That's not a wolf dog. It's a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog.

In the midst of the four blazing L.A. fires that have burned thousands of homes to the ground, claimed the lives of six people, and displaced almost 200,000 others, a frightened wolf dog was left all alone chained to a tree without any way to flee should the flames lick at his feet.

I have absolutely NO love for someone who would abandon ANY animal like that.

I know it’s a chaotic emergency down there right now, but that is no excuse, in my opinion.

Luckily, a police officer patrolling the area found it and called animal control.

But do you want to know the sad truth?

Because it is a wolf dog,

it will be immediately euthanized by authorities.

I wonder if the cruel owner knew that when locking the chain around that tree and walking away from his scared and confused animal.

Well, yesterday posted this wolf dog’s tragic story to our Wolf Dog Channel on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/1ybMBf-Ju0Q

And, NO KIDDING, I got the following reply:

“Thats not a wolf dog its a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog which is a breed of dog with no wolf content in it.” - Bonnie Judd

You just can’t make this stuff up!

So, once again, we have to ask ourselves…

What is a wolf dog?

So… are you trying to say, Bonnie, that because Embark DNA recognizes the Czechoslovakian Vicak (literally “wolf dog” in Czech) as its own distinct breed based on DNA analysis, it must therefore be a 100% domesticated dog?

When does the madness end?

Wake up, people!

Don’t be fooled!

The Czechoslovakian Vlcak is definitely a wolf dog.

1. It was created in the 1950s by specifically breeding German Shepherd Dogs to Carpathian wolves as an experiment to improve military guard dog temperament. The experiment failed, but the wolf dog breeding program continued.
2. Czechoslovakian Vlcaks were categorized by their own breeders as low to mid-content wolf dogs only four years ago.
3. Embark Veterinary recognized them as distinct in genetic make-up in 2020. Prior to that, Czech Vlcak dogs regularly DNA tested as low to mid-content wolf dogs.
4. I have screenshot proof that before 2020, Czech Vlcak Embark DNA tests came back anywhere from 8 - 25% gray wolf.
5. Embark, itself, states: “The last breeding with a full blooded wolf and a Czechoslovakian Vlcak took place in the 1980s. Since then, Czechoslovakian Vlcaks are only bred to one another and no new wolves have been introduced.”
6. I have screenshot proof that as late as 2020 a Czech Vlcak tested 33% total gray wolf content because it had 19.2% gray wolf and 13.8% gray wolf via the Czech Vlcak ancestry. Therefore, Czech Vlcak breeders are indeed continuing to breed new wolf crosses into their dogs.

NOTE: Embark can’t possibly back up that claim, anyway, because their DNA tests don’t detect possible ancestry farther back than three generations.

But that doesn’t stop the American Kennel Club (AKC) from entering the Czechoslovakian Vlcak into the Miscellaneous Class WITHOUT MENTIONING ANYTHING about their recent wolf dog heritage.  

https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/czechoslovakian-vlciak/

All of this doesn’t even matter in the long run, though.

Because local animal control officers aren’t going to have a clue about what a Czechoslovakian Vlcak is or isn’t.

Over the last few days, one animal shelter in Pasadena has taken in over 300 animals as wildfires rage across the Los Angeles area.

I imagine all of the other animal shelters in that area are overflowing, as well.

No. Animal control officers are only going to see an abandoned wolf dog amidst the chaos.

Even without the emergency conditions, most animal shelters and Humane Societies are legally required to euthanize wolf dogs, even if they don’t appear or act wolfy.

Still don’t believe me?

Wolf dog sanctuaries know first hand what tragedy awaits abandoned wolf dogs.

https://missionwolf.org/what-are-my-options

Halfway across the country, pacing in isolation for over 420 days, awaiting a trial that will literally determine her life or death, is a high-content wolf dog with a loving family who desperately wants her back in their arms.

Her crime?

She’s a wolf dog living in the city of Cleveland that authorities believe is 100% wolf.

That’s it.

They have even now dropped their original reason for retaining her.

Every time I look into the wolf dog world, my heart aches for the tragic lives most wolf dogs have to lead.

Which is why you are here with the Dire Wolf Project.

We are THE ONLY wolf look-a-like dog breed with 0% wolf content.

We have never, nor will we ever, breed wolf into our 100% domesticated dog breed.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t do something about the tragic furry souls being abandoned, tortured, and killed every day all around our great country.

The Dire Wolf Project could look away and remain in our own happy, sheltered world.

We could talk about our wonderful dogs all day, every day, and never stand up for the devastation and chaos that is the wolf dog community.

But by not speaking up nor condemning it, we allow it to continue unchallenged.

My conscience will not let me turn a blind eye.

So, I choose to stand up for what’s right.

And confiscating random wolf dogs from loving homes for no good reason, isolating them in prison for 420+ days awaiting trial, causing undue financial burden on a disabled resident, and threatening euthanasia is WRONG.

You all know that I would never advocate for wolf dog breeding or ownership, but I sure don’t advocate for undue process or legal exploitation, either.

There is a lot wrong within the wolf dog community, but we can help this one right now.

Briccs’ owner, DeCardo March, needs $700 more to retain an outside attorney so that he doesn’t have represent himself in this complicated legal battle against Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

Please consider doing what you can so that this one wolf dog may be able to escape from otherwise certain death.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-briccs-help-free-an-innocent-wolfdog

Jennifer Stoeckl is the co-founder of the Dire Wolf Project, founder of the DireWolf Guardians American Dirus Dog Training Program, and owner/operator of DireWolf Dogs of Vallecito. She lives in the beautiful inland northwest among the Ponderosa pine forests with her pack of American Dirus dogs