#f1 wolfdog

Top image is a Greenland Dog

Bottom image is an F1 Wolf x West Siberian Laika hybrid. The second photo is of who I believe to be the same animal from the laikirus (dot) ru database. Not the exact same image and no name or registration number in the book so not 100% sure but it sure looks similar. The laikirus animal, Ulka, was born to a wild taken siberian wolf named Naida, and a pure dog WSL. Ulka was bred to pure WSL males, and as far as i can tell so were the continuing offspring. I haven't been able to find where her line ends so far, for all I know there are living descendants of her now. She was born to the ВНИИОЗ (VHIIOZ, still haven't looked up what thats an abbreviation for) kennel as part of an experiment for the viability of WSL x Wolf hunting dogs.

I'm only able to roughly translate russian currently so *please* correct me if I make any errors on these!

Kai Ken x wolf cross puppies, photographed in Japan. Yes, the animal is a wolf, not a coyote or a jackal, since I’m sure it’ll come up. Yes, it is likely pure.

What is more interesting here is the color of the pups. While two appear to be brindle, the middle one is either extremely sparse brindle, or it’s sable. This is noteworthy because Kai Ken are supposed to be mostly “fixed” for brindle.

This trend comes up again in these modern Kai Ken wolfdogs, who allegedly have a pure Kai Ken parent and a parent who is a North American wolf of some subspecies undefined.

The above animals live at a zoo, and were mistaken for Shikoku Ken crosses by a Shikoku Ken breeder until he inquired with the zookeeper (as best I understand the blog they came from...)

What are the chances of two different Kai Ken who were crossed to wolves being heterozygous, rather than homozygous, for brindle? Or is there something else happening with the interaction? Maybe Kai just aren’t as “fixed” for brindle as we believe? Yamabushi Kennel, the Kai Ken effort in New Mexico who are also behind Hakuzan Kennel (where one of my Kishu was born) have only produced one non-brindle Kai Ken, which was a surprise to everyone. 

Top image is of Seryi ("Grey"), an F2 West Siberian Laika x Wolf crossing, I believe *born to the F1 Ulka I posted earlier, sired by a pure WSL. Hos sire's maternal grandsire, Rex, is also shared by her dam's WSL sire, so he's linebred on him.* All of the information within the *'s is only true if he's the same Seryi as I found within the laikirus (dot) ru database, included below. They look similar enough and are the same Fgen but without identical pictures I don't want to misspeak on that.

Below is the head of Serogo, another hybrid. He's not one of the F1, F2, or F3 dogs listed on the laikirus database so no extra info on him, though I would hazard a guess that he also comes from the same Naida she-wolf.

Next to Serogo is Karat, an F3 wolf laika hybrid. He's also not listed but I would hazard the same guess.

I'm only able to roughly translate russian currently so *please* correct me if I make any errors on these!

Population of wolf-dog hybrids, bred for the Perm Institute of Interior Troops by Russian scientist Professor Kasimov VM.

These are F1 German shepherd/wolf crosses (mother and father pictured in last image). From the day they are born, these animals are constantly socialized and rigorously trained in bite-work, tracking, and search-and-rescue. It is not typical of mid-content wolfdogs to be this well-trained, and I personally doubt the continued success of this program using mids. Lower-content animals would likely be a much better option.