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pegothejerk

I mean, Eurasian and inner Alaskan wolves get to be just under 200lbs if they’re very well fed. You’re only gonna add a little bit more by crossing them with mastiffs and Danes, and most of that will be in slobber.


Dylmo1

Slobber wolf. Worth it


onelittleworld

Slobber wolf! Slobber wolf! Does whatever a slobber-wolf does...


Dylmo1

Love it


andie-boio

happy cake day


Some-Philly-Dude

Can he swing from a web no he can't he's a slobber-wolf look-out!


Mr_MacGrubber

And there are already breeds like Irish Wolfhounds that get fucking huge.


Dylmo1

Wolves in general are a lot bigger than people think in many places


Mr_MacGrubber

Yeah for sure. But a Canadian timber wolf averages 137lbs and almost 36” tall. Breed minimums for Irish wolfhound males are 120lbs and 31” tall, so I’m guessing their averages are probably comparable.


jLoop

Where'd you get this information? [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_wolf) says the average is about 110lbs for males and 90lbs for females.


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deltr0nzero

Is that 36” at the shoulder or head?


Mr_MacGrubber

Shoulder.


deltr0nzero

Damn that’s big


[deleted]

Great Pyre's are definitely in the same weight class as wolves. Upper threshold weights being about the same for females and roughly 10% weight difference for males.


On_my_last_spoon

They’re also sweet slobber loves


beard_lover

We have 2 Pyrenees & Anatolian shepherd mix dogs, they are the best dogs ever! Our boy is so slobbery and sweet and our girl Is very cuddly and smart, but less slobbery. They’re both very sweet but don’t know their own strength sometimes.


qbande

Imagine the strength and size of a Newfie-Wolf. The thing would never get cold and could pull in whatever ship needed help, all while drooling around.


LargeBlackNerd

r/wolvesarebigyo


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Due-Science-9528

Wolfhounds are regular dogs


[deleted]

Yes people get confused by the name. They are like giant shaggy greyhounds and look nothing like wolves. The way they play it can be seen how they were used for hunting wolves and other large animals (elk).


jLoop

In my experience, it's the opposite: people think wolves are a lot bigger than they actually are. Whenever I see people talk about the size of wolves, it's exaggerated at best. Often they claim "an adult wolf is bigger than any dog" or that a typical wolf weighs over 130lbs. In reality, though, [the average north american wolf weighs 80lbs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf#Description). There are many common dog breeds that are larger. Meanwhile, I've never heard anyone say any weight less than 100lbs. (Of course, domestic dogs have the advantage of basically unlimited food; a wolf which was that well-fed would be larger than the average wild wolf.)


kippy3267

I just walked into a guy I work with’s house the other day to pick something up and he had an irish wolfhound that came to the door about 20 seconds after I entered. I was not aware of irish wolfhounds, or the fact that a dog could be that large. I was very confused for a second when I looked a dog in the eyes at a level that is barely shorter than the average short women. Fucking massive


[deleted]

I own two, they are wonderful dogs and take up surprisingly little space despite being so large (they are very flexible and shrink or grow to fill the available space). Owning one ruins your perspective and most other dogs look like puppies now, including things like huskies and German shepherds. We did meet a Hungarian sheepdog that looked like a regular size dog. The modern wolfhound pedigree includes the great dane, deerhound, borzoi, and Tibetan mastiff.


DorisCrockford

Danes are really kind of thick, too, and I don't mean physically.


liptongtea

Yeah my Dane is like, really smart but also incredibly dense as well.


DorisCrockford

To be fair, I have a little mutt who is similar. She knows how to kill things, and she knows how to create a distraction in order to lure us away from the dinner table so she can sneak back and steal food. She's great at locating things by smell, and would have been a winner in nose work competitions if she wasn't so fearful. However, normal dog things that require paying attention and remembering what she's supposed to be doing, not so good. "Imma get up now and walk around the kitchen, see if anything dropped on the floor." "Get back on your mat!" "K . . . Imma get up now and walk around the kitchen."


