The Boston Globe, August 22nd, 1992
"Animal Beat" will appear once a month in the Living/Arts pages. One of the hottest trends in pets is also one of the most dangerous: cross-breeding wolves and dogs. Movies such as "White Fang" and "Dances with Wolves" have glamorized the call of the wild, but the romance appears to be a dark one. There are an estimated 500,000 of these partly wild animals right now in the United States. According to the Humane Society of the United States, in the past three years, at least six people have been killed by wolf hybrids. And while pit bull terriers remain the leaders in the statistics on dogs who...
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