In regards to the Wolf Hybrid - Page 1

I dont know alot about the wolf hybrid but what I can share is our experience. We have been looking into the wolf hybrid for some time we are both facinated with having exotic animals as we have always been lovers of all creatures. After searching all local breeders and gathering information on these animals we found alot of advice from hybrid breeders, owners and just about everyone else and what happened in our experience broke every rule in the book. We agreed to meet a gal who had told us her life had turned upside down and she had one high content wolf puppy left she was only a couple miles from us so we went to meet her more of curiosity that intent. We met her at a corner market since she informed us that she recently had to move and could not let us visit her at home, rule one broken! Then she informed us that her puppies dad had recently been the victim of a motorcylce accident and was killed. So we could not meet the parents of the puppy, rule two broken! Then after meeting the little puppy and falling in love we found the only paperwork was really a sales contract in which she needed to see our drivers license but being completly taken by the puppy and not thinking clearly we never asked for her identification. Rule 3 gone! We were so taken by the puppy that we agreed to pay the fee and between my husbund and myself we agreed that we simply could not leave without this puppy. Knowing full well we could have just bought a mut dog but we did not care we were after all head over heals for the puppy. The information given to us is that she is 87% content which is breaking another rule since we have never owned a wolf hybrid! But here is the truth we are done raising our children and own our home. My husband is a carpenter by trade and currently laid off so he has alot of time on his hands and needs the distraction. We have always been good at meeting our challenges and doing quite well. We read everything and spend an aweful lot of time with her. I get up two hours early so that I also can spend time with her she then hangs out with my husband and does everything with him. We have ordered a large outside kennel in the event we need it and he is setting the concrete pad for it. the new fence for the yare will have the coyote roll attached to the top. A really cool invention if you have not seen the product check it out. House breaking is coming along but not perfected as she is very stuborn! Lucky us we just had hard wood floors installed before she came into our lives very helpful so far. With every warning from incredibily experienced people we still feel this will work out. We absolutly adore her and can not imagine life without her. We are up for the challenge and if she turns out to be truthfully 87% or 0% I think we have the best puppy around. We have heard many different opinions in regards to every aspect of raising her but what I am really interested in is diet our vet says nothing but puppy food and our friends who work in wild life rescues say slump and wilderness food. We are already making friends with other people raising wolf hybrids and other exotice animals and this works as a great resource I am a big believer in support sytems through friends. All comments are welcome we love to listen to what people have to say and I can take the good with the bad.

Last fall I had a hybrid rescue that someone on this board named Greylin. He is only about half wolf and that was a little too much for me. Don't get me wrong, I was majorly in love with him, but I don't think I could have kept it up. Luckily, he is now living with a family and reportedly thriving. 

I say I couldn't keep it up because the one-on-one had to be CONSTANT. Leaving him alone was torture on him. And all time together was active time, not just lying there sleeping. It wore me out. 

That said, I cried for two weeks after he left. He just ripped out my heart.

EDIT: PS. Greylin SAILED over 7' fences. He didn't jump up there and hang on with his front feet, so the coyote roller wouldn't have worked.

There was a wolf hybrid dumped in our rural mountain neighborhood when I was still living at home...She was not a very civilized creature, but I have no idea how much may have been done with her as a pup.  She had been dumped, according to the police, when we called in her dog license, by her owner, who was on the run from a warrant out for his arrest.  Not a good pet, and she ran off, to who knows where.  She couldn't be kept contained, and was an absolute nightmare to try to keep indoors..Think cat, but the size of a lanky Malamute...About thirty Inches at the wither.

By the same token, a Tupperware party I attended with a TW sales consultant was held at the home of a lady who owned a hybrid...It was massively overweight and could barely move, but seemed like a very sweet animal. 

I don't know.  I wouldn't own one, but I wish you the best of luck with yours.

Crys

I love wolves and wolf dogs and have been researching them for years!!! I am looking at getting one when things are going better for me as I am in a state that i can have a 99% content wolf dog.I don't call them hibreds as wolf and dog are the same speicies. Anyhoo......if you have a pic post it.Preferable of the whole body.Easier to tell if she truely s wolf dog. I am guessing that most people here will say bad things about having a wolf dog but it is usually the un educated about them that will say something.Yes they aren't for everyone as they are very intelegent and need something to stimulate them. If you ever need honest help you can send me a private message any time.I wouldn't feed puppy food.I would go with more of a raw food if you can or something like Taste of the Wild Prairie (bison)
Here is me with a few high content wolf dogs.Oh and where are you located that there are other people that have them?
Tundra and Talla
~L~

Here's the beautiful Greylin.

 

Here is a goot web site that has some info about wolf dogs.There are the ones that were bred specificly to become a breed and there are ones that are just a wolf and other dog mix.(wolf ,husky,malamute,german shepherd etc)
http://www.wolfdog.org/eng/44.html

We had man down the road from us that raised some hybrids.  I think his were Husky/Wolf crosses and were good looking dogs. I'm not sure as to why but after about 4 yrs he ended his venture.  To my knowledge there were never any conflicts with the local cattlemen.  However, the goat herders were and still are losing goats. But, we have a high coyote population and coydogs.   Some say that some of the wolves still roam (I think it is just urban legend).

My opinion is. With all of the wonderful purebred dogs, well over 100 of them - why start crossing? You are shooting craps at best! Find you a breed to be devoted to and work to improve your breed.  Leave the experiments to the scientists in the labs.

But Good Luck If You Must,
Tuff

You need to give him his own time, because when your husband goes back to work full time, he will have a fit and go and try and find you. So start now getting him use to being alone for short periods and then make them longer. Seperation issues in a dog are not fun and a problem with a wolf/dog.
also, VomMarischal is correct you need to close the top of the kennel, they can jump over 7 feet from a stand. VomMarischal is also right about them being "needy", their survial instintics more accute so they want to know where you are and if they feel you could do something to threaten the "pack" they will correct you, so you better let them know young, you do the correcting.

VomMarischal, I am glad to know he has a home.It is hard to give them up sometimes, just be glad you were there to help him when he needed it.

1Doggie, I feel very privileged to have known that boy, and for some reason he really had a huge impact on me.