Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1916 — Wolves Trained to Work. [ARTICLE]

Wolves Trained to Work.

Deming Wheeler, a fur buyer of the Ten an a and Goodpasture countries, Alaska, caused no little comment recently when, headed for the Koyukuk, he drove a team in which were included three full-blooded wolves. Aside from their natural viciousness, he reported them as in all respects equal to dogs as workers, and noticeably more hardy. While many Alaskan drivers use animals half dog and half wolf, this was the first instance so far as known of pure-blooded wolves-being successfully worked. The malamute dog crossed with a wolf is thought by many experienced mushers to be preferable to all others, because of his supposed greater endurance and tractability. Reindeer are used to some extent, chiefly by natives, but are thoroughly untrustworthy. When a reindeer takes it into his head to stop to feed or He down, he simply does it, and no means has yet been discovered to induce him to move on until it suits his personal wish.