just seenh one advertised on the internet dont they need a licence to keep them and why are they charging £250 for basically a mongrel ??
i pity this dog if he ends up in the wrong hands

I believe true wolf hybrids are covered under the Dangerous Wild Animal Licence.

Jesse

If I cared to breed my Elkhound with say a GSD then I could easily persuade the gullible that it was a Wolf cross. Seem to remember being told even in the USA where there are supposed to be a fair few of them, when DNA tests were done on dogs said to be 80% wolf they turned out to be only 5% which was lucky for it's owner as had it been 80%+ it would have been taken away. Think peoples imagination runs away with them.

Think I have told before about someone reporting my hounds as being wolf crosses and the Dog Warden coming round to check, lucky for me he knew his job and rolled about LOL.

I agree the majoritu of them are going to be dog crosses, but am also fairly certain that i read on another site, that a lady involved in rescue in Ireland does deal with some genuine wolf hybrids.

Lindsay

Watched Animal Hospital from Ireland the other night and saw wolves which had been kept as pets and tigers which had been roaming a housing estate so nothing would surprise me. What happens to the rescued wolf hybrids, Lindsay?

Animal hospital was from the North of Ireland, I believe that the tigers and wolves there were loose due to a circus that had shut down, but would have to check with you.

I have a wolf hybrid, not the easiest of animals at all.

There are a relatively large amount of wolf hybrids in ireland, due to a pack of wolves being imported into Ireland from the states in the early 80's, why I do not know.

they are still bred over here, a breeder lives about ten miles from me.

Wolf hybrids that come into rescue over here (if they get out of the pound) are generally rehomed to people after careful vetting. They are not easy pets (shouldn't be pets at all imo), need serious boundary security, stimulation and training.

About 2-3 max. come into rescue here each year (South of Ireland).
Unfortunately they are seen by the undesirables as status symbols and many end up in the wrong hands.

theresa

I also have a wolf hybrid he is one of the best animals we have had, he is so gentle. Great with people and children and fine with other dogs. The only time he would do anything to another dog is if they attacked him but he just up for a play. He just met our neighbours poodle and he did the puppy bow and then layed down to play with her (nice to see at his age 10 years).....But I would never get another one the reason for this is because you really don't know what you are getting. If I could have him all over again as the 4 week old puppy I would do it again then, rather then that no. They are beautiful animals and we are very lucky to have shared our lives with him and fortunate on how he turned out. He use to sleep in my daughters room, but the stairs were getting to hard for him to climb and I was scared he would fall down so now he has to sleep downstairs.

ttfn :)

Hi dollface, how much of your lovely dog is wolf?

His father is a timber wolf and his mother is a rotty :)

My other half has just been down to Reading today to the UK Wolf Conservation Trust for a Walk with the wolves day which looked fantastic i must say and he took loads and loads of pics which are fantastic, And one of the questions he asked the handlers was about the Wolf Hybrids, the answer he got was they are Fantastic till about aged 4 to 5 and then they can become very very unpredictable , much more so than a full Wolf, in fact the full Wolf is a lot more readable than the Hybrids.

I know someone who bought a 'pedegree' wolf hybrid a couple of years ago. She would not say exactly how much she had paid for her, but that it was a lot.
The person who sold her this dog said that it was registered with the kennel club, but as it is such a new breed they wern't sending out propper papers yet. So, she has a normal printed out bit of paper with a picture of a wolf, and the parents names on it.
She did not want to listen that it could be any old mongrol (looks like a huskey).

Hi Lorelei

Sorry not to have replied earlier - i believe as Theresa said, they do get homes eventually, carefully vetted :)

Lindsay

There's a few of them here in Northern Ireland too - I knew one a few years ago and he was beautiful but I'm not sure if I'd raise one around my kids. It's different over here because the laws are so much more lax. I see American Pits opently advertised in local papers and there are 2 living near me - one a lovely dog and the other a nasty tempered thing.

I even once met a man who kept cougars and tigers as pets (in shameful conditions I might add) but because of the lack of a dangerous animals act over here the police were powerless.