Lupine Grove

Lupine Grove is a 501c3 in Stafford VA showing others how to raise happy and safe wolfdogs.
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12/15/2024

Jemma and Jethro 🥰

08/19/2024

Unless you have traveled extensively to interact with a variety of wolfdogs and owners, I HIGHLY recommend new owners get professional help. Wolfdogs can be amazing canine companions but only if raised properly from the start. Wolfdogs are too smart to think that humans know all the answers and they don’t respond well to dominance. When raised with some key points in kind though, wolfdogs and their owners have a much more enjoyable life together. Like us. Like Tony. Like a lot of our friends who did their homework before buying. It works.

We know Tony personally and helped shape his early understanding of wolfdogs (as so many others did for us.) Then, he started teaching me… 😘 Tony understands canines in a way that I never experienced and can explain his thoughts in terms of how we raise children - very easy for everyone to understand.

There are only a couple of people Lupine Grove would recommend for a new wolfdog owner to contact for professional guidance and as far as we know, Tony is the only one that’s doing remote learning for new wolfdog owners.

Compared to the price of a quality wolfdog and containment, this is NOT a lot of money to significantly improve your chances of success. Don’t just take our word for it, as any wolfdog sanctuary if they’d recommend a new owner hire an experienced “mentor” for the first year.

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06/24/2024

31 years Cynthia Grove!!

06/01/2024

Truth.

MYTH BUSTING INCOMING! 🐾

A common misconception is that wolf dogs make good guard dogs.

In fact, wolf dogs do not make good guard dogs at all!

🐺 Why is that?
This is because wolf dogs are often neophobic, meaning they’re typically afraid of anything new or unfamiliar. This could be a place, person or many other things.

🐺 How do they respond?
Wolf dogs will run and hide from anything that is new, unusual or frightening. This is similar to how wild wolves act when they face something unfamiliar in their territory.

🐺 Where is the issue?
Some people assume or think that their northern breed or aggressive acting dog is a wolf or part wolf. Unfortunately however, this is just perpetuating the misrepresentation of wolves and wolf dogs, by misunderstanding their actual behaviors.

🐺 It’s important to know the natural behaviors of your animals. Working with and owning wolf dogs requires a LOT of patience, trust, respect and compassion.

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01/13/2024

Coming soon…

12/07/2023

This is legally accurate, not all wolfdogs are wolf hybrids.

Address

26 Quarter Horse Court
Stafford, VA
22556

Telephone

+1 540-286-1630

Website

http://lupinegrove.org/

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Videos

Jemma and Jethro 🥰

#wolfdog #notwolfhybrid

#wolfdog #notwolfhybrid #familywiring

Jemma using the hose to floss her teeth.

Jemma gently gnawing on my ear

As we showed in a couple of videos with Jemma over the past year, teaching bite inhibition to a single puppy can be especially hard because they don’t have other pups showing them how it feels. At 1 year old, we are proud to show Jemma’s ‘adult’ bite inhibition. It took a LOT of redirection, yelling Ow! Ow! Ow!, and/or leaving the enclosure to teach her in a gentle, patient manner but the system works.

Hand feeding is an excellent way to develop a deep trust bond with a wolfdog and it also teaches them that human hands are not competition. Jemma had 7 chicken quarters this morning, check out that belly!

We have clearance from Stafford zoning to officially open for tours and classes. We created Lupine Grove so more people can learn the truths about wolfdogs first-hand but please understand, that does not mean petting zoo or entertainment for your family. We don’t breed, foster, adopt, or rescue wolfdogs but as an IRS-approved 501c3 educational nonprofit, we use our personal pets as a way to show others how to raise this type dog happy and safe. If you are legally an adult and genuinely interested to learn about our earliest versions of a domestic dog and compare that to what 20,000+ years of living with humans has done to today’s dogs, we would like to share our wolfdog knowledge with you. Please reach out to us by Private Message with your specific interest in wolfdogs and veterans, police officers, animal control officers, county government, state government, veterinarians, veterinarian technicians, or other canine professionals that may come in contact with wolfdogs should let us know that as well. Each one of our eight wolfdogs has a different way of showing affection and as you’ll see in this video, Marley likes to rub his face on ours.

Jethro dug up this rotting cow femur bone after letting it marinade in the ground until it was good and stinky. I wouldn’t hold it for him but Cindy Holmes Grove saved his feelings with a spare chicken-feeding glove she found in her coveralls pocket while Sassy was checking mine.

#Sassy and #Jethro playing tug of war, for over 3 minutes!

#Sassy and #Jethro in a monster tug of war!

This is John posting. The older Jemma gets, the more she’s turning into Cindy’s lapdog. She was on Cindy’s lap for at least 10 minutes before this video and as always, Jemma climbed up by choice. We love how she is turning out because she absolutely adores human contact. For educational purposes, please pay attention to Jemma’s excellent bite inhibition at only five months. Wolfdogs are VERY mouthy but by mimicking another puppy and squealing loudly in their face if they bite too hard, all eight of our wolfdogs now think human skin is as delicate as paper. It takes patience and lots of bandaids but it works without injecting any forms of dominance or discipline that the puppy doesn’t naturally understand. #Wolfdog #ResponsibleWolfdogOwnership