Head "flips"

SoloSolo
edited March 2014 in Behavior & Training
Have any of you seen your guys flip their heads all the way back, until the ears almost touch their back? Looks like this:
They usually do it when they want OUT of the fence, but it's too high to jump.
My new foster kid can do it. He is BIG, over 100# & still not quite full grown. I've only seen it in dingoes, Singers, and Shibas before...and he definitely doesn't have any of those breeds in him. (His DNA test came back dog x coyote x wolf.)
Gratuitous pic of the new goober:
image
Thanks!
Sue

Comments

  • LosechLosech
    My Shiba does that when he's frustrated. Like when there's a cat on the other side of the fence and he can't get out to kill it. I haven't seen my mixes do that, nor my Kai. I've seen the Hokkaido do it once or twice, also when there is prey that cannot be reached.

    New dude is handsome!
  • sjp051993sjp051993
    My kai do it when there is something they can't get to.
  • CrispyCrispy
    I haven't seen my Shikoku do it, but my Malamute did it when he was younger - similar to what was reported before: he was frustrated whenever he did it. Normally at the fencing.

    I haven't seen him do it in a couple years, though. We also no longer have a yard I can leave him out in, so that may have something to do with it.
  • PoetikDragonPoetikDragon
    Two of my JAs will do it in slow mo at dinner time, its more exaggerated and graceful... hard to explain. I once tried to film it, but no joy.
  • SoloSolo
    Thanks so much for the responses. :-) The foster kid definitely has malamute in him; maybe that's where it's coming from. Coyote Rescue says that one of theirs does it, also! It just threw me, because I've never seen or heard of a wolfdog doing that before.
  • CrispyCrispy
    edited March 2014
    His head is different, but his body and legs look similar to my Mal. :)

    image

    Do you think he's Eastern Wolf/Coyote (could that be where he's got the mix of the two)? I know our Coyote and Wolf population here is about half and half wolf/coyote.



    Edited to add pictures of our coyotes (I posted these earlier this month somewhere...):
    http://i.imgur.com/rr235d0.jpg
    http://i.imgur.com/rCul4Cr.jpg
    http://i.imgur.com/xzHAErn.jpg
  • sjp051993sjp051993
    He is marked like a german shep.
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