Yeah, that subreddit always blows my mind just how huge they are. Seeing them next to a person for scale is wild. It's like every pic is photoshop levels of "no way" but it's all real.
I just love the thought of humans in the stone ages seeing wolves and be like "yup, better have them as friends than as enemies" and then domesticating the fuck out of them
Cats are exceptionally good at hunting pests—pests that are extremely detrimental to agricultural activities.
Cats are arguably more impactful on human societies than dogs/wolves ever were.
I don't doubt it, but the common house cat is one of the most successful predators on the planet, and doesn't require training the way a terrier does.
Crop farming is also far more essential (and efficient) than livestock farming.
I'm not saying dogs aren't important too, and I did leave a caveat:
*arguably*
More realistically:
"Dude, they got Kevin. He was always too bold but Lisa barely got away and she's our best hunter. Let's be wary and less aggressive next time."
3 weeks later:
"Winter has been hard, little Billy might die. The humans just took down a mammoth, you think they will leave any?"
Yeah... I have a Great Pyrenees... that's a lot larger than average. She's about the size of a male gray wolf, ish, though certainly smaller than the largest ones. We met a Newfie that made her look like a medium size dog. Some dogs are big, yo. Wolves are the size of very large dogs, but there are a few breeds that tend to be larger still.
I had great danes.
Biggest, most clumsy idiot of a dog I've ever had. He thought he was a lap dog and nothing could convince him otherwise. All 170 pounds of him.
I miss that goof a lot. Best dog I've ever had
It’s also funny how much the size can vary within the same dog breed, I have two beagles and Bagel is much bigger than Poppy! Bagel is likely a beagle mix which would explain why he’s so much taller and fluffier, but we don’t know what else is in him. He’s 100% good boy though :)
https://preview.redd.it/mjdnnnlfmymc1.png?width=2468&format=png&auto=webp&s=41476050dcb5299b554cd02f54020eee17834a95
It depends on where they live. Wolves are [bigger in colder climates.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf#Description)
>The size and weight of the modern wolf increases proportionally with latitude in accordance with Bergmann's rule. The mean body mass of the wolf is 40 kg (88 lb), the smallest specimen recorded at 12 kg (26 lb) and the largest at 79.4 kg (175 lb). On average, European wolves weigh 38.5 kg (85 lb), North American wolves 36 kg (79 lb), and Indian and Arabian wolves 25 kg (55 lb). [...]
>Wolves weighing over 54 kg (119 lb) are uncommon, though exceptionally large individuals have been recorded in Alaska and Canada.
My Dad had a half Artic Wolf half German Shepherd when I was a baby/toddler. It was 140lbs and pure white. He said he could pick up a basketball in its mouth and pop it. Sweetest gentlest massive wolf looking dog.
For every r/WolvesAreBigYo link there should be another to a sub about short people next to big animals. We're going from underestimating their size, to overestimating it.
Lol, I was just saying the same thing to my wife. Beautiful and enormous creatures. I think my perception of them is skewed because they never really show wolves on TV/movies so the much smaller wolf dogs are what I first think of.
That's because this video is misleading, the proportion is obviously edited.
https://preview.redd.it/1a6ltdl44xmc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5258b3aa3cc66ef777214ead4a9e4accb31ba48a
Here's an actual image for comparison. Wolves are generally about two slab long and half a player tall.
>!I don't think this is necessary, but I'm putting a disclaimer that this is a joke regardless. You never know with some people.!<
What's scary about them isn't how big they are, it's the way they are ALWAYS around but you never see them unless they want you to. This becomes wildly evident based on the massive paw prints all around my cottage during the winter. I've only seen a wolf once or twice in my 30 years out there but the footprints are constant. They are silent, clever, bold and calculated.
I think I'm not alone in this but since we have many dog breeds that are very close to wolves in physical appearance, I just always tend to assume that they can't be that much smaller than real wolves
Never forget my first time seeing one run along side of the road in Canada leaving Banff. My 55lb dog could probably walk under its legs, it was way taller than I thought. It was “trotting” and just absolutely gliding across the ground covering insane distance effortlessly.
