Are YOUR children safe from hybrid wolves roaming the schoolyards and serene side streets of suburban New Jersey? Oh, you say you don't have children and don't even live in New Jersey? You're not
out of the woods yet—these
generally harmless pets have also turned up in Brooklyn, where they're not even legal. But over in Rahway, NJ, it seems they've got a more enlightened view of hybrid wolfdogs... they just don't want them wandering around without human supervision.
Linden police officer Captain James Sarnicki says the wolfdog seen here was "really docile and not aggressive" when they captured it yesterday afternoon. Three hybrid wolves had been spotted roaming the neighborhood, and while two ultimately returned home on their own, one was observed sniffing around two public schools. "It was a really big animal," Captain Sarnicki tells NJ.com. The hybrid wolf will be returned to its owner, because there are no local laws against hybrid wolves. They buy medical marijuana over there, too, and that Six Flags is sick.
So what's a hybrid wolf? You probably already know this, but for the uninitiated, a hybrid wolf is a canid hybrid resulting from the mating of a gray wolf and a dog. According to Wikipedia, "The term 'wolfdog' is preferred by most of the animals' proponents and breeders because the domestic dog was taxonomically recategorized in 1993 as a subspecies itself of the gray wolf. The American Veterinary Medical Association and the United States Department of Agriculture refer to the animals as wolf-dog hybrids." Hybrids are also "affected by fewer inherited diseases than most breeds of dog," and "are generally no more destructive than any other curious or active dogs."