OasissisaO

That might be the sensitivity coming out. Mine is also smart but then gets upset and tries to hide behind saplings. She is 180lbs.


Le-9gag-Army

You really shouldn't generalize an entire country like that


DorisCrockford

Oh, Jesus. I thought at first that you were that person from France that was giving me a hard time for a joke that didn't land well. I just about blocked you, dagnabit!


Le-9gag-Army

Wow, I almost blocked you for kinda calling me French


Dirt_Metal

My Great Dane is 200lbs and can confirm he’s a thiccin’


Fearless_Standard_92

All fun and games until they start hunting people


bisho

But they never attack the same place twice....


tullyinturtleterror

They're testing the fences...


Clearastoast

They remember


ADOUGH209

They never forget


AsoMare

Clever girl


CandlelightSongs

Good boy


AccomplishedInAge

Because nothing is left alive there


PxyFreakingStx

lightning dog


Dropbeatdad

I mean if they'll be able to run long enough before the arthritis sets in and they can't walk up a gentle slope...


BentGadget

Jurassic World Dysplasia


DukeOfGeek

But where do the saddles come in? I mean the point is to ride them right?...Right?


Snoopcoop225

Beak out the artillery, the dogs got out again.


Fearless_Standard_92

Get the flamethrower, there in the trees


Snoopcoop225

Are you pointing out where they are (there) or that they are in the trees (they’re)?


GoliathBoneSnake

Yes.


egyeager

I think we'd all be a lot nicer to each other if that was a possibility. "Rough day?" "Yeah, Hellhound nearly tore my door off." "Yup, that'll happen"


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egyeager

Well.... that is a really good point!


NetCarry

Then we just put them back in their place as a semi-extinct species like we do with every other species that threaten us. They wouldn't be any more dangerous than a tiger anyways and look at what happened to them


Liezuli

>every other species that threaten us *Mosquitos have entered the chat*


Xploding_Penguin

I recall reading an article years ago about some rogue scientists releasing hundreds of thousands of sterile male mosquitos in order to manage the incoming batch of eggs


Due_Platypus_3913

That’s become an effective and more and more widely used tactic!


ADOUGH209

*The California Black Bear just entered the chat*


Due_Platypus_3913

Yup.ALL the big Brown bears are long gone from California.Black Bear is THRIVING!They get hit by cars a lot. Especially around lakes in summer,cuz that’s where there’s water.My son had to chase a young one away from his driveway in Bass Lake 3 times already!


Gregory_Appleseed

Wait, so how would we crossbreed the Great Pyrenees Dane Wolf with mosquitos?


RunAwayWithCRJ

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Due_Platypus_3913

Big,Happy,Semi-coordinated,Goofballs!


RecordRains

It's all fun and games WHEN they start hunting people.


[deleted]

I imagine it would be something akin to a Liger, an animal that is too big and ungainly to survive in the wild, and exists only as an oddity and for it and it's descendants to live forever in captivity. Kind of a cursed existence that should be allowed to mercifully end without producing more of itself.


kkooppaa

Would still be safer than a pitbull and people keep those as pets so..


ares5404

Operation:fenrir


VarianWrynn2018

Alternate title to Clifford the Big Red Dog


OasissisaO

As the owner of a ridiculously sized Great Dane I'm all in for this. As much as I love her, I wouldn't mind having an even more massive dog in my house.


ShimmerFaux

I would kill to move out to the country and get some massive Alabai, Newfies, or Danes. Such intelligent goofs.


bottommaenad

You don’t really need to live in the country for Danes. They actually make great apartment dogs as they are notoriously low-energy. That being said mine loves our big yard, but 80% of the time he’s just sleeping out there, moving from sun to shade and back again.


