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September 22, 2006

R.I. wolf hybrids not among pack that escaped in N.H.

A pair of wolf hybrids taken from URI President Robert L. Carothers' property last month weren't among the seven animals that escaped from a new Hampshire sanctuary this week, prompting neighbors to keep guns nearby for protection.

Two of the hybrids taken from Carothers' property, Cotton, 1, and Gabe, 5, remain under quarantine at the South Kingstown pound and are awaiting transfer to Dancing Brooke Lodge in New Hampshire ``sometime next week,'' said AnnMarie Biegner, pound manager.

Carothers' son Matthew brought three wolf hybrids, or wolf dogs, to Rhode Island from Alabama, but the state Department of Environmental Management ordered them removed from his care last month because it is illegal to keep them in the state without a permit.

One of the animals was euthanized.

In New Hampshire, one of the seven wolf hybrids that escaped from Dancing Brooke Lodge has already returned on its own. Some have been spotted in neighbors' yards. Concerned for their pets and kids, neighbors have guns ready and professional trappers were trying to capture the hybrids.

Read a full Associated Press story out of New Hampshire.

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Katie Mulvaney and the Associated Press.

Posted by Jack Perry  at 2:54 PM | Permalink

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