Namaste' all I got some free time so I can finally get to another post here :0) for all those posts I have missed on some others great blogs, and not commented. I'll get to you! Walt ever the sweet heart of an angel, YES I'm alive and well THANK YOU! every few weeks due to a disease I have lived with in harmony ;0) since I was a teen, I am taken out of general mainstream life momentarily, and it takes all my life source and energy to make sure all the daily chores that go with operating a large ranch get done. (Work doesn't stop! sick or not, *enter here a huge chorus* The Show Must Go On!) Then when I come back to the land of living, I have to climb back up that mountain again ;0) the last thing I think of doing is writing a blog :0)
It is very costly Walt yes to operate a facility that does not for profit work, along with the time factor as it has to fit in alongside our actual paying jobs to keep operating the outreach and building it up.
BUT you really cant put a price on education, and teaching from your heart. I have had a lot of youth that come out here from very poor backgrounds, I certainly don't want anyone seriously interested in coming out not be able to just because they could not afford to.
It is more than teaching about wolves , it comes down to teaching compassion and empathy via *experiencing* the wild lands, and all wildlife, and it's very essence. Allow them to *touch* *smell* *embrace* LIFE. That they can give themselves permission to LAUGH and NOT WORRY who may be watching them or judging them. Empowering a young person with experiences will strengthen their confidence, and a confident child, will become a successful adult. :0)
SO for example if you teach a young girl how to change a tire, or how to survive off the land itself, through them learning what every plant is, and tree and their life giving properties, or making their own flute through a flute making workshop, or making their own boomerang and painting it up YUP we have done this out here, they are but a few little examples of how each accomplishment a young person succeeds at, will go towards building up a powerful energy within that youth, and THAT will teach in and of itself, something that cannot be via words alone.
A little bit ago I brought pookie the shih-poo down to visit northern lights legend the arctic wolf, so they could have a special visit together. Legend was co-raised by Pookie and remains steadfastly dedicated to her, extremely gentle and careful with her, for he knows he is much bigger than her.
I know the wolves here don't live a typical *wild* life, they get to see the doctor (vet) when they need to, they get good regular meals, are protected from various diseases, never have to worry about *surviving*, and their upbringing helps to *influence* their behaviors to a certain degree, but when I see animals whom don't pace, whom I swear are smiling, and show that happiness in their behaviors, I know I am doing something right by them, as best as any human possibly can for their well being, and contentment in a captive situation. After enough years of studying and most importantly *listening* to what *they NEED and want*, it helps to create an atmosphere of calm. It becomes all about doing everything by them in the very best, and most respectable of ways.
Here's a happy face to brighten your day I am laying on my side with him. The smaller pen he is in is called a separation pen (it is not occupied full time) I did not want two wolves together with pookie at the same time, it is ONLY used during breeding season to separate a bonded pair, so no unwanted pups are born. So I used it for special time between the two friends this day. It is built right off the main habitat and double gated entry area.
"Reach Out" "nose to nose"
"revere"
"play time, your it!" "eye 2 eye"
"teacher"
"follow the leader"
"leap dog"
"sweet kiss"
"king of the mountain" (actually once legend jumped up there, and saw pookie down below he started crying till I picked her up , so he could jump off again, he refused to jump down till I did in case he accidentally jumped on her!!!)
"mirror"
Be Most Welcome Here
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Special Friendship
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Monday, March 10, 2008
I think I can! I think I can!
I think I can,
I think I can,
I KNOW... I AM!
If I could somehow break into the secret world of the little dog, I most likely would hear those words echoing within my own lil 2 cents short of a short stack here.
Intro the pookie. Yes people laugh and say "POOKIE?... poor dog."
I mean I have names here of wolves called Eclipse Moon Song, Tibet Night Song, Northern Lights Legend , Eco Soul Journey, but POOKIE? pookie what... surely it is
pookie ebony of donney brook road
or pookie dancing creek,
but just POOKIE?
Well sometimes she's called sneak a poo, :0) cause it took a dang year to house train this stubborn brat, and she liked to sneak onto mine or Lou's office chairs and sneak a poo or two when she got po'ed at us.
Between humping her doggie dolly non stop, and going into this vegetative zoning state, where a bomb could go off and there be nobody home, sneaking poos, and thinking how great it is to challenge yourself in the mirror cause she thinks the dog staring opposite her is some demon from another planet, and hitting the mirrors around the cabin, it's a wonder I survived her raising.
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HA! Survive HER raising I say? compared to raising oh I don't know...WOLVES!
Yes, well I never said I was normal either. ;0)
I get asked a lot so why wolves? if it had not been wolves it probably would have been gorillas, no kidding...maybe still someday. I actually wanted to be Jane Goodall or Diane Fossey.
I like intelligence I guess, dolphins, raptors, gorillas, whales, wolves, all highly intelligent animals. Not to say however I am not an avid everything fan, so if I see a spider wondering along I get right down there to examine it to see exactly what kind of spider, if not recognized, pulling out my trusty field guide of everything bug book .
Wonder knows know boundaries in my world!
So where does pookie come in?
Pookie is a (3/4 shih tzu and 1/4 toy poodle) is all of an 8 pound mop. Give her the end of a wooden broom handle she'll grab it and hang on, all you need to do is swish swish, floor clean.
Pookie helps to play a role for any young wolf pups that may come here, she is a canine figure which is important for the pups to have as they grow, I do not want wolves to over bond to humans, and not bond sufficiently enough to other canines, it's important.
