However some people will tie their female (sled dog) out at night when she is in heat, so that a wolf could breed with her, to get some wolf qualities into the sled dogs.
Wolves do not bring any good attributes to sled dogs according to experts Ray and Lorna Coppinger. (They were champion sled dog racers for years and years, bred and raised these Alaskan Huskys.) Wolves are not designed in any way to do what Alaskan Huskys do for sledding. Wolves do not travel extenisvely to hunt. They can't afford the calorie expenditure, so that drive is not as strongly developed in wolves. They're shy and don't always do well with the other dogs, a must with a team. They're not as trainable. There were several other reasons given. So if anyone mixes them for sledding purposes, they're misinformed.
I recommend you read their book. They're biologists and ethologists. Their research is extensive and based on science. Wolves simply do not belong with people.
If people on this forum who do not agree with you do not post because you asked them not to, that would mean that this is not a forum. It would also mean that something which may be considered wrong is allowed to have only one side presented to people who may be interested in aquiring a wolf mix. That could be dangerous in most dog experts' minds. It's like if someone promotes some training method which includes hanging a dog and no one says anything against it. Or if someone said, "feed you dog chocolate and onions" and no one said anything against it. Then the only information would be one sided.
"Hate" as used in your title is not an issue. But opinions are bound to be. So to ask for only agreement is not in the nature of a forum.
So, while I think your dog is beautiful and may turn out just fine and I know you love him, that is all good...(he may be in fact not so much wolf), the other side of the coin will inevideably be posted. You can't post something and expect only people who agree with something which to them is so wrong.
You haven't done anything wrong. It's just that in general, bringing or mixing wolves into the domestic dog role is wrong.
Wolves are wild animals, not evolved to live with humans and IMO should not be mixed with domestic dogs. They should be left in the wild.
Dogs, a startling new understanding of canine origin, behavior and evolution by Ray and Lorna Coppinger is a book I
highly,
highly recommend to all, especially people interested in this very thing also particularily people interested in sled dogs and sled racing. If you want to know how dogs evolved and where that evolution path went, this book makes a
very strong case for their opinion. A wolf ancestor evolved into a solitary (not pack) village dog and then to a semi domestic village dog and then into domestic dog over thousands of years. Humans did not selectively breed wolves. Humans did selectively breed domestic dogs into the breeds we have now, of course.
Wolves cannot be like dog no matter how they're raised. They are not
biologically wired like dogs. Their behavior is not like dogs. Dogs have some predatory motor patterns but not all in all breeds. A border collie has the eye stalk, the chase but that's where it stops. It does not go into the subsequent motor patterns;
bit, kill, dissect and consume. A wolf has
all of the predatory motor patterns. A domestic dog is something of a paedomorph of a wolf, that is, that he retains juvenile characterists, both physilogically, behaviorally and biochemically. Their brain chemistry is different.
So, there are exceptions here and there with these mixes (where the lineage is in doubt anyhow) and some turn out just fine. Over all however, they're not a good bet as a substitute for a domestic dog.
