MY WOLF DOG EWOKTAEwokta is 75% gray wolf and 25% german shepherd. He is a F1 (one generation removed from a full wolf ancestor) mid-content wolfdog.
His looks reflect the dog part of him, but his personality and actions more closely reflect the wolf part of his ancestry. He joined our family when he was three weeks old and was bottle fed. Ewokta is now five years old and weighs about ninety pounds. He's a gentle animal but is leary of people he doesn't know well, in spite of spending the first three years of his life traveling in a bus across the US to noisy pow wows and festivals with large crowds every weekend.
He is much smarter than a dog, but has a mind of his own, and obeys when he feels like it. You can trick him once, but you will never trick him again with the same trick. He can open the refridgerator, the front door, and cubboard doors.
Ewokta is a housedog when I am at home, but when I go to work he lives in a 30 x 60 foot, six foot high enclosure with double gates and dig-proof groundwire. While he's never been inclined to jumping or climbing, as many wolf dogs are, he will dig under without the ground wire. He comes when called inside the pen perfectly, but only comes when he feels like it when outside of the pen, thus the double gate.
Wolfdogs make wonderful, devoted companions if you have a lot of patience and understand how they think, but they require a lot of attention and are not for everyone.
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