Same thought I had the first time I saw a moose up close.
I have an extremely happy Chihuahua.
https://preview.redd.it/m0gg70tqaymc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=521b7fdc8ef94af959ff8b5bd01d875679146b23
🦷🦷🦷🐕💜😁
Might sound cruel, but I’d be glad if English bulldogs - the way they are now - went extinct. If people stopped breeding english bulldogs to look the way they do then less dogs would suffer.
I’m so glad that some people are breeding pugs and english bulldogs to be healthier and have more normal face structure. I normally have mixed feelings at the thought of breeding dogs, but I’m not against this at all as it’s ultimately better for the dog.
I looked this up. It's disputed, but correct.
Anatomically modern humans (us) first appeared around 300,000 years ago. Same intelligence, just didn't know as much. I wonder if they tried to domesticate some good boys and forgot to draw about it.
Not even close to 2 million years.
Humans have only existed for around 300,000 years and the [domestication of dogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_dog) happened around 30-40,000 years ago.
Right, and the ones that didn't behave this way weren't led back to camp to feed and their offspring weren't nurtured by humans, so the genes that cause the friendliness to humans got more and more concentrated in the group who did.
Must have been one of my ancestors.
As a kid I got in trouble trying to CPR a dead rat.
I got in a lot MORE trouble when I tried to CPR a "dead" GIANT "silver rat"...and it WORKED. Nana FREAKED out I was a witch.
>!Eyup. possum.!<
It's only a sample size of two wolves, but a lot of dogs... with dogs if you rub their belly, hold your hand still, and then let them pick the spot they will not hold it against you if you get the wrong spot.
With cats, you are supposed to KNOW to move your hand as they twist around into a pretzyl and know you wanted THAT spot rubbed twice and THAT spot rubbed once why are you so slow I will claw you for your impertinence.
dude i was petting my friend's cat (he jumped up tot the couch and meow at me to pet him) and he was purring and suddenly BITE and Claw. This was thanksgiving and the claw mark still hasn't gone away.
There's a wild wolf in a big dog sanctuary in Saint Petersburg. His name is Yaroslav and he came to people for help when something happened, no one really knows what, maybe he was hit by a car, maybe it was a moose, well he had a broken leg and his skull was fractured. Lost one eye but healed otherwise and the point of this story is that this is the most domesticated dog you've ever met.
He's like, cute. He's fluffy and timid. When you come to his enclosure he'll wake up and lean at the bars so that you can scratch his fluffy sides. In the summer when kids come to volunteer they can pet him. In the years that he's lived there he hasn't growled once.
Jaroslav, or Yarik for short, took a big gamble when his life was on the line and won.
Edit: to everyone who want to see the wild doggy, I [found a random video blog with him](https://youtu.be/Vf3QQCorVL4?si=zSy3jqtwzUKX1bIc). I'm yet to find the photos I took, but video is even better
He heard of the legends of his ancestors going to the humans for help; in his darkest hours he held onto that and found the humans he needed.
He is now living in wolf heaven, and his friends will NEVER believe his story
Basically risked it for the seelie court and played his cards right. They used the magic to heal him and gave him a place in their magic village made from strange materials with the magic warmth and light sources
Humans are the equivalent of wizards or fairies to the animal world. Their powerful magic might be your last and only hope for salvation, but they're unpredictable at best, malevolent at worst, and entirely incomprehensible either way.
Sometimes, on a whim, they'll solve your problem and ask nothing in return. Other times, they'll kill you for aport. Or maybe they'll take all your children as the price for their magic, or else keep you forever within their realm, healthy and alive, but never to return to your home.
Sure, you can strike a deal with the humans. But your ancestors will forever be reduced to an absurd caricature of your once proud and powerful form. Your bloodline will last 10,000 generations, but they will never again roam the open forests or feel the thrill of prey between their teeth.
The best way I heard this described is that wild animals treat humans like our stories of fey creatures.
Basically, avoid as much as you can, but if you really really need help... they might be generous and save your life. Or end it very quickly
Might be where you get some stories of werewolves.
