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I believe is a non domesticated dog i forgot his name oppss.. Is a Hybrid Wolf i believe.

That might be a trick question; in fact, dogs ARE wolves in the sense that they are the same species--dogs and wolves can interbreed freely and produce fertile offspring. Doesn't matter which breed of dog. There's much debate about whether the domestic dog should even have its own subspecies identifier (wolves are canis lupus; dogs are often labeled as canis lupus familiaris). Only in the last couple of years have researchers turned their attention to detailed analysis of dog genetics, and at least one study (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/304/5674/1160?siteid=sci&ijkey=5ZU9u6YR%2F7Umo&keytype=ref) has determined that genetic analysis can identify different breeds and also determine the relationship among breeds to a certain extent. One of the results was to group the tested dog breeds into four major groups--largely unrelated to artificial groupings used by kennel clubs such as the AKC--and one of the four groups as a whole is said to be more recently descended from wild wolves (consider wolves as another breed of dog, perhaps? my own conjecture) than the other 3 groups. That group included the Alaskan Malamute and Siberian Husky but also a variety of other eastern Asian and African dog breeds. (http://www.fhcrc.org/about/ne/news/2004/05/20/doggenome.html)

Acording to the scientists wolfs are the most smartest kind of dog. Since the tests of Dingos are positive, those are the second smartest animals. Plus, it next, after the wolf in the food chain.

A Husky? I'm not saying they arent but look at a Czechoslovakian wolf dog they seem to be much more genetically close to wolves than Husky's.

I think an Irish Wolf Hound would be pretty close. It's definetly big enough, and it's got "wolf" right in it's name.

I went looking for you and found some information for you: When considering the wolf hybrid, one cannot avoid discussing both the wolf and the dog. It is commonly accepted that the modern dog resulted from the domestication of the wolf, a process that began 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. Until this century, there has been little further interest in cross-breeding the two species. It is likely that wolves and dogs have sporadically interbred in nature for as long as both species have coexisted. Most matings probably occurred between roaming or feral dogs and wolves living apart from a pack. The offspring from such matings may have posed a hazard to the human communities near where they lived. After studying numerous historical and modern accounts of wolf attacks on humans, the Canadian naturalist C.H.D. Clarke concluded that most attacks involved either rabid wolves or hybrids. http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/newsletters/v5n4/5n4wille.htm Theoretically, a wolf hybrid can result from the mating of a wolf with any breed of dog. Wolves have been bred with such diverse breeds as malamutes, Siberian huskies, German shepherds, rottweilers, collies, pit bulls, and even standard poodles. The initial mating most commonly occurs between a male dog and a female wolf, though the opposite mating can also occur. The offspring produced from such a mating are first generation, or F1, hybrids. F1 and subsequent hybrids can then be bred with other hybrids, with pure wolves, or with the same or different breeds of dog, resulting in a group of hybrids with a wide range of genetic makeup. This genetic makeup is most often represented as a percentage, a number which is presumed to be a measure of the amount of wolf blood in the animal. The percentage not only represents the lineage of a hybrid, but is often used to determine its selling price as well. Although there is much discussion of percentages in wolf hybrid circles, few understand what these numbers actually mean. To most breeders and owners, they represent the exact "wolf content" of their animals. Unfortunately, the biological mechanisms and events that govern the inheritance of genetic material--and the resulting statistical complexities--cannot be accurately represented by the simple formula of the pedigree method. The inaccuracy of these percentages becomes apparent when one examines the genetics of hybridization. Wolves and dogs each have 78 chromosomes arranged into 39 pairs. Wolves are physically different from dogs because they have a number of genes located on these chromosomes, coding for wolf characteristics, that dogs do not have. But which genes differentiate a wolf from a dog? How many are they and on which chromosomes are they located? Unfortunately, the answers to these questions are not currently known. Using the pedigree method, each pup in a given litter would be assigned the same percentage of wolf blood. Yet no two pups in that litter have the identical genotype, unless they are identical twins. This is easily demonstrated by noting the differences in physical appearance, or phenotype, amongst the pups. Some will be more wolf-like than others. These phenotypic differences reflect the differences in their genotypes. One complicating factor in determining accurate percentages results from the close biological relationship of wolves to dogs. As previously stated, wolves are recent ancestors of the domestic dog. Though not identical, the genotypes of wolves and dogs are very similar. It is probable, in fact, that 99 percent or more of the genotypes of these two species are indistinguishable. (Consider that 98 percent of the genotypes of humans and chimpanzees are indistinguishable.) The large majority of wolf genes that enter into pedigree percentage calculations are, therefore, identical to the corresponding dog genes. There may be as few as several hundred genes in a genotype containing more than a 100,000 genes that differentiate the wolf from the dog. But the locations of these genes on the various chromosomes are unknown. They may be located on all or only a few of the 39 chromosome pairs, making it unlikely for them to be evenly distributed between daughter cells following the random separation of chromosomes that occurs during meiosis. With current knowledge and technology, it is not possible to accurately determine the percentage of wolf genes in a wolf hybrid. Therefore, although they do not accurately represent the "wolf content" of an individual hybrid, the percentages assigned to wolf hybrids by the pedigree method may still have some value. Pedigrees are a traditional way of determining ancestry in human lineages as well as animal breeding. These percentages, if honestly assigned and accurately calculated, can be used to depict the breeding history and ancestry--the pedigree--of the individual animal. Since there is no way of accurately calculating the percentage of wolf genes in a hybrid, it may still be the best method currently in use to describe an individual hybrid. ================== This is a very interesting article and well worth a read.

1) "Northern breeds of dogs -- the Alaskan Malamute, Akita, Chow, Siberian Husky, and related breeds -- are closest to the wolf in appearance." 2) "Dogs that developed from northern wolves [are] well-suited for hunting large game (Akita), herding reindeer (Samoyed), and pulling sledges (Alaskan Malamute and Siberian Husky). Dogs that developed from wolves in temperate or more southern climates tend to have shorter coats and be more streamlined than their northern cousins. Sighthounds (Afghan Hounds, Salukis, Basenjis, and Greyhounds), dingoes, and pariah dogs fall into this group. Mastiff-type dogs probably were developed as a result of gigantism originating in populations of a mountain wolf in northern India or Tibet." 3) "Hybrids need experienced owners" "Three canids -- dogs, wolves, and coyotes -- seem to crossbreed rather freely. Unfortunately, it has become somewhat popular for these crossbreds and their offspring to be kept as pets." Source for all quotes and further information: http://www.canismajor.com/dog/wolves.html Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_dog http://canidae.ca/dog.htm

There all canines but the closest genetic relative is actually the Alsatian.