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Hello, everyone!
I am new to the forum. On Wednesday, I acquired a new three year old red "Siberian husky." I have serious doubts as to the pureness of this dog despite the AKC papers he has stating that he is a red Siberian. He has the blue eyes and the curled up tail, but other than that I am more inclined to think he is arctic/alaskan wolf in there somewhere. Just FYI, Siberian Huskies are not considered part wolf. They are a pure breed all their own.
This dog is much larger at the withers than what the AKC standard specifies. Rather than 23 1/2 inches max, (roughly two feet) he is more like 2 1/2-3 feet tall. His hair is very coarse but short. The legs are, without a doubt, wolflike. He has no hair fringe on his face to speak of. I am going to try to post pictures of him at the end of this message.
My main concern is the dog's propencity to growl when he sleeps on our bed. It seems he has chosen to dominate the bed and though he curled up next to me with his back in my stomach, he would not tolerate my touching him without a deep, throaty growl and a warning bark. I have a Samoyed and they pretty much split the dominant acts equally. They just exist around on another now except for when one gets too close to the other's foodbowl. FYI, the Siberian has 22 teeth on the bottom row juxtaposet to the 16-20 of "dogs."
The obvious answer to the growling problem, since it only seems to ocur in bed, is to keep him off of the bed. I am concerned with the possibility that he can turn on a dime and bite without warning or with little time between the warning bark and the strike. There are many characteristics he has that are pure Siberian (sleeping like his spine's a slinky) and purely wolf (the way he carries his tail when agitated).
Can anyone tell from my pictures at http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/fluffnuggets/malamutessiberians
whether or not this is possibly a wolf hybrid? The people we got him from gave him up because he was nipping at their newborn like an adult dog does when correcting a puppy. I've only had him a few days and am focusing on assertion (as in pack mentality) to emerge as the alpha.
Thanks-
Jenn
I am new to the forum. On Wednesday, I acquired a new three year old red "Siberian husky." I have serious doubts as to the pureness of this dog despite the AKC papers he has stating that he is a red Siberian. He has the blue eyes and the curled up tail, but other than that I am more inclined to think he is arctic/alaskan wolf in there somewhere. Just FYI, Siberian Huskies are not considered part wolf. They are a pure breed all their own.
This dog is much larger at the withers than what the AKC standard specifies. Rather than 23 1/2 inches max, (roughly two feet) he is more like 2 1/2-3 feet tall. His hair is very coarse but short. The legs are, without a doubt, wolflike. He has no hair fringe on his face to speak of. I am going to try to post pictures of him at the end of this message.
My main concern is the dog's propencity to growl when he sleeps on our bed. It seems he has chosen to dominate the bed and though he curled up next to me with his back in my stomach, he would not tolerate my touching him without a deep, throaty growl and a warning bark. I have a Samoyed and they pretty much split the dominant acts equally. They just exist around on another now except for when one gets too close to the other's foodbowl. FYI, the Siberian has 22 teeth on the bottom row juxtaposet to the 16-20 of "dogs."
The obvious answer to the growling problem, since it only seems to ocur in bed, is to keep him off of the bed. I am concerned with the possibility that he can turn on a dime and bite without warning or with little time between the warning bark and the strike. There are many characteristics he has that are pure Siberian (sleeping like his spine's a slinky) and purely wolf (the way he carries his tail when agitated).
Can anyone tell from my pictures at http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/fluffnuggets/malamutessiberians
whether or not this is possibly a wolf hybrid? The people we got him from gave him up because he was nipping at their newborn like an adult dog does when correcting a puppy. I've only had him a few days and am focusing on assertion (as in pack mentality) to emerge as the alpha.
Thanks-
Jenn