Kel, I think I've said before that just because you've got a brain in your head doesn't mean that everyone has.

Perfectly put Becky, the logic is clear cut, but then logic is something not many people are born with

Dooh, well done for trying, me, I wouldn't have bothered, if something is so bl***ing obvious I don't have time now to try to educate people

i couldnt have put it better....

No I wouldn't but must admit I know someone who has & they were lovely, but my main worry would be of an accident & mating to my dogs & a hybid being produced.

Ah, the sensible people of dogsey!

If I am not much mistaken it became legal to own wolf hybrids in the UK recently. this is very sad in my opinion... and just gives certain types of people carte blanche to breed them badly - if you ask me, they're already in very much the wrong hands

I would never want to own a wolf as a pet - or any other wild animal - I mean, sure - it'd be nice - that new species of giant rat they've found <3 <3 <3 - but I wouldn't want to remove it from it's natural home and keep it as a pet - there are enough animals domesticated already - more than we can comfortably deal with. Why ruin more?

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thats the first i have heard about this?

http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-cou...waa/hybrid.htm

Unless I've read it wrong, they've become much more relaxed about it - allowing breeds like the Czech and Saarloos to be bred from in the UK. It does mean IMHO that it'll be far easier forthose unscrupulous types to get under the net and fleece people about what their animals are... :/

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Pure wolves, first and second gen wolfdog/hybrids are still dwa listed. 3rd gen and beyond no longer require a dwal to keep them.

Foxes can be owned as pets in the uk, and can be litter trained like cats, from what I've read. Other animals you can own without a dwal include, racoondogs, racoons, meerkats, certain primate species and many others.

I'd never keep a wolf as a pet. Maybe if I had a zoo, I'd have a couple in the collection, but they wouldn't be pets.

There are plenty of dog breeds that look sort of wolfy, and if you want a cat that looks like a tiger, get a toyger.

what if the wild animal can not go in to the wild as it does not know how to defene it self ?

They would be kept in captivity, but that wouldn't make them pets. There are wild animals that come into uk wildlife rescues dayly, some can never be released, but the people who look after them, do not concider them as pets.

For me, the line starts to blur, when you've got an animal that comes from generations of captive breeding, like my reptiles do. Another example would be, a fox owners site I was looking at earlier, stated that one of their foxes had at least 27 generations of captive breeding specifically for the pet trade behind it.