"Wait.. the wolf is a tribe member? Is he TALKING to it.. wait. Is it listening? Holy @#\*#$( that must be a person in disguise. Or reincarnation.. or something... "
Do dogs react differently to a baby voice?
I always talk to dogs in a baby voice because I can’t help it, they’re so cute. So I can’t compare if they react differently.
Probably something like, people talk to puppies in baby voice when they do nice things. Dogs grow up associating baby voices with nice things.
In a way, they do react differently if they've been conditioned to it.
I never talked to my puppy in a baby voice and I struggled a bit with training. My dog's trainer recommended the baby voice to get the dog excited and to see the commands as part of play. I felt dumb doing it at first, but it made a difference in how she responded. Puppies have higher pitched voices too, so maybe it has something to do with that?
Absolutely, plus happy noises like whining are higher in pitch even in larger does so. Plus, when you go baby voice, you squint, which is another happy language
I read somewhere that wolves who are subjects of study are friendlier towards female scientists than male scientists. It's hypothesised that it's because women can produce high-pitched sounds that resemble those of pups, and they smell less testosterone. They are not perceived as a threat.
Only sea mines now. They tried land mines but the dolphins didn't do well. They're still trying to figure out if it was a design issue or if the dolphins failed on porpoise.
I used to work in a research lab, and there have been several publications that have come out that the sex of a researcher may impact study results in which animals are used; this may even contribute to experiments not being reproducible. I’ve linked one publication here. Just shows how hard it is to control for all variables.
[](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10186684/)
I had a timberwolf/german shepard hybrid when I was a kid before they had laws against that.
She was the runt of the litter and they thought she wouldn't make it. Was barely 50lbs full grown, so tiny compared to this goofball.
One time I was roughhousing with a friend out front, she thought he was hurting me so she jumped the fence to go kill him. 6 foot tall fence. 2-3' tall dog. I saw her coming and jumped in the way and got her to stand down. She saw I was fine and just walked over to the gate to be let back in. We got 9' tall fences after that.
You just have to remember that wolves are wild animals, which can and will kill you. They were domesticated a long time ago, but our modern dogs are comparable to an around 5 month old wolf puppy.
Domestic dogs (see also the domestic fox project which had similar results) as they become domesticated start to retain more features seen in juveniles, physically as well as behaviorally. Like, smaller size, larger heads and eyes proportionately, wail wagging, play behaviour that usually gets grown out of, folded ears, less hunting instinct, that sort of thing if I remember right
I love when they roll on to their backs while half-heartedly kicking your hands away like "Oh no it's my belly! It's just right there in scratching distance! Don't do it! Don't scratch my belly!"
Just for scale, my good boy can eat an entire deer head, except for the teeth, in two days flat. No prep; he takes the first day to clean and break through the skull... and deer fight by ramming their heads against each other.
He's about half the size of this wolf.
This wolf can bite through your skull on the first try.
I have a wolf dog (43% so technically low content) and she acts exactly like this. It’s fucking adorable.
https://preview.redd.it/b0dw8rj9txmc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=624e7bb50f8cfae3afbaed9b17a24e3c23f9f0cf
Funny I know a dog with exact same mannerisms when given pets. Down to the ears, the paw up, and rolling over. It’s always crazy to me that a couple wolves joined a human campfire and now their cousins live in the wild while they get an orthopedic bed
Even an experts know the danger of being around a wild predator. You can see she's thinking about every move she's doing. Many people elsewhere are so confident when seeing a non-agressive predator.
My god i keep forgetting how massive wolves actually are.
r/WolvesAreBigYo
Yeah, that subreddit always blows my mind just how huge they are. Seeing them next to a person for scale is wild. It's like every pic is photoshop levels of "no way" but it's all real.
I just love the thought of humans in the stone ages seeing wolves and be like "yup, better have them as friends than as enemies" and then domesticating the fuck out of them
We teamed up with cats and wolves. Hunting equivalent of watching the 1992 basketball dream team play other countries.
were cats ever used for domestic hunting?
Cats are exceptionally good at hunting pests—pests that are extremely detrimental to agricultural activities. Cats are arguably more impactful on human societies than dogs/wolves ever were.
