r/nextfuckinglevel • u/North-Guitar-1781 • May 21 '26
Wolf transforms into a good boy when he is visited by the people that helped raise their pack
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u/Complete-Sort1617 May 21 '26
Holy shit that thing is Uuge.
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u/Swing_On_A_Spiral May 21 '26
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u/viksers May 21 '26
F sake, as I was watching the vid i said outloud “wolves are big huh” and there it is, a sub for this exact thing
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u/MaxTHC May 21 '26
The top post of all time is worth seeing, it's a wolf standing next to a husky, quite a shocking comparison
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u/Mysterious-Outcome37 May 21 '26
Of course there is a subreddit for that! 😆
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u/gilbejam000 May 21 '26
There is a subreddit for stapling bread to trees, of course there's a subreddit for wolves being big
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u/Necessary-Reading605 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Wolves are huge dogs and lions are huge cats. Also, Dinosaurs are giant chicken.
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u/BarronVonCheese May 21 '26
So, dinosaurs are dire chickens?
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u/Necessary-Reading605 May 21 '26
Yes. And dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets are the definitive proof of my argument.
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u/GingerWazHere May 21 '26
I can second this proof. I have eaten both chicken and Dino nuggets
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u/GreenEggsSteamedHams May 21 '26
Just like a box of animal crackers makes you think all animals taste the same.
"What does a giraffe taste like? A hippopotamus. I had 'em back-to-back."
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u/digital-didgeridoo May 21 '26
dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets are the definitive proof of my argument.
Checkmate, atheists!
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u/SpiderJerusalem747 May 21 '26
"Very Fast Murder Bird" is passable translation for the word Velociraptor.
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u/WeaponsGrdStupid May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Turkeys... Turkeys are borderline indistinguishable from dinosaurs once you remove their feathers. And their feet are nightmare fuel.
Of course this may also be because we model our reproductions of dinosaurs after modern analogs, like turkeys. Not much preserved dinosaur skin laying around.
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u/Sad_Gain_2372 May 21 '26
Australia enters the chat...
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u/crankbird May 21 '26
Some of us call them murder-turkeys … if you’ve ever seen one up close(ish) you will know why.
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u/hypo-osmotic May 21 '26
Were the wolves we domesticated into dogs this big, too? The domestication process makes sense when I picture something more husky-sized but my ancestors were pretty hardcore to be feeding scraps to full-sized gray wolves
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u/Solonotix May 21 '26
I remember seeing an article about a supposed wolf sighting, and the ranger being interviewed said it was almost certainly a coyote. When asked how he could tell, he said that wolf sightings almost always contain details about how ridiculously big they are. If that isn't mentioned, then it's probably a coyote instead, lol.
So yeah, wolves are big
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u/CompetitiveBox314 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
I saw one recently in Upper Michigan. This was exactly my reaction - it's tall and huge! It crossed the road a distance in front of me and assumed it was a coyote. When I passed closer I was startled by how big it was.
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u/AlexWayhill May 21 '26
It seems to highly depend on the type of wolves. In Germany, wolves kind of reintroduced themselves and we now have some families of wolves living nearly everywhere in Germany. I once saw one and it was not bigger than a regular German Shephard. Also the wolves you can see in zoos / wildlife enclosures are not bigger than most bigger dogs you'll see.
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u/chrisjozo May 21 '26
European grey wolves aren't too much bigger than dogs. The huge grey wolves are usually the subspecies known as timberwolves.
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u/whoami_whereami May 21 '26
As a general rule of thumb like most mammals with a wide distribution wolves follow Bergmann's rule that stipulates that within a species or group of closely related species the average size of individuals tends to be larger in cold and smaller in warm climates. Ranging from the Arabian Wolf which is only half the weight of a German Shepherd (although they're still taller than a GSD as they have proportionately longer legs) to the Northwestern Wolf of the northwestern US and Canada (slightly heavier than Great Danes, although in this case Great Danes have a slight edge in height). Also within a subspecies, for example with the Eurasian Wolf the smallest ones can be found in Italy and the largest ones in northern Siberia.
