Our dogs play wolves several times a year. But we never use the wolves, apart from trainabillity would they have terrible stress. Wolves are very curious animals but also very fearful with everything new. Our wolves feel save in their enclosure and don´t want to leave it.
Also if you are able to let them run free outside a little factor would be enough to get into flight reaction and run away. That makes it necessary to build up a fence on the set (apart from laws also). You know how loud and buisy a set can be. They get terribly sick in a car and hate to be in there.
I love and adore our wolves we don´t want to stress them so we won´t do anything that they don´t like if it is not absolutely necessary like medical treatment etc.
And of course you can´t make a wolf to do anything he doesn´t want. One still likes to be carried around, two jump on a box on command but only when they are in the mood for it, otherwise they just ignore you.
We can still take people into the enclosure with us but we have to separate the Alpha male who is very territoral in there and doesn´t appreciate strangers. They don´t care about things outside the fence very much but react differently on things inside the fence. And they don´t like to be separated.
All in all this is the reason why our dogs are booked very often to play wolves.
Ina
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