How to fight an Alsatian?

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I wonder could a wolf kill a man,

Pretty easily, though thankfully it's rare. There was a Russian nightclub bouncer killed in a wolf attack a few years ago and an Alaskan oil worker two years ago IIRC. They very rarely attack people unless rabid, or when they've become very habituated to people. The Alaskan case a good example. They were hanging around the town dump and were getting closer and closer and more used to humans. Historically it seems the various examples of individuals who did become maneaters were wolf dog hybrids. Even then they rarely went for full grown men, preferring children and women. Unlike dogs they're more likely to run a risk/benefit thought process in their heads and a full grown bloke is the riskiest target of all. That said I was watching Simon Schama's recent brilliant history of European Jews and in one episode he recalls his great grandfather(?) who lived in the forests of eastern Europe regaling people with tales of wolf attacks and this guy had the scars to prove it. Maybe it went on a lot more than we think in such areas?

they're around the same size as an alsation I would have thought.

Size wise they vary depending on subspecies, but generally yea around the same size as a German Shepherd, even their coat markings are similar(if you imagine an Aller in Black and white)though larger in head and squarer in the hip. They're a lot stronger than a German Shepherd though. More wiry in muscle. You can see the comparison here;



In the very early days of the German Shepherd breeding programme some European wolf blood was in the mix. The originator of the breed a German lad whose name escapes, considered a lot of aspects of the wolf to be the ultimate dog shape, which I suppose it is as it's millions of years of natures breeding.