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  • 24 Jun 2019
Yuki The Giant Wolf Dog

A GIANT WOLF dog’s striking looks - and resemblance to a Game of Thrones dire wolf - have led to it becoming a viral sensation

With a DNA mix of 87.5% Gray Wolf, 8.6% Siberian Husky and 3.9% German Shepherd, it’s no wonder giant ‘dog’ Yuki, has caught the attention of social media.  

Amassing over 40,000 Instagram followers, Yuki’s fame stems from a photo taken by a volunteer at the Shy Wolf Sanctuary in Florida, where he lives.  

Volunteer Brittany Allen posted the picture of her and Yuki to her Instagram account and couldn’t believe the response.  Brittany told Barcroft TV: “I had an Instagram page kind of already developed before Yuki went viral. And it started definitely gaining more popularity as his picture was shared among all different accounts.”  

“People have compared Yuki to the dire wolves from Game of Thrones. In fact, that's a super popular comment that I see all the time on my page.”

Yuki is so unique!

Yuki is so unique!

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The giant wolf dog, who now weighs 120llbs, was rescued from a shelter where he was abandoned and left for dead as a puppy by his previous owners because of the wolf-like (rather than dog) tendencies he displayed.  

Brittany is one of only a handful of volunteers at the sanctuary able to interact with Yuki.  She said: “I was nervous the first time going in with Yuki.” “He's kind of unpredictable at times, but he is very selective in terms of who interacts with him and who doesn't.”

The Shy Wolf Sanctuary is an exotic animal sanctuary that rescues abandoned animals that were bred to be pets.  

Sanctuary Director Jeremy Albrecht said: “Yuki is our most successful animal in the sense of fame, for sure.”  

Thanks to the added interest Yuki’s fame has courted, the sanctuary hopes to expand.  

Jeremy said: “As far as our future goes we are trying to get to a larger property and build a state of the art facility. Right now we've been surviving in a backyard essentially on two and a half acres of land for almost 30 years.”  “If I have 20 times the space I have now, then I have 20 times the Yukis that I can rescue and that’s what we are here to do.”

Yuki is part wolf, part dog.

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As well as rescuing animals, Shy Wolf also helps children through its Healing Hearts Program.  

Jeremy explains: "We have partnered with six organisations specialising in everything from foster children and abuse victims to people in hiding and children that have recently experienced trauma.  “The program gives us an opportunity to bring abused, abandoned, and neglected animals to abused, abandoned and neglected people and the results have been beautiful."

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