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DireWolf Dogs of Vallecito, LLC Dire Wolf Project headquarters at DireWolf Dogs of Vallecito breeding the world's best DireWolf Dogs. quiet (minimal whining/barking)
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We are the only light silver wolf sable and black wolf sable breeder of American Dirus dogs in the world. We only breed a few litters a year concentrating on the improvement of the quiet, mellow confidence of this large family companion dog as well as the look of the extinct prehistoric Dire Wolf without adding any wolf content. The American Dirus dog is the only large breed family companion dog s

pecifically bred to be the most adapted large breed of dog to live comfortably in our busy modern lives. They are bred to innately desire to remain calmly by your side in whatever you are doing. Specifically, DireWolf Dogs of Vallecito, LLC strives for a consistent temperament that has the following traits:

1. significantly calm (minimal chewing, biting, jumping, or need for exercise)
2. confident and remains stable in temperament in any environment.
3. aloof and uninterested in strangers or strange dogs, but approachable by calm, friendly dogs and people
5. low prey drive (minimal chasing)
6. low play drive (minimal interest in fetch or tug, more interested in being with the person rather than playing)
7. pays attention to surroundings and is aware
8. easy to train - intelligent
9. loving and affectionate
11. not stubborn - compliant - willing to please

We pride ourselves on producing excellent low energy family companion dogs with loving, stable temperaments. We also DNA test all of our dogs and include the results of each puppy's DNA test with each purchase. We have an extensive guarantee that covers your dog from serious inherited genetic disease for your dog's entire life. This is the most comprehensive health guarantee in the world! If you want to know more about the research and time that we have put into our breeding program, check out our book on Amazon entitled: Dire Wolf Project: Creating an Extraordinary Dog Breed

https://www.amazon.com/Dire-Wolf-Project-Extraordinary-strongbred-ebook/dp/B07M6H8YM8

Here is our website to learn more: www.direwolfdogs.com

💛 Love is in the heir...loom wildflowers 💛Alice and March Wind, two gentle spirits from the Dire Wolf Project, share a t...
21/06/2025

💛 Love is in the heir...loom wildflowers 💛

Alice and March Wind, two gentle spirits from the Dire Wolf Project, share a tender moment in a meadow fit for Ice Age royalty. Amid the soft whisper of blossoms and mountain breezes, this little kiss says, “You're my favorite packmate.”

Whether it's a nuzzle, a nose boop, or a full-blown flower-field flirt, these pups remind us that love blooms best when you're raised by the right pack.

Want more precious moments like this from our rare and noble line of American Dirus dogs?

Join our Inner Circle to get behind-the-scenes updates, sneak peeks at upcoming litters, and a direct path to the heart of our den.

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🌨️ Mount Everest in motion 🌨️From the Mountain Peaks Litter, this frosty fluffball is Mount Everest, son of Cookie Monst...
21/06/2025

🌨️ Mount Everest in motion 🌨️

From the Mountain Peaks Litter, this frosty fluffball is Mount Everest, son of Cookie Monster and Albreta. Just like his namesake, he's majestic, bold, and a bit of a challenge to photograph without catching him mid-mountain sprint!

He may look like a snowdrift with legs, but don’t let that soft coat fool you—this pup was born for the wild places of your heart and the warm corners of your home.

Want to see more legendary pups like Everest and be the first to know when the next litter makes their grand debut?

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🖤 Meet Ralph & Chachi 🖤Two snug-as-a-bug snoozers from our Happy Days Litter—because every pack needs a little peace, a ...
21/06/2025

🖤 Meet Ralph & Chachi 🖤

Two snug-as-a-bug snoozers from our Happy Days Litter—because every pack needs a little peace, a little snuggle, and a whole lotta fluff.

Caught mid-nap with dreams of mammoth hunts and belly rubs, these two future legends remind us that even the fiercest dire wolf dogs start off with closed eyes and soft whimpers.

