pet wolfes in manchester uk

hi all a couple of weeks ago me and the amily went to the smithfield market car boot on a sunday and there was a guy walking around wt 2 wolfes on a lead i stroked them both lovely animals they were no musled he mus have domestcated the anyway it was very different expereiance being right up close to the wow has any1 got a wolf in manchester id love to see 1 or 2 again thanks for reading all ray

Monday, 30 July 2012

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i dont think your allowed pet wolves, theres people about crossing them esp with alsations and used to advertise them as such x

Monday, 30 July 2012

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hi tracy no honest truly i know they are wolves chikn because ive seen them many times in the usa x thats nice looking litle dog chik ray

Monday, 30 July 2012

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You need a license and have to meet strict criteria to keep a wolf. I'm not sure but I doubt you would be allowed to take them out on a lead in public.
Hmmm I may see if I can find out if any are registered..

Monday, 30 July 2012

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are you a male or female restup. sounds v odd but people do do stuff if they can get away with it i think ive seen 3/4 wolf crosses advertised thinking back now

Monday, 30 July 2012

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Are you sure they weren't Northern Inuits? They look very similar, and are wolf derived?

Monday, 30 July 2012

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When we go for a walk on the Marina, there is a man with a F1 Wolf/Alsatian hybrid. It is lovely, and is part of a special breeding program.
It is as good as gold with people and dogs, but is kept on leash.
I think I recall him saying the breeding program was started in Canada

Monday, 30 July 2012

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chichwyn... hows the dog you had with the lump?

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Monday, 30 July 2012

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You either saw a Northern Inuit, Utonagan or Czechoslovakian Wolfdog.
I'm going to guess it's the last one since they look more like Wolves than any other dog.

Monday, 30 July 2012

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You do need licenses for wolf and wolf hybrids.

There is what they are calling the Tasmakan dog or the Tamaskan husky which is a cross between a siberian, alaskan and german shepard, these are bred to look like wolves without any wolf blood, I have seen some of these and they are stunning.

I would not recommend a wolf or wolf hybrid as a pet to an in-experienced owner. They are not animals you can treat as dogs, some will be more like a dog others more like a wolf and as such needed to be treated as a wolf.

Monday, 30 July 2012

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CaptainHowdy, this is what the man with the hybrid said, that it was a strict breeding program, and they were placed with certain people, not to be bred. His had a number in the ear, not a tattoo, some sort of ink. it looked exactly like a wolf. He was going around giving talks at different places, and he is based in the South. he talked for ages, and it just sat patiently.

Monday, 30 July 2012

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oh thanks for your concern about my old cassy dog thelump has vertually gone i think she was bit by insect nearly gone now but yes they were definately wolfes take care ray

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

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hi restup did you find out if there were any registered wolfes what about all te pitt bulls in uk not registered where theres a way theres a will people always find a way dont they they were defo wolfes if you look on you tube there are some on there in uk x ray

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

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When I worked in boarding kennels we had two wolf hybrids that used to board with us. I believe they were Malamute x Timber Wolf. I was always a little bit uncertain about them, as I'm usually very good at reading a dog's body language, but they were totally unreadable. But, saying that, we never really had any issues with them.

I would definitely say they weren't for the novice owner, & I would think they'd be uninsurable due to being part wolf.

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

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Ahh thats great news about Cassie!! Glad shes all sorted :)xx

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

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Anyone who says they've got a wolf on a lead is usually an idiot and putting their dog at risk. Like has been mentioned in previous posts they are probably northern inuit, utonagon or simply husky crosses. I have a friend who has two northern inuits, one is very wolfy looking but has no wolf blood. To own a wolf or a wolf F1 hybrid you need a DWA licence and it cannot be walked in public. I'd just laugh at anyone who has one on a lead and claims it to be a wolf. My mums yorkie probably has just as much wolf blood in it lol.

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Tuesday, 31 July 2012

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Did anyone see that tv programme a few years back about the domestication of dogs? A part of that programme concentrated on wolves that had been raised as pets as an experiment in canada. These were full blooded pups that had been orphaned. They lived with a woman and slept on her bed and were hand reared and i think bottle fed too, but as they grew and matured there was a real reversion to their natural behaviours that made it impossible for them to be kept in a domesticated enviroment and they were returned to the nature reserve to live wild with no problems adjusting. I thought that was a fantastic programme, and showed that nature truly overpowers nuture at every turn. To be honest, you would proberbly have more luck taming a lion cub!

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

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I don't really see the fascination tbh. Corkie hit the nail on the head with nature & not nurture. People will argue that all dogs descended from wolves, but how many hundreds of years have they been domesticated over?

It's the same with cats. People will cross wild cats with domestics, but it can take generations to get the 'wild streak' out of them.

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

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On that same programme there was a bit about the siberian silver fox, it was raised for fur, and in russia somewhere (i think) there was a similar experiment that lasted 50 years. The pups were raised in cages by humans, and the ones that showed the least wild tendancies were bred together, over and over, generationally the pups of the pups of the pups and so on till the resulting pups were more reminicent of the domesticated dog, the ears were soft not pointy and the coat changed colour and their behaviour and bark changed, BUT. Some of the ones that remained wild in their nature were also bred, and treated the same as the ones whos temprement and physical apperance had changed to that of the domesticated dog, and they remained untamable. I found that really interesting, i wish i could remember the name of the programme!

Friday, 3 August 2012

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Found this on classified - did it look like this

Wolf-Dog (Sarloos WD X czechoslovakian WD)

Friday, 3 August 2012

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