This is the one animal I am never allowed kill. Not that I would anyway.
I have owned full and hybrids. I have cousins who work with them. They've done it for decades. Many of the ones they have worked with were rescues. Not even sure these days where they are, but this is something that has been done for at least 3 generations and they have a gift when it comes to them.
They can revert to the wild, but once they have no fear of people it becomes dangerous for both the wolf and humans.
The acres of land is great. Something I was going to comment on. They can become very aggressive (so can dogs) when chained or confined to small areas or chained.
It sounds like since he is working with the breeder and he is setup for their needs, that he will have someone with a lot of knowledge to work with him and help him do things correctly. I hope he is able to spend the time he will need to deal with him and anything that comes up later.
One of my babies was Hendricks. I lived in Oakland California and my 2 oldest daughters where 2 and under 1. My oldest could walk Hendricks down a city street and she was his baby. He was well behave, I spent a lot of time with him and so had the person I got him from. He was a wolf/Malamute hybrid. Huge!
I had a lady stop me on the streets and ask if he was a wolf. I said yes. She said "Aren't you worried about your little girl walking him?" I asked her if she thought anyone would bother her and she said "GOOD POINT!" Then I introduced he to him and she fell in love with him.
He was inside, but had a lot of fwnced room to run outside. But I lived alone with my girls and I would leave him indoors so I wasn't afraid to walk in my house when I'd get home alone.
He ate phones. This was when phones were wired to the wall and think and heavy. I'd come home and it would be chewed to pieces. My friend showed up one night and asked if my phone was gone again. I told her yes he had done it again. She said she had called me from her job and Hendricks had answered the phone. She said he was talking into it and then she heard a chomping noise and the line went dead. This was the only thing I had problems with. The phone company had to keep coming out and hooking up new phones about twice a month. I finally had them give me a longer cord, so I could shut it in the bedroom when I left.
I ended up with a smaller place and he went back with his original owner. I had him from ages 1-2 1/2 and he lived to be 14. His temperment was more Malamute, but if he hadn't had the attention he got, he may not have been so doglike.
He was loyal and graceful and my best friend, but the other person had wanted him back and my move reunited them and Hendricks had been with him since he was 3 weeks old and the contact was never lost. I actually would have gotten a bigger place to keep him, but I knew those two needed eachother, so I took the smaller cheaper place so they'd be together, but I cried a lot for over a year when he left.
I've run into dozens of them in the cities since then. Some had decent temperments, most didn't. One was allowed to run the neighborhood! That one ended up in rescue.
Hey Debi! Did you know that San Francisco has wild parrots too?