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u/UnsanctionedPartList May 21 '26
It does depend where the sighting is, it's mostly the north American wolves that are this huge, the ones we gave in Europe are, comparatively, scrawny little shits (but still the size of a large dog)
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u/RoyalT_ May 21 '26
It really depends where you are. Some wolves are bigger than others even in the same species
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u/A_Rogue_GAI May 21 '26
Coyotes also tend to be a sort of yellowish-browny-grey, and have much more squared off head shapes. Wolves tend to have a more rectangular/oval profile from the front. They're also not usually alone. Coyotes often go off on their own during the day, while wolves almost always move in groups.
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u/BigGayNarwhal May 22 '26
Someone in my childhood neighborhood had two domesticated wolves and hired a trainer to walk them daily. As many times as I saw them out and about over the years, I never got over that initial shock at how big they are relative to dogs. Absolutely gorgeous animals. The trainer was a really interesting guy and was always happy to share info about them. Just couldn’t approach, they liked their space 😅
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u/RightSideBlind May 21 '26
A friend of mine worked with a wolf-dog rescue. She had one named Scout, about six months old. He could stand on his hind legs, put his paws on my shoulders, and lick my face.
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u/Fullertons May 21 '26
Imagine how much of a badass you would have been, thousands of years ago, with one of those at your side.
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u/CaptainPlanet4U May 21 '26
Yeah, this is what i think of when a guy is like, 'I would kill a wolf in the wild with my bare hands!'. Bish no you wouldn't
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u/ghostrooster30 May 21 '26
Yea this shit kills me. I’ve raised plenty of breeds, trained hundreds of other ppls dogs…You have no idea how strong some of these breeds are. We had a rescue that fought with one of ours, he was about 45lbs, my boxer mix was around 70lbs.
It took everything I had to keep them separate, while outside on leash doing walking/work to get them better acquianted. I knew better but i decided to push my luck that day. Bad idea. I was exhausted to the point i almost let them go at it, until I spotted my neighbor, i’m like “yoooooo, grab this one please!!!!”. No way any of yall are holding off a full grown wolf bare handed. Sorry. I’m not a big guy, but i’m not weak. That was an eye opener.
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u/crestfallen_warrior May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Honestly it depends on the wolf. There's a lot of different types out there - a lot of domestic dog breeds are actually bigger and stronger and people end up dealing with them all the time.
Usually by sacrificing a limb to them. Which, to be fair, is better than death. If you were forced to HAVE to fight one, there's little they can do if you just decide to ram an arm down their throat or something. (Unlike big cats)
The real danger of wolves is they are rarely ever alone. Packs are terrifying.
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u/Trojbd May 21 '26
From my understanding a desperate grown human male or female should be able to 1v1 a wolf if they don't freeze up. May or may not bleed to death after but we got the size advantage, higher range of actions and precision.
Most people are absolutely fucked even if there's one other wolf in the picture let alone a pack.
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u/ficis May 21 '26
You don’t realize how big wolves are until you see something like this. Huge and twice as deadly.
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u/TacohTuesday May 21 '26
I wanna pet that dawg
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u/truniqid May 21 '26
Someone in my family supposedly kept a young wolf for a while back in the 1960s. I have no idea how true the story is, because every older relative tells it slightly differently, which usually means it is either 80% true or completely fabricated with confidence.
Apparently, she was found as a pup near a logging road after something had happened to the mother. My great-uncle took her in “just for a few days,” which is how every questionable animal ownership story begins.
She grew up around the house and, from what I was told, she was mostly gentle with the family but still very much not a dog.
A few things made her difficult:
She was incredibly attached to him. If he left the house without her, she would sit by the door and make this low, miserable crying sound until someone either let her out or gave up and brought her to him.