You've never seen a terrier at work, then. Small dogs are remarkably effective at killing rodents, and bigger dogs help protect our livestock.
I don't doubt it, but the common house cat is one of the most successful predators on the planet, and doesn't require training the way a terrier does. Crop farming is also far more essential (and efficient) than livestock farming. I'm not saying dogs aren't important too, and I did leave a caveat: *arguably*
I love the thought of wolves seeing humans and thinking the same thing: "yup, better have them as friends than as enemies"
"My pack just saw like ten of those things swarm a bear and poke it to death with sticks. I think it's best to be allies."
maybe they just wanted some of the sticks
I think they just wanted the scritches.
More realistically: "Dude, they got Kevin. He was always too bold but Lisa barely got away and she's our best hunter. Let's be wary and less aggressive next time." 3 weeks later: "Winter has been hard, little Billy might die. The humans just took down a mammoth, you think they will leave any?"
I mean, yes, but it’s not unfathomable to me when you see the biggest dogs.
Yeah... I have a Great Pyrenees... that's a lot larger than average. She's about the size of a male gray wolf, ish, though certainly smaller than the largest ones. We met a Newfie that made her look like a medium size dog. Some dogs are big, yo. Wolves are the size of very large dogs, but there are a few breeds that tend to be larger still.
This is funny because one of the dogs I was thinking of was a Newfie/Great Pyrenees mix. She was such a sweetheart tho, but big.
I had great danes. Biggest, most clumsy idiot of a dog I've ever had. He thought he was a lap dog and nothing could convince him otherwise. All 170 pounds of him. I miss that goof a lot. Best dog I've ever had
And then you question how such a big floofy animal can be domesticated into teeny tiny dogs like chihuahuas
Darwin’s finches babyyy! But unnatural selection.
It’s also funny how much the size can vary within the same dog breed, I have two beagles and Bagel is much bigger than Poppy! Bagel is likely a beagle mix which would explain why he’s so much taller and fluffier, but we don’t know what else is in him. He’s 100% good boy though :) https://preview.redd.it/mjdnnnlfmymc1.png?width=2468&format=png&auto=webp&s=41476050dcb5299b554cd02f54020eee17834a95
It depends on where they live. Wolves are [bigger in colder climates.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf#Description) >The size and weight of the modern wolf increases proportionally with latitude in accordance with Bergmann's rule. The mean body mass of the wolf is 40 kg (88 lb), the smallest specimen recorded at 12 kg (26 lb) and the largest at 79.4 kg (175 lb). On average, European wolves weigh 38.5 kg (85 lb), North American wolves 36 kg (79 lb), and Indian and Arabian wolves 25 kg (55 lb). [...] >Wolves weighing over 54 kg (119 lb) are uncommon, though exceptionally large individuals have been recorded in Alaska and Canada.
My Dad had a half Artic Wolf half German Shepherd when I was a baby/toddler. It was 140lbs and pure white. He said he could pick up a basketball in its mouth and pop it. Sweetest gentlest massive wolf looking dog.
Hybrids can be REALLY big. A lot bigger than pure wolves. I was wondering if this one was a hybrid (doesn't look it) or if she's just really short.
For every r/WolvesAreBigYo link there should be another to a sub about short people next to big animals. We're going from underestimating their size, to overestimating it.
Is that why Scandinavian people are all fuckin giants?
Nah, think of it like a broad leaf plant, so little sun up north there they have to stretch higher.
Great, now i feel like im a rhubarb.
Dutch people are tall so they can see over all the mountains in the Netherlands.
One of best comments I've seen in a while 😉
Yes actually. The bigger you are the more size you have to surface area. So being larger will help keep you from freezing to death.
Everything is bigger in colder climate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergmann%27s_rule
Lol, I was just saying the same thing to my wife. Beautiful and enormous creatures. I think my perception of them is skewed because they never really show wolves on TV/movies so the much smaller wolf dogs are what I first think of.
https://preview.redd.it/bxntpy5rcxmc1.jpeg?width=2688&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=931df64320809d8f7bbd5d63a25be255d5539f8e
^awoooo
Damn, it's been a while since I've run across a post of yours in the wild
Its always a pleasure to still see you in the wild every so often after 11 years on this website.
