Siblings set free domesticated wolf to protect Kurdish wildlife
SORAN, Kurdistan Region - Roski was just 15 days old when two brothers found her on Mount Bradost in Erbil province and they have now decided to send it back to nature aiming to protect the Kurdistan Region’s wildlife.
Once kept on a leash in Dezliyan village in Soran, the wolf is now running free in Bradost mountain ranges, looking for food and fighting for survival all by its own.
"I raised her on milk and biscuits. I never fed her meat in the beginning. I did this to domesticate her to live with human beings,” Ibrahim Mutalib, one of the brothers, told Rudaw’s Baxtiyar Qadir earlier this month.
Another factor that made the brothers set the she-wolf free is that they had decided to get married and found it difficult to continue looking after it.
Keeping a wolf as a pet is highly unusual in the Kurdistan Region, where stray dogs run rampant and frequently starve to death.
A few years ago, a policeman in Erbil proudly admitted to killing around 3,000 stray dogs, 40 of whom died in one night.
Once kept on a leash in Dezliyan village in Soran, the wolf is now running free in Bradost mountain ranges, looking for food and fighting for survival all by its own.
"I raised her on milk and biscuits. I never fed her meat in the beginning. I did this to domesticate her to live with human beings,” Ibrahim Mutalib, one of the brothers, told Rudaw’s Baxtiyar Qadir earlier this month.
Another factor that made the brothers set the she-wolf free is that they had decided to get married and found it difficult to continue looking after it.
Keeping a wolf as a pet is highly unusual in the Kurdistan Region, where stray dogs run rampant and frequently starve to death.
A few years ago, a policeman in Erbil proudly admitted to killing around 3,000 stray dogs, 40 of whom died in one night.