A dog that is "high content" is going to pretty much look identical to a wolf. Not a large Malamute.
The real question is...Can I own a high content wolf dog?
It actually depends on the laws in your county/state. In some states as long as there is any dog present in the animal, it is legal.
I'd imagine they're disturbingly feral and territorial by nature, and would just as soon eat your baby than learn how to play fetch?
Nope. In fact, even pure wolves aren't out to eat your children while you sleep or kill grandma or eat Liam Neeson in the cold of the night. There are a lot of misconceptions about wolfdogs out there in the world.
So the real wolfdog just have slightly longer hair? I can't tell.
Maybe "Loki the wolfdog" is the full name of the dog.
You are going to see;
Rounder, well furred ears.
Larger, longer snouts.
Little to no "stop" (the point from the top of their head to their nose is almost a straight line, unlike most dog breeds who have a visible stop i.e. a forehead).
Well blended coat with no defined 'masks' (the coloration on the face of Huskies and Mals).
They do not have blue eyes. That is a recessive dog trait. Their eyes are also much more slanted, and have a thick black outline on them.
Long legs, with a very narrow chest. And large "cowhocks" on their hind legs.
Tails they never curl, but hang down.
Much larger paws with jet black nails.
And so on. They are physically different from dogs down to their skeleton. The average person doesn't really look at them long enough to start noticing the differences which is why it's so important for the information to be out there.
He also called him a "wolfdog" because originally he was stated in every bio and profile to be a high content wolfdog. It's all in the article.
Isn't every dog deep down a wolfdog.
Not really. Dogs and wolves have a common ancestor, and some breeds we created in the past couple hundred years were in fact bred with dogs. But after hundreds of thousands of generations, any wolf that was in them outside of shared DNA has been long bred out. Which is how we have different species yet still related (
Canis lupus familiaris).
It's important people know the difference because wolfdogs aren't as manageable as a real dog. They still have very wild tendencies and people really shouldn't be keeping them as regular pets.
This is actually not true. Thousands of people do keep them as pets, and they live long healthy safe lives with their families. The problem is miseducation. People who do get real wolfdogs have no idea what they are getting into. Wolfdogs behaviour is more intense, in a way. The dogs that are most similar to them are nordic breeds (like Huskies). They can be escape artist. They can resource guard (some not all). They dig like crazy (think tunnels, not holes). They need a specialized diet or raw food. They need alot of attention. Etc.
Wolfdogs are actually very manageable as pets like any specialized breed of dog. But they aren't for everyone.
Who cares? I always thought it was just a name cause he looked a bit wolf-like, can't people not follow an account of a guy posting photos of a dog without internet drama?
Also: Thiswildidea and shiba_charmy.
It's actually is a problem though. It gives people the wrong idea, and puts both wolfy looking dogs (like Loki) and dogs with wolf content in serious danger. Misrepresentation is a big issue and dogs have actually died due to it. It's all in the article.
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Here are some neat comparison shots of high content wolfdogs next to regular dogs.
You will see that in most cases, high content wolfdogs dwarf full grown normal dogs in size. AND they look like pure wolves, not "wolfy looking dogs".
