I’ve been on this guided tour and it was an amazing experience. You see how great of a place this is for these animals. It’s a shame these folks lost their dog, but it’s purely that, unfortunate, not intentional or a recurring issue. RIP to the poor pup who passed but don’t punish this organization for the tireless work they do to care for these animals.

Oh man I hope they do not euthanize the wolves and other animals. Come on people…. Find forgiveness for these wolves and fight to save their lives. And the other animals too!

Wolves have been demonized for centuries. One dog dies and neighbors sue and cry N.I.M.B.Y. This is tragic and unnecessary!

They should do a GoFundMe they got nothing to lose

Someone really wealthy needs to step up here to help. We can't let exotic animals be euthanized, that is INSANE.

These poor animals shame on this community for doing this. This ain't right at all....

That’s so sad. This sanctuary needs to stay open.

Say what. I love this place. They do fantastic work and appreciate all they do.♥️

Wtf is up with these piece of garbage neighbors? Accidents happen all the time... a neighbors dog killed my cat years ago. I just ask they cover the cremation and i got a heart felt apology. I didn't try to have their dog killed or get them kicked out of the HOA. Accidents happen.

We must unit and gather up, muster up and not allow this sanctuary to shut down. They deserve to live their lives not be terminated on account of one greedy selfish lawsuit claiman.

Omg, I pray they get accepted and they don't face euthanasia. I hope their funds get better and the lawsuits stop. It's unfair to punish a place that cares for so many animals over the tragic loss of their dog.

Its sad a dog died but it wasn't an intentional release. Accidents happen. I hope it stays open 😔

Please donate if you can to help these animals!!! They need to relocate!! Every donation matters. They have a PayPal campaign going, even $5 adds up quick!

This is my community and I am ashamed that these people would be sued this is a horrible thing to do. Yes so sorry for the dog who passed but it's not fair to now kill these animals. This is wrong all the way around. I hope somehow this organization and sanctuary is saved ❤️

So sad. Bougie Becky's dog is not more important than having a sanctuary for these magnificent animals

You can tell she genuinely loves these animals. Putting those innocent animals down like that cannot be legal.

Dogs have attacked, traumatized, maimed , killed livestock, pets, children and adults when they have gotten out and run loose yet dog owners are not treated like these people are being treated.

May the lawsuits face backlash.

I'm crying watching this 😭. I follow Ashley and what staff she has left. This is Truly Sad. Please Can Someone Help 🙏🏻 😢 😔

Had a wolf shepherd when i was 5 years old my best friend.

Oh I hope they can rehome these beautiful animals!

If these guys had more funding the could build stronger enclosures for the Wolves. That's what it boils down too. Money.

Because they killed a dog that's ridiculous...the City needs to help maintain this place, for many reasons, including education for our children. These Animals are Sacred, we must embrace coexistence , or there won't be any more left 🌲🌍💜

Haven't wolves been persecuted enough? I really hope they don't close, or at least that they can find homes for these beautiful animals. They don't deserve to die!

These are wild animals! Yes it was terrible a couple escaped and even more terrible that someone's fur baby was killed. But closing them down does not help. Instead This community should come together to improve security there and correct any issues to prevent this from happening again. Killing these gorgeous and quickly vanishing creatures is NOT THE ANSWER!

What about Wolf Haven International in Tenino, Washington for the wolves?!!! There has to be other sanctuaries or zoos for the other exotic wild animals as well. 🙏🐺 🦥 🐊

I will pry for some one to donate enough money s they would not have to close their park. God please help this facility.

Donated!!! ❤

Oh, nooooo!!! Please help them if you can.

Very sad. I would approach several of the zoos in the area for possible homes if they must close the sanctuary. The anteater, sloth, armadillo, alligator, racoon, wolves and skunk would be a great addition to any zoo! The wolves are absolutely beautiful. If the sanctuary remains open then they must insure that the wolves do not escape to possibly prey on pets or even children.

She did it to herself, she's only the owner because she and her mother stabbed the owner and founder of the sanctuary in the back. She's getting her just deserts.

Sad the neighborhood doesn’t support this cause. How can we help ?

Lived in Anacortes since 94. The seemingly new massive population on Karen's wants it to be Carmel by the sea. Beautiful place to live, too bad the cancel culture finally made it's way to little Anacortes. Time to jump ship ✌️

More than they don't want them there, its that they may get out again and instead of a dog its a small child thats killed.

No its not fair because of one unfortunate incident,I wish I had the money to help,was hoping that one day I could afford to come visit as I love wolves n would love to be able to get up close n personal with them,I really hope you win the fight to stay open and get the funding you need,love from the UK

Does anybody know if there's a place to donate to these folks? They and the animals they're caring for need and deserve our support...

Where can people contribute?

Could of been a kid. Should’ve of kept them lock up better.

I thought Anacortes was in Island County, not Skagit? There's a pilots association that may be able to help fly them to zoo's that have room. Would the Denai or Inuit take wolves up north? You'd think you could work the wolves into a pack around Yellowstone.