Don't miss a single heartbeat from our dens. Get sneak peeks, naming polls, behind-the-scenes pupdates, and first dibs on new litters. Join the pack now:

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After 4 and a half years later Father and son are reunited. Stanley seemed to recognize his son Finnegan, tails wagging ...
15/06/2025

After 4 and a half years later Father and son are reunited. Stanley seemed to recognize his son Finnegan, tails wagging and happy faces all around! The two spent a peaceful day at the campground with Jody, Robert, Malinda and Tom. The boys went for walks together. It was a day made in paradise.

Yep... there is only ONE Dire Wolf Project™
23/05/2025

Yep... there is only ONE Dire Wolf Project™

Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolves

Our up and coming stud dog, Lincoln (Dublin/Albreta) at 8 months old! You can find out all about him and all of our dogs...
20/05/2025

Our up and coming stud dog, Lincoln (Dublin/Albreta) at 8 months old! You can find out all about him and all of our dogs by joining our daily email newsletter: direwolfproject.com

Lincoln (Dublin/Albreta), 8 months old, caught mid-pounce like a young Ice Age predator in training! His sleek black coat and determined eyes echo the spirit of his ancient ancestors, but this playful leap is all pup. Watch out, world—this future alpha is finding his stride. 🐾🖤❄️
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The Dire Wolf Project™ was featured by a prominent Tennessee wolf dog sanctuary, Wolf PAWS, Inc., recently. It's awesome...
16/04/2025

The Dire Wolf Project™ was featured by a prominent Tennessee wolf dog sanctuary, Wolf PAWS, Inc., recently. It's awesome to be recognized! We always support the tireless work wolf dog sanctuaries dog to educate and advocate for wolf dogs.

Return of the Dire Wolf? Not So Fast.

There’s been buzz online about the so-called “resurrection” of the dire wolf. A legendary Ice Age predator said to have been pulled from extinction by modern science. However, this isn’t a breakthrough. It’s a branding tactic. For those of us in the wolf-dog rescue community, it’s a dangerous one.

Let’s be clear:
What’s being promoted by Colossal Biosciences is not a true dire wolf.

As Jennifer and her team at the Dire Wolf Project have brilliantly stated:

●"This is not a resurrection. This is a masquerade."

The animal in question is not Aenocyon dirus. The ancient species that once roamed North America. It’s a genetically modified gray wolf, engineered to mimic a handful of genes, with only 14 out of over 19,000, that scientists speculate may have belonged to the dire wolf. These genes were drawn from fragmented, mostly mitochondrial DNA, offering only a partial picture of what once was.

●"This is a soulless shadow stitched from the trembling DNA of modern wolves and dressed in cosplay of an ancient king."
—Dire Wolf Project

Not a single drop of actual dire wolf DNA runs through its veins.

This is not de-extinction.
This is deception.

It’s not just misleading,it’s harmful. Due to what’s really being created is, in essence, a high-content wolf-dog, with unknown temperament and medical history. A hybrid animal that, while fascinating in theory, poses serious long-term risks in practice.

At Wolf PAWS, we’ve dedicated ourselves to rescuing and advocating for wolf-dogs. These poor animals who are too wild for domestic life, and too tame to survive in the wild. Humans egos get in the way. We know firsthand the tragic cycle they face:

Abandonment.
Fear.
Misunderstanding.
Euthanasia.

It’s estimated that 75% of wolf-dogs are put down before the age of three, often because they were purchased on impulse, without understanding the challenges of their complex instincts and needs.

Do not be mistaken this number is continuously going up, as numerous amounts of these beautiful creatures are destroyed annually, when they never should've been created (by humans, mind you) to begin with.

Now, imagine a new wave of hybrids entering the world. Marketed under the romanticized banner of “dire wolf”—while bearing the same unpredictable traits, and facing the same grim fate.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

Dire Wolf Project, Inc. led by Jennifer S. and her team, is doing truly ethical and groundbreaking work! This is done by selectively breeding large, powerful dogs that resemble the dire wolf in bone structure, but have zero wolf content. These dogs are intentionally bred for stable temperaments, predictable behavior, and companion potential. All without contributing to the tragic cycle of wolf-dog suffering.

