The name of a Russian man who raised wolves in the city was not only trained them as dogs but also obtained an official licence. Although he has repeatedly stated that his wolf will not harm the people around him, there are a few who do not like the wolf's neighbors to keep complaining and calling the police...
Ivan Lebedev, a 46-year-old man, lives with his 19-year-old daughter and three pets in an apartment in Volgagrad, Russia. Ivan worked as a masseuse in a sanatorium, raising three pets: a Spanish hound, a Beijing dog and a wolf.
The wolf is named Gray, which means gray. In May, two years ago, farmers in Astrakhan intended to deal with wolves who lived nearby and frequently destroyed agricultural land and ate poultry.
They found a wolf's nest with six little wolves, five females and one male. They remained there for three days without seeing the adult wolf, so they brought him back.
Ivan was still living in Astrakhan and heard that the farmers were looking for someone who could adopt wolves and went with his daughter.
Farmers pulled six yellow puffs out of one bag, only the cat-sized wolves.
Ivan indicated that at the time, six young wolves, some afraid of shaking, others running for no purpose, some even peeing on the spot, were sitting very calmly on the ground with their tails straight up and their faces full of confidence.
It looked at Ivan curiously, and when Ivan's daughter reached out to him, the wolf walked straight up and sniffed her hands. The daughter holds it in her arms, and the wolf licks her hand voluntarily. Ivan decided, that's it.
That's the only male in the six wolves - Gray.
Ivan was ready to make this wolf an ordinary “dog” at the moment he took Gray in. So he started training the young wolf as a child.
Ivan took the coyotes to the clinic for vaccination, the chip, the license. As soon as it came to Ivan's house, it got into a happy fight with the other two of Ivan's dogs.
The wolf came to Ivan's house and escaped. It wandered around the village where Ivan lived for a month, sneaking into the village from time to time to pick up chickens and geese raised by farmers. Until it took a sheep, people finally put up with it and pointed the shotgun at it.
Ivan finally got home with this bear kid who was hanging out for a month. He made a solemn plea and apology to the farmers, and people forgave him and his wolf, and did not kill them with their hands.
Later, as her daughter went to the University of Volgagrad, Ivan sold her house in Astrahan and moved to an ordinary urban apartment in Volgagrad to accompany her.
Since then, there has been a legend in Volgagle that the wolves are in the city. Ivan indicated that he had complained once in Astrahan and twice in Volgograd, but that his wolf had really never been in trouble again.
Last year, his wolf was on the news, but finally it went away, because the police came to see that Ivan's way of raising wolves was quite scientific...
First of all, his wolf has a license and a full vaccine. Moreover, his house had welded the balcony with a fence and kept the wolf inside instead of making it run around the streets.
The wolf was well trained to walk with Ivan twice a day, not only with a belt but also with a strong belt and chain, not a dog rope like a dog. That means Ivan is still very committed.
Wolves do not actively provoke dogs, especially stray dogs. It was clear that it had fought alone, but that stray dogs were in groups, and it was not necessarily a win.
The nearby dogs are not very friendly to Ivan's wolves, scream at him when they see him, and they often jump up and try to attack him, and the wolves are so weak, they dare not bite, and they are injured.
But Ivan said that the wolf was probably three years old, that the wolf was now less than two years old and that it was a child, so it looked like a good boy, and he couldn't guarantee it.
Now young wolves eat a kilo of meat, except for meat, which likes vegetables and fruits, whose body is fast growing and long, and which needs vitamins.
Although the wolf mimics some hunting at home, Ivan says he didn't feed the wolf alive, so he can't take care of himself in the field and be a pet.
Wolves are smart. They're not as wild as people think. It usually looks like a bigger dog. It can skin, but if it's wrong, it knows how to repent.
One time Ivan took him for a walk and walked through an ice sheet, the wolf suddenly accelerated, and Ivan fell on the spot and gnawed a dog.
And Ivan was angry, and he shouted at the wolf, and the wolf showed great humility, bowed his head and headed back to his family.
The reason the wolf was complained to by his neighbour, in addition to being “a little scary”, was to raise some noise. Ivan thought he might have picked up a phrase to come home, and he particularly liked to communicate with the other two dogs in the house. This noise is excessive for people living in urban apartments.
Ivan has given serious consideration to the future of the wolf. His coyotes have a good sense of smell and can smell 300 meters away. Wolves are also strong, and Ivan is often able to walk 10 kilometres, and the course of walks is determined by the wolf itself, who can chart its own course and walk home.
After training, handshakes listen to commands and have a keen sense of smell. Ivan hopes that one day he will be employed by an organization that needs a sniffer, and that he will work better than an ordinary sniffer.