Re: [pyrnet] Pyr/Wolf crosses

["Chrissy McConnell" <chrissy_mcconnell@hotmail.com>]

I'm sure they can be very nice "dogs" with someone who knows what they're 
doing, the same as with someone who can speak canine to a pure wolf or pure 
dog.

However, and this might just be because they're one of my breeds (the other 
are Cockers)....I have a real problem with anyone experimenting with 
crossing Pyrs or any other Livestock Guardian Breed with wolves, coyotes, 
herding breeds or even each other.

It's just too big an animal to be messing with temperaments/instincts not to 
mention the moral issues of crossing and genetic diseases.

Once, a man came into the veterinary office I was working at, talking to us 
about his wolf or wolf dog....I can't remember if it was pure or not.  
Sounded like a relatively nice animal but as soon as the fellow found out I 
had a Pyr....'oh how much he'd love to breed to her and see the big, pups we 
got' and indicating something about guard dogs in a less than desirable 
manner.  I politely declined, completely dumbfounded and not sure how to go 
about explaining the ethics of it.  :-/

I'm glad there are those who *do apparently* raise wolves correctly, though.

Chrissy


Maple Way
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In Loving Memory

Meka
Maple Way Avalon Juliet
February 22, 1999 - December 5, 2001
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>From: "Susan Irving" <sirving@rogers.com>
>Reply-To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
>To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
>Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Pyr/Wolf crosses
>Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 10:45:07 -0500
>
>I don't know about crossing them with pyrs, but a number of years ago I had
>a friend who had a white artic wolf, malamute cross, and that dog was the
>best trained, most gentle dog I have ever met! And extremely intelligent!
>Whether or not that was just a fluke, I can't say, because that is the only
>wolf cross I have ever met.
>Susan

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