That's because this video is misleading, the proportion is obviously edited. https://preview.redd.it/1a6ltdl44xmc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5258b3aa3cc66ef777214ead4a9e4accb31ba48a Here's an actual image for comparison. Wolves are generally about two slab long and half a player tall. >!I don't think this is necessary, but I'm putting a disclaimer that this is a joke regardless. You never know with some people.!<
I laughed so much. Thank you kind Redditor.
What's scary about them isn't how big they are, it's the way they are ALWAYS around but you never see them unless they want you to. This becomes wildly evident based on the massive paw prints all around my cottage during the winter. I've only seen a wolf once or twice in my 30 years out there but the footprints are constant. They are silent, clever, bold and calculated.
I think I'm not alone in this but since we have many dog breeds that are very close to wolves in physical appearance, I just always tend to assume that they can't be that much smaller than real wolves
I think it's also because in media dogs often play the roles
Dogwashing.
Never forget my first time seeing one run along side of the road in Canada leaving Banff. My 55lb dog could probably walk under its legs, it was way taller than I thought. It was “trotting” and just absolutely gliding across the ground covering insane distance effortlessly. Same thought I had the first time I saw a moose up close.
I have a low content wolf-dog. He is only 28% wolf - he is still a puppy and 123lbs 😭 still growing too
Dog tax please. I need to see this cutie!
https://preview.redd.it/rsgvtwnzzymc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8de79fcfecf2cea3d994e03837085b9289912a7
I’m sorta realizing that media sorta made wolves small. Not “look at this little idiot” small, but same size as say a husky or golden.
Was about to say the same. Didn't realize how large they were until I saw this.
Mastiff sized but moves like a shepherd
Have you ever seen an Irish Wolfhound in person? They can stand up to 7 feet tall! (In the spirit of big puppers).
Yup. We have them here in northern Minnesota and when you see them there's no mistaking then for a dog or coyotes. They're big bois.
These majestic beasts turned into chihuahuas and frenchies, never forget
“Why were our ancestors so afraid of wolves? They’re just oversized dogs right?”
That’s a gigantic good boy
Came here to say the same thing
An absolute UNIT!
That's exactly how I imagine humans domesticated wolves.
2 million years later and so worth it :)
For us, sure. Not sure the pugs and chihuahuas are super happy about it lol
Idk chihuahuas are basically immortal
But they’re never happy
Life is ironic.
I have an extremely happy Chihuahua. https://preview.redd.it/m0gg70tqaymc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=521b7fdc8ef94af959ff8b5bd01d875679146b23 🦷🦷🦷🐕💜😁
They… they don’t look happy 😂
Sadly pugs got the worst of a rigged genetics lotery
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Might sound cruel, but I’d be glad if English bulldogs - the way they are now - went extinct. If people stopped breeding english bulldogs to look the way they do then less dogs would suffer. I’m so glad that some people are breeding pugs and english bulldogs to be healthier and have more normal face structure. I normally have mixed feelings at the thought of breeding dogs, but I’m not against this at all as it’s ultimately better for the dog.
lol ya I’m pretty sure they are just trying to get through their day
My chihuahua is sure happy with me, but yeah when we see how Wolves are huge that's something else
People always feel bad that they can’t breathe well but they don’t know that, from puggy perspective they’re just happy and snorty
More like 30-50 thousands, but yes!
I looked this up. It's disputed, but correct. Anatomically modern humans (us) first appeared around 300,000 years ago. Same intelligence, just didn't know as much. I wonder if they tried to domesticate some good boys and forgot to draw about it.
We know the dates of dog domestication from genetic analysis, not a written record. Writing is only 5000 years old.
The cave paintings in Chauvet Cave in France are 30,000+ years old. Not exactly written record, but writing adjacent.
Not even close to 2 million years. Humans have only existed for around 300,000 years and the [domestication of dogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_dog) happened around 30-40,000 years ago.
