Does anyone has a wolf at home?
2007-01-27 13:55:20 · 35 answers · asked by tanyasiv 4 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
I said yes to a wolf hybrid once...for two weeks.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!
I have 2 alaskan malamutes, and my friend had to give up his malamute/ wolf hybrid...so I kept it for 2 weeks until I found a suitable home for it.
Very loving dog. Gentle, well behaved, would lay at my feet for hours.
Until I went to work.
Severe separation anxiety.
Day 1: Broke a window out of my house with its paw and sat outside for me to come home.
Day 2: I chained it to a wall: Broke the collar, broke a second window and waited outside for me to come home.
Day 3: Put it in a crate in my living room. Ripped the crate in half, broke out a third window, cut its paw this time, and waited outside in a pool of blood for me to come home. Pure white dog, scared the hell out of me when I saw it with blood all over. the white made it look worse than it was.
Day 4: Put it in my malamutes day room and let my female malamute hang out by herself in the house (my two malamutes have never been apart, so this was an experiment) my male was friendly with the wolf hybrid. The wolf ripped the door off the room and the two terrorized the neighborhood. Luckily they came back and animal control didn't get involved. If there is a complaint...and the complaint involves a wolf hybrid...the hybrid gets put down.
Day 5: I chained the dog to the shed outside and made a shade shelter. Cried all day long...for a week. and found it a home in CO. by someone who also had a hybrid and 25 acres of land where she could run free.
Also...for a pure wolf you need an exotic pet license. It is illegal otherwise.
And no, they make terrible pets unless you can keep it with you 24/7. And I mean 24/7. You can't go to the grocery store, you can't go to the movies etc.
They can't tolerate being contained and need to be in a pack in the wild.
No No No.
I was disappointed I couldn't keep that beautiful loving dog. I found out the hard way. Don't make the same mistake I did.
2007-01-27 20:14:40 · answer #1 · answered by moabmusher 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No way! They aren't domestic and even if you found is as a young pup, when it got older, it would hear the call of the wild and could turn on you and murder the whole family. It's the same as keeping a lion or panther as a pet cat, it just doesn't work. There have been stories where people kept wild animals as pets and they all ended badly. Even if you took care of it since it was a young baby, it still doesn't matter. The need to be a wild animal is greater for it then affection toward any owner. There was a story of a family that kept a lion as a pet, it starred in a few movies this lion, and they raised it since it was a little cub. One day, their pet lion went nuts and murdered the entire family. It was a real massacre. Then the lion escaped from their home and tried to kill another young boy on the street, but a police officer shot it. No matter what, a wild animal will always be a wild animal. It's sad, lot's of people keep wild animals as pets and they and their children/wives die as a result. I think that wild animals are best kept in the wild.
2007-01-27 14:43:44 · answer #2 · answered by Dana Mulder 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Never ! It would be inhumane to keep an animal that is ment to be wild and free as something similar to a hostage. It would never be able to be what it is ment to be while it is confined to life in a domesticated world. I would put my personal greed away and show my love for this beautiful animal by putting it where it would be best for the animal. Some years ago many ppl were getting wolf dogs......much to their suprise these animals turned out to be more of a wolf than the furry happy loving PET they thought they wanted......the shelters were bombarded with these animals. How sad! There is a man in New Mexico that has at least 100 of these same wolf dogs because nobody wanted them once they discovered what/how they were. He has them in a huge fenced in area .... they are alive and he takes good care of them but his job is dangerous to say the least and they are alive...but I cringe when I see what human greed did to these animals. These are WILD ANIMALS and should never be degraded and abused by thinking you can treat them like a pampered pet..........it does not work!!! PUT THIS ANIMAL WHERE IT CAN BE TAKEN CARE OF PROPERLY.....LET IT HAVE A LIFE ! ! ! !
2007-01-27 17:09:39 · answer #3 · answered by anemonecanadensis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I would give it to an animal rehabilitator. I would not keep a wolf at home (unless I was an animal rehabilitator or Cesar Milan). Most people do not have the time, discipline, patience, or experience to take care of a wolf. I wouldn't reccomend keeping a wolf as a pet for most people. If you want a wild dog foxes wuold probably make better pets. I wouldn't know, though, as I have never had a wild animal as a pet.
2007-01-27 14:27:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Wolves are pack animals, wild animals, and are not meant to be kept as pets. I would take it to the Humane Society, or call animal control, in your area, and have them pick the wolf up.They will be able to care for it, and then release it back into the wild, when it's ready. I know they are cute now, and you just want to keep them forever, but the fact is that, once they grow up, you would be putting yourself and your family in great danger. I was just curious about how small this wolf is, and if you've noticed the mother coming around looking for her baby. Please, be very careful!
2007-01-27 14:08:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Wolves are considered wild animals and you would need a permit in order to keep it. When I worked at the University, if a pet was wolf, or hybrid, the owners had to sign a waiver that they understood that even if vaccinated for canine Rabies, a wolf could still get rabies and if it bit someone they knew the animal may have to be euthanized and have its head submitted for rabies examination. For this reason, anytime we work with a wolf or hybrid at the hospital, we ALWAYS use 2 muzzles - no matter how nice it seems. Wolves are unpredictable. No matter how raised, they DO NOT lose their instincts to attack and kill.
You should never attempt to make a wild animal into a pet, no matter how tame you think it is or how cute you think it is.
2007-01-27 14:05:10 · answer #6 · answered by Diana 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely not. Like so many other non domesticated animals, they are cute as babies, but, like puppies and kittens, they don't stay little. And, a baby wolf will grow into an adult wolf with more strength than you realize and all the instincts of the wild animal that it is.
If you have found one, notify the division of wildlife for your area. They can take it and place it in a wildlife preserve if it can't be returned to the wild.
2007-01-27 14:07:46 · answer #7 · answered by kids and cats 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I would not. I would take it to a sanctuary that would be able to take care of it better than i could. I don't know of anyone that has a pure wolf as a pet, but i know of a few people that have wolf hybrid dogs.
2007-01-27 14:01:00 · answer #8 · answered by Stark 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
wow you found a baby wolf?!
well you shouldn't keep it cuz sooner or later you have to send him back in the wild and he'll die
if you keep him you'll have to teach him to climb trees,hunt and stuff cuz that's what the mother would do and it needs to communicate with other wolves.
1 more thing i'm pretty sure it's dangerous and illegal to have a wild animal especially a wolf living in your house
+ d animal needs space to run around alot of space like maybe an entire farm to itself
don't keep the wolf
send him to a shelter where they'll nurse him to health and sendhim to the wild or something.
besides i'm sure you won't be able to aford having a wolf live in your house
2007-01-27 14:34:31 · answer #9 · answered by alahiap 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No I would not because they will always be wild and you can't normally tame that out of them. Well, not at least with one generation. There would always be a chance that he/ she could return to their natural, wild instincts and you don't really want that. And wolves and their diets aren't like that of a dog. They would be very hard to take care of. If I did find one that looked as if it was abandoned (or whatever the case may be) I would take it to the vet, a zoo or maybe even the DNR and see what they thought of it. I know where I live there is a zoo/ park with a wolf habitat in it.
2007-01-27 14:29:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