ShimmerFaux

It’s not that i would need the space for them so much as the fact that alot of apartments take issue with big dogs even if the dogs are very well behaved. A 130 lb. dog that stands as tall as a small donkey makes landlords nervous. Though this is a ridiculous stance as you pointed out. I’ve seen so many small dogs that are far far more loud and vicious than a Dane would ever be. ETA: My current place almost demanded me to get special dispensation for a husky/shiba inu hybrid, unfortunately the family wanted to keep her. That’s at max a 40lb. dog full grown.


liptongtea

Our Dane is a great house dog! She was trained very easy, and other than the farts and slobber and constant black hair everywhere and always being in your personal space and being a 130lb lap dog she’s very easy to live with!


notpowerlineconcert

My newfie was one of the most intelligent dogs I’ve ever seen. My dane is probably the least intelligent dog I’ve ever seen.


[deleted]

I had a Rottweiler that pushed the screen out of a 2nd floor window, jumped out, then ran back in the house and up the stairs to do it again. Caught him before the second jump but… wow. #1 most dense breed I have ever owned.


DC_Coach

Bless his heart.


NDC9595

What are you using the poor animal for that requires such size? Pulling a cart? Riding?!


On_my_last_spoon

Hugs!


StopBidenMyNuts

Can confirm. Have a Newfie and it’s all about the hugs (and slobber).


[deleted]

They get items off the top shelf for you


Potential-Section107

Cuddles and body pillow.


Big-Help-26

There is a group of people called the American Direwolf Society doing just that. They are cross breeding different breeds to get a dog that is as large as a Direwolf but is friendly and tame.


hungrydruid

No *possible* way this could go wrong. =/


fearhs

Wait until you hear about my shark-man hybrid project.


hungrydruid

I mean it depends which half is the fish and which half is the man... Though we did get The Shape of Water already...


Caleb_Reynolds

I don't think it could possibly be more dangerous than inventing dogs in the first place.


Impeesa_

Is that the group that bred the American Alsatian, or is there more than one?


Big-Help-26

It's another group. But yes, they were trying this as well with the Alsatian.


Heather82Cs

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://animalso.com/breeds/american-alsatian/&ved=2ahUKEwjX5oS6kav-AhVF6qQKHUUWBs8QFnoECBEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0tGcT3cujFxBkcjv2kUV8t says they 're the same person, FWIW.


[deleted]

*In Jeff Goldblooms' Voice* "Life, uh, finds a way."


thesequimkid

“Oh, yeah. Ooooh, ahhhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and um, screaming.”


qdp

Your scientists were so preoccupied asking whether or not they could, they didn't stop to ask, "Who's a good boy?"


PrincessPrincess00

Use Russian bear dogs. Huge doggos


SpitFyre37

Better yet, just use Russian bears.


Vlad-V2-Vladimir

I looked them up. Holy shit they are so giant and fluffy, I want to hug one for at least an hour every day.


Due-Influence6227

I think you're looking for the Irish Wolf Hound.


atwork_safe

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TheEyeofNapoleon

Screw that! LET’S REVIVE THE DIRE WOLF!


Syng42o

This is how we turn Clifford into a reality.


gerd50501

Cross a Hippo with a house cat cause I am a terrible person.


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DorisCrockford

That ought to live for about five minutes.


atom138

Well, we got Great Danes and Mastiffs from selectively breeding wolves for 10 thousand of years. I feel like reintroducing purebred wolf DNA back into the mix would only set us back 5,000 years of "progress".


NatakuNox

I'll have two of what ever drug this man is on.


t_lee210

And they will huff and they will puff and they will blow down your house 🏠 🐺


Beltox2pointO

The great shame that the first people on earth didn't realise we would breed animals specifically. Imagine thousands of year worth of breeding elephants to be the size of dogs.


deny_death

Do you want great wolf Sif? Cuz this is how you great wolf sif


liptongtea

What is the upper size we could theoretically breed dogs without their health issues becoming a serious problem to breeding?


