Well, holy crap. Is that a pork link in your pocket or is that dog just eating your genitals because they’re tasty?
I knew it would happen! The Glass Walkers make all the noise, but it’s the Bone Gnawers you really need to watch out for.
This sentence is somewhat puzzling:
This seems to be saying that most of the dogs are first-generation wild. So how have all the interesting claimed traits evolved?
I find it amusing how the article describes learning to ride the subway as a “wolf-like” trait. I also find it amusing that the guard dogs are regarded as strays, given that the human guards feed them and the dogs regard the human guards as their masters and help in the guarding.
I assume they mean to say “Most of the strays since the mid-1800s arrived as rejected house pets.”
The next sentence says that only 3% of the rejected house pets survive to breed. So even if the house pets make up over 50% of the population, most of the next generation will be descended from dogs that were born on the streets.
Well, the wolves have to catch up to the commuting deer somehow.
Okay - that makes more sense than my interpretation.
Yeah – most wolves I know take the bus.
Well, I guess it’s only a matter of time before they pick up a guitar and start busking by the escalators for spare change and bowls of Borscht.
I am so glad to see this article. My children have always dismissed my story of a friend’s dog that rode the Toronto subway 30 years ago as a tall tale (tail?).
My friend went to the art college (now OCAD) in Toronto. She took the subway (for anyone who knows Toronto) from her home at Bloor and Bathurst to the college some stops away. I don’t live in Toronto anymore so I can’t recall precisely how many stops were involved.
My friend’s German Shepard would go with her down into the subway, transfer as needed, to get to the College. The dog would then turn around and take the subway home. On occasion she’d go back to the College at the end of classes, but more often she would just stay home.
She had no trouble finding the right stops - I believe she did it by a combination of visual clues and smells . . . she was quite a hit with locals many of whom would address her (traveling alone) by name.
So all one needs is a convincing wolf suit to be able to ride the train for free.