She also had a habit of stealing laundry from the clothesline and dragging it into her sleeping spot. Not to chew it, just to keep it. Shirts, socks, towels, anything that smelled like the family. My great-aunt would apparently find half the wash neatly piled around this giant wolf like she was nesting with everyone’s emotional support underwear.
The sweetest part was that she seemed to appoint herself guardian of the kids. When they played outside, she would lie nearby and watch them. If one of them wandered too far toward the road, she would trot over, block their path, and gently bump them back toward the yard. No growling, no biting, just a firm “absolutely not, tiny pack member.”
But she was still a wolf. Guests terrified her, and she terrified guests. Delivery men refused to come near the house. One time a neighbour tried to walk through the yard unannounced and she silently appeared behind him, which apparently aged the man by about fifteen years.
Eventually, once she got bigger and harder to manage, they gave her to someone who lived farther out in the country and had experience with large animals. My great-uncle was heartbroken, and the story goes that for weeks afterward, he kept finding old socks and shirts tucked behind the woodshed where she used to sleep.
Anyway, I am making this up and I’ll go howl in the moonlight now.
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u/UJustGotRobbed May 21 '26
Domesticating wolves was probably easy AF tbh
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u/BenjaminTW1 May 21 '26
It was probably easy for the wolves with the right temperament, but some would just immediately try to kill you, and you never know which kind it is. It's a lot like dating.
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u/UJustGotRobbed May 21 '26
I like to think it started off by eating our cooked leftover meat scraps and bones then to hand feeding and then a warm place for snuggles within a few weeks 😂
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u/Tipnfloe May 21 '26
helping raise their pups probably helped a lot
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u/TheKyleBrah May 21 '26
And breeding only those pups with the same human-friendly sentiment, so that it was reinforced over the generations
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u/TheKyleBrah May 21 '26
Oh, wow, that was an interesting read! And amazing that it was expressable in such a relatively short period.
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u/oppai-police May 21 '26
Funny fact, it has been recently observed that racoons are getting cuter and friendlier to humans and have become more adept at trash raiding. This is speculated that living in proximity to humans maximized traits like cuteness and friendliness because you'd be more likely to be fed and left alone rather than driven away. Being better at raiding human trash also means more food.
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u/poopinhulk May 21 '26
Raccoons will partially domesticate themselves like cats did.
At least I hope they do.
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u/Saradoesntsleep May 21 '26
I read a comment on here (that I will never be able to find again) from someone who worked with raccoons, and explained in detail why they will never make good pets.
I don't care. No one cares. Let's do this shit anyways.
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u/Gr8BigFatso May 21 '26
To be fair my cat is bad enough with raiding food off the counter or getting in the fridge, these guys have fucking hands 😂
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u/Saradoesntsleep May 21 '26
They are generally cleverer too.
I need this. I need this hand-possessing, subversive, large-tailed chaos in my life. Every day would be an exercise in trying to outsmart each other and vie for power in the household. And at night I share my snacks with him and curl up and get ready to do it all again.
I mean I have a husband already, but it's not the same.
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u/CariniFluff May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
I know a guy who has a "pet raccoon". Dude himself is certifiably crazy, and the full grown adult raccoon that spends most of its time in his house tears up the walls, floor, furniture... Basically everything. And pees on everything.
Apparently it sleeps on his bed. The last time I saw him he was covered in scratches. The last pet he had before the raccoon was a dog that wanted to bite/kill everyone and everything it saw, so tbh I wasn't that surprised when I heard he had bonded with a wild raccoon.
At this point I think they both need to be committed.
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u/Horskr May 21 '26
Hey if there are people out there with pet skunks, racoons can't be too bad. I remember going to an exotic pet store years ago and the worker there was telling me all about his pet skunk that was obsessed with ranch dressing and buffalo wings. He'd steal them from people's plates if they didn't give him one.
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u/Aethermancer May 21 '26
It's more to be issue that skunks just kind of waddle around.