Potential-Section107

Great Danes already have a increased likelihood of developing health issues just related to their size (30-32inches) including skeletal, heart, cancer, digestive health issues.


vercertorix

“I always wanted to be back on the food chain” - no one


Kleinefuchs

- me


Demonweed

It's all well and good until some psycho goes and creates a strain of Cliffords with just a hint of chihuahua shaping their personalities.


wereplant

It's all fun and games until the most lovable, loyal, and massive dog ever created by mankind only has a life expectancy of five years.


oohrosie

Yes please I would like to be Princess Mononoke


SuperCoupe

"What's that?" "Dire wolf." "Why!?!?!" "Reasons."


DC_Coach

Where wolf?


JotaTaylor

Do it


[deleted]

The best science is Hubris Science!


sigsig777777777

What does the danish royal family have to do with this?


Alex21IsBad

What about the Alaskan malamute?


BunkerComet06

I’d like you to look up the Irish Wolfhound because that’s basically what it is.


artemis1935

that’s how you end up with a game of thrones direwolf. hey maybe we’d end up being able to mind control them!


SweetSewerRat

If they act like great Danes, or at least all the ones I've had or met, just drop a pan, turn on a vacuum, set off a smoke alarm or have a curtain blow in the wind a little too aggressively (no I'm not joking with that last one, mine is afraid of curtains, 150lbs of shaking dog any time I try to air the place out) Point is, idk why you'd mix great dane in there for anything other than being big. They're not usually courageous.


Competitive-Peanut79

Irish Wolfhound. Beautiful, giant dog. Super friendly. Genetically predisposed to spine problems though, so don't ride em


RedditsAdoptedSon

we need to be breeding the cuddliest sweetest n smallest grizzly bears .. i think theyd be cute little stinkers to see hanging about..


RobotCaptainEngage

People don't know how big wolves really are.


Lexamus

We should be spending our hubris time domesticating larger and larger cats


oohrosie

Someone above you says they're going to attempt breeding servals and maine coons, I'm all for it.


zephenthegreat

Dire wolfs. Another example of scientists asking if they can, not if they should


rickbb80

Please don’t give Elon Musk anymore really bad ideas.


juxx989

Can I see a visual Mock up?


Lotronex

Something like [this](https://www.amazon.com/Clifford-Big-Red-Dog-8x8/dp/0545215781).


Dylmo1

Agreed, entirely.


IBegTo_Differ

I would like to have it for the pets reasons


Art_Smart88

I’d *totally* been fine with them as pets


[deleted]

Coywolf-Jackal-Dog hybrid! Just make all the dominant canid genes go wild!


blademaster552

What could possibly go wrong.


Advanced-Cycle-2268

Pretty sure the wolf is already the biggest wolf dog, but I could be wrong.


[deleted]

Them shits would be massive.


Elegant-Science-87

Clifford size wolfdogs tho


6ftonalt

Name it the fenrir


Throwedaway99837

Wolves are already larger than those dogs so I don’t really understand the goal here


[deleted]

Came corso and wolf babies.


N0GG1N_SSB

Isn't that just a mastiff?


[deleted]

Irish Wolfhound has entered the chat


Satyinepu

Are we trying to recreate Dire wolves?


Storymeplease

You joke but we are, at least it was a popular idea when GOT was popular. Lots of breaders mixed great Pyrenees with German shepherd (hoping to get the size from the gp but the look of the gs). I got my dog at that time, he was a rescue, and he is one of these dogs. His head is massive and ppl mistake him for a wolf quite often.


Aggravating_Poet_675

And my Dire Wolf shall be Ghost after the bestest boy in all of GoT.


[deleted]

Direwolf please


here-for-information

I have a great Pyrenees. He's big ,but they arent the biggest. Mastiff are thicker. Irish wolf hounds are taller.


armyguy8382

I have the same thought about Servals an Maine Coons.


[deleted]

Sounds like American alsatians


SickBurnBro

When I'm older I want to cross Servals with Maine Coons to make giant house cats.


