NAPLES, Fla. (WVLT/WLKY) -- Yuki, an enormous wolfdog, is taking the internet by storm after getting dumped at a kill shelter in Florida.
According to WLKY, Yuki was dropped off at Shy Wolf Sanctuary in 2008 a day after the sanctuary received a call from a man saying his 8-month-old pup "was much larger than he had anticipated it growing, and that he couldn't handle it."
A volunteer at the shelter, Brittany Allen, told Bored Panda that Yuki has been at the shelter ever since. He went viral after a picture of him was posted to Reddit.
"We stepped in and provided a home for him and he has been with us ever since," volunteer Brittany Allen told Bored Panda. "His DNA testing came back as 87.5 percent gray wolf, 8.6 percent Siberian husky, and 3.9 percent German shepherd."
Allen said Yuki is not quite as large as he appears in the photo, but she insists it wasn't altered, and said it was the angle.
She recently shared a picture captioned: “The face we make when people say Yuki’s picture is photoshopped… It’s just his fat angle guys. We all have one."
"Yuki is very much a 'ham' and loves to be the center of attention," according to the Shy Wolf Sanctuary website. "He has shown us that he doesn’t like to hear 'NO,' doesn’t like to be restrained or controlled in any way and does have a number of triggers. Volunteers need to be able to read his body language and react quickly as he doesn’t always give a warning when 'Mr. Hyde' is going to appear."
The sanctuary has learned that, at 12-years-old, Yuki has terminal blood cancer.
"Yuki has been fighting it for quite a while now and is persevering, so it is business as usual while we enjoy our time with Yuki. When the day comes that he starts showing symptoms we will, as we always do, make the right decisions for Yuki’s quality of life,” Jeremy Albrecht said.
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