White Fang Inspired Dog Names

White Fang is a half wolf and half Malamute or Husky hybrid canine who is wild and untamed, living with his mother and the rest of the wolf pack. But this pooch is all heart in the end. Although in the book, which is a bit different from the movies, the story follows White Fang’s wolf pack and shows him as being a bit of a ferocious beast, the movies portray him as more of a misunderstood dog who needs human companionship. 

In the film, Jack is searching for gold with a friend of his father’s named Alex and meets White Fang again when he is living at the Native American village with Gray Beaver and the Hän Indian tribe there. Gray Beaver tells Jack that White Fang is too wild to be a pet, but Jack attempts to tame him. After White Fang saves Jack from a grizzly bear attack, Jack is even more determined to domesticate the pooch, and Gray Beaver shows him that the wolfdog has a white fang, which he said proves that he is part domesticated dog and may be trainable. 

Although White Fang is tolerant of Jack and follows orders, he does not truly trust the boy until one day when White Fang is taken from them by a bad man named Beauty Smith. He tries to get White Fang to be a fighting dog by pitting him against a vicious Bulldog named Cherokee, who is hurting White Fang badly before Jack finds them and breaks up the fight. He takes White Fang with him to the cabin where he and Alex are staying and keeps him while he continues to search for gold. 

The two friends become close and White Fang even helps Jack and Alex search for gold, even helping them to discover the place where the gold is. When Jack goes into town to properly claim his gold, he brings White Fang with him and they are spotted by Beauty Smith’s friend, Luke. He tells Beauty where they are and then they go and attack the cabin where Jack and White Fang are living. 

Beauty and his gang attempt to steal the gold and take White Fang back from Jack. In the midst of the fight, White Fang attacks Tinker, who is one of Beauty and Luke’s gang and Tinker accidentally shoots Luke, wounding him badly. Then White Fang attacks Beauty and holds him until Jack tells him to back off and they take the gang to town to be arrested. 

When Jack and Alex decide to go back to San Francisco, Alex tells Jack that he will have to leave White Fang behind because the city is no place for a wolfdog like him. Jack is sad, but he understands and scares the pooch away by waving a stick at him, which scares him because Beauty used to hit him with sticks. However, as he is about to get on the ship to go to San Francisco, he realizes that he cannot leave White Fang and goes back to the cabin and stays. Eventually, White Fang comes back, and they are reunited.