yeah but guard dog capabilites as opposed to rip other dogs to bits capabilities, different skillsets

Take on a grizzly with or without a knife?

yeah used during hunting lions, mostly to scare the Lions and chase after them. Fearless dogs and super athletic. My parents have a mixed Ridgeback and he's badass and cool

Animal planet calls them the Navy Seals of the dog world.

My family had a Rhodesian Ridgeback when I was a kid and my parents let me name it.


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Talking about pitbulls.

ah right. fairplay

IMO Teen Wolf beats them both

well player sir, I didn't think about that.

A game bred pit bull destroys a wolf at least 9 out of 10 times. A wolf does have many advantages over a pit bull including size/weight and bite strength. However, a wolf is a hunter not a fighter and this is a very important distinction (especially for wolves, who rarely hunt alone). A wolf simply wouldn't have the drive that a pitbull would have in a fight and the pit bull will fight with no regard to his own body until either the wolf or the pit is dead.

That being said, if we are just matching up the wolf vs a random pet pit bull we have a much more interesting matchup but if the pit is a fighting dog then it is really no contest. Pit bulls often face much bigger meaner stronger dogs than Timber Wolves in the cage.

I disagree.

This. Wolves are pack animals with instincts to take down prey animals. Pit pulls are bred and trained to fight other dogs.

Although wolves can get a lot bigger than 85 lbs. Gimme a 125 lb wolf vs. a 50 lb pit and it gets interesting. I still think those locking jaws™ are going to be dangerous.

Here's a 140 lb. timber wolf not really looking all that tough.

pretty sure my Kanuckian Ribshredder wins every time.

As eluded to in previous comments, in the book White Fang, the title character loses to a bulldog.

A wolf trying to fight a game pit bull would be like a 230lb college linebacker trying to fight a 155lb UFC fighter...and if you don't know how that would end you should ask Rashad Bobino about it lol.

Theoretically a wolf should be able to do well vs a pit bull considering his size/athleticism but if a canine doesn't have the mental toughness in the cage then they have pretty much already lost the fight (I'm assuming it is in a cage, because a Wolf would avoid a conflict outside of a cage).

Someone previously mentioned they wouldn't want a pit bull for protection...of course not. Pit bulls do not make for good guard dogs. They were bred for fighting not guarding and fighting is what they excel at (fwiw, I don't think a Timber Wolf would be well suited to guard either).

Not sure why that is trademarked lol, but I just wanted to be clear that a Pit Bull's jaw does not physiologically lock. They simply don't want to release.

Yeah pits are terrible guard dogs unless you're being home invaded by a toddler.

Thank God someone finally cleared that up.

Don't forget old ladies and puppies.

Tell that to ranchers who have watched as a single wolf ate their working dog alive. There are few dogs who have what it takes to survive an attack from a single wolf, and even fewer who can handle 2+ wolves. Slow, stupid, and soft breeds like pit bulls are not among the likely survivors.

A wolf has far greater endurance due to lung efficiency, superior bone density and muscular efficiency, and has a much stronger bite than a pit bull. A wolf can literally bite through the bones of a pit bull; the inverse is not true.

A wolf is faster, stronger, smarter, and way better bred to fight than even the most hardy pit. To a wolf a pit bull is food, even if it takes more effort to kill. It's really not close at all.

A wolf versus a hyena would be more interesting.

Wolf AINEC

Lol at the people asking if the pit is trained to fight. Wolves are genetically engineered to fight and kill. They do it every day to survive. Also, Canadian timber wolves are huge animals. Males weigh around 125 pounds. They will annihilate a pit.

Wolves are genetically engineered to be wolves, not to fight. Pits are bred to fight. Size isn't everything. Wolverines do not sweat wolves and they aren't bigger than pits.



And what do pit bulls do? Well, a couple months ago about 6 of them killed about 200 goats. I know, goats, but that's a lot of ****ing goats.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/...led-200-goats/

That wasn't the OP question. He specifically picked an 85 lb wolf. Or someone did.

I would take the wolverine over the pit as well FWIW.

But wolverines aren't bred to fight!

I'd take the wolverine over about anything. Their jaws are made to crush frozen bone, they're mean as ****, and they have a very low defensible posture that makes it almost impossible to do any damage to them w/o dealing with those teeth.

I saw a documentary on wolverines where they tracked one running over a mountain - he just went straight up and over the top, didn't even bother to go around, and never slowed down. They never stop running.

I saw one (of only like 300 in the whole lower 48) in Glacier National Park. He took one look at us and was gone.