WOLF

max · Enlightened One

WOLF

MojoTilly · Master

Wow, he must have been stunning and so amazing to see a wolf close up and not at a zoo or wildlife park. You must get some photos. Andrew would love to see him as he loves wolves - he has a tattoo or one howling at the moon on his left arm.

Debbie

RhonaW · Master

Wow Nora,

Now that might just have outshone our greyhounds.

Rhona

Isla · Enlightened One

Love wolves, think they're stunning so photos would be great but outshining greyhounds? I think not!

Gail · Big Cheese

Lucky you..wish i could have seen him. Would be really great if you could get a photo someday, Can't wait to see it.

Isla · Enlightened One

By the by, has anyone else heard of Utonagans? They are a careful cross between Alaskan Mamlutes (or however you spell it), Huskies and German Shepherds and look very like wolves. The plan was to breed something that looked like a wolf but was domesticated. Some of them look quite like huskies but the ones that look like wolves are stunning. There is a website but it's under construction at the moment.

Still wouldn't compare to having a REAL domesticated wolf though!!!

Lesley · Guru

I don't think owning a wolf, domesticated or otherwise, is permitted in the UK as it falls under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act (1976).

There are wolf crossbreeds (called wolfdogs) being developed in the US, but I don't think they are allowed in the UK either as they fall under the restrictions of the same act.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/gwd/wolfdogs/wolfdogs.pdf#search=%22cusdin%20%26%20Greenwood%202000%22

Perhaps it was the type of cross that Isla has described and he just wished it was a wolf (personally I'd be very wary of anyone who professed to keep a wolf as a pet).

max · Enlightened One

Not sure about the politics of it all, may get longer to chat to the guy the next time. Then I can find out a bit more. I was still very inpressed with the dog though nothing will steer me from greys.

Nora

Siouxsie · Enlightened One

On This Morning (this morning) they showed a feature about a wolf sanctuary (i think it was in Wales or near there), it was fascinating to hear about these beautiful animals and how at this sanctuary you are able to get up close to them in their enclosures (just to add the enclosures are massive, one was about 30 acres)

Edited just to say - they did say on this programme how wolves are very shy and timid animals and not the fierce animals they are portrayed to be.

-- Edited by Siouxsie at 12:19, 2006-10-05

Jennifer · Big Cheese

Nora, i have met this guy there before as well, just watch you dont get too close with your dogs as his dogs are very dog aggressive. He normally just sits with them in the car park with them in cages. They go absoloutly mental whenever i've had my dogs walk near his car. I have only ever seen him actually walk the dogs once and when he did, he had the cheek to shout at every else to keep their dogs away.

Isla · Enlightened One

That's a bit worrying. I've come across people like that and, to be honest, if they are that concerned about what their dogs will do should another animal come too close to them, should they not consider muzzling their dog???

Laura · Master

Jennifer wrote:

shout at every else to keep their dogs away.

We had a similer meeting with a guy with five pitbull terriers. We were in Wales at this point and we had just gone through a gate when this guy told us to go the other way. What amazed me was that he had five, all going mental at the end of their leads and thought he could control all of them at once. I agree with Karen, any dog considered dangerous should be muzzled.

Edited to say, that the wolf, crossbreed or not, still looks lovely

-- Edited by Laura at 10:26, 2006-10-08