DOGS

The Spider excrement is getting deep in here. 😎👺🤠

I had a co-worker about 30 years ago that told me that he raised "wolves". They were beautiful and sweet dogs, but I promise you that they were all less than half wolf.

When my wife and I got married almost 30 years ago, we lived in Alaska. We bought a puppy, a wolf hybrid that was 75% wolf and 25% husky. She was very beautiful, very gentle and sweet, but she was always a wolf. She howled, never barked. She disappeared when strangers pulled up into the place, and preferred to view the world silently from under a low bush or from inside a thick stand of trees.

I had a pup that I thought was a Husky...he was brought from the Alaskan pipeline down to Miami where I adopted him.  He would stick his head underwater on the Miami river and catch fish with his mouth, catch birds from the air if they came close...stared down a junkyard killer dog for 30 minutes crawled under the fence and the two became running mates.  Tiko was truly special...he was later stolen off the sailboat I was staying on...my mistake for getting him trust people...I lost  part of my heart along with him.

I read about 99.9 per cent the same. 1/10 of 1 percent gives breed differences.

Humans and ape DNA are 99 percent the same. That is obvious everytime we visit Walmart.

Up where you live a Collie would be wonderful.

I just talked to a breeder today who has a litter of full blooded blue heeler puppies due soon. Probably 80% of my dogs over the years have been heeler/heeler-mix working dogs. That's likely what Ill do. The breed isnt for everyone, but I like 'em, and they're bred specifically for this life.

Australian Shepherd?

In my experience, female dogs tend to stay home and out of trouble. 

I'd say if you've the time and patience to train from pup, you will have a good chance of getting what you want.

I’ve never had a rescue dog. I suppose I should feel ashamed of myself, but I don’t. I want a dog that has certain definite characteristics and I want them as a very young pup. That comes down to a breeder of pure-breds. Just the way it is,

Its funny, I used to be pretty hard-nosed about purebred horses and a little bit nonchalant about the breeding of dogs. But now, I have some really good horses of mixed origin, but am more careful about dogs. For one thing, AQHA breeding has really gone down hill (that's a very in-depth discussion best left for some other setting), but good bred stock dogs are still as they've always been. Heelers, for example, are rarely AKC papered, but often come of working parents off of working farms and ranches. They were, by-and-large, never turned into, and bred specifically as sport/show dogs. Sadly, the same cant always be said of the typical "cow horse" these days

I just read that the Collie I had in the sixties is no longer the Collie that the breeders want. The modern collie is a smaller, less hardy dog. 😒

Great thing about dogs is that they are always happy to see you, even when you are at rock bottom. 78

Marbles has turned into a chow hound. He was picky eater until I got him on boiled pork or chicken and quality kibble. He consumes his rations while Izzy is still looking hers over. Maybe it goes with being comfortable here, finally. Glad to see it.