The council said they had been told by their kennelling contractor that the dogs were “a German Shepherd type”.
A council spokesman said the dogs were only in the authority’s care for a “short statutory period”.
“We do not carry out DNA testing, so we relied on the description provided at that time,” he added.
Millions of people have watched videos about the dogs and their subsequent DNA test results on Tik Tok and other social media platforms.
Mr Barrington said at Wolves of Wiltshire, the focus was “on the animals themselves, their welfare, and their happiness”.
He said the rescue centre was not planning to rehabilitate the animals or make them into pets.
“They will be whatever they want to be here,” he said. “If they want a life with minimal human contact, then that’s what they’ll have.”
