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Originally Posted by
thorandamy
i am talking about the wolf dog hybrid that has actually got wolf in its breeding line , not wolf lookalikes
You say in its breeding line, how recent are you thinking?
F1 and F2 wolfdog/hybrids require a dangerous wild animals licence in the uk, same as pure wolves. F3 and beyond however do not require any special licence and are classed as domestic dogs. Personally I'd say F3 and maybe F4s should still require a DWAL but thats jmo.
Then you've got the Czechoslovakian and Saarloos wolfdogs, which are both FCI recognised breeds of dog, they just happen to have been created by mixing Carpathian and European wolf respectively with gsd. The last pure wolf blood in both breeds was added generations ago. They've got trates that make them perfect for some, and completely unsuitable for others, just like any other breed of dog.
There're only a few breeders of Czech and Saarloos in the uk, and most if not all seem to spend more time mixing them with northern inuits, tamaskans, gsds, husky's, timbre wolves etc, then they do trying to promote the breeds themselves. A couple of those also breed/sell F3 and F4s, and if you believe the claime made by some, F1s are being sold as F4s, which wouldn't surprize me at all.