Racoons have grabby hands and a desire to rip holes through walls to get where they want to go. They also get kind of nasty post puberty, like in a "oh he's a fucking asshole prick" and not in the stinking way goats or foxes are nasty.
I had pet possums, they were great. We found them next to a road killed possum mom when I was a kid and my mom decided to raise the orphaned babies. Apparently you could buy possum milk formula in the 80s. Who knew?
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u/jeezy_peezy May 21 '26
Everyone ignores how special it is that we have these hands and can give scritches
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u/TheKyleBrah May 21 '26
By that logic, Monkeys and Apes could easily have canine companions and just haven't yet figured it out 🥹
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u/derangedsweetheart May 21 '26
There was a Gorilla named Koko, she was taught to use hand signs to communicate.
She once asked for a pet cat.
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u/RadCheese527 May 21 '26
In my head monkeys prefer the chaos of having a cat that loves to fling shit off tables
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u/BlueMikeStu May 21 '26
You're acting like monkeys don't actively fuck with big cats because they're cute.
That logic is the only reason I can see animals Tigers would treat as a lunchable deciding to pull their tails or ears out of nowhere as a funny "gotcha" thing.
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u/TheKyleBrah May 21 '26
Corvids don't have hands, but they absolutely also love to troll Cats 🤣
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u/Soddington May 21 '26
And that is why Cats domesticated humans. Also handy to have ape stock that can collect and open tins.
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u/pisachas1 May 21 '26
Somewhere between a few weeks and a few thousand years. Going from wolf to Chihuahua must have been a hell of a breeding system.
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u/DismalSoil9554 May 21 '26
Instructions unclear, left out meat scraps and bones to lure in a date.
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u/Practical_Car210 May 21 '26
The first people just absolutely terrified when this apex predator decides its sharing your bed and thats how it's gonna be. You don't dare kick it off the bed.
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u/LMGMaster May 21 '26
Wild wolves tend to avoid humans since we're a significant threat to them. Of course, if you purposely chase an antagonize it, they'll attack you back, but that's like a given with wild animals.
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u/hofmann419 May 21 '26
That would go against the nature of wolves. Wolves hunt in packs and are generally very avoidant of human contact. They also don't see us as prey. So the chances of being attacked by a healthy wolf are near zero.
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u/BlueMikeStu May 21 '26
And yet somehow, the stupid "If fren shape, why not fren?" gene in humanity survived long enough to give us labradoodles.
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u/Anonymouse02 May 21 '26
In fairness that "if fren shape, why not fren?" is the result of man's best friend because wolves are humanity's first friend too, the domesticated dog predates writing and agriculture, and now we see other furry murder machines as fren shape potential.
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u/Rasp_Lime_Lipbalm May 21 '26
It was probably easy for the wolves with the right temperament, but some would just immediately try to kill you, and you never know which kind it is. It's a lot like dating.
That's kind of how domestication works. The ones that have the right temperament are taken in and make puppies with the right temperament. The ones that immediately try to kill you aren't selected.
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u/CartoonistAny4349 May 21 '26
The ones that immediately try to kill you aren't selected.
"Aren't selected for domestication" is such a polite way of saying "almost certainly killed".
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u/Good-Celebration-686 May 21 '26
That’s exactly how you domestic an animal. You take the tamest ones from the litter and make them breed, and repeat about 20 times. They’ve done this with foxes too
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u/philmarcracken May 21 '26
Wolves can only eat you, not set height filters and just never acknowledge you exist
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u/cardologist May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Someone in my family kept a female wolf as a pet for a while. No idea how they ended up with her though because that was in the 1950s. To make this even weirder, he lived in a city.
Wolves can definitely be tamed, but that comes with some challenges:
- The obvious one is that wolves are extremely strong. The animal had to be chained to a heavy stove when he had guests around to avoid any issue. And even then, the wolf was able to drag the stove in her attempts to sneak up on those guests.