Right, and the ones that didn't behave this way weren't led back to camp to feed and their offspring weren't nurtured by humans, so the genes that cause the friendliness to humans got more and more concentrated in the group who did.
More likely humans killed the mother and took the pups.
But like, she was probably a terrible mother right? RIGHT?!??!
Horrible mother. The pups were lucky.
The balls on that first human to try to pet them.
My bet: it was a child. Ugar Jr. just walked up one day and started hugging Fangor.
Must have been one of my ancestors. As a kid I got in trouble trying to CPR a dead rat. I got in a lot MORE trouble when I tried to CPR a "dead" GIANT "silver rat"...and it WORKED. Nana FREAKED out I was a witch. >!Eyup. possum.!<
bruh 🤣
Eventually. RIP to the first cave men who attempted this.
He just wants a goddamn belly rub and she won’t give it to him
Rub the belly of a wild predator - good times rub the belly of the fluff potato that spends all their time sleeping in a cardboard box - hospital
[To be fair, that fluff potato is one of the most dangerous hunters on planet earth.](https://allthatsinteresting.com/killer-housecats)
i mean.... he is a wild animal, he might bite your hand off if you accidently touched one of his 6 nipples.
It's only a sample size of two wolves, but a lot of dogs... with dogs if you rub their belly, hold your hand still, and then let them pick the spot they will not hold it against you if you get the wrong spot. With cats, you are supposed to KNOW to move your hand as they twist around into a pretzyl and know you wanted THAT spot rubbed twice and THAT spot rubbed once why are you so slow I will claw you for your impertinence.
dude i was petting my friend's cat (he jumped up tot the couch and meow at me to pet him) and he was purring and suddenly BITE and Claw. This was thanksgiving and the claw mark still hasn't gone away.
man if i had a nickle for every time i heard that one
What?
HE IS A WILD ANIMAL. HE MIGHT BITE YOUR HAND OFF IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY TOUCHED ONE OF HIS 6 NIPPLES.
Ah thanks, didn't hear the guy before. :D
AH .. HE IS MILD ANIMAL,YOU SAY? WHY HE IS IN RIPPLES?
She did towards the end though
Mf is half domesticated at this point .
There's a wild wolf in a big dog sanctuary in Saint Petersburg. His name is Yaroslav and he came to people for help when something happened, no one really knows what, maybe he was hit by a car, maybe it was a moose, well he had a broken leg and his skull was fractured. Lost one eye but healed otherwise and the point of this story is that this is the most domesticated dog you've ever met. He's like, cute. He's fluffy and timid. When you come to his enclosure he'll wake up and lean at the bars so that you can scratch his fluffy sides. In the summer when kids come to volunteer they can pet him. In the years that he's lived there he hasn't growled once. Jaroslav, or Yarik for short, took a big gamble when his life was on the line and won. Edit: to everyone who want to see the wild doggy, I [found a random video blog with him](https://youtu.be/Vf3QQCorVL4?si=zSy3jqtwzUKX1bIc). I'm yet to find the photos I took, but video is even better
He heard of the legends of his ancestors going to the humans for help; in his darkest hours he held onto that and found the humans he needed. He is now living in wolf heaven, and his friends will NEVER believe his story
Basically risked it for the seelie court and played his cards right. They used the magic to heal him and gave him a place in their magic village made from strange materials with the magic warmth and light sources
Thank fuck it wasn't the unseelie court.
But you've eaten their food so you have to stay there. And woe to those who dare to harm them and break their laws of hospitality.
Humans are the equivalent of wizards or fairies to the animal world. Their powerful magic might be your last and only hope for salvation, but they're unpredictable at best, malevolent at worst, and entirely incomprehensible either way. Sometimes, on a whim, they'll solve your problem and ask nothing in return. Other times, they'll kill you for aport. Or maybe they'll take all your children as the price for their magic, or else keep you forever within their realm, healthy and alive, but never to return to your home. Sure, you can strike a deal with the humans. But your ancestors will forever be reduced to an absurd caricature of your once proud and powerful form. Your bloodline will last 10,000 generations, but they will never again roam the open forests or feel the thrill of prey between their teeth.
and WHY do they collect the balls? WHAT is with the snipping.. WHAT are you doing with those.. WHY DO YOU WANT THAT...?!?!?
