Stud potential ? Discussions

thanks for posting her sue,pagen is a nicely bred white northern inuit,shes nearly a year old,and yes were as i agree white ones can look shepardy,pagen has longer legs than a shephard a very short bushy tail,yellow eyes and a completly diferent type of coat.

I just love white N.I's There's also Claudeens pair, lola and Ozzie, both whites.

hi, if you NI was sold to you with no restrictions, i dont see why you cannot breed him/her, if he/she has the true Inuit type and is a very rare white, i dont see why you cannot breed, and for those who say it looks like a white german shepard, then all i can say is they dont know what their looking at, so they shouldn't comment

Ummmm excuse me but we were asked for our opinions and that's what we gave, our honest opinions.

Ok, lets try and keep this thread civilised. The OP asked for peoples opinions, that I'm afraid that is open to everyone.

We were allm asked by the original OP to post our Honest opinions of her dog, whether they be good or bad

You should not breed ANY dog just because it has no restrictions on it either !!

Her point was to establish whether it was a true inuit type, to use at stud, and it seems from the comments made, that it is not, which is what the op asked for !!

SO whites are rare? I think Julie and the other experienced owners may disagree with that, and Im pretty sure that none of them would breed solely to produce a colour without regard to the whole dog. Its a shame you see it like that, many breeds becomed ruined to due people breeding for one thing alone, well two really, money included!

If any dog was sold to you without restrictions I would question the ethics of the breeder in the first place. If they truly cared for the breed then why not restrict breeding to good representations of the breed. It's all a bit hypocritical really isn't it.
I'm not commenting on someones particular dog as pictures are not the way to judge a breed anyhow. But if a dog is that good quality then it would show through at the breed shows and respected people in your breed would be approaching you to use him.

Personally my view is that inuits were bred to be wolf like, so to me the most wolf like dogs should be bred from, that, in my opinion, doesn't include whites, they simply don't look wolf like to me.
Becky

firstly whites are not rare,secondly all northern inuits have breed restrictions on them wether your breeder told you this or not[your n.i.s welcome pack states this] this has openly been spoke about on northern inuit forum on a number of occations.unless your dog has something to offer the breed, then it should be kept purly as a pet,which is what i belive your two dogs were brought as .

These are wolves.

The general image the public has of a wolf is grey, besides they are considerably more substanital in bone than the ones that are the subject of this thread.
Becky

FWIW, along with the comment Becky made about the bone, the wolves above are nothing like the dogs in this thread at all. Everything from muzzle shape, head shape, ear shape, position and size, furring, eye position, etc are all completely different, so if the above is the standard we should be going by to judge if the OPs dog should be a Stud, then I would say No.

Although having said that there are many species of Wolf in the world, many of which differ greatly, and as the NIs were bred to look like Wolves, I think the standard is very vague, as it could go by any wolf still present or an mix of in between, unless they have been specific in which Wolf they are supposed to resemble.

The above Wolves are northern, hence the smaller, well furred ears and being white, whereas NI's have the opposite. But if the OPs dog is supposed to resemble the above, then again, No it should be kept as a pet.

My fave wolves are Ethiopian wolves, very different wolves altogether. Like Malady has said, there are many different kinds of wolf, I don't know which wolf in particular the NI is supposed to resemble?

I think both Inks boys are beautiful dogs but I don't feel I can comment on stud use as I don't know enough about the breed and what it's standard is e.t.c.[FONT=arial,sans-serif][SIZE=-1][/SIZE][/FONT]

This is my favourite wolf!

Becky

there not wolves,there northern inuits,of wich we have a standard[yes ok it might be vague,but a more indepth standard is beeing worked on this winter].intrestingly four different judges this year at are different shows all went for the same dogs.

The wolf in the top photo is a Canadian wolf. The bottom photo is Mongolian wolves.

I added these pics to show that wolves do come in white and wasn't trying to say that is what a northern inuit should look like!

To me a northern inuit looks like a northern inuit and at the many shows I have attended with Sutty the judges have always been able to tell that our dogs are the same breed. To me that proves that our dogs are to a definate type

HI Julie

I don't think anyone is disputing that NIs are not Wolves, but as the intention was to breed a wolf lookalike, people do get confused because there are many different kinds, that looking very, very different, and everyone's interpretation of a Wolf is different, including have my own dogs called Wolves when I know for a fact they look nothing alike.

Some NIs look the same so you could probably see a 'type' there, hence many of the same dogs being placed at shows, but to the general public, and non NI owners, there is a huge varied interpretation of what Wolves look like and therefore what an NI should look like :smt001

No-one is disputing this Abbie :smt001

I knew the first wolf was a Canadian, the Ears give him away, but I think as there are so many differnt, it's hard to say what a NI should look like, as it could be any wolf or anything in between, which is vague.

Not all NIs look the same, many look like GSDs, some like Huskies, and a few others that look nothing like any of them, so people are commenting on what the OP asked for, which was honest opinion of her dog :smt001

I do agree with you Malady. I agree that there are some that do look like GSD etc, but in my own experience the vast majority of NI look very alike.

I also can't see why the OP started this thread if it wasn't honest opinions that she was looking for.