Interesting article. You take a wild animal that fears humans, and cross it with a breed of dog that is very independant (correct me if I'm wrong mushers) and you get this "ultimate" tracking animal. Maby the've come up with a new mouse trap but---I duno.
David C.Frost Webboard User Reg: 01-23-2002
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Ahh a new breed, give us time and we can give it things like dysplasia and make it neurotic as well. It would be interesting to see one of those animals work. All the genes seem to be there for a heck of a service dog.
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Any behavior that is reinforced is more likely to occur again.
It would be very interesting to see if a study has ever been done on HD in wild canids. I'll bet it's the same as the earlier discussion on bloat and wild canids. The bad ones are out of the gene pool.
Hybrid vigour can be a pretty awesome thing.
Also people here think "husky" and they immediately think of CKC/AKC show dog type of husky. I don't think that this is what they were using! Huskies bred for working ability are pretty different in their capabilities
and the much touted "independence" and "un-trainability" of huskies a lot of times doesn't apply.
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DFrost wrote: "All the genes seem to be there for a heck of a service dog."
Wouldn't this just be the same type of thing as a wolf-hybrid? I don't think it has been proven that they are good service dogs, quite the opposite in fact. I don't think that crossing domestic dogs with wild animals would provide the best genes for service work.
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The genes are there when crossbreeding wolves as well, we've just not hit on the right combination. They (dogs) have all come from the wolf at somepoint. After rereading my post, I realize I didn't express myself as intended, It was really meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek.
DFrost
Any behavior that is reinforced is more likely to occur again.
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