[QUOTE=Chanak]@Magrus: Myths abound about wolves, and I can testify they're superstitious fears without basis that mainly originated in medieval Europe. A wolf by nature is shy and avoids confrontations. My own wolfdog was teased by a group of children from the surrounding area while I was out on a job. He knew them, and they knew him as well, but they were throwing mud clods at him and waving sticks in his face. From what the kids had told me afterwards, they were at it for quite a while, and Zabiel was rather upset. He ended it when he broke his cable, trotted up to the closest kid, and pushed him down with one of his big front paws. That's all he did, amazingly enough. He was larger than the kids teasing him. I found out about it when I came home that evening, and found Zabiel a muddy mess.
He was *always* breaking cables and chains, and even invented a way to unlatch hooks from his collar. He would dig a shallow hole in ground, lay down, and push the hook assembly into the hole, snagging the hook latch against the side of the hole. He would then roll slightly, letting the hook latch free of the loop on his collar. I watched him do it one time, and I was dumbfounded. That damn troublemaker!
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Thats amazing how he reasoned out how to get out that off of him. Wild animals do NOT like being tied up or restricted at all. My old cat was part bobcat and would knock on my door to get inside.
Thats good how your dog didn't really rough those kids up. He probably didn't just because it was mud he was being hit with. The dog I saw was being hit with rocks thrown by kids on the baseball team, they were drawing blood on him. I didn't see it happening, but he still had sores when I saw him a few days later after hearing what had happened. They did it quite often and that last time it was just the one kid and he snuck into their yard to get closer while the dog was asleep rather than outside the fence like usual. Personally I would have done more to the kid myself, they put that dog through quite a lot over probably a 3 month time span tormenting it. Normally it would bark and just go inside and avoid the situation. I think being pelted in its sleep and finally having someone in sight, in the yard made it want to teach the kid a lesson.
Seeing the size of that dog though, and the wounds on the kids leg in school, it made me think of a K-9 cop dog pulling someone down. Only this dog was far bigger than any German Shepard I've seen. I'm pretty sure he could have snapped his leg in half if he had the inclination to do so.
