experience you would know that the dark mask will vanish totally the next few months (in fakt it is already there at his photo here) and the dark (?) eyes will get lighter in many dogs what you already see very well on the photos of Layla, about the strange head, I don´t know what you mean but don´t worry, I don´t mind.
As you can see here is a light mask in a young individual not very typical for wolves, the animals on the pictures are pure European wolves:
http://img175.imageshack.us/i/inamitwolf.jpg/
http://img203.imageshack.us/i/alleaufdemscho.jpg/
http://img682.imageshack.us/i/frwolfdog.jpg/
The wolf on the last picture was one of the puppies that is about the same age as Layla.
And also adult wolves don´t look similar:
Norbert
his full brother and litter mate Ninjo, same parents, no mix in sight.
Sorry for the quality of the picture but I think you can see what I mean.
They are almost three years now and look at Norbert´s mask!
They are two of the puppies on the first two pictures.
Of course a young (or old) wolfdog won´t look like a wolf, it is a dog! Young wolfdogs look very different to wolves from about 8 weeks of age on. Wolves have a period with horrible big ears, no mask at all, very funny squirrel tails, very strange heads - but oh wonder! they get beautiful perfect wolves when they are about 1-2 years, it really is like the story of the black swan.
In a very different way it is the same with wolfdogs...
This is the reason why the comparison of photos in the beginning of Mikael (who I really appreciate in this forum) doesn´t make sense.
Somebody who knows this breed will know where your problems with Layla have their origin: in Bref, but someone who really knows about this breed will also know why we made this pairing and why it was interesting for several breeders worldwide, but anyway won´t judge a dog before the age of about 2-3 years, especially not a dog out of the origin of our lines, they are fully developed with around 3-4 years.
But this is rather OT and not really interesting for this topic.
I like the dog on Massimos pictures very much and I also don´t believe that it is a mix. That doesn´t mean that I agree with the breeding practices of Passo de Lupo and also think that you should look on the whole lot of offspring of a kennel. But this wasn´t the topic of this thread, wasn´t it?
But a good wolfdog is more than just good looks on photos what means that exhibitions don´t count that much, not for me.
Ina