Name of breed - Page 2

Mirkawolf · 31-07-2002, 08:48

Hey Ann,

I must disagree with the idea of changing name of our breed, just because of few morons who decided our breed
is threatening wolf population! It seems to me as insane, as when there was petition in USA for changing name of the second movie of Lord of the Rings (Two Towers), just because some of the Americans could connect it in mind with the attack to the Twins in New York! The book was written decades ago, and has nothing in common with what happened in USA last September.
Our breed was made also few decades ago, and it is called wolfdog, because it IS partly wolf! Let=B4s stop to play with words, our wolfdogs have about 20-30% of wolf blood, and that=B4s a fact. How comes, we don=B4t hear about the same kind of problems at Saarloos wolfhound? They are even more wolfy than our wolfdogs! And what about Irish wolfhounds? Should they also change name of breed, just because of the name, although they have nothing in common with wolves besides that the breed was made to hunt them? Yet, even these dogs are closely related to wolf, because wolf is a direct ancestor of every dog on this planet.
The problem is somewhere else. The problem i say, is, that somebody in Italy (a person or institution) doesn=B4t like the idea of our wolfdogs to live and do well in the country. And because there is no real reason to stop breeding them and keeping them (what a pity, they are not aggressive, so they can=B4t be forbidden like for example pitbulls in some countries), somebody came up with the idea of possible crossing of our animals with wolves.
I said it here once already, that every normal sized dog is able to mate with a wolf, if the wolf doesn=B4t mind. And it=B4s very improbable, that a wolf pack would accept a dog to join it and even mate with some of their females. Please, take some time (all of you here) and inform yourself little bit about wolf behaviour and rules of the wolf pack. Then you will see, how insane is this discussion.

Mirka Simunkova
Plzen, Czech Republic

(working at Zoological Garden Plzen, who owns 2 packs of european wolves)

31-07-2002, 08:48	#1
Mirkawolf Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Brussels Posts: 556	Please help Hey Ann, I must disagree with the idea of changing name of our breed, just because of few morons who decided our breed is threatening wolf population! It seems to me as insane, as when there was petition in USA for changing name of the second movie of Lord of the Rings (Two Towers), just because some of the Americans could connect it in mind with the attack to the Twins in New York! The book was written decades ago, and has nothing in common with what happened in USA last September. Our breed was made also few decades ago, and it is called wolfdog, because it IS partly wolf! Let=B4s stop to play with words, our wolfdogs have about 20-30% of wolf blood, and that=B4s a fact. How comes, we don=B4t hear about the same kind of problems at Saarloos wolfhound? They are even more wolfy than our wolfdogs! And what about Irish wolfhounds? Should they also change name of breed, just because of the name, although they have nothing in common with wolves besides that the breed was made to hunt them? Yet, even these dogs are closely related to wolf, because wolf is a direct ancestor of every dog on this planet. The problem is somewhere else. The problem i say, is, that somebody in Italy (a person or institution) doesn=B4t like the idea of our wolfdogs to live and do well in the country. And because there is no real reason to stop breeding them and keeping them (what a pity, they are not aggressive, so they can=B4t be forbidden like for example pitbulls in some countries), somebody came up with the idea of possible crossing of our animals with wolves. I said it here once already, that every normal sized dog is able to mate with a wolf, if the wolf doesn=B4t mind. And it=B4s very improbable, that a wolf pack would accept a dog to join it and even mate with some of their females. Please, take some time (all of you here) and inform yourself little bit about wolf behaviour and rules of the wolf pack. Then you will see, how insane is this discussion. Mirka Simunkova Plzen, Czech Republic (working at Zoological Garden Plzen, who owns 2 packs of european wolves)