Lakomi is a wolf dog who lives at an animal sanctuary and is partial to belly rubs! Although she has a smile on her face now, how she arrived at the sanctuary is a sad story.
Lakomi was found surviving in the wild at 8 months old, but she had been bred and partially raised in captivity. At the time of her rescue, she was wearing a harness intended for an 8-week-old dog and her skin had grown over the harness. Removing it took hours of surgery and months of medication to fight an infection that nearly took her life.
That was not the only challenge she faced.
“When I first got to the sanctuary I was told that she was crazy and wouldn’t ever be socialized,” wrote Sarah, a caretaker at the sanctuary. “Her enclosure has fences that are 14 feet high because she would routinely jump or climb up 12 foot fencing and hang by her jaw at the top. Since I began working on socialization with her that behavior has stopped. She took about two months of daily exposure before she would allow physical contact, but once that wall came down she quickly became playful, sweet, loving, and my personal favorite animal in our charge.”
Lakomi is an upper-mid content wolf dog, meaning, she has a higher proportion of wolf to dog.
“Lakomi is a gorgeous example of the redemptive power of love, and being able to know her is one of the greatest privileges of my life,” Sarah says.
A side note: the fur on Lakomi’s belly is thin because she had been spayed several months prior to this video. She is entirely healthy.
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