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In reply to the discussion: Pit bull/Pit bull mixes kill toddler. [View all]Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)The wolf was really interesting. I had expected her to be a handful and far more aggressive than, say, a GSD. Not a bit of it. She was extremely docile, even with other animals. However, as I discovered to my somewhat horror when she was attacked by a neighbor's dog, once she got going -- unlike other dogs I have owned -- she did not stop. In this case it was a neighbor's male Husky that got loose and came into our front yard (where I had her chilling on a chain -- no fence yet). The Husky out-weighted her by a significant amount, and she absolutely demolished it. Had it not been for the chain she would have killed it on the spot. I am not going to detail what she did to it, but it was horrific.
She was interesting in other ways as well. There was the howling of course -- she liked to sing along quietly with music and other sounds, or with you -- that was one of her favorite games. We lived on a ranch at the time and spend a lot of time out camping, and whenever we were somewhere she could hunt her own food she did that rather than eating the dog food we put out for her. Watching her hunt was amazing, she basically just ate non-stop. She'd trot along at your side and every ten or twenty feed she'd stick her nose in a bush and come out with something -- lizards, mice, whatever. She'd do it so fast she wouldn't even break stride with you. And if you weren't paying attention you'd miss the meal going down.
When we were on the ranch some nights I let her sleep outside (she usually slept with me) and one morning I woke up to find that she had somehow managed to kill a migrating Goose. She was so proud of that she carried that wing around with her for a week. The wing must have been three feet long.
But the weirdest thing, and I have never seen another animal do this...
One time a national geo program was on the TV about Arctic Wolves. She sat in front of the Television the entire time, stairing at the TV and wailing along with the wolves on the program. It was uncanny and a bit sad. I've never seen anything like that before. She was actually watching the program.