00:01Running and playing in the grid outdoors, but the chain link fence is a reminder that these wolves are not
00:08living in the wild.
00:10There's some of the animals rescued by Capo Lexi and Ronnie Austin.
00:14They're not native to South Africa, but have been bred here for years with dogs.
00:19We take care of about 60 wolves. We've got a couple hybrids in between the wolves, so you're looking at
00:25about 67, somewhere around there of the wolves.
00:30Bear in mind, these wolves eat a lot of raw. They only eat raw.
00:34There's the odd few that we'll give a couple of dog pellets to, which is kibble, but their main diet
00:39is raw.
00:40So we go through about 4.5 to 6 tons of chicken in a monthly period, and then when it
00:47comes to red meat, we'll get anything from, like, say, two, three cows in a month sometimes.
00:52Experts say the animals were brought to the country as part of a military project by the apartheid government to
00:59help police the natives.
01:02Us as humans have brought them into our country, and they can't be released. They can't be released into our
01:08wild.
01:09If you had to take one of these animals and take it back to its original country and try to
01:13release it, I don't think that would work either.
01:15Why? Because the majority of the wolves that are at our facility, or should I say all of the wolves
01:19at our facility, were all hand-raised by humans.
01:22So they weren't young and lived in the wild, if I can put it like that.
01:29The animals are a painful reminder of South Africa's dark history and of the savagery and brutality of its then
01:36-rulers.
01:38Once the military project disappeared, there was no obvious institutional role for these animals.
01:44Some ended up in private hands. Some ended up in the exotic animal trade.
01:50And some became deeply unwanted, because a wolf hybrid is not a dog, as I've explained.
01:58And they found their way into sanctuaries that you've seen as well.
02:01But it's kind of a refuge for the living remnants of this old military experiment.
02:07So the wolves imported to South Africa to serve the machinery of apartheid security became the unwanted relics of that
02:15system.
02:16There are two sanctuaries dedicated to caring for wolves or wolf dogs, as often called, in South Africa.
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