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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (75240)	2/26/2000 7:48:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Yes, but you see dogs genetically are wolves. They represent four major different domestication events. Dogs can be considered to be races, sub species of the gray wolf. You understand that the dingo was taken to Australia perhaps 40 thousand years ago by immigrants and then naturalized itself into a wild dog. But a hand-raised dingo becomes a perfectly domesticated common dog. (Read E. M. Thomas's observations of her dingo bitch.) Remember that the Polynesians took pigs and dogs with them all over the Pacific. They ate both pigs and dogs, but also kept dogs as pets. As to the fierceness of wolves, and the dangers of wolfdogs, I protest. I believe the handraising of one or more wolves in a human family makes them dogs. Bigger, tougher, smarter than the ordinary dog, much tougher to dominate. If you can dominate a 100 pound dog wolf, you will have a master dog, but if you let the wolf become alpha male dog in your family, he will bully and even kill an omega dog. A wolf has to know its limitations.