Misleading article about Hybrids and Wolfdogs

[Joswolf]

Most adult and socialised wolves do attack people who misbehave. All the socialised wolves are difficult to let strange people savely in the fences.
Wolfhybrides can attack as well. Some weeks ago some did in Holland and are taken away now. So I do not agree that socialised wolves are harmless. Likely F1 are also not harmless. You should not act as if it's easy becouse it is not.
Jos

[Rona]

Originally Posted by Joswolf

Most adult and socialised wolves do attack people who misbehave. All the socialised wolves are difficult to let strange people savely in the fences.
Wolfhybrides can attack as well. Some weeks ago some did in Holland and are taken away now. So I do not agree that socialised wolves are harmless. Likely F1 are also not harmless. You should not act as if it's easy becouse it is not.
Jos

I consider humans to be defninitely less harmless than dogs or wolfdogs Just take statistics and study violence rates in any society...

[Joswolf]

And a bad article. Quote, "These are sarloos, from a cross between a timber wolf and a German shepherd".
Was it to much trouble to get good info about the Saarloos. It was a European Wolf.
Jos

[tikaani]

I quite agree, it is a missleading article and dose no breeds any good. like any dog wolfdogs have the portential to atack, that is were good ownership and upraising comes in. i have to kids and i have never had a problem, BUT i also wouldnt leave mine alone with my kids, thats just bad parenting and askin for trouble, and as for charging £5000 for a wolfdog , thats just rediculas if its true very greedy. the problem is all the crossing with high performance dogs like inuits i think, having hyper dogs crossed with any sort of wolfdog is askin for trouble in my opinion....

[Joswolf]

Qoute- i also wouldnt leave mine alone with my kids, thats just bad parenting and askin for trouble
I don't agree here. I let my Saarloos wolfdogs without ane problems allone with my kids.
Jos

[tikaani]

Originally Posted by Joswolf

Qoute- i also wouldnt leave mine alone with my kids, thats just bad parenting and askin for trouble
I don't agree here. I let my Saarloos wolfdogs without ane problems allone with my kids.
Jos

i wouldnt leave my kids with any sort of dog on there own, there only 7 and a year old and wouldnt be fair on them or the dogs, would be to easy for them to hurt the dogs, and although i doubt the dogs would retaliate, why take the chance. besides whith articles like this at the mo, could you amagin if the dog did, even if it was just a nip or scratch when playin, the media would go crazzy. better to be safe then sorry at the mo, and with all the cross breeding goin on here with inuits and sellin them left and right to any one, some of us have to be responcible

[Rona]

Originally Posted by tikaani

i wouldnt leave my kids with any sort of dog on there own, (...) better to be safe then sorry at the mo, and with all the cross breeding goin on here with inuits and sellin them left and right to any one, some of us have to be responcible

Very wise words. It's not only the issue of a dog hurting a kid, but also a kid hurting the dog .

My friends own a very "predictable" GSD. Once, on entering the room where their little girl was playing with the dog they saw a hairising scene: the girl was screaming and her arm was is the dog's teeth. No blood, no violence, just a strong grip on the side of the dog. The father's reaction was appropriate: "What did you do to him???". The girl admitted later that she was trying to put mascara on the dog's lashes. His reaction was rational and meant to stop her. Luckily, the GSD was a wise, old and sweet family pet. But how could one be sure that every dog would react in this way?