Video posted to YouTube by MabinogiKaworukun.
“Look at the size of him. He’d get me to shut up too …”
Well, the humans here found this charming and not at all intimidating. Handsome wolf-dog of some sort.
A wolfdog (also called a wolf–dog hybrid or wolf hybrid) is a canid hybrid resulting from the mating of a wolf (various Canis lupussubspecies) and a dog (Canis lupus familiaris). The term “wolfdog” is preferred by most of the animals’ proponents and breeders because the domestic dog recently was taxonomically recategorized as a subspecies of wolf. The American Veterinary Medical Association and the United States Department of Agriculture refer to the animals as wolf–dog hybrids. Rescue organizations consider any dog with wolf heritage within the last five generations to be a wolfdog, including some established wolfdog breeds.
The idea of the wolf-dog watching over the child put us in mind of the story of Romulus and Remus. According to the foundation myth of Rome, these two twins founded Rome after being raised by wolves.That’s the short story as I remember it from my Latin classes. The long story – interesting – is HERE.
Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1616 (Capitoline Museums): Romolo e Remo allattati dalla Lupa (Roma, Musei capitolini). The painting depicts Shepherd Faustolo (on the right) finding Romulus and Remus nursed by a wolf (center). An old man (symbolizing the Tevere river) and a woman (Rea Silva, mother of Romolo and Remo) help in the scene on the left.
loved this video… and so happy to have ventured over here. I am a HUGE animal lover… especially of dogs… and wolves are also right up there. I actually looked into getting my father a wolf hybrid years ago, but, they were illegal here and I decided against it… I love German Shepherds, and use to foster with a German Shepherd rescue group. Currently, I have the abosultely best breed of dog, though, a mutt. LOL
Nice to see you here, Sam! Even better to know you are an animal lover and a dog lover. I agree about mutts. Just wonderful.
Happy Sunday!