Wolf Dog Captured In Lower Bucks County

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —They call it a Wolf Dog.

It's an animal that is a hybrid of a domestic dog and a gray wolf that is usually bred in captivity.

And one was spotted in Lower Bucks County.

Colleen Bell of GoodBoy Dog Recovery said she was contacted by a wolfdog sanctuary regarding a high-content wolfdog spotted around Bristol Borough.

The borough's animal control officer and the Pennsylvania Game Commission were unable to catch it, Bell said.

The game warden subsequently reached out to me for help. My brother, Brian Bell, and I met with Bristol Police Chief Joseph Moors and Debbie Noel from Howling Woods Farms around midnight on Thanksgiving morning to devise a plan.

At about 3:39 a.m., Chief Moors had eyes on “Bristol," the name given for the spotted wolfdog.

While driving back up, Bell said she was able to coach the chief on luring the wolfdog using raw meat.

"'Bristol' was too scared (and smart) to go into a box trap so we pivoted. I grabbed a soccer net from my truck and we began attempts to safely capture," Bell said. "Feeling threatened, he got a little spicy and charged at us several times. We used this to our advantage and attempted to tangle him up on the net."

Eventually, we were able to pin "Bristol" against a fence with the net and Bell got a slip lead on him. As "Bristol" tried to bite through the leash, he was secured in a crate.

It was estimated that the animal is 80-90 percent wolf.

He was safely transported to Howling Woods Farms in Jackson, N.J.

GoodBoy Dog Recovery is a registered 501c3 nonprofit organization based out of Delaware County. It specializes in capturing hard-to-find and hard-to-catch lost and abandoned dogs.

(GoodBoy Dog Recovery)