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Originally Posted by
thorandamy
chinchilla / wolf dog? chinchilla/ wolfdog im sorry but your comparison doesnt hold much weight does it and the arguement about showing dogs is for the ego?...maybe..people would be proud of there dogs in the show ring ...but these are dogs....to have a dog and mix it with a wolf is dangerous to say the least...these are not aniamls that will curl up at your feet and look up at you adoringly...these are part wild unpredictable animal...and yes there are some people who could handle them in the correct way ...but there are also the people who will want to own one as a status symbol ....not the same sort of status symbol as say a poodle ...these people have dogs to look tough ...to use the dogs as a symbol of aggression and even the ones who dont want it as a status symbol, the owner who doesnt do their haomework the owner who doesnt learn about the dog...these dogs are a danger in the wrong hands and in the wrong hands they will be. so why breed them in the first place.
So you are talking first generation then, that being the result of a pure wolf bred to a domestic dog.
As I said earlier, pure wolves and f1/f2 crosses require a dangerous wild animals licence to own them legally, and its not as simple as you pay your money, (which depending on where you live, could range from less than £100 to upwards of £1000 per licence), you get your licence, there is imo enough hoops to jump through, to make it pretty idiot proof. From what I understand of the procedure the enclosure has to be built and inspected, and the person's knowledge of their chosen species assessed before your granted one.
So, you weren't impressed by chinchilla vs wolfdog, but how about a bite from a wolfdog, vs a bite from say a black mamba. Both bites can cause a lot of damage though in different ways, and whilst a bite from a wolfdog is only lethal if it is in the wrong/right place, the venom from a mamba if left untreated is a certain death sentence regardless of where it was injected. Funnily enough as far as I'm aware no one has died in this country as of yet as a result of being bitten by their pet rattler/cobra/mamba etc, and believe me, there're far more people that have dwal's for venomous snakes then there are people who own wolves, f1/f2 wolfdogs, or lower content animals.
Yes, wolfdogs esp the higher content ones, aren't suitable for a lot of people, but then niether are gsds, labs or bloodhounds, and all of them in the wrong hands could end up seriously injuring someone or killing them.
As for breeds like the Czech and Saarloos, the Czech was created in 1955 by the Czechoslovakian military as a border guard and the saarloos was created in the 1920s/30s with the aim of improving the health of the gsd and as a working breed however, today the saarloos is quite unsuitable for working, and is bred as a companion only. These are breeds of dog, domestic dog, they were bred with a purpose in mind, not any random dog bred with any random wolf for the one aim of making money, they are no more unpredictable than any other individual within any other breed.
As I've said many times on this forum I'd love a Czech wolfdog one day, and it both angers and saddens me to see how such a new breed to this country has been abused, by those who should be promoting the responsible breeding and ownership of them.