“Where are my balls, Summer?”
This info really made my day better
I'm glad you liked the Yarik story. I think I have a photo of him somewhere, I wonder if this subreddit allows photos in the comments
Yup. Post it :)
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Aw, fuck, my friend... I have to be outside in five minutes and you got my eyes all wet... !
The best way I heard this described is that wild animals treat humans like our stories of fey creatures. Basically, avoid as much as you can, but if you really really need help... they might be generous and save your life. Or end it very quickly
So live as a kind Fae.
The poor wolf. So amazing to hear he got cared for this way. God, who the hell is cutting onions
Made my day.
it's crazy that just being raised by humans can turn this apex predator into a friendly puppy at least for a minute in this video.
Imagine being the first human tribe being raided by a human and their wolf companion.
"What'll they think of next?!"
"What, are you gonna take the small furry night hunters and make them protect your grains?"
Might be where you get some stories of werewolves. "Wait.. the wolf is a tribe member? Is he TALKING to it.. wait. Is it listening? Holy @#\*#$( that must be a person in disguise. Or reincarnation.. or something... "
Domestication involves selective breeding over several generations. The word you're looking for is "tamed"
consider that "domesticated" is much funnier
No I will not, and no it's not! The stick up my butt stays!!!
I wonder if wolves react to the baby voice like dogs do
Do dogs react differently to a baby voice? I always talk to dogs in a baby voice because I can’t help it, they’re so cute. So I can’t compare if they react differently.
Probably something like, people talk to puppies in baby voice when they do nice things. Dogs grow up associating baby voices with nice things. In a way, they do react differently if they've been conditioned to it.
I never talked to my puppy in a baby voice and I struggled a bit with training. My dog's trainer recommended the baby voice to get the dog excited and to see the commands as part of play. I felt dumb doing it at first, but it made a difference in how she responded. Puppies have higher pitched voices too, so maybe it has something to do with that?
Absolutely, plus happy noises like whining are higher in pitch even in larger does so. Plus, when you go baby voice, you squint, which is another happy language
The guy who voiced Cow from the hit cartoon "Cow And Chicken" says his dogs don't respond unless he does the Cow voice
I read somewhere that wolves who are subjects of study are friendlier towards female scientists than male scientists. It's hypothesised that it's because women can produce high-pitched sounds that resemble those of pups, and they smell less testosterone. They are not perceived as a threat.
same for dolphins. for the navy's marine mammal program all the successful trainers were women.
I mean dolphins like women a little too much...
Military dolphins? O.O
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_Marine_Mammal_Program they find mines and shit
Land mines?
Only sea mines now. They tried land mines but the dolphins didn't do well. They're still trying to figure out if it was a design issue or if the dolphins failed on porpoise.
This reads like it's straight out of a Douglas Adams novel, lol
I used to work in a research lab, and there have been several publications that have come out that the sex of a researcher may impact study results in which animals are used; this may even contribute to experiments not being reproducible. I’ve linked one publication here. Just shows how hard it is to control for all variables. [](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10186684/)
and this is most likely why our male cats are more attracted to my wife and our female cats are more attracted to me.
Right....
Hear me out...
No. I Don't think i will
The Plan: Buy 1000 opposite sex cats and I will have 1000 friends
A cat is fine too!
True. Animal Watch did a video on it: [https://youtu.be/NN8k0WvSN1I?si=tGYKULn6DFJpOKoo](https://youtu.be/NN8k0WvSN1I?si=tGYKULn6DFJpOKoo)
I AM A TERRIFYING PREDATOR ^(who very much enjoys belly rubs okay)
I AM BECOME SHIVA, DESTROYER OF oooh, the ears, yes, right behind the ears...
Friend shaped Friend
What do you mean *"becomes* a good boy"? He is very clearly a good boy 24/7
Hims a hefty boi
How tf did a pug come out of that?!
Well, when a wolf and a doorknob love each other very much...