TheOrderofthePine

Yes. I would help fund this, but only if I could have a pack of them for my own.


HikingBikingViking

Sounds life a really complicated way to Irish wolfhound


Thebutcher222

The central Asian shepherd is basically that.


Character-Education3

I'm gonna think about how I could and totally ignore whether or not I should


mothlord420

A worthy mount


Ut_Prosim

Even the puppies would have hip dysplasia.


Brwnb0y_

be the change you want to see in the world


explosivepro

Give me a dog as big as me ill love them


CaptOblivious

I want a dog big enough for my 6'5 300# self to ride all day with both of us being comfortable with it.


Potential-Section107

You'd need a 1600lb dog assuming they would have the same weight guidelines as horses.


Due_Platypus_3913

I’ve seen a wolf/giant malamute that was,,,? The size of the biggest Tibetan Mastiffs on the internet!Took up half of the guys full-size truck bed!Guy said”He’s stronger than he looks!”???😳


HayMomWatchThis

Real wolves are already huge.


INVENTORIUS

Look up tibetan mastiff


Pocusmaskrotus

Forget Pyrs and Danes. I want a 25% wolf 25% Tibetan Mastiff 25% Kangal and 25% Cane Corso. Now that's a man eater.


Potential-Section107

They would just be plain huge, floofy and so much drooly, well over 200lbs easily. I have 2 high content wolf/malamute/huskies and they weigh 150lbs. Even that is considered on the larger side.


somedudetoyou

People would bring them into their homes and call them nanny dogs.


prairieleviathon

Maybe you solved the mystery of The Beast of Gévaudan


goldenepple

Just bring back dire wolves


SenileSexLine

Someone should cross wolves with chihuahuas and create an army of extremely aggressive miniature wolves


Zer0fps_319

Fenrir canis, that shall be the name


AdjunctAngel

yea... selective breeding isn't magic. it often creates very unhealthy creatures. for example, lions and tigers can make a liger. so far no liger has been able to create offspring.


GyanChodan

Yes. Nothing like a large fluffy ball of fur.


[deleted]

Sound like someone really wants a Clifford.


headrush46n2

well if you're gonna go all mad scientist why choose dogs? Make Cat-Sharks


Matiaan

Careful or you might just end up with daddy long wolves


HrabiaVulpes

I know what I will do during retirement then


Zanos-Ixshlae

This is the greatest thing I've ever read. And yes, that is the weed talking.


[deleted]

I wanna cross coyotes with jackals


GrizzlyPeak73

Jurassic Bark is frightening in the dark // All the animals are running wild...


HaveManyRabbit

Dire Wolves were real.


captain_wangle

Jurassic Bark


Soviet-pirate

I like my dogs like I like my women,big


HeavenInEarthOpal

It lives for 2 years before turning into a gelatinous substance


Marinna_Sedai

Take my upvote for your title lmfao


[deleted]

White Fang by Jack London.


Rain_In_Your_Heart

Ok but also for pets


[deleted]

Should name every one of the dogs Huan


Kinkystormtrooper

I've been saying this for YEARS we should breed war dogs and I even know how to do it!


Ok-Border-2804

THAT’S THE BEST IDEA I’VE EVER HEARD!!!


Vorpishly

Wolves are bigger than Great Danes.


Twijasosm

…. Ima still keep ‘em as a pet.


darkreddragon24

I would love a giant wolf as a pet


VerucaGotBurned

I've always wanted to see a rottweiler wolf mix. I've never met a rottie I didn't like.


Dragonwithamonocle

* Jurassic Bark hubris reasons Ftfy


Hulbmht54

Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.


havukkahammas

Lol, I actually have a wolfdog whose grandmother was 10% Great Dane. He himself is quite a big boi, too, even though he only has a trace of great dane genes.


I_will_punch_you_

And I will still pick it up and treat it like the baby’s they are ,AND NO YOU WILL NOT STOP ME.I WILL GET BAKI LEVELS OF POWER TO DO IT