I met a lady in town with a lovely puppy. I thought he was a pale coloured Mal, maybe crossed with a bit of husky (dont know much about these breeds tbh) either way, I just thought he was lovely, but when I asked if he was a Mal/what he was, she said he's a Malamute Wolf :? Is that a specific cross? The full name, old style? I just thought there were Malamutes and nothing to do with Wolves or whatever :-? But she just kept saying he's a Malamute Wolf. Just wondered if its something I have missed here? (otherwise a bit of a con..)
Thats what I thought, but you know when you get the feeling it wont make any difference anyway......so much so I doubted myself and thought I better ask on here! well you never know..
I cant actually believe that people boast nowadays about how much they have paid for crossbreeds and mutts etc. I dont get it :-?
agree! esp when you could pop down to your local rescue and probably find the same cross for a far more reasonable price that won't go through some of the more annoying puppy stages!
You can even get pups from rescues or accidental matings cheaper too. Can't believe anyone would be daft enough to boast about spending 900......like I heard someone recently!
I met a lady recently who boasted spending a fortune on a super speshul rare breed all the way from (OMG) England! - a Cockerpoo She was suitably unimpressed by my cheap, very muddy dogs!
Some people call the gray and white shade of colouring on mals wolf gray and white, maybe they got muddled up? Chances are though they got sold a cross under the impression it was a wolf hybrid . . .
oh some people really do amaze me i dont understand how people can do that little research into getting a dog to know whether a dog is an actual breed or not.
A friend of mine's hubby met a man exercising three dogs, a small terrier Xbreed, a GSD x Lab & errrrrrr a Wolf x Northern Inuit for which he paid £1500 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I told her to tell hubby if he saw him again to ask for his name & address & then report him to the police as a wolf x cannot be out in public & has to be kept in a locker enclosure Obviously the dog wasn't a wolf cross, but either a CSV X NI or a Saarloos Wolfdog X NI Some people have very vivid imaginations !!
I've met someone with a designer wolfdog cross NI who insists their dog is a wolf hybrid and paid £1500 (he delights in telling people this...) The dog is the size of a donkey, much larger than any wolfdog I've ever seen.
Here, if someone said Malamute Wolf, it would actually be a Malamute Wolf Cross There are many wolf hybrids here
can you actually have a wolf hybrid? thats just sounds all kinds of weird to me. do they mate a wolf with a normal dog??
Some breeders have crossed dogs with wolves, it happened quite a bit a few decades ago I think - but defra has rules against any 'wild' animal being kept at UK addresses (have to be registered as a Zoo or research establishment from memory), which helped stamp it out.
