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Discussing dog breeds, dog-adoption, and the human-canine
connection. Monday, September 3, 2012 Lycaon pictus : African
Wild Dog There are dogs and then there are animals that are
members of the larger family "canidae" to which wolves, dogs,
jackals, foxes, and coyotes belong. The African Wild Dog,
sometimes called the Painted Dog, while a canidae is not a true
dog like the domesticated dogs we live with. In other words,
they do not make good potential pets any more than a wolf or
jackal does. But they are very handsome pack animals that live
in family groups. Unlike some members of the canidae family, it
is the female of the African Wild Dog pack that leaves the pack
they are born into, while the males stay in the pack they are
born into. The young females search for packs which do not have
actively breeding females currently in them. I've also read that
at times a pack of males will travel separately and encounter a
pack of females...there has be