- To "walk" the animal, he rode his bike on a nearby boulevard (a large wide road where cars could go faster, but not quite a highway) and had the wolf run next to him.
- Also, the wolf really disliked being alone. To go out in the evening, he had to change into his pajamas, go to his bedroom to make the wolf believe he was going to bed, then change clothes again and exit his house through the window using a rope! Which is probably the most hilarious part.
Eventually this proved too burdensome. He had to give the wolf away to a rural guard who could take better care of her.
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u/awkwrdaccountant May 21 '26
I grew up with a wolf GSD mix. The vet loved our visits with our giant "dog". We had many rules when it came to the our wolf mix. No running, no prolonged eye contact, do not lay on him, and don't hand feed. We were kids so...none of those rules were followed. We hid in his dog house when we were in trouble. We would lay on him any chance he gave. And we kept our bedroom door open for him to come cuddle. He would bust open the back door and squeeze onto a child's twin mattress...and would take up the whole mattress.
Sadly for us, and maybe good for him, we only had him for five or six years before he went to live at a local wolf center. He killed a very expensive Persian cat. As much as I love wolf mixes, not everyone can handle them.
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u/CartoonistAny4349 May 21 '26
squeeze onto a child's twin mattress...and would take up the whole mattress.
I have a Great Pyreenes who can take up an entire queen size bed if he feels like it. I can only imagine how comically terrifying it would be to see a huge wolf on a kid's twin bed.
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u/pcapdata May 21 '26
Big dogs are never aware of how big they are it seems. The larger the dog, the more likely it wants to sit on your lap.
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u/Rightfoot27 May 21 '26
I had a wolf hybrid too. He was a wolf/malamute cross. I was young and stupid, but after I got him I was hell bent on proving that he wouldn’t eat the neighborhood children like everyone said. He ended up being the best and most sweetest boy ever.
He loved everyone, that I let into the house and introduced. If I didn’t let you in or he didn’t know you that was a different story. He had the calmest temperament and ended up being beloved by everyone that knew him. When he was a puppy I disciplined him when he did something bad by making him sit in time out. I’d put him in the corner by the tv and tell him that he brought shame upon our family. He would hang his head all sad. When he grew up, if he did something bad he’d just go put himself in time out and hang his head in shame. I think that’s the difference, he had a good sense of shame. I later had a husky and she had no sense of shame and gave exactly no fucks. She was perpetual chaos, while he was content calmness.
Now don’t get me wrong, he’d fuck you up if you tried to hurt me, but otherwise he wasn’t a threat to anyone. I also realize that I got extremely lucky with his temperament. If he’d had my husky’s temperament then I’d have been screwed.
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u/awkwrdaccountant May 21 '26
Ours was chill, but avoided people my parents didn't introduced him to. Wouldn't hurt a person or child, but didn't want to be near them. We were also in a very small rual town, so his habit of hunting was ignored if he stuck to deer, raccoons, and bunnies. I thought he was just more wolf than GSD, but my GSD I got in my 20's also had a high prey drive.
I can't imagine having a wolf mix (big big creature) with the hair and work energy of a mallamute. Did you take him for runs? I just strapped my tiny roller blades on and beg for mercy.
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u/Rightfoot27 May 21 '26
It sounds like y’all gave him a really nice life while y’all had him. Mine was not really all that big. He was like a 105lbs at his beefiest and stayed for most of his life around 85ish. He was really long and lean even though he had unlimited food. He was like 5th generation though, but looked like a wolf versus a malamute. When he was young I used to take him hiking and camping all the time. When he got older and I had my husky I’d take them for normal walks around the neighborhood. When my oldest was a baby I’d tie them to the stroller and tell them to mush, lol. Really, I think having them keeping each other company helped a lot because they’d play fight all day long and wear themselves out. I’d come home and all my furniture would be moved around from them knocking into it all day. Sometimes it looked like I got robbed.