Good put out information for donations and hopefully extra fencing help keep everyone safe. Hopefully sanctuary will prevail along with being in asset with in your community not a problem! Develop some hope, some how there can be a nice buffer between those who don’t want you their and innocent dog’s people. Sorry for the loss of all the animal’s lives and all the people challenges. People who living in the country or rural is all the time safety awareness all the time. Really have watch your animal’s be there with them for safety reasons even at dog park’s. People don’t watch there dogs at dog park’s sometimes either so better in some situation’s go walk your dog outside the dog park when people don’t watch therethe dog’s rubbing loose. Animal loss not easy when these situations happen. Animals do need assistance of people and sanctuaries are also needed!

Didn't even know about this one was familiar with the one on Vashon due to various correspondences of mine and having visited. Absolutely sick this is happening. Well we know who to send hate mail to :36

This news report makes it seem like the wolves escaped and killed a persons dog. That is not true. Those are separate incidents and a dog was killed when a hiker traveled past their fence onto their private property. In an unrelated incident a wolf escaped for 18 hours. Still trying to find out why the lawsuit is being dragged out and why the county won’t permit them

Poor Babies. 😢 That’s not fair they need to keep the sanctuary open many of those wolves depend on the sanctuary. If freed many times they’re hunted down by beastly hunters

I have 3 acres in the Kettle River Valley of Eastern Washington that I am willing to get rezoned from residential/recreational to fit your needs. You can use it to at least house these critters and you get back on your feet. Utilities, water and fencing would need to be installed by you. Where's the GoFund page?

It’s been 6 months, is there an update?

I read the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s complaints about POTH and their complaints are a nothingburger. It would be sad to split up and rehome the wolves as they are blood-related packs. On the tour Ashley said because of the decades & decades POTH has been established (her dad started it), its wolves are rare and among the genetically most pure wolves left in the U.S. That’s a prime consideration of why the pack should stay together and intact.

KEEP THE SANCTUARY. If not at least let them go into thier natural habitat if need be. But don't put'em down. We've taken from them or taken them away from their home. Humans are bad just as they are great. I'm sad. In 5th grade our class adopted a wolf. My heart aches.

😱 Re-home them, poor animals!

Let’s support ! 💙

I have visited here and I absolutely LOVE what they do! Those animals are loved and cared for! They are an asset to the community! Wild animals attack and kill domestic dogs and cats all the time. I lost a family cat to coyotes. Does that mean I want all coyotes to be put down? No! Of course not! It is what happens in life. This is deplorable!

😪😪😪😪what's going to happen to them ????😪😪😪😪😪😪😪We must pray for a miracle!!! All things are possible with God!! PRAY, PRAY 🙏

Does anyone have an update on this?? This was 3 months ago and they said they only had a few weeks. What's going on now?!

The poor animals will suffer due to shady owners, their wolves have gotten out several times and even killed family pets.

Come on Anacortes let’s save these animals!

Where can we donate?

I care deeply about these amazing and beautiful creatures I wish I could do more for you.

Possibly contact Wolf Haven International in Tenino, Washington. I don't know what their availability might be, but it's a place to look into!

How do we donate? No information.

Don't sue them into closing, contribute and help them make the pens escape proof.

15 wolves are a small number to transfer to any other rescue facility that will accept them (?). I’m sure they are all neutered and won’t breed.

I'll take some!! We have good acreage, and I've had a wolf dog before. Great Pyrenees currently.

Please do the right thing what ever is decided. The animals should not be the "victims ". Reach out to other sanctuaries if they could not stay in this area/neighborhood, please relocate all of them

But if the dog involved had killed another animal, the owner's would have had a million and one reasons excusing it.

My Good !

They charge $200 per person to see the wolves. That is a $1000 for a family of five. I understand why they are facing financial issues. I hope a call is put out to every rescue in the US and Canada and these animals find good homes.

Not many places are equipped to care for them.

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Everyone defending the wolves is clearly not a local. They break out multiple times a year and have been known to kill people’s pets in the area. It’s easy to see them as cute but they are dangerous and terrorize the town annually.

If you have the money please help these people and animals.

What a cool job

Tuff situation

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If I was rich I'd give you the money to stay open. Bless your hearts

I loved this place. How is better for these animals to be killed? You can see it breaking the heart of the owner too. :'(

Everyone is a bleeding heart until it happens to them. A dog now a child later. If they can’t keep them in their inclosure or they can’t be released back into the wild then something needs to be corrected here. Maybe someone more responsible. needs to take over

Provide a gap in the defenses,inexplicably lead the wolves to those are filing against the habitat........do the math on this equation.Then the wolves can stay.Luther says "This is America,we pay,we stay." Then he howled in punctuation of his statement

don't close stay open

Worse case, contact Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary now... Blessings

Please Forgive this Volf- this is super beauty animals

Get ahold of Pit bulls and prolies sorry don’t know how to spell she has a wolf sanctuary down in Texas

Thats sad

So sad. Same story in Leavenworth the refuge ran by a female also had to fight with neighbors and she had to put the property for sale.

