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Living with Wolfdogs: An Everyday Guide to a Lifetime Companionship
Advice, answers, tricks and tips for anyone who shares or is considering sharing their life with these special companions. Packed with photographs. Information includes:
Percentages and generations explained
Considerations: legalities, what life is really like with a wolfdog
Housebreaking
Children and wolfdogs
Socializing shy wolfdogs: what really works
The "home alone" wolfdog
Containment for your canine Houdini
Introducing new canine companions
The most effective training for wolfdogs
Solutions for digging and other "problem" behaviors
Tips and tricks, including giving pills/applying ointments and creams
Wolfdogs in the car
...and more!
- GenresAnimals
128 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1998
About the author
Nicole Wilde
24 books38 followersNicole Wilde is an internationally recognized, award-winning author and lecturer, as well as a professional canine behavior specialist and Certified Professional Dog Trainer. Her twelve books include Help for Your Dog-Reactive Dog, Don’t Leave Me, Help for Your Fearful Dog, and Keeping the Peace: A Guide to Solving Dog-Dog Aggression in the Home. She is on the Advisory Board for the Companion Animal Sciences Institute, the Advisory Board for Victoria Stilwell’s Positively Academy, and the Advisory Board for Apex Protection Project. She is also the Behavior Consultant for Villalobos Rescue Center and has appeared as a trainer on the television show Pit Bulls & Parolees.
Nicole has written training and behavior articles and blogs for various publications including the Huffington Post, as well as for her own blog, Wilde About Dogs, and is a regular contributor to Modern Dog Magazine. She co-stars in the DVD "Train Your Dog: The Positive Gentle Method," and co-hosted the Dog Talk radio show where her experience, humor and quick wit were put to good use. Nicole lectures worldwide at conferences and for training clubs, humane societies, and other groups.
Always having had a special place in her heart for dogs in need, Nicole served as Volunteer Coordinator for the City of Los Angeles’ Animal Services, where she instructed volunteers in handling and behavior, worked with hundreds of dogs, and acted as an adoption counselor. After moving to L.A. County, she volunteered for a County shelter. At both shelters, her efforts were instrumental in many dogs finding loving homes. In addition to working with dogs,
Nicole has worked with rescued wolves and wolfdogs for over twenty years and is considered an expert in the field. She was Executive Director for Villalobos Rescue Center, which was at the time a sanctuary for rescued wolves and wolfdogs, as well as pit bulls and exotic animals. Nicole’s specialty was socializing the fearful wolves who were to live out their lives at the center, and she ended up bringing home three of the especially needy residents to live out their lives with her and her husband. Nicole has presented wolfdog education seminars to animal control officers, schools and specialty groups. Her experience is rounded out by having supervised 40-50 off-leash dogs daily at a doggy daycare, working at a veterinarian’s office, serving as Editor/Chief Writer for Get-A-Pet magazine, and many years of teaching dog training group classes as well as private lessons.
Nicole is also a photographer and digital artist who loves to use her talents to help animals in need. She photographs dogs to improve their chances of adoption, and donates artwork to various animal-related organizations to raise funds. Nicole owns and operates Gentle Guidance Dog Training in Santa Clarita, California. She lives with two rescued northern breed mixes, sled loads of dog hair, and one very understanding husband. Nicole continues to write books, teach seminars, train dogs, volunteer, assist in wolfdog rescue, and to help dogs in any way she can.
You can find Nicole's books, seminar DVDs and Wilde About Dogs blog at www.nicolewilde.com, her pet portraits at www.goodmojopetportraits.com, and her artwork at www.photomagicalart.com.
And you can find Nicole on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NicoleWildeA...) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/NicoleWilde)
Nicole has written training and behavior articles and blogs for various publications including the Huffington Post, as well as for her own blog, Wilde About Dogs, and is a regular contributor to Modern Dog Magazine. She co-stars in the DVD "Train Your Dog: The Positive Gentle Method," and co-hosted the Dog Talk radio show where her experience, humor and quick wit were put to good use. Nicole lectures worldwide at conferences and for training clubs, humane societies, and other groups.
