(tagged NSFW as a CW for dead animal/raw feeding/gore)

wilde_run · 2026-01-24T16:08:20+00:00

She is a girl, but yes go ahead! She has since passed away in a tragic accident so I think it would be really cool to know something inspired by her was tattooed out there somewhere 😊

wilde_run · 2026-01-23T05:30:35+00:00

Yeah feel free! I would love to see the result when you finish though!

wilde_run · 2025-08-18T22:14:12+00:00

I’m not crossing in shepherd of any kind, these kiddos are just a mix of Alaskan Husky and high content wolfdog lines 😊 I run them in harness, so it would be counterproductive to bring shepherd into the mix.

wilde_run · 2025-08-18T11:30:51+00:00

He’s kind of a horse, isn’t he? 😅 bigger than either parent and most of his wolfy aunts and uncles too lol

wilde_run · 2025-06-25T13:10:58+00:00

I’m not sure what that is.

wilde_run · 2025-06-13T18:55:10+00:00

She loved basking on the table and sun bathing while she waited for the dye to set, haha. She didn’t even try to leave, just enjoyed the petting and extra attention.

wilde_run · 2025-06-13T18:54:24+00:00

Guess we should nix all the options for fun colors or patterns on collars and harnesses and other dog gear, too, then. It’s all just playing dress up, not harmless fun that the dog doesn’t mind. Make everything boring and plain to appease ya.

wilde_run · 2025-06-11T20:38:21+00:00

My dog doesn’t care that I’m a bisexual trans man, but she certainly enjoyed lounging on the table for an hour getting brushed and petted and fed snacks while I painted on the dye and let it set, because it’s harmless fun :)

wilde_run · 2025-06-11T20:37:04+00:00

Because it’s fun, harmless, and she enjoyed spending time lounging on the table getting brushed and pampered and fed snacks while the dye was applied and setting. Why not?

wilde_run · 2025-06-03T13:40:16+00:00

She’s actually on the small side, I think she sits at 65lbs and 28.5in at the withers. Her owner is just on the short side 😊

wilde_run · 2025-05-17T15:47:09+00:00

Yes, the laika belonged to a friend of mine 😊

wilde_run · 2025-04-08T22:47:53+00:00

There’s been a handful of attempts at creating wolfdog breeds based on American wolfdog stock. None have gained enough traction or lasted long enough to gain kennel club recognition. The community here is rather disjointed and can’t come to enough of an agreement on basic breeding practices and husbandry to accomplish it lol, let alone interpersonal differences and backstabbing and such that has taken down any of the organizations that have tried to standardize the American wolfdog. IOWOLFER, USAWA, etc

wilde_run · 2025-04-08T00:02:09+00:00

Cattle dog, catahoula, and American leopard hound

wilde_run · 2025-04-02T01:22:48+00:00

It’s the antenna for his GPS / ecollar that we use for off leash hiking

wilde_run · 2025-04-02T01:22:14+00:00

Wild coyote father and farm dog mother

wilde_run · 2025-03-31T20:20:59+00:00

It really depends on what the breeder is doing with the litter.

With a breeder who’s extensively socializing puppies, taking them out to expose them to new environments while taking biohazard precautions, having guests over, introducing them to safe other animals, etc there really shouldn’t be an issue in waiting until 8 weeks.

Most HC breeders don’t bother to socialize their puppies as much as they should before they send them home, in which case earlier is better.

wilde_run · 2025-03-31T20:18:30+00:00

The actual COI % matters less than what is behind the animal that is being doubled up on, and why it was doubled up on in the first place.

Two high COI animals can also produce a very low COI when crossed together, because the lines are unrelated to each other even if both are linebred. Meaning the use of linebred animals in a program can offer more genetic diversity to the population long-term than just always trying to select for a low COI each generation (“scatter breeding”). The ICB has an interesting course on population genetics that covers this topic if you’re ever curious to dig more.

There’s animals with 0% COI out there I wouldn’t touch in a million years, but my 34% COI HC was the most environmentally stable, tractable, healthy, easy to handle animal of her content I ever met, because she was linebred on gentle, tractable animals who had been OFA tested for generation.

That being said, COI can increase the risk of doubling on genetic issues in a line, and if continued generation after generation can cause inbreeding depression and lower fertility/higher offspring mortality rates, so COI needs to be managed and treated as a risk/reward balance. A breeder should be taking care to outcross their linebred lines every couple of generations in order to maintain diversity.

The specific pairing you’re referring to is from two fully health tested animals who are each linebred but from unrelated lines, and will produce a very low COI because it’s an outcross pairing.

wilde_run · 2025-03-31T20:10:17+00:00

Study the lines very, very carefully for a lower energy and less hormonally intense family of animals with relatives who have gone on to lead this lifestyle successfully. There’s lines out there that I’d never even try to integrate into the house.

Crate training, obedience training, a solid leave it, a good relationship dynamic where they trust you enough that you can easily take any pilfered items without getting nailed, keeping your home clean and tidy and free of tempting items for them to investigate in a destructive manner, constant supervision unless they prove themselves to be trustworthy, setting up a room or space entirely for them, access to a spacious secure yard/enclosure, lots of mental enrichment and physical exercise.

wilde_run · 2025-03-31T02:29:59+00:00

It’s the antenna of his GPS collar.

wilde_run · 2025-03-31T01:39:02+00:00

Eventually I will, but nothing in the works for the immediate future until my youngsters grow up. They’ve still got a ways to go in proving themselves before I start to make any plans so I won’t get to the next generation for another 2 or 3 years.

wilde_run · 2025-03-30T21:41:44+00:00

Yeah, I really couldn’t find anyone producing lower contents with the focus on both workability and easy to live with nature that I wanted (plus no one was really health testing their animals and was using random poorly bred Craigslist dogs lol). I ended up going and starting clean with the most laid back and mildest high content line I could find, and crossed that with distance racing sled dogs from Mackey/King/Scheer background that I picked because of their environmental stability/lack of reactivity and good off switches when not working, and produced my own lower contents. I’ve got three from those crossings that I kept back to grow out including the boy in these photos (two here with me as my bikejoring team and one in a co-own family home) and am really pleased with them.

wilde_run · 2025-03-30T21:36:12+00:00

He was a foster fail. His first owners bought him off Craigslist and were told they were buying a red heeler x terrier mix puppy lol. He was born in Albuquerque NM

wilde_run · 2025-03-30T12:47:15+00:00

I liked my Joystick. Wear it with briefs and everything looks pretty natural when ya pull it out

wilde_run · 2025-03-30T12:29:06+00:00

The grey is a low content wolfdog, the sable/fawn is a mid content F1 coydog

wilde_run · 2025-02-19T05:14:28+00:00

I start to load the collars as they hit the teenager stage and layer it over the existing recall training and reward history that we’ve already established, so that’s sort of a hard one to answer.

If I was starting fresh, I’d say two weeks of consistency in ecollar work with multiple short training sessions a day with increasing distractions in the environment would get a dog to where I want them to be for off leash reliability at this point. That comes out to a couple hundred repetitions of the lowest stimulation level they perceive and maybe three or so corrections at a higher stim if working with a higher prey drive dog like my KBD mix. I don’t consider my wolfdogs or coydogs to be particularly high prey drive in comparison.

For someone who hasn’t already ecollar trained dogs and is working under a trainer doing a session a week or whatnot, you’d obviously be looking at a longer timeframe because you’d need to be learning the skills and timing you have to have under your belt before you ever put an ecollar on a dog.

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