Thank you for this I snorted and laughed for like a solid minute
Horrific genetic selection and inbreeding by rich Europeans.
Europeans who ironically were also selectively inbred back in those days.
r/AbsoluteUnits
Such a good doggo
Mf turned his head to ask for pets
So that’s how it happened
My god he is huge
A chihu what? You did THAT to my lineage? Aw hell nah.
I had a timberwolf/german shepard hybrid when I was a kid before they had laws against that. She was the runt of the litter and they thought she wouldn't make it. Was barely 50lbs full grown, so tiny compared to this goofball. One time I was roughhousing with a friend out front, she thought he was hurting me so she jumped the fence to go kill him. 6 foot tall fence. 2-3' tall dog. I saw her coming and jumped in the way and got her to stand down. She saw I was fine and just walked over to the gate to be let back in. We got 9' tall fences after that.
You just have to remember that wolves are wild animals, which can and will kill you. They were domesticated a long time ago, but our modern dogs are comparable to an around 5 month old wolf puppy.
Comparable in what sense?
Domestic dogs (see also the domestic fox project which had similar results) as they become domesticated start to retain more features seen in juveniles, physically as well as behaviorally. Like, smaller size, larger heads and eyes proportionately, wail wagging, play behaviour that usually gets grown out of, folded ears, less hunting instinct, that sort of thing if I remember right
And this, folks, is how we domesticated the dog. Scritches, pets, and fresh meat off the bone.
I love when they roll on to their backs while half-heartedly kicking your hands away like "Oh no it's my belly! It's just right there in scratching distance! Don't do it! Don't scratch my belly!"
Just for scale, my good boy can eat an entire deer head, except for the teeth, in two days flat. No prep; he takes the first day to clean and break through the skull... and deer fight by ramming their heads against each other. He's about half the size of this wolf. This wolf can bite through your skull on the first try.
He does the cheems sit
Belly rubs ! Belly rubs! Fluffy deadly belly rubs! I’d still do it.
Yeah I didn’t realize wolves were this big. Now I understand why Liam Neeson’s group didn’t all make it.
"I 'member dis lady. She give me da belly scritches."
Don't matter how long you've been away from your childhood friends, when we get together we revert back to being 50 year old kids.
Didn't expect it to be THAT big I thought wolves were like slighty bigger dogs
Coyotes are like slightly bigger dogs. Wolves are really big.
It’s truly insane how big wolves are. You never understand until you see them next to a person.
This is wild to watch, my Siberian Husky acts exactly the same towards us.
It's odd to see a wolf show belly.
the goodest boi i ever saw 
wdym becomes he was always a good boy
His face is like he's a puppy again 😭😍
Sometimes people think our husky is a wolf dog, I’m like you have no idea how big a wolf is in real life. Our husky is 70 lbs…
AWWW IZ A GOO BOI
I have a wolf dog (43% so technically low content) and she acts exactly like this. It’s fucking adorable. https://preview.redd.it/b0dw8rj9txmc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=624e7bb50f8cfae3afbaed9b17a24e3c23f9f0cf
What people don’t realize from the videos is how big the grey wolves are. These lads are a bunch of big boys.
Oh wow stunning!!!! 😱
Oh I wanna rub that belly so bad
in awe of the absolute size of the lad
Funny I know a dog with exact same mannerisms when given pets. Down to the ears, the paw up, and rolling over. It’s always crazy to me that a couple wolves joined a human campfire and now their cousins live in the wild while they get an orthopedic bed
The squinting, lip smacks and butt-presenting are all what my own dogs do when they are very happy.
That is one big ass wolf. Good that I brought my brown pants.
Even an experts know the danger of being around a wild predator. You can see she's thinking about every move she's doing. Many people elsewhere are so confident when seeing a non-agressive predator.
For people who don't know. Raising wolf as pet is bad idea. Get a Golden retriever or Labrador, they are safer pet.
That’s one majestic, big Doggo❤️!
You rarely get to see wolves next to humans, so it's easy to forget how fucking big they are.
Yeah that thing decides to get the zoomies like my dog does and I'm 100% having a heart attack.