Amazing Dogs

[kokopelle]

The labrador puppies Boomer and Gulliver are doing great with their foster family. This may seem a surprise until you consider the unique traits of the wolf-dog. Other breeds may see the puppies, at most five or six weeks old, as a threat to their territory or resources. The alpha female wolf-dog, Aurora, immediately took the puppies and treated them as if they were her own. She really really wants to have puppies and went into a false heat recently in response to Wayah's recent litter. While Aurora's vapid attention did pass, the end result was the other wolf-dogs treating the labrador puppies as if they were part of the pack. Now Wayah will check on the puppies if they whimper or seem in distress. The alpha male allows the puppies to climb on him when he is on his back. It is amazing to watch and another reason to see the wolf-dogs as a wonderful breed apart from others.

Comments

[r-monoxide.livejournal.com]

yeah I was trying to explain to someone the difference between dog-dogs and wolf-dogs. Wolf-dogs are really so much more pack oriented than domesticated dogs! I miss my wolf-dog :(

[chimerae.livejournal.com]

It may simply be Wulfwalker. Different people over time comment that I live in the "Peaceable Kingdom" where the coyotes that killed everyone else chickens left mine alone, cats slept with the dogs, and the chickens run under the dogs for protection.

It seems to me that some of us do the "alpha" leader things in such a way that creatures introduced to the extended pack are then included in the pack. The lack of uncertainty makes it easier for whoever in the pack has a need or opportunity can make it all work.

Long explaination but it's just say that it's probably a consequence of Wulfwalker being who she is.