New York – An illegal wolf-dog has been found roaming the streets of Brooklyn.
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The Daily News reports (http://nydn.us/uTCTYj) that police found the 53-pound female in the East New York area on Tuesday. She is being housed at a shelter.
The canine was wearing a collar and chain and was apparently being kept as a pet. Wolf-dog hybrids are considered exotic animals and are illegal to keep as pets in New York.
A spokesman for Animal Care and Control says that finding a wolf-dog in Brooklyn is rare. He says the animal will not be put up for adoption or freed into the wild. He says she will probably be sent to a sanctuary for unwanted wolf-dogs.
Releasing her into the wild would be cruel. She has no survival skills and would starve. Adopting her out would be ideal if she went to a home where it was legal with a family that could prove it was experienced with wolves and wolf hybrids. Under the circumstances Animal Control is doing the right thing.
Wolves and dogs are two very different things. Wolves, and predmoninantly wolf hybrids take an awful lot of care, a special person and more.
East New York, eh? Right near me in Crown Heights. So schools round here, so many kids walking alone to & from school. Luckily, the dog wasn’t hungry enough to try to feast on one of them. I hope they find the owner & prosecute.
Why are so many frum Jews afraid of dogs? I have seen frum kids and adults nearly fall over with extreme fear at the sight of a dog, even a harmless little pet. I have even seen frum teenage boys act fearful around a pet cat! When did this absurd fear start, and why?
If you ask me, the real travesty, are the people who BUY these kinds of exotic pets in the 1st place! They are the reason there is a DEMAND for such purchases!
So then people go out, they buy themselves some Tiger, Mountain Lion, Alligator, or in this case…. a crazy, hybrid wolf-dog thingie… and then when the animal becomes too hard to take care of…
They just “release it” (abandon it, more like it), into the wild, in an environment they aren’t familiar with!
That’s why there are so many crazy, venomous snakes out roaming in people’s backyards, eating the family dog, in Florida!
People please! If it’s a pet that you can’t just adopt from a local animal shelter, and you’ve got to order from some special “breeder”, and the food to maintain this animal is probably going to eat up every spare nickel you got, and it’s probably going to be a danger to your friends, family and\or neighbors…
Then it’s probably a “pet” that you shouldn’t have in the 1st place!
It may seem “cool” to own a wolf-dog… but now look at what’s happened! It’s out roaming the streets of Brooklyn, because somebody decided they couldn’t care enough to get it microchipped!
Get a hamster! (lol)
Wolf-dog hybrids can be more dangerous than either wolves or dogs because their behavior is unpredictable. Unless you know for certain that the dog parent was NOT an aggressive or fighting breed, you should avoid a wolf-dog.