Puppies

About the Litter

This is a FIFTH GENERATION American Dirus™ dog litter with fantastic family companion dog temperaments and beautiful giant dire wolf-like looks.

This litter brings strong boundaries of overall breed-wide health, stable temperament, and beauty.

APPEARANCE

We expect at least half of the puppies to be giant in size weighing 110 - 135 lbs and standing 30 to 31 inches tall at the shoulders. A few puppies will be extra-large in size, weighing around 100 - 110 lbs and standing 28 inches tall at the shoulders when standing (mostly females).

Statistically, the puppies from this litter will have the following coat color possibilities:

1. 37.5% black wolf sable (dominant black)
2. 28.125% silver wolf sable
3. 25% white
4. 9.375% solid black (recessive black)
5. 0% black mask
6. 75% wolf mask
7. 50% furnishings (mustache)
8. 0% feathering (long hair behind ears/legs and between toes)
9. 0% liver dilute
10. 0% blue dilute
11. 25% yellow eye color
12. 75% amber/brown eye color
13. 50% normal muscling
14. 50% heavy muscling

Some puppies will have a completely solid color with no white spotting on their toes, tail tip, chest/belly, and muzzle. Other puppies will show mild white spotting in those areas. All puppies should show highly slanted, brown to amber colored eyes. All puppies should have medium to long double coat types without feathering. 25% of the puppies will show some wave to their guard hairs, but not curly. We expect all ears to rise, although some may take longer to rise than others. Short tails that hang straight down are expected. Puppies may be giant in size, standing 30-31 inches tall at the shoulders and weighing ~130+ lbs as adults. A few puppies will be average in size, standing ~28 inches tall at the shoulders and weighing 100 - 110 lbs as adults.

INHERITED TEMPERAMENT

This litter is a FIFTH GENERATION and with standard temperament options with some mild deviations.

Some puppies will be more confident than others. All puppies will be submissive and affectionate with their people. Loving, devoted and high intelligence will be especially prominent. Some puppies may have more of a velcro type personality. All puppies should be quiet and calm in demeanor. Some barking as a warning, but otherwise overall quiet. All puppies should have a desire to remain at home and stay close without a desire to wander or roam. This will be a calm litter with low prey drive and gentle, submissive, highly emotionally intuitive puppies with high intelligence. We should not have any deviation from our unique family companion dog inherited temperament in this litter, but any subtle differences in personality will be noted, as usual.

HEALTH

Both parents have been DNA tested clear of over 250 genetically inherited canine diseases. Elias has one copy of the incomplete dominant gene for copper toxicosis (ATP7B). The puppies from this litter will be fifth generation (F3) American Dirus™ dogs. This means that at least five generations (62 ancestors) of hand-picked DireWolf Dogs™ lie within the pedigree before the most recent crossbreeding, which in this case goes all the way back to a purebred white Alaskan Malamute named Elwin.

The inbreeding coefficient for this litter is 17.18% on a five-generation pedigree with 77% ancestor loss coefficient on a four-generation pedigree. 

Puppies will range in price from $5200 to $7500 for pet quality and more for breeding/show quality.

The Dire Wolf Project will be looking to keep as many giant puppies from this litter as possible.

For the first time ever, we may be open to co-owning several dogs to Surrogate Breeder™ families.
Find out more about the Surrogate Breeder program here:
https://direwolfproject.com/direwolf-dogs/join-our-breeder-family/omega-breeder/

All other puppies will be sold.

Pedigree