Posted on 03/14/2017 1:40:16 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments
The family's veterinarian also says the same thing. But Aurora Animal Control thinks Capone is a wolf-hybrid.
"It's been real painful," 11-year-old Ciara Abbato said.
"Our German shepherd, Capone, got out Feb. 24. He jumped the fence. It’s the first time in the seven years we’ve lived here," said Capone’s owner, Tracy Abbato.
Aurora Animal Control picked up Capone that day, but turned away his family when they tried taking him home.
"They say he is a hybrid-wolf now and don't want to release (him) back to us because he is an exotic animal,” Abbato said.
The city ran a DNA test to determine his breed on March 1 and if the results prove he's a wolf-hybrid, the family dog could be put down.
Animal control said based on Capone's mannerisms, behavior and physical characteristics, they suspect he is part wolf.
"I am 100 percent confident he is not a wolf, not a doubt in my mind," Abbato said.
But while they await the test results, Capone sits in the Aurora Animal Shelter, away from his family and his two buddies who've grown up together from puppies.
"It's hard for me. It's hard for my kids. He's a family member. We've had him for almost 10 years. We miss him," Abbato said.
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Thanks. You are obviously very knowledgeable. I hope you’re right.
I read Temple Grandin’s book and enjoyed it greatly. But I don’t know if she’s just a kook. She claims that our concept of wolves in packs comes from confined spaces - zoos, parks, wildlife preserves. She claims that in the true wilderness wolves live in families just like humans - mates with their offspring.
The trouble with letting them get your DNA.
You are a Wolf! Got to put you down!
Folks behind me had a wolf-german shepherd hybrid. He was a reclusive dog, spending all day beneath their deck unless they were home... unless my cat was tormenting him. She liked to crawl under the gate and go over to peer under the deck at him. As soon as he’d stick his nose out from under the deck the race to the gate was on... she’d take care not to get too far ahead of him so that by the time she darted under the gate he was nearly on her and would crash head first into it with her spinning around to face him and deliver one whack on his nose.
Then she’d wait until he crawled back under the deck to do it again.
One day she slipped and went head over heels. He was going fast and overshot her, then did a big arc to go around and give her a chance to get on her feet before the race began again.
A huge dog, but a big wuss. ... to everyone, unless they carried a clipboard. He hated the meter reader - who was their family friend- but only when the guy was carrying the clipboard. On the weekends when they were BBQing they were best buddies.
Best thing about the dog was that he did not bark, and was mostly silent, except when a storm was coming, when he howled like a wolf with sniveling in between the howls and did everything possible to get inside their house, once or twice going through their basement window and once by breaking their storm door.
Sometimes we could get him to howl by howling at him.
He was a very loveable dog though.
Another thing about him- when the neighbors’ dogs first saw him after his owners moved in, they ran up to the fence and barked and snarled at him, furiously running up and down the fence like they owned the place. He slowly paced around the yard, then slowly made his way towards them, with them barking and slobbering like crazy and snapping through the fence.
He looked completely at ease, strode up to them, then turned like he was going back the other way, only he instead hiked his leg up and whizzed all over them; they yelped in surprise and ran away, back to their garage. He just went back to the deck to sleep.
The next time they got the courage to bark at him, they stopped about 6 feet from the fence to do their running back and forth barking routine. They had figured out his range. So a path parallel to the fence, 6 feet out formed with no grass in it from all their running. Eventually they just ignored each other.
If this dog is sent to a wolf sanctuary, I don’t think it will survive..........Stupid government!
Monsters. Unless this animal has attacked someone, they need to give it back to this family. They’ve had it for 10 years. If it was going to be vicious, it would have before now.
I have a similar story, but it was with a squirrel.
I just looked at the picture. To me, that looks like a dog. I wouldn’t have even suspected it. Do they test every husky, shepherd, malamute type dog? Ridiculous.
Wolfie moved from Texas to CO - She’s found her youth again in the snow - plus she doesn’t need the summer cut anymore.
This is why we real Americans must take government back from the insane.
I was raised by a wolf. I find this to be speciesism!
Ridiculous. All dogs are wolf!! Time to spring Capo be from the coop!!
Big Government bureaucrats seem quite able to justify anything to themselves - in this instance, theft of others’ property.
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This is so absurd!
all of the large shepherds are wolf hybrids.
My ex-wife an I raised a 1/2 wolf bitch, and she was the best family dog one could ever want.
She was big and strong, and gentile as could be with kids.
We raised at least 20 litters of her pups, and had constant return customers knocking at our door.
Is this country completely insane?
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I hope it works out okay for the family and their dog.
Containment is crucial for responsible dog ownership.
Fences work but they must match the dog.
Appears in this case, to have been inadequate.
These people have addresses. Just saying.
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My wife’s nephew had some very large and very friendly dogs. All the neighbors loved them and stopped to often pet them.
Then one day the local newspaper found they were wolf hybrid, wrote a story bout them, an the neighborhood went bonkers!
Suddenly fear griped everyone in town until he got rid of them. He even lived in a rural area.
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>> “Appears in this case, to have been inadequate” <<
Our 1/2 wolf bitch always greeted me from the roof of the garage when I got home.
The only things that can restrain one of these dogs would also be cruel.
The best answer is always love and training.
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