It doesn't matter if owners consider their dogs
as wolf cousins or furry children if the relationship is smooth and the adaptations made as a matter of course, but if Fido's natural tendencies are unacceptable in any way, remedies depend on understanding how and why the behavior exists so that it can be modified.
Not exact matches
Even their ancient
cousin the
wolf is omnivorous, engaging in the eating of plant matter with similar acts of grazing on grasses,
as well
as eating the plant matter out of the guts of their herbivorous prey.
(ref) At first, these
wolf dogs looked quite the same
as their wild
cousins — the changes were inside, in their personalities and ability to coexist with a different species.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that gray
wolves in Montana and Idaho must be given the same protections under the federal Endangered Species Act
as their
cousins in Wyoming.