Borderdawg wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:CelticRose wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:strike wolf wrote:As a fellow wolf supported I'd love to help out but I'm broke, have limited time and live in Georgia. Right now I focus mainly on trying to put up with Muy's misunderstandings about wolves.
My misunderstandings? I was just saying that people should not have wolves as pets. Or half-breeds for that matter (going by the OP's comment). After that, I am at a cross-roads when it comes to wolves.
We don't believe in them being pets either. They all live outside in enclosures in their own mini packs. They came to us because people didn't know how to handle them after getting them as pets and can no longer go back in the wild. All of them are spayed/neutered. We don't believe in breeding them.
All of that said, we rescue them from certain death most of the time. Most places that get one of these animals in usually go right to euthanasia. Its not their fault they were born what they were in the wrong place, thus, we rescue them.
Side note, if any one read National Geographic a couple months ago, there was a chart in it about sheep deaths. Less than 1% was due to wolves. The rest was due to illness, freezing, coyotes, mountain lion, bear, etc... (the government will also compensate for livestock killed by wolves).
You don't believe in letting wolves reproduce by having them spayed and neutered, yet you claim that they are not pets. Hmmm. Tell me, what is wrong with this scenario?
Muy, I think what CR means is the rescued animals (most of which were probably already spayed/neutered before rescue) are unfit for release and unable to survive on their own in the wild, and that letting them reproduce in captivity would be perpetuating a wrong.
I don't this exact operation, but I know of the type. Centers to rehabilitate various types of wildlife exist all over the country. Their goal primary goal is to get as many as possible fit to return to the wild. Sadly, many either come too old to learn to survive on their own or are too weak/injured to survive on their own or, in the case of something like a wolf, might be too habitutated to human beings. (meaning they would seek out humans and become a nuisance) If they cannot be released, they might be spayed (in the case of wolves, in some other cases they may get birth control medication or, in a few cases could be part of an artificial breeding program aimed at building wild populations).
Often those that cannot be released are used for various educational purposes. Anything short of release into the wild is less than ideal, but sometimes a wild release is just not possible.
Some centers take "any" animal, though they often cannot deal with large predators like a wolf. Others take only certain creatures. Many are dedicated specifically to birds or to marine mammals, for example. Most are geared specifically toward an endangered species, but bird centers typically take in almost anything so that volunteers get the experience needed for when something endangered shows up. In each case, even to volunteer usually requires a lot of training and dedication. The commitment for keeping a bird alive, for example, can mean feeding it every 2 hours, 24 hours a day for a while.
. If people just sent the website