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06
If two wolf husky hybrids have puppies are the puppies also half wolf half husky?
Byare the puppies just as much husky and wolf as the parents or are the genes deluded?
are the puppies just as much husky and wolf as the parents or are the genes deluded?
6 Comments
June 6th, 2010 at 1:22 am
yep, same as mom and pop.
June 6th, 2010 at 2:19 am
It comes down to fractions.. Each parent passes half of its genes.. so that’s
1/4 husky genes, 1/4 wolf on mom side, and the same on dad’s.. so that makes 1/2 wolf, 1/2 husky. BUT.. the litter will vary greatly in their tempraments; ranging from husky to pure wolf.
June 6th, 2010 at 2:55 am
It would depend on the percentage rates of the parents.
If Father was 1/2 (1 parent wolf, 1 parent husky) and mother was the same you would have cubs that would be classified as F2 50%. This means second generation from a pure wolf, with 50%wolf.
It can get REALLY complicated from there, because you can mix say an F1, which are ALWAYS from a wolf to dog mating, thus 50%, to a dog and get F2 25%, or to an F3 75% and the cubs would be F2 67%.
Confused?
Think how confused the poor animals are!
That is why they make such horrible pets and usually end up euthanized or in Hybrid sanctuaries, which are few and far between.
June 6th, 2010 at 3:25 am
Had a student in class that came in as a husky mix. She walked into the room and you could see the wolf in it. She was just afraid to put down wolf. His boy was not neutered. The whole class was not neutered, and then the female lab came in just coming out of season. Then the fun began-all the males wanted to kill each other. She said that she had a full wolf at home that has to be locked up in an outside pen as they can’t trust it. Now tell me what life is that for the dog? I told them all I wanted to see them all in classes again, but I wouldn’t take them unless they were NEUTERED. You can’t teach a class when all the dogs have raging hormones and ticking bombs.
June 6th, 2010 at 4:10 am
“Wolf” and “Husky” are not genetically heritable traits in the same way that brown eye color, for example, is. They are constellations of traits, some dominant, some recessive, some linked, some not. There are many, many traits that tend to make a canine more wolf-like or more Husky-like, each of which can be inherited independently of the others.
Genetics is very complex stuff, but if we ignore a lot of details that you probably don’t need to worry about, and assume that dominant, recessive, and linked genes are distributed about the same in both wolves and Huskies (almost certainly an incorrect assumption) we have known since Gregor Mendel, a 19th Century Augustinian Monk, that the first generation offspring will be roughly 1/4 very wolf-like, 1/2 half wolf half Husky, and 1/4 very Husky-like. So, in a litter of eight, you could expect 2 pups to look and act like wolves, 2 pups to look and act like Huskies, and 4 to look and act like hybrids.
The actual results will be much more complex, due to some of the genes being dominant and some being recessive and some being linked, but for a rough and ready approximation that is what you can expect.
June 6th, 2010 at 4:25 am
2/4 wolf and 2/4 Husky. Yes in this case they are the same, but that being said and genetics being what they are (how much of their grandparent’s traits did each of these the parents inherit, and how much of what traits did the pup inherit from the parents) there is no way of knowing what the pups really have. And that could vary widely from pup to pup.