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ahedderick:

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Wolfdogs aren’t cute.

We don’t need to cross a wild animal with one that’s already been domesticated from it.

Even if its amount of wolf content is low, it still has genes from a wild animal and still has potential to pose danger to humans.

Wolfdogs aren’t legal everywhere. In many places where wolfdogs do happen to be legal, if a wolfdog bites someone—even if she’s just playing—she may be required to be euthanized.

We already have dog breeds that resemble wolves without being crossed with them.

Wolfdogs aren’t ethical.

I have personally owned several wolfdogs (low, mid and HIGH 75%) as a licenced rehabber, and I’m here to tell you

It Fucking Sucked.

Wolves and Wolfdogs are highly dangerous, skittish, aggressive, and territorial animals that are insanely hard to manage let alone train.

They can almost never be house broken, require speciality veterinary and nutritional care, and are illegal in most of the united states!

They pose a danger to anyone who steps foot on your property because to them that is Home and they will protect Home with their lives.

Over 90% of all wolf deaths in the wild are caused by territorial fights between other packs.

They are highly highly dangerous and have no business being in captivity.

The only reason I had the ones that I did was that I was their last resort. We had no zoos or refuges that were willing to take in such highly strung aggressive animals, and I was the only one with the land, permits, and expertise that was willing to take them.

It was expensive, dangerous, and mostly heartbreaking.

Each one lived half of its natural life span because they were bred by backyard breeders who didn’t give a rats ass about the genetics of the breeding stock and they had to be put down due to hereditary ailments.

Breeding wolfdogs is incredibly unethical and continuing to support them is lowering the genetic diversity if wild wolves. Where do you think the wolf blood comes from? From wolves poached from the wild.

Stop breeding and supporting the breeding of wolfdogs.

THANK YOU!!!

Years ago we got a puppy from some people who bred malamutes locally. This particular litter was a ‘surprise’ due to the fact that a black lab jumped an impressively high fence to access the female malamute when she was in heat. So, chubby little black and tan puppy, very cute, we have a farm with lots of space for a high energy dog . . ok? Not ok. At the age of 6 he went almost overnight from a very typical-labrador friendly personality to outbursts of bizarre, senseless aggression. We worked with our vet to try to save him, but he rapidly because a danger even to us. When my husband contacted the breeder (because they had asked to get him back if we ever couldn’t keep him) they admitted that they had bred actual wolves into their malamute line. And also that they had had to euthanize his mother at the age of six for massive health problems. It was incredibly shady both that they did that and that they didn’t disclose it when we adopted. I was a whisker away from getting my face torn off (literally) by this dog at one point. He was well-socialized, neutered, and friendly as anything - up until the moment that he wasn’t anymore.

There’s a reason that our ancestors spent years dometicating dogs without the need for us to fuck with it by reintroducing the same fucking genes that where intentionally bred out. A wolf belongs with it’s pack, as does most any dog with appreciable wolf genetics, and you’re a complete dickwad if you’re trying to keep one fenced in a backyard. Get a Husky. They look the part and are already hard enough to deal with without the need for wolf social dynamics butting in. Or get a Samoyed if you want a small extra fuzzy polar bear without the whole danger of mauling thing.

I understand petting the big dangerous thing is fun and exciting, and if there’s anyone that enjoys petting the big dangerous animal, it’s me. But it is a bad idea to try and bring one home with you, like there’s a reason a tiger won’t use a fucking litter box.

Or a Tamaskan. They look the part even more than huskies but still are 0% wolf :)