If people are drawn to the mystique of the dire wolf, this is where they should look.

Not to a lab experiment.
Not to a marketing stunt.
But to a program rooted in responsibility, ethics, and compassion.

Let’s not chase shadows at the cost of living animals.
Let’s stop glamorizing wolf-dogs and other hybrids while rescues overflow.
Let’s protect real wolves, support legitimate breeders, and educate the public,before the wolf-dog crisis grows even deeper!!

We stand with Jennifer and the Dire Wolf Project in calling out this deception, and we thank them for their incredible work in offering a better, safer path forward.

If you'd like to learn more about the wonderful work they do please visit:

https://direwolfproject.com/

It takes a village and every little bit helps! Please consider a donation to help us continue our mission to educate the public about wolf-dogs.

https://www.wolfpaws.org/donations

📸 Kimi, Embark DNA Low Content 9% (Left) & Spirit, Embark DNA Mid-content 64% (Right)
Due to their coat coloring both Kimi, Spirit are a prime example how we shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

Our prancing beauty, Corvette (Cookie Monster/Syrenka) out of the Muscle Car Litter.
12/04/2025

Our prancing beauty, Corvette (Cookie Monster/Syrenka) out of the Muscle Car Litter.

Ohhh, Corvette! What a breathtaking young huntress—her pale coat catching the sunlight like moonlight over snow, with just a hint of silver streaks tracing down her spine like ancestral whispers. She doesn’t just walk through the wild… she glides, like she’s still dancing with Ice Age spirits on frozen tundra.

Join our movement! Bring home a legend.
https://mailchi.mp/direwolfproject/signup

WOW!! Look at how Lincoln is growing up! 7-months-old and lookin' FINE! How many 100% domesticated dogs do you know that...
11/04/2025

WOW!! Look at how Lincoln is growing up! 7-months-old and lookin' FINE! How many 100% domesticated dogs do you know that look like this?!

Oh, Lincoln! This young alpha-in-the-making is strutting like he owns the whole Ice Age valley! 🐾🔥 His thick, coal-dusted coat catches the light like ancient volcanic glass!

Join our movement! Bring home a legend.
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This is EVEREST (Cookie Monster/Albreta) from the Mountain Peaks litter last fall. He weighed 80 lbs at 5 months old. Di...
10/04/2025

This is EVEREST (Cookie Monster/Albreta) from the Mountain Peaks litter last fall. He weighed 80 lbs at 5 months old. Dire wolf-sized!

Call him cute and he’ll show you his fossil collection. 🤣

EVEREST (Cookie Monster/Albreta) 80 lbs at 5 months old.

Return of the Dire Wolf?? I don't think so!
08/04/2025

Return of the Dire Wolf?? I don't think so!

FRANKENSTEIN'S DIRE WOLF: A LAB-CRAFTED LIE

In the shadows of laboratories lit by fluorescent ambition, a pack of scientists has dared to howl at the moon of genetic resurrection.

They claim to have pulled the dire wolf from the icy grip of extinction—as if the beast of ages could be summoned by silicon tools and synthetic threads.

But make no mistake.
This is not a resurrection.

This is a masquerade.

A soulless shadow stitched from the trembling DNA of modern wolves and dressed in cosplay of an ancient king.

Colossal Biosciences has boasted that it has engineered a creature to "mimic" the dire wolf using modified gray wolf DNA.

But not a drop of Aenocyon dirus runs through its veins.

Their creature is not a dire wolf.

It is a genetically modified modern gray wolf.

An artificial chimera, programmed to echo fragments of what they think the dire wolf may have been.

They brag of mimicking 14 genes out of more than 19,000 in the canine genome, based on fragmented ancient DNA that contains mostly, if not all, mitochondrial information.

That’s only half the story of a lifeform that roamed the Ice Age with bone-crushing jaws and a social structure that rivaled the strength of empires.

This is no de-extinction.

This is deception.

Let me be clear.