Always having had a special place in her heart for dogs in need, Nicole served as Volunteer Coordinator for the City of Los Angeles’ Animal Services, where she instructed volunteers in handling and behavior, worked with hundreds of dogs, and acted as an adoption counselor. After moving to L.A. County, she volunteered for a County shelter. At both shelters, her efforts were instrumental in many dogs finding loving homes. In addition to working with dogs,
Nicole has worked with rescued wolves and wolfdogs for over twenty years and is considered an expert in the field. She was Executive Director for Villalobos Rescue Center, which was at the time a sanctuary for rescued wolves and wolfdogs, as well as pit bulls and exotic animals. Nicole’s specialty was socializing the fearful wolves who were to live out their lives at the center, and she ended up bringing home three of the especially needy residents to live out their lives with her and her husband. Nicole has presented wolfdog education seminars to animal control officers, schools and specialty groups. Her experience is rounded out by having supervised 40-50 off-leash dogs daily at a doggy daycare, working at a veterinarian’s office, serving as Editor/Chief Writer for Get-A-Pet magazine, and many years of teaching dog training group classes as well as private lessons.
Nicole is also a photographer and digital artist who loves to use her talents to help animals in need. She photographs dogs to improve their chances of adoption, and donates artwork to various animal-related organizations to raise funds. Nicole owns and operates Gentle Guidance Dog Training in Santa Clarita, California. She lives with two rescued northern breed mixes, sled loads of dog hair, and one very understanding husband. Nicole continues to write books, teach seminars, train dogs, volunteer, assist in wolfdog rescue, and to help dogs in any way she can.
You can find Nicole's books, seminar DVDs and Wilde About Dogs blog at www.nicolewilde.com, her pet portraits at www.goodmojopetportraits.com, and her artwork at www.photomagicalart.com.
And you can find Nicole on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NicoleWildeA...) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/NicoleWilde)
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May 25, 2020
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More of a 3.5 stars. Some of this was really useful information. For example, I hadn’t really considered some of the basic precautions like not putting the “w” word on medical records and stuff. The ideas for enclosures and gating was also extremely helpful. I have not read the author’s previous work, which I hear repeats some of this a little bit. If that’s true, it’s probably because the information bears repeating.
I wish there had been a couple of areas where things were expounded upon, like diet and first aid, and there were some parts where the writing was a little informal. This book is good start that generates a lot more questions; I would not buy it as the all-comprehensive guide. I liked the resource section at the end to guide me for further reading.
More of a 3.5 stars. Some of this was really useful information. For example, I hadn’t really considered some of the basic precautions like not putting the “w” word on medical records and stuff. The ideas for enclosures and gating was also extremely helpful. I have not read the author’s previous work, which I hear repeats some of this a little bit. If that’s true, it’s probably because the information bears repeating.
I wish there had been a couple of areas where things were expounded upon, like diet and first aid, and there were some parts where the writing was a little informal. This book is good start that generates a lot more questions; I would not buy it as the all-comprehensive guide. I liked the resource section at the end to guide me for further reading.
November 29, 2022
I would suggest it to people who want to know some basics about wolfdogs.
March 19, 2008
We raised wolf hybrids for several years and this book set us on that path when we didn't have any knowledge about it at all. I still love the hybrids and if I have several acres and ten foot high walls around the property I'll start breeding them again. These dogs can climb over a 7 ft. high chain-link fence like a human, using all fours; they can also dig under anything-I mean anything-to get out. They also have the highest intelligence level of any animal I've ever had the opportunity to encounter. The book says that there will be times when you will look at the hybrid while you are trying to find ways to keep them in your yard and you can know for certain that they are virtually reasoning their way around your plan-it's true!
P.S. My wife will laugh in agreement when she reads this....oh, the pleasure and the pain of raising hybrids!!!
P.S. My wife will laugh in agreement when she reads this....oh, the pleasure and the pain of raising hybrids!!!
April 16, 2010
Another excellent book by Nicole Wilde! I first read Wolfdogs: A to Z so some of the material was familiar yet I found that both books added something to my education of these marvelous creatures. Loki and I thank you, Ms. Wilde!
September 26, 2015
The author is clearly knowledgeable and lots of good information, but the book is poorly written with an overly conversational tone
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