#even tho he’s fully potty trained (duh)

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Link (top row of both slides) with his full older sister and his full littermate brother. I’m so grateful that his sister’s mom saw Link, his dna and where we live and put together that she probably has his sister. We emailed Embark to run a relative test to confirm and confirm they did

Link was found as a stray so for nearly 2 years I’ve known nothing about who or where he came from. But I even have a few pics of their parents now. Unfortunately the people these dogs come from are pretty awful and sell a 5 week wolfdog pups to anyone who shows up with money, no questions asked. They’ve also sold pups with Parvo, who died days after being brought home. I scoured my state for breeders trying to see where my dog was from but as it turns out, they don’t have a website, they only post their puppies on craigslist, nobody knows their names or exactly where they live because they only meet up to sell the pups in public. After his sister was bought, her owner said she saw several people on craigslist trying get rid of the pup they recently bought bc they couldn’t handle them, one sister even ended up at a rescue. So it makes sense why I couldn’t find his family on my own, and why I found a 6 week puppy on the side of the road. I assume he was bought and a week in his buyer realized they werent able to deal with, or werent ready for a wolfdog, since he was found dehydrated and full of worms and ticks. But not starving, luckily

And man am I lucky that the puppy I didn’t know was a wolfdog for the first few months we had him (though we quickly grew suspicious) is generally a great fit for our family of his humans, our other 2 dogs and the kitten. And we’re a good fit for him 💕

#make no mistake he can be rotten #but now that he’s almost 2 he’s typically a wonderful dog #he was a NIGHTMARE as an infant with crate training #I can see why people couldn’t handle him #he screamed all night while rattling the cage #he never settled and he would poop the crate EVERY night despite being taken out every few hours #but he was so worked up that when we let him out to go potty he’d just scream and try to climb up our leg and refused to go outside at nigh #every morning he and the crate were COATED in poop and pee and the screaming for months #he doesn’t scream or try to escape anymore but he still isn’t a fan and there’s a 50/50 chance he’ll poop or pee in it #even tho he’s fully potty trained (duh) #but that’s verbally his biggest flaw now. he occasionally shreds a pillow or something #he’s my bffffffff #i love him #link #wolfdog #malamute #german shepherd