We just got a question about why we do this and I would like to post the answer here too, because - like the person asking - we are no friends of wolfs or their hybrids in privat hands. And though it is a great experience to make we wouldn´t have done it for keeping the wolfs ourself.
We just keep the wolfes for an enclosure (of course with every necessary official permission) till Oktober and hand rear them. The reason for that nowadays often used method is that they don´t get shy against humans and don´t have stress living in a park with visitors. The wolfes are born in captivity and couldn´t stay in the park they were born, there is no sense to take them back into the wild. They come into a newly build enclosure that is build after our advice and we will be the responsible grooms and me the responsible veterinarian after that. We will take care that they won´t reproduce. The parkowners are very responsible persons that we are in contact with since several years.
We also will have a time every day where the park visitors will get informations about wolfs in general. And though I rather prefer wolfes in the wild do they need a big amount of public relations that enclosure wolfes can give. We have wild wolfpacks in Germany now and already hunters that would like to kill them. It is very necessary to inform the public about them. You only protect what you know and like and respect.
But again we are strictliy against privat keeping of wolfes and their hybrids as pets.
Ina
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