I don’t normally watch these sorts of “man living with wolves” documentaries, but this is excellent!
The very interesting part is where the German shepherd tries to tend to the cattle while the wolf tries to test them as possible prey.
A German shepherd is a very different animal from a wolf.
It’s a pastoral dog.
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What a wonderful documentary – thanks for sharing with us. I once had a conversation with a professional dog trainer who trained dogs (of various breeds) to herd sheep. His comment was that when a dog herds animals it’s a very thin line to cutting one out to kill it for prey.
It’s a thin line between killing and retrieving, too.
Great! What I had was not worse than yours. I thought what Ihad was trifling compared to what could have been. I was never laid up because of anything except the first lumpectomy. No cancer in lymph nodes. No chemo. Just radiation which is nothing, really. And no return for the past 3 years. I have checkups once a year at DF.
Hope yours is as easy
Love’E
Absolutely – there’s a little wolf in all our puppies. My father and I bred German Shorthaired Pointers for a long time, and the most amazing thing to see would be when the puppies were just starting to move around a little, we would place a live quail in the pen – the pups would instantly freeze and point. It was the most unbelievable thing to see, such little babies and barely moving and they would freeze on the point. The instinct to hunt and cut out a prey is just under the surface.
Impossible to imagine how many variants of this wonderful story have occurred over thousands of years in the mountains, plains and forests of eurasia. How less well might we humans have prospered, physically and psychologically, without this unique relationship.