When I was a kid, some of the ranchers had hybrids. I remember one particular one that was a blue-healer/yote hybrid.
That was one hyper dog. Jumped on you all the time, but was generally always happy to see you.
Don't have a clue what happened in the long run.....that alone would make the decision for me.
I just don't see the "Right" of it, to try to raise a dog, just to eventually have to put it down, usually in the prime of its life.
I could see the "hard" side of it. If I shot a female yote on my property, then found the pups, and they were very small, and told the wife, we would probably be either raising them, or taking them to a vet that handles wild animls, or the smart thing-destroying them.
I remember the one time I went to the "zoo" that was in Spokane. "Walk in the Wild". They had a pair of coyotes there....and as the wife and I were walking by the coyote pen, I could tell they weren't "wild", so I reached into the pen, and petted them.
Wife was freaked, but you tell me this, if these were wild, or even if they Imprint on ONE person, then why were these dogs so tame??? They just seamed overjoyed to have SOMEBODY give them some attention, just like pups in a pet store.