Luther may have been the one,the one that killed the dog.He kept darting his eyes away from the camera and appeared visibly nervous.

I am hoping the animals would be dispersed to other facilities

I would love a wolff. I have the time. : )

So one escape warrants a closure? Are you serious with this crap??? I feel sad for the dog owners family but it's not a good enough reason to shut down a full time sanctuary particularly the only one of its kind in the area.

Do not kill these animals they are needed and people are the problem and now a animal has to die because of it. This is a outrage to me let them go free.

❤poor animals

There are other facilities in the PNW that are highly qualified to care for these animals. Since the original owner/director was forced out by greedy board members it has been poorly run and gone downhill. Ashley is not qualified to work with these animals and does not have all of the proper permits to have many of the animals. NONE OF THESE ANIMALS WILL BE EUTHANIZED. It's a bleeding heart ploy to get more money from those not in the know. The animals would be siezed by various government departments and sent to properly qualified locations. There are many nearby that can take them and give them better care.

Alright, the time has finally come to speak out.The legal side has finally been settled, so it's time to set the record straight. On October 19th, 2021, the day before my 34th birthday, 3 wolves escaped from Predators of The Heart and killed my dog in front of me. My world shattered. I have videos of 20 minutes of these wolves playing with my dogs corpse. I lost my voice and it didn't fully return for weeks from all my screaming at them. The entire time we were attempting to contact POTH (after contacting the sheriff's office and speaking with animal control, of course). We could not reach them. They were totally unaware that their wolves had escaped. My father went as far as to drive up to their front gate and no one was there to answer. How long does it take for 3 wolves to dig out under, what is claimed to be, a 6 foot dig guard? Could this really be done in one day? Why wasn't anyone watching them and seeing them dig out, for what I can only assume, took (at the very least) hours? Finally, after over 20 minutes of watching these wolves play tug of war with my dogs body, we were able to reach POTH. Here's where the lies start. POTH claimed in their public statement (see attached) that the wolves came immediately when called. I have video (that I don't think Facebook will allow me to post as it contains graphic images of my dog) of them repeatedly running away from this employee. He struggles for at least 3 minutes and at least 5 failed attempts to capture them. Then they run away from him entirely. There's false statement number 1. Then, the real slap in the face, they posted publicly that my dog had provoked the wolves. As you'll see in the police reports (see attached) it clearly states it was an unprovoked attack. My dog was in his own house until 30 seconds before he lost his life. He was ON HIS OWN property when he was murdered. Where do the lies end? I was hoping things had changed at POTH after Dave was removed. The last 8 months of negotiations with them with lawyers have shown me otherwise. They REPEATEDLY demanded confidentiality regarding the incident. They know they did wrong and they don't want the public to know. I wholeheartedly refused every time. They also wanted a non-disparagement clause. Makes me laugh still. Furthermore, I had originally asked for a public apology to right the record. They took 6 weeks to write up a draft, and it was garbage. They took no ownership for what had happened. So we scrapped that. If anything, forcing them to own up to things (making them do the right thing) makes them look better than they are. Then, after reaching a settlement agreement, POTH backed out after 8 months of negotiations. They came back asking yet again for full confidentiality and non-disparagement. If you know anything about lawsuit negotiations, you know you can't back out of a settlement. We seriously considered taking them to court, but in the end, settled with the insurance company separate from POTH, as they made it clear they weren't going to honor their settled upon agreement or act with any honor or remorse regarding the incident. All this is a long winded way to say, this organization is not what they appear to be. They jump through hoops to try and maintain a certain appearance to the public. If they had simply owned up to having made a mistake, I never would've considered a lawsuit. It was the last thing in my brain during my trauma and grief. But, then they posted lies blaming my sweet boy to save face for themselves. They kicked me when I was down. So I'm here now, setting the record straight.

Why euthenize, can the Wolves not be released to national parks? If the could hunt a dog, I'm sure they'll be fine. Stating that they might need to euthenize 80% of the animals is just closed minded thinking. There are so many other options. Approach other Wildlife NPOs, Zoo's, or go online and appeal to the public, try get a famous person to campaign. You know keep trying

Luther lol, Vandross. Truth is if they're capable of getting out, something needs to be done. We can all agree on that

I want to own a wolf

Wow seems like karma to me. They make millions on this place and breed the wolves. They are not rescued dogs, as for the other animals some are rescues but the majority of them were her dad's pets but her and her mom took everything from him so they could make the money. They won't be going anywhere because they do this every few years to make money and nothing ever happens.

Nothing Wants to Live in a Cage! 🤷 Sorry

Maybe because they have to euthanize them they will be able to sell the fur and then do some good with the money since this story is really sad, there must be some good in it somewhere, like it will bring in thousands of dollars from rich hide collectors and be able to feed some families or something or fund some other shelters that are in need of help and still running without any permit issues.

If you choose to close please donate this land to illegal immigrants, people with low socioeconomically status and homeless people , and let you sweet neighbors enjoy what they was asking for.

These are wild animals not pet's this shelter should of been closed awhile ago they need to be in a zoo

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