What they have done is not a scientific triumph.

It is a genetic puppet show.

A well-funded fantasy.

They now brag about further altering eighty-five more genes in their modern genetically modified gray wolf to "approximate" dire wolf traits.

This is not the same as bringing the dire wolf back.

You cannot reconstruct an extinct species from modern blueprints.

Ancient predators don’t rise from the grave because someone rearranged a few genes in a lab.

And let us not forget, the dire wolf was not a variant of the gray wolf.

It was an entirely different species!

Genetically distant, reproductively incompatible, and ecologically unique.

Paleontologists have confirmed that Aenocyon dirus shares no known genetic overlap with modern dogs or gray wolves.

In fact, the dire wolf wasn’t a close cousin of the gray wolf at all.

It likely evolved independently in North America, tracing its lineage back over 5.7 million years to an ancient canid ancestor, long before the gray wolf ever set its paws on this continent.

No amount of CRISPR tinkering can grow a giant redwood from toothpicks and glue.

And let us speak, too, of ethics.

Because this isn’t just a case of bad science.

It’s a dangerous precedent.

Apex predators do not belong in petri dishes.

This isn’t about sweeter apples or pest-resistant wheat.

We are talking about genetically modifying living, breathing carnivores.

Manipulating size, fur density, tooth structure, metabolism, and behavior in a game of ecological roulette.

Have we forgotten the dark consequences of gain-of-function research?

Have we learned nothing from the Quoll crisis in Australia?

When non-native cane toads were introduced to control beetles in sugarcane fields, no one anticipated the devastation they’d unleash.

The native northern quolls, curious and carnivorous, began eating the toxic toads—only to die in droves.

Entire populations collapsed almost overnight.

In a single generation, the ecosystem was gutted of one of its vital small predators, all because humans arrogantly assumed they could “improve” nature without consequence.

And now, let’s drag the buried truth into the light, shall we?

I have my own sneaking suspicions that this “dire wolf” fabrication was not built solely from gray wolf DNA, but may very well include the genetic stock of domesticated dogs!

And if so…

In essence, Colossal’s creature may not be a 100% apex predator at all, but a lab-created high-content wolf dog, stitched together from tame and wild DNA alike, and then branded with the myth of an ancient beast.

And this is precisely where the wolf dog crisis comes crashing in.

Or have we already forgotten the brutal consequences of breeding wolves and dogs together without foresight?

The United States is drowning in a quiet tragedy from hybrid animals who don’t belong in either world.

Too wild for the home,
Too tame for the wild.

It is said that ninety-five percent of wolf dogs are euthanized before the age of two years old.

Their lives are often short, confused, and marked by fear-based aggression, abandonment, or institutional failure.

Yet now, a group of corporate biologists is playing Dr. Frankenstein with apex predators.

Using tools they barely understand.

Fully aware that if their engineered animals are ever released into the wild or, God forbid, into private homes, they could destabilize ecosystems, carry unpredictable genetic traits, or suffer lifetimes of displacement and despair.

This is not innovation.
This is not restoration.
This is egotism dressed in lab coats.

What gives these scientists the right to alter the balance of nature for personal acclaim or profit?

Who gave them permission to gamble with evolution itself?

No one voted for this.

No one gave informed consent.

They are making permanent changes to our world with no accountability and no plan for the generations who must live in its aftermath.

And if we allow this breach to stand, if we tolerate synthetic wolves as stand-ins for the real beasts of the past, what comes next?

Genetically engineered humans?

A superior race?!

The slippery slope has ice on it, my friends, and we are already losing our footing.

At the Dire Wolf Project, we stand not just as guardians of a legacy, but as stewards of truth.

We know that the real dire wolf was not a patchwork of genes but a creature born from eons of natural selection, ecological pressure, and social complexity.

Its extinction was tragic, but its legacy lives in the responsible preservation of its story and the ethical breeding of its modern domestic companion:

The American Dirus dog.

We are not interested in creating monsters.
We are committed to creating meaning.