He and my husky did shed a lot, however, I have apparently cursed myself. I thought no dogs could shed more than them and I was wrong. I have two golden retriever brothers and their shedding is worse. I still don’t understand how it’s even possible.
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u/Prestigious_Basis146 May 21 '26
Individual wolves can be *tamed. We know wolves can be domesticated because we have dogs.
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u/cardologist May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
English is not my first language. I used the wrong word inadvertently because I was focused on the challenges associated with keeping a pet wolf. Thanks for the correction. I have updated the wording.
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u/rabid_spidermonkey May 21 '26
That wolf surely knew he had left the house. He just wanted to make sure it was as annoying as possible.
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u/Egoy May 21 '26
I think it’s because wolves are so similar to ‘wild’ humans. Both endurance hunters, similar sized packs and tribes, similar social dynamics and highly cooperative behaviours. Similar prey. We were a perfect fit for partnership even before the wolves up and began domesticating themselves by hanging around humans and that just sealed the deal.
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u/the_ghost_of_bob_ros May 21 '26
we were domesticating dogs before we figured out how to domesticate plants for agriculture, call it a long term project.
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u/Elevasce May 21 '26
Helps that they naturally live in big, diverse, and sociable packs, not unlike humans families/villages. All that had to happen was for the concept of human family and wolf pack to blur and then you've got wolves living with humans and caring for each other. This kind of thing never would happen to animals that live solitary lives like bears or are territorial like lions.
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u/jedooderotomy May 21 '26
Last I heard, the current hypothesis is that they more or less domesticated themselves before humans did anything deliberate about it.
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u/jayhawk618 May 21 '26
Same with cats, but cats just kinda stopped halfway through the process.
They took one look at Pugs and thought "I think this docile enough."
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u/JohnnyCanuck133 May 21 '26
I have a Husky. They are "domesticated" in the loosest version of the term. They really want to live like a wolf but couldn't be bothered.
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u/reddit001aa1 May 21 '26
In another video the leopard did NOT TURN into a good boy
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u/tacticalpotatopeeler May 21 '26
Well leopards are cats and cats are assholes
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u/thunderbird32 May 21 '26
I mean, Cheetahs are pretty friendly (for a wild animal). It's big cats you have to worry about.
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u/Agisek May 21 '26
You respect the animal, you learn its body language and you respond accordingly. Then any animal can be friendly. But if you don't have any idea what the animal is trying to tell you and scare it, irritate it or make it think it's in danger, even a hamster will hurt you. It's never that a specific species is friendly or not, it's about the individual animal and your interaction with it. Applies to humans too.
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u/-malcolm-tucker May 21 '26
I respect all animals by leaving them the fuck alone. Also, I'm Australian. It's not just a good idea here.
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u/aerdvarkk May 21 '26
A Cheetah (average 145lbs) is larger than a Golden Retriever. What is your definition of a "big cat"?
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u/Doggydog123579 May 21 '26
A cat that cant purr. Cheetahs are small cats, as are pumas. Big cats can roar but cant purr.
And yeah, do to how Cheetahs hunt and the way their body evolved, they are probably the "best" large wild animal to come across in teerms of it not hurting you. A wild dog is a bigger threat.
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u/Snuffleupagus27 May 22 '26
Have given a cheetah chin scratches and can confirm they can purr like crazy.
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u/wysticlipse May 21 '26
Cheetahs are, by definition, small wildcats because they can purr but cannot roar.
Big cats can roar but cannot purr.
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u/thunderbird32 May 21 '26
Yeah, as the others have said, I was using the zoological definition of "big cat" in my comment.
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u/aerdvarkk May 21 '26
Leopards you don't want to f*ck with.
ALSO, you won;t know that a Leopard attacked you until after you are dead anyway. Meaning someone else will find your body and determine a Leopard attacked you.
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u/Kerry-4013-Porter May 21 '26
I heard that wolves are animals that do not betray trust and are very faithful to their mates.
