guess I'm missing the point about why a wolf hybrid is a Bad Thing..... George Hill over at THR had one for the longest time and said it was the best do he ever owned. Buddy of mine claims his mutt has wolf blood too and it's a great dog.
Because wolves aren't dogs, and dogs aren't wolves, and there's always a chance you'll end up with something schizophrenic as a result of mixing the genes of a WILD PREDATOR and a domestic animal after about 50,000 years of domestication. You never know how their brains will be wired.
And one day, when a little kid screams and runs, and something shorts and reads as "PREY", well...it's happened.
Means the kid gets hurt or killed, the animal gets destroyed. I've seen way too many stories of wolf hybrids having to be put down because they just "suddenly did something bad".
No, they didn't do something bad. They reacted like a wolf, and they get killed for it.
True, bluestar, about mals. Someone could also just get a black shepherd or something else.
I really don't know why people want wild cats in particular. Housecats have every bit of the instincts of a wild cat, from the hunting to the behind-wiggle and pounce, they just do less damage when they follow instincts. If you've got a lion aimed at you when it does that behind-wiggle thing, you're pretty much dead. With a housecat, you'll just get pantlegs attacked.