Posted on 02/24/2014 4:17:57 PM PST by Morgana
Soaring numbers of ‘wolf breed’ dogs are being abandoned by owners unable to cope with the pets - which have become popular after featuring in cult films and television shows such as Twilight and Game of Thrones.
Charities including The Dogs Trust say hundreds of dogs such as Malamutes, Huskies and Sarloos were given up last year because their demands for attention and exercise are proving too much.
And last week, six day-old Eliza-Mae Mullane was mauled to death by her parents’ pet Alaskan Malamute at their home in Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire.
Police are currently still investigating the circumstances of the tot’s death and have not destroyed the dog.
The Dogs Trust, Britain’s largest dog rescue charity, has experienced a three-fold rise in wolf breed dogs brought to its rehoming centres.
The charity says it is ‘gravely concerned’ about the situation, saying unscrupulous breeders are also to blame, for selling the dogs to people in town-centre flats who were out at work all day and left them unattended.
Last year the trust took in 261 abandoned wolf-type dogs — up from 78 in 2010.
Although known for being friendly, affectionate and loyal, wolf breed dogs are also prone to separation anxiety and extreme boisterousness.
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You underestimate the size and number of snakes I’m gonna have to grab, ya know.
:)
LOL!
Gorgeous!
Let them indoors and they’d try to sleep with you. You might even have been pushed out of bed and forced to sleep with some of them on the floor.
These are not my dogs but I do know their breeders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFaoVKWAcOw
Now imagine that happening in your living room or when you’re trying to sleep...and *you* are standing in for the sand pile.
:)
Oh, my! :D
I grew up in the country and always on a fair amount of acreage which we owned. We never let dogs in the house but let them roam on their own outside.
Oddly I don’t recall any of them roaming outside the yard. After I got married and we lived in the suburbs I just would not keep a dog in a fenced in yard and never even thought about keeping one chained up.
The last one I had for a long time was a lab mutt mix. He was great at finding any animals, snakes etc. which came in the yard but pretty much ignored people.
One day I decided to go for a hike and stepped out the back door, grabbed my hiking stick and looked around for the dog. I finally walked around to the front of the house and found him asleep on the front porch. I expected him to sense me and immediately get up but he just lay there asleep.
Finally I punched him a couple of times with the hiking pole and all he did was grunt a couple of times and stayed asleep.
What a great watchdog I thought!
I saw a story on the animal channel about a woman who kept wolves. She was found chewed all to pieces one day. All the animals had to be put down.
Mine are a 110 lb. Great Dane and an 85 lb. Pitador. The Pitador sleeps with me and the Dane occupies the couch. Both are convinced they own me.
We have a Silky Terrier and a Mini-Schnauzer... the terrier is pretty much in charge... he’s got a food aggression also!
When we first got him our Jack Russell was about 16 yrs. and blind. She didn’t take any crap from him though.
I was walking a remote trail once, enjoying the birds and critters, wishing it was hunting season. I passed a hiker going the opposite direction, they had a malamute. I didn’t see anything alive for the next five miles. The psycho dog had crisscrossed the region, rousting every living thing from its place for a quarter mile on either side of the trail. It was like a russian fishing trawler had gone through and vacuumed up the forest.
If it’s not chained to a sled north of the arctic circle, it shouldn’t be alive.
Ahh...man that makes me miss my husky/wolf hybrid so much. I know you shouldn’t have favorites but he was probably my fav through out the years and many dogs that have owned me.
Now don’t get me wrong...he was a pain in the elbow a lot of the time. With the exception of fierce looks he really wasn’t much of a watch dog, was an escape artist and stubborn as he!!.
Due to circumstances beyond my control (long story) he was under house quarantine for 3 months. Just a pup at the time. I am a music lover and would sit in front of the stereo with him in my lap and rock him to the music. He had a great Stevie Wonder sway whenever he heard certain music all of his life.
This one?
They didn’t kill her.
They were starving.
ROFLMAO!
Our Akita is a couch potato. He sleeps 60% of the time (I have done a personal study). He loves TV. He loves his walks and he will voluntarily go spend time playing, running and jumping in his 20’x40’ pen. He also will take himself for runs in nice weather. He lasts 20 minutes, always comes right back home and tanks up on water.
They have little endurance for strenuous exercise and need lots of water.
His predecessor was an AkitaX (probably Alaskan Husky)with similar traits.
They are Northern Spitz, not wolves.
I should be glad “Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest” never became a bestseller.
“Accompanied by his aunt’s Norwegian elkhound, Ibsen, twelve-year-old Samuel ventures into a weird forest filled with strange and dangerous creatures to rescue his younger sister, Martha, who has been mute since their parents’ recent death.”
“Lacey Act”?
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