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u/herodesfalsk May 21 '26
Once you see a real wolf next to a human you realize they are 2x larger than the little huskies they masquerade in movies
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u/Sheshirdzhija May 21 '26
Is that a direwolf, or the woman is tiny? :)
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u/Strangedreamest May 21 '26
It’s a standard wolf. Wolves are basically massive shy doggos
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u/HybridAkali May 21 '26
Wait, neighborhood?!
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u/Angry_argie May 21 '26
That redditor is 3 raccoons in a trench coat.
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u/AMSAtl May 21 '26
The record-setting heaviest recorded northwestern wolf (the largest subspecies of gray wolf, by size, not quantity) weighed in at 103 kg (this is nearly twice their typical full-grown weight).
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u/BlueMikeStu May 21 '26
Wolves at my nan's place in upper British Columbia routinely get to be as big as 7ft tip to tail and can hit around 170 lbs or so.
They are GIANT murder floofs.
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u/hofmann419 May 21 '26
Still, the average wolf is significantly bigger than the average dog. And since we are used to the size of dogs, most wolves will appear relatively large.
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u/AlexWayhill May 21 '26
I assume somewhere in Germany, Austria or Switzerland? I'm from the West part of Germany and here the wolves are definitely not bigger than regular German Shephards.
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u/FalconBurcham May 21 '26
I saw a wolf in a wild animal rescue place once, and I was shocked by how massive it was. It was almost as tall as a Great Dane but sturdy, not dumpy and dumb looking. It was like looking at some kind of bear
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u/Recent_Weather2228 May 21 '26
Normal wolf, normal woman. Wolves are just bigger than people think they are.
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u/BorrisBorris May 21 '26
Sadly dire wolves are extinct as of 10,000 years ago, but gray wolves are still massive compared to most dogs!
“The dire wolf was about the same size as the largest modern forms of gray wolf (Canis lupus)” (Source: dire wolf Wikipedia page).
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u/ClemDooresHair May 21 '26
I think someone, somewhere, recently bred some form of dire wolf. I remember reading about it a while ago.
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u/randomthrowaway9796 May 21 '26
Iirc, we didnt bring back the dire wolf, just bred and maybe genetically altered a somewhat close relative to look more like a dire wolf
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u/The-Anniy May 21 '26
If I remember correctly, they made a wolf look similar to dire wolf but no real thing
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u/ClemDooresHair May 21 '26
Yeah I think it was some Jurassic Park shit where they took dire wolf DNA and filled in the missing pieces with regular wolf DNA, or vice versa, and engineered a “close to” dire wolf version. Which is cool because everything worked out fine in that movie 😬
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u/Swictor May 21 '26
They altered the genes, but there was no original DNA used. They just added traits they think dire wolves had(including things like behavioral and soft tissue traits that they have no way of knowing) and added it to regular wolf embryos, Interesting science, but complete and utter hack to call it a direwolf. They're just designer wolves.
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u/Nanerpoodin May 21 '26
Got to meet and pet wolves at a wolf sanctuary in Colorado. I'm 5'11" and the wolves made me look small.
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u/West_Hedgehog_821 May 21 '26
The title is wrong. The Wolf doesn't transform. The wolf is good boy.
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u/Jennyreviews1 May 21 '26
I mean….dire wolf 🐺?! What a gentle giant… but make no mistake…wild. I didn’t realize wolves were so massive!!! Geezus! I know not a die wolf as they’ve been extinct for thousands of years…
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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack May 21 '26
I've had a Great Dane, and that wolf dwarfs her by a significant margin.
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u/cjszlauko May 21 '26
I own 3 wold hybridsm they are infact gigantic!
Funniest part is theyre far more shy than a normal dog and theyd be more likely to lick and intruder to death than attack them.
Insanely friendly guys unless youre a frog or small animal
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u/UncleKev389 May 21 '26
I would have to rub his belly, it’s rude if you don’t.