The owners of a wolf-like animal identified in fields outside Cork city have said the general public in the location need not be worried – however they would very much like to get him back.
Ivan Rumley of the popular Rumley’s Farm on Liberty Hill in Waterfall says the animal is in fact a Czech Wolfdog, a crossbreed in between a German Shephard and a Carpathian Grey Wolf, reproduced in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s to function as border patrol and search and rescue dogs.
The call to help discover the animal followed earlier reports that a wolf was on the lose in the location with individuals advised to keep their family pets inside.
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They might be part wolf, however they are understood for being smart, extremely trainable dogs and Ivan Rumley informed CorkBeo that their Czech Wolfdog does not posture a threat to the general public or to smaller sized animals in the location.
This wolfdog is called Axel – he’s the 2nd they have actually had after another – Diesel – passed away 2 years back. Ivan Rumley says they are “lovely, intelligent” animals who are really shy of individuals they are not utilized to.
“He’s actually very shy, he’ll most likely run away when he sees people. A local told us that he actually fell in with another dog in the area yesterday and they were playing away, he was licking the other dog, but unfortunately, they couldn’t get close enough to get a hold,” said Ivan.
“We are quite wanting to get him back, we’re attempting to get a tranquiliser weapon, we’d dislike to see him put down, if we might get him into a shed or something up until we might get to him, that would be fantastic.
“We are animal lovers here and we would hate to see him put down – that would be a last resort”.
Ivan said the wolfdog left its enclosure 2 days back.
“We’ve been making every effort to get him back, we have cages set up with food, we’re hoping we can do this.”
Ivan said if anyone in the Ballinhassig and Waterfall location spots their wolfdog, they want to speak with them at Rumley’s Open Farm (they can be called through their Facebook page).
Members of the general public must leave capturing the animal to the staff who are trained in handling the wolfdog and recognize to him. And he said all of the group there at the farm are wanting to get their wolfdog back secure as quickly as possible.
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