The dire wolf is still extinct.

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43. I showed Afghan Hounds

for fifty years. I can tell you from experience that reputable, caring breeders hate to see their breed in movies and on TV.
Everybody and their brother will be breeding genetically unhealthy, badly raised and unsocialized specimens of whatever breed it is.
Like the point about the Huskies...every breed is not for everybody, but this guy has puppies for $100, so we'll get one. There is a reason reputable breeders' puppies cost so much, they want to make sure the dog is perceived as valuable in a disposable world. There will also be contracts and rules and home visits and no breeding contracts as well as requirements the dog be taken to the vet. A contract on a registered dog is a legal document and the organization I am familiar with, AKC, will honor that contract. You will NOT breed a dog the breeder says shouldn't be bred and have registered puppies.

Now for the haters, yes, I had litters. Know how many puppies didn't spend their entire life with me? Five. I never bred a litter unless I had the means to keep them for fifteen years, cos I basically don't trust people. This is the life I chose and I wouldn't trade it and the dogs for anything. I made so many friends and had so many wonderful dogs. So go on, hate.

My last Afghan died last year at the age of 15 years and 51 weeks. She picked ME when she was three weeks old.

That being said, there was a dangerous trend thirty years ago of breeding wolf/dog crosses, lets hope it doesn't recur.