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helter’s Mysterious ‘Bear Dog’ Is Unlike Anything People Have Ever Seen Before
Honest to Paws ^ | undated, net appearance 10/22/19 | Cody Mauro

Posted on 10/22/2019 9:36:42 PM PDT by imardmd1

If you’re interested in eye-popping, attention-grabbing animals, look no further than hybrids. While hybrid animals like this wolf-dog are a fascinating cross of two separate species, they also reveal a host of ethical problems.
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To create this “bear-dog” hybrid—who didn’t actually have any bear DNA—Russian breeders allegedly used a Chow Chow and some other sort of long-nosed stray. As animal shelter volunteer Polina Kefer put it, “This dog is a ‘badly-made’ Chow Chow.” While the four-year-old pooch might’ve looked cool to some, mentally, he was a mess.
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Unfortunately, all of this questionable breeding made Medvebaka uninterested in making friends with either man or beast. “Sadly the dog is so stressed it fights and bites back,” Polina told The Siberian Times. “We think it might take months to socialize him.” Still, some caring soul tried to adopt him…

(Excerpt) Read more at honesttopaws.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bear; chow; clickbait; crossbreeding; dog; ethics; hybrids; petstress
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Interesting article, but the effects of this kind of crossbreeding couldn't apply withn the human species, could it?

1 posted on 10/22/2019 9:36:42 PM PDT by imardmd1
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I resemble that remark! :)


2 posted on 10/22/2019 9:38:11 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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3 posted on 10/22/2019 9:39:08 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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I’ll bet he’s fond of pic-a-nic baskets.


4 posted on 10/22/2019 9:41:07 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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Cross breeding between species doesn’t happen either. This is not the Island of Dr Moreau.


5 posted on 10/22/2019 9:42:08 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Half your answer is here and the other half is in the Russian experiment for domesticating foxes. After you’ve read both youll know more of a complete answer than what you think you asked for.


6 posted on 10/22/2019 9:42:11 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: imardmd1

Ask Laz.


7 posted on 10/22/2019 9:42:24 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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I read a number of years back that scientists had managed to create a human-pig embryo. “Well,” I said to myself, “that explains Bill Clinton.”


8 posted on 10/22/2019 9:43:03 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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ManBearPig lives!

Beware.


9 posted on 10/22/2019 9:44:57 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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Hybridization causes problems.

https://nonlineardogs.com/analytical-papers/what-you-need-to-know-about-wolf-dog-hybrids/


10 posted on 10/22/2019 9:47:38 PM PDT by Norski
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Articles like those are flipping annoying. They are set up as a slideshow.

If anyone wants to read without having to forward to a new page to read the next paragraph - here you go

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/cruelty-behind-the-bear-dog-internet-sensation/


11 posted on 10/22/2019 9:53:28 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Vermont Lt

The Article says it’s a chow and a stray.


12 posted on 10/22/2019 9:54:33 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: imardmd1

ChuBearcabra.


13 posted on 10/22/2019 9:56:49 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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14 posted on 10/22/2019 10:05:09 PM PDT by umgud
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Dogs bred for a purpose.
15 posted on 10/22/2019 10:27:02 PM PDT by the_daug
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16 posted on 10/22/2019 10:33:39 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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Te fox research is amazing. Beautifully domesticated foxes are being produced trough selective breeding.


17 posted on 10/22/2019 10:34:55 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: Vermont Lt
This is not the Island of Dr Moreau.

Yet

18 posted on 10/22/2019 10:39:29 PM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: HollyB

Actually, to me, it appears that the dog’s muzzle is swollen for some reason.

Allergies, injury, something.


19 posted on 10/22/2019 11:02:14 PM PDT by Salamander (Is A Dream A Lie If It Don't Come True...Or Is It Something Worse?)
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To: imardmd1

Click bait. Don’t waste ur time.


20 posted on 10/22/2019 11:53:10 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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