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dernwyn
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Nov 19 2012, 2:35am
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A strange way to describe a whale, but she seems almost mystical, being pure white.
And much friendlier than Moby. 
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Ethel Duath
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Nov 19 2012, 3:03am
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I had exactly the same reaction.
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Not at all what I expected--such grace! What a lucky set of people on that ship.
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Loresilme
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Nov 20 2012, 6:35pm
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Yes, mystical! I saw an animal like that once -
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many years ago, not long after we first moved to our house. We were standing in our kitchen area in the evening and I looked through the sliding glass doors to see this absolutely huge, absolutely beautiful, pure white dog bound out of the woods and over the railing and right onto our deck. It looked like an arctic wolf, only much larger. And I mean, *large*. If you can picture a super sized, pure white arctic wolf, that's what it looked like. I actually thought for a few seconds, that I was having a vision. But my husband was there and he saw it too.
But it wasn't wild looking or fierce at all, it was just trotting around on our deck, so we went outside. We were cautious, but it was really quite friendly. It stayed with us for a few minutes, even let us pet that thick white fur a bit. And I saw, up in the woods, that it had a little buddy, a smaller dog, following it around.
And then after those few magical moments with us, it bounded over the railing and back into the woods, its little friend following behind it, and it was gone. We never saw it again.
The rational part of my brain knows it was an actual creature, but there is a part of me that just can't figure it out. It was so mysterious, so strange and fleeting. I'll never forget it!
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Annael
Elvenhome
Nov 21 2012, 2:10am
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Great Pyrenees. Wonderful dogs. HUGE, but totally sweet.
The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives.
- James Hillman, Healing Fiction
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Loresilme
Doriath
Nov 21 2012, 3:50am
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This one though, had pointed ears. It looked basically like a large wolf, in pure white. It's puzzling!
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Annael
Elvenhome
Nov 21 2012, 2:41pm
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the white German shepherd,a/k/a the Berger Blanc Suiss, They tend to be bigger than other shepherd breeds.
And of course, someone in the neighborhood may in fact have a part-wolf white dog!
The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives.
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Annael
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Nov 22 2012, 4:36pm
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I spent quite a bit of time reading about them myself, and found myself wanting one! Of course I think shepherds rule anyway, having had the great good fortune to grow up with one and get to live with another one for 14 years. And I hear the whites are very mellow fellows.
The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives.
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Loresilme
Doriath
Nov 24 2012, 2:23pm
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Possibly it was a mixed arctic wolf
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If so, it inherited the gentleness of the shepherd and the looks of the wolf :). It had the large overall size of that type of shepherd, but the ears were smaller. Pointed, but smaller.
I really have always kept an eye out since then for that type of dog anywhere, and in all the photos and breeds I've looked at, I've just never seen one like it. No one in the neighborhood has it, but I recall that we saw it in the fall around the holidays, so we assume someone was visiting and apparently let it out for a run (?!). I imagine whoever owns it must know how unique it is too, but I'm sure they know no one is going to try to tangle with a dog like that :-).
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Loresilme
Doriath
Nov 24 2012, 2:36pm
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Similar ... overall large size, but probably larger, and bulkier and the ears were smaller.
I'm not surprised it's piqued your interest too :-) - I know you love a good mystery to research too, lol. I've always been on the lookout for a dog like that ever since, but have never found one similar.
I have read that people do raise and mix arctic wolves, and from photos I've seen it looked most like an arctic wolf, only it was larger, so I'm leaning towards that it was an arctic wolf mix with perhaps one of these larger shepherds like the ones you and Annael have pictured. That would make sense, as it also had a friendly, mellow temperament.
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Gandalf's sea mount. Or Moby the II.
