Husky Paddock at Magdeburg 09/09/2005

Yes, Husky paddock. Pet project of one of the management, as I understand.

How common are domesticated dog exhibits in European zoos? They do show up in some American zoo farm exhibits and the Houston Zoo used to have a dog that lived with their elephants.

The huskys are no longer in this enclosure, which is good for them, because it now houses striped hyena's.

Not common - and usually just single individuals in a farmyard area (Dublin and Prague both had a 'farm' dog when I was last there, and Hannover has one for the rather pleasingly bizarre farmyard demonstrations).

A paddock of any 'properly' domestic breed is very rare - though a few places have Dingos or New Guinea Singing Dogs.