wanamingo :
Turns out cats kill over 2 billion furry little critters each year.
dogman_1234 :
...and they tell me a pet wolf would be dangerous!
Over the years, I've had both cats and a hybird wolf.
The cat was just an animal shelter rescue but he had a deformity, he had six toes on both his front paws. Generally, we would let him roam our/neighbors yard during the day and would sleep in the house at night. More times than not, there would be a dead furry something on the patio door mat. Sometimes birds, sometimes mice, one time he caught a full grown rabbit and left it as a gift. He would watch us scoop it up with a plastic bag or shovel and you could tell that he was just proud as hell with himself for making an offering. What a funny cat...
Years later, met a Malamute breeder who also had ties to a wolf rescue, and he would breed the wolves with his malamutes. He had a runt that didn't fully meet the "standard" for a wolf hybrid and he gave it to me. While this dog may not have met the physical standard for a hybrid wolf, it had the instincts. Very hard to train, stubborn and independent, but very loyal and mindful of the "pack leader". When I was home, I would let him off the chain and run the property but he was kept on the chain whenever I wasn't home. I lived on 3 acres that bordered farmland and it took me about 4 years to train him to know his territory and keep him from running the farmland to hunt. Whenever he came home after taking off, his face would always be covered in blood and his coat messed up from rolling in whatever smelled good. Once he fully became grown and matured into an adult dog, he stuck more to his territory and rarely ran away. After he learned his territory, anything smaller than him that came into the property became fair game. I had to take away more groundhogs, rabbits, birds, moles, voles, and squirrels than I can remember. I would intentionally let him stalk and catch whatever it was, but tried to take away whatever he killed before he could eat it; fear of disease and such. When I would take him for a walk, I would sometimes scare up rabbits and have them run in his direction just to watch him jump around, shake, and mangle them. Might sound sadistic, but the dog had fun and I truly enjoyed watching his base instincts take control. I put that dog, Max, to sleep when he was 13 and his hips failed and he couldn't walk anymore and then went on a two day boozer. I miss that dog...
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