So let the world know this…

We will not be fooled!
We will not be silenced!

The howls of our ancestors still echo in our blood, and we will defend their honor with tooth and claw.

This was not a resurrection.
This was a lie.

And the real dire wolves are watching.

Sink your teeth into why we believe this Frankenstein’s dire wolf is little more than a wolf dog in disguise!

Follow the tracks to our latest article—where we dissect the genetic bones and expose the possible domesticated dog DNA stitched into this lab-born beast.

https://direwolfproject.com/dire-wolf/return-of-the-dire-wolf-not-so-fast/

Picture credit: "American Dirus Dog - Cotton Candy" Jennifer Stoeckl 2025

The oldest DireWolf Dog has passed away on March 16th.Zephyr was  born Sept 21 2010 of the Zorro/Luna litter. She passed...
28/03/2025

The oldest DireWolf Dog has passed away on March 16th.

Zephyr was born Sept 21 2010 of the Zorro/Luna litter. She passed away on March 16th at 14.5 years old.
Zephyr was consistently given a raw diet.
From her owner:

I cannot say enough about her. Zephyr was smart, kind, a pleaser, absolutely Velcro to me, while loving deeply all in her pack. (each of our family members). And absolutely beautiful.
She continued to be very active with really no signs of aging even in her later years. She only went to the vet to be neutered or for shots.
She was a gift from God. Her unconditional love and loyalty created a bond that can never be broken. Zephyr is and always will be my amazing girl. Zephyr you are in my heart where you will remain forever.

As far as we Know the next oldest is an American Dirus dog named Akasha she was also fed a completely raw diet. At 12 years old she is thriving!

Is there something to be said about a raw diet?
Only time will tell.

Zephyr(Zorro/Luna) Akasha(Shadow/Storm)

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DireWolf Dogs of Vallecito

DireWolf Dogs of Vallecito began in 2008 after spending four years in apprenticeship with Lois Schwarz, the founder of the Dire Wolf Project. We breed an average of four litters a year concentrating on genetic temperament as well as the look of the extinct Dire Wolf. The American Alsatian dog is the first large breed of dog selectively bred to be a loving, companion dog and nothing else. A sweet, loving, loyal temperament in an easy to train dog is our first priority after superior health. Each puppy is individually temperament tested three times before they leave us to travel to their new homes. The American Alsatian dog’s consistent genetic temperament includes the following traits: 1. significantly calm (minimal chewing, biting, jumping, or need for exercise) 2. confident and remains stable in temperament in any environment. 3. quiet (minimal whining/barking) 4. aloof and uninterested in strangers or strange dogs, but approachable by calm, friendly dogs and people 5. low prey drive (minimal chasing) 6. low play drive (minimal interest in fetch or tug, more interested in being with the person rather than playing) 7. pays attention to surroundings and is aware 8. easy to train - intelligent 9. gentle 10. loving and affectionate 11. not stubborn, but compliant and willing to please After temperament, we work closely with the Dire Wolf Project Breeder’s Association in order to mimic the exact bone and body structure of the extinct prehistoric Dire Wolf. With its larger frame, heavier weight and imposing presence, the Dire Wolf was the largest wolf to ever roam our planet. We aim to achieve domesticated dogs that share the exact proportions with this legendary creature. As proposed by prominent paleontologists in the field, we breed two Dire Wolf coat colors: silver wolf gray and reverse black silver wolf gray. Recently, we have completed a comprehensive reference book sharing beautiful stories and detailing the most cherished breeding practices within the project. Travel with us from purebred to strongbred on the road to healthy, long-lived dogs: https://www.amazon.com/Dire-Wolf-Project-Extraordinary-strongbred-ebook/dp/B07M6H8YM8/ref=zg_bs_158664011_8?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GYZQFR62VKY96N02M7DZ In the coming years, we will work to help other apprentice breeders enter the Dire Wolf Project Breeder’s Association in order to continue to grow and diversify the breed. We welcome you to follow us as we continue to advance the American Alsatian dog... a lamb in wolf’s clothing.