Wolves and Wolf/dogs as Pets
There are many issues around having wild animals and wild animal hybrids for pets.
The results are that hundreds of animals are put to death each year because the people who own them can no longer keep them for one reason or another.
Sometimes it is because of financial reasons, or perhaps the place where they live is close to neighbors and the neighbors become frightened. Sometimes it is because the "owners" become frightend of the animals themselves.
What ever the reasons, many animals are dying due to the lack of responsibility in humans.
Saving wildlife does not mean rasing them in captivity and breeding them to sell. It means restoring habitiat first and foremost. Then restoring the animals to a suitable habitat.
If you really want to save wolves adn other wildlife from extinction, then join us and help us do just that, because that is what we do and we can not do it without help.
Many animal shelters have had difficulties dealing with hybrids. Aside from housing and handling concerns, adoption to the public has proven to be risky. In 1988, a wolf hybrid was adopted from a humane society shelter in Florida. Several hours after it was taken home, it escaped from its new owner's fenced yard and killed a neighbor's 4-year-old boy. The shelter was sued and paid $425,000 in a settlement to the child's parents. Since this incident, shelters around the country have been reluctant to put these animals up for adoption. Instead, the animals are euthanized once the required holding period is over.