I cannot imagine picking up after that. Our ancestors were right to Honey I Shrunk The Wolf them.
(Hat tip: Scissorhead M Davis)
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Visiting Skagway on an Alaska cruise, wondered into a touristy shop, where a couple of the fiercest, nastiest, oh-god-don’t-let-it-be-real nightmare taxidermied monsters were on display. HUGE. Timber wolves. You don’t want to be stalked by one, much less a pack. If you only have one bullet, use it on yourself.
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Timber wolves are the big ones, right?
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Yes. Gray (aka ‘Timber’ ) wolves are the largest subspecies of Canis lupus, males range from 140-190 lbs
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Do they run skinny or something? We had a dog that was around 120, and, though big, he was in no way that freakishly tall.
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140-190 lbs, holy cow, that is a LOT of canid
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MDavis, yes they tends to be tall and on the skinny side. There’s a subreddit devoted entirely to how big they are, some seriously amazing pictures https://www.reddit.com/r/WolvesAreBigYo/
Also that husky in the pic above is young and smol (sorry, but I have to use the official Reddit term 🙂
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Our boy was pretty stocky, so that would explain the weight.
No worries about Reddit terms. I don’t do well learning new languages such as Reddit and Wonkette, but I have visited both. I have read that Reddit has some stinky cess-pits, which I have so far avoided, but there is also a trove of, just, stuff. I did comment once on Black People Twitter – I was just pointing out that letting the rich and powerful turn us poor folks against each other just plays into their game. That was fun. I haven’t had the black experience so other than that once I just read and marvel that the group has been through so much – AND kept some history on the experiences. Amazing. Takes a lot of community effort.
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Huskies are big enough. I know someone who has four adult huskies and keeps them in the house. That’s way too much dog.
On a very, very cold day a few weeks ago, I met up with one of my neighbors who was walking his dog. He said “Hi; it’s too cold to stop and chat,” and I said “This is why I have cats.”
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Bet that persons’s house is well insulated with husky floof.
Huskies are one of the smaller northern breeds. They run from 30-50 lbs or so. Malamutes are bigger getting up to 80-90 lbs.
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Four Huskies in the house makes it official: They now live in a
Dog House.
Just take the front door off and put the little sign that goes above the opening of the dog house that says “Dog House.” And there you go.
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oh hell, we have always had just two dogs and ours is officially a ‘Dog House’ 🙂
Our house is on a ⅓ acre lot and it has a 5½’ perimeter chain-link fence all around, the house proper is in the middle, with a big gate across the driveway.
We half-joke that we bought a great fenced yard for the dogs and were lucky that it came with a house in the middle for us…
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That is a nice sized yard. But I have never met a dog that didn’t think the yard should be bigger and with free come and go access.
Also, the dogs I lived with over the years made it a point to suggest that we get a bigger yard, and they made the suggestion frequently.
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I like dags!
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Ooo, I know that one!
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Man, it must have sucked to be a caveman.
Mrs. CM: Honey, can you take the wolf out for a walk?
Mr. CM: Are you fucking kidding me?
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Many years ago when I was working in the Anvil Creek District near Nome Alaska, I was packing out soil samples at the end of a long day. It was raining like it does all day every day and I had been sampling in an area with a lot of bear activity and limited visibility because of the willows, mist, and clouds. Needless to say I was pretty bushy. I was walking out along a gravel bar in the middle of no where and looked up to see a wolf about a hundred feet ahead of me. It was staring intently and moving closer with a diagonal approach like it was trying get on my flank. I about crapped as I shrugged off my pack and started digging under two layers of rain gear and clothing for the pistol I carried in a chest holster when I heard this calm voice from the willows next to me say, “you aren’t going to shoot my dog are you”? It startled me so badly I was lucky I didn’t shoot myself. The “dog” was a wolf hybrid, which was nice enough once I got over the shock. The guy was working a placer claim and had to have been the only other person within twenty miles of where I was working. I will never forget that.
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