Is it legal in this country to sell first cross wolf puppies? The pups in question are akita/wolf crosses and are advertised on the internet.I'm not sure why anyone would want a wolf cross really when theres several breeds which look like wolves.

Hi Helen,

if true (and most claims to such crosses are, thankfully, not), doubtless there are legalities to be complied with.  See DEFRA website for info

regards, Teri

I very much doubt that this breeding is real but of course people will be fooled by it.

Only if you have a licence to keep wild animals.

Expect the only wolf about these pups is the one in sheeps clothing waiting to fleese the hard earned cash form people wanting something different or hard, servers them right but it should be stopped none the less.

LOL, been thinking perhaps this is a case when you should ask to see both parents and don't be fobbed off with a GSD cross.

> Expect the only wolf about these pups is the one in sheeps clothing

:-D  Shouldn't that be a sheep in wolf's clothing! :-D

Probably but it would not have worked that way round :-)

It does say in the advert(on ****z) that both parents can be seen-am surprised that the website allowed it-they obviously don't do checks.

You have to ask where the heck did they find the wolf to breed with in the first place, in this country they would have to break into a zoo or wild life park. :-)

With quarantine laws a wolf cross coming from another country would have to be reported from quarantine, so I guess you can just about rule out any chance of anything wolf ever being in this country.

They look like wolves, that is about it. :-)

surely the wolf side will just be a northern inuit bred dog? they are bred to look like wolves so i would put money on the wolf side being an NI

surely the wolf side will just be a northern inuit bred dog? they are bred to look like wolves so i would put money on the wolf side being an NI

Unless they bred with the bitch that escaped from the zoo in devon lol!

Louise

Yes, it would be, anything with Husky, Alaskan Malamute or GSD mix tends to give the desired effect. :-)

It sounds like yet another con to part naive romantics who would like a personal "wolf" from their hard-earned cash. I wouldn't touch them with someone else's bargepole!!!

A while back there was a litter advertised on the same site of collie cross fox puppies which is even less believable but I think there must have been complaints as the advert was changed!

Don't mean to veer off...but  can dogs and foxes actually cross? I always wondered if that were possible since dogs are canine and foxes are vulpine...
Silly I know but I always wondered..:-)

> Don't mean to veer off...but  can dogs and foxes actually cross? I always wondered if that were possible since dogs are canine and foxes are vulpine...
> Silly I know but I always wondered..:-)

No,they can't-but there's always some mugs out there that'll believe anything!

I would report the ad as there is no way dad is a wolf and they are charging 700 quid for cross pups fraudulantly by saying they are something they most certainly are not.

apparently dogs and foxes have different numbers of chromosomes which mean they cant. dogs and wolves have the same which means they can.

Thought as much but I have been wrong before..:-)
You never know sometimes who can make babbies with who ...:-)

Thanks

> apparently dogs and foxes have different numbers of chromosomes which mean they cant. dogs and wolves have the same which means they can.

Dogs, Wolves & Coyotes have 78 chromosomes, Foxes only 34 so the likelihood of viable offspring is about 0 %

Sounds like a  con

I don't think this is ACTUALLY a wolf. It might be a "Czechoslovakian Wolf Dog" (not sure what it is in English) which is a dog breed. I know they are usually referred to as 'wolves' by the fanciers in France.