(Pookie keeping guard over the dark bundle of fur just over a week old ) If you keep wolf pups from their own kind for too long, and too much, by the time they are placed with their own kind, you run a very high risk of them not understanding how to relate as well with others, they may have some emotional issues, and difficulties getting along.
In essence much like any orphaned wild animals that become habituated to humans (become overly familiar, losing their natural wariness and fear) or one that imprints on humans, cat/dog, etc (bond as if to one of their own kind) such as raptors for example (One I worked with *a hawk* was like this) they really don't know how to fully relate and get along with their own kind as adults, they may act like their own kind are not one of them.
I would like to point out the difference however when you raise an orphaned coyote pup for example, and plan for future release, and an animal that becomes imprinted. You have to be careful not to *habituate* the coyote for example, this is different from *imprinting*. A coyote will not *imprint*, birds are the animals prone to do this. (It's like the little duckling that pops out of the egg and the first thing it sees are humans , or a dog there.) Birds imprint very quickly on that which they first set their sights upon after being born, and it's first moments in life. But no matter habituated, or imprinted, any inherent wild animal that this has occurred in, if released into the wild, face the issue of potentially causing some problems with humans once released, due to that habituation/imprinting.
(Thus why habituated wolf pups that are bottlefed and raised by humans cannot be released.)Any animal you plan to *rehabilitate* you NEED to keep fairly wild acting*, so to help *prevent* imprinted raptors and habituated deer you could raise them using puppets, for the raptors using puppets that sort of look like them, for the deer wearing a weird costume/suit for an example when interacting.
Wolf pups that come in too young however cannot simply be raised by humans, then at 6 months, released, as humans cannot teach a wolf all the ESSENTIALS in captivity to survive, (like hunting big game something TAUGHT.)
A wolf once hungry will go back to that which it relied on before release (humans) and seek them out. Not a good thing! Where as animals like foxes, even if you hand-raise them they revert back to being wild VERY quickly, they survive on smaller food sources easily caught through their natural instinct that comes out, you open a door to a fox and it will take off and will not typically seek out people for food.
In essence it is about understanding the individual animals *nature* in order for there to be success, in what you plan to do with that animal.
In my talks with a local Biologist who is the head of the CO department, I have asked if there have been any scientific studies on any wolf pups brought in and released, they told me no, but that they have released them in the past. This worries me, I think they simply *assume* the wolf will automatically know how to survive, or perhaps stumble upon a pack that will allow them into it.
A Wolf not taught how to hunt large game to survive in harsh climates, and does not have at LEAST another wolf or pack, to aid in the survival may be even more prone to seek out easier prey like lambs, and calves in a farm yard.
In captivity such as here at A Wolf Adventure when a wolf cannot be released it is a fine balancing act from the moment a pup starts the bottle-feeding process, till they are introduced back to the adult wolves on a permanent basis.
(Legend not quite three weeks old and a very big one at that!)
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Bad combination.
(Pookie sleeping with a fast growing wolf pup northern lights legend)
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Treat a wild animal in captivity roughly, and it will react, or over react in kind.
(Ever see a wolf puppy smile? well here you go!)
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(legend discovers flowers)
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Touching inside and outside their ears,
Opening their mouths,
Teeth touched,
Gums rubbed gently,
Their paws and in between the toes touched,
Nails touched and clipped
Tails touched from the base to the tip,
Entire length of legs touched,
Nose/muzzle touched
Eyes examined
Collar and lead can be placed on and taken off with ease
Their series of vaccines given, but continue to handle the set up to such in between, such as being able to take the neck fur of the animal gently and pull up a bit where a needle may be given, pretend poke
Placed in *bunny* sit poses (literally you place the wolf on it's butt like a child, and held facing forward in front of you while your sitting too, and they are situated between your legs, and you are ale to take their front legs in your hands, this pose is used successfully if you ever have to draw blood and need to find veins without the wolf struggling.
Loading them in an out of a crate/cage carrier device on a daily basis so when the time comes to bring them into a veterinarian or emergency vacate, they will not spook.
Socialization to every kind of equipment possible from tractors, to law mowers.
Socialized to all kinds of people.
Introduce them to every kind of walking surface possible from carpets to tile, from grass to cement.
Socialized to all different kinds of clothing (Yup that means wearing a winter parka in the middle of summertime as well as short sleeved t-shirts all in the same day, from wearing mittens made of various material from cotton to leather, to various kinds of shoe wear from winter boots to sandals. There is nothing worse than raising a wolf pup that only ever sees the same kind of clothing (summer wear) then winter hits, and they are grabbing onto winter jackets or mittens, which can very quickly escalate into challenging a human for that clothing. Anything new to a wolf they were not formerly introduced to when young, is then something to become a little TOO interested in, and if it happens to be on your body, that is NOT a good thing.
(Legend being held under 2 weeks of age)
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(Legend asleep on Lou's feet)
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You want to lessen scenarios of getting into confrontations with a wolf because they need even basic care, and the socialization protocol when they were pups left something to be desired.
(Sky and legend in pup pen)
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Do I speak from experience? YUP even a well socialized wolf like Tibet if she doesn't want to do something like go to the vets, THAT day and THAT moment because she just Does NOT want to...she'll let you know. She'll plant her assets and not move em, or the most common move throwing herself onto her back and flailing, uhm yup I really want a left hook swipe from a veloca raptor claw (NO THANKS!) , and if I try and coax her with treats, she's smart enough to know what I am doing.
There's been a couple times where I say " Tibet this is it you have to go in today for a check up, and as I am bringing her over to the carrier, she may suddenly *decide* to pull back on her back legs and start using her front legs and paws and almost like a boxer, and start moving around to stop me from using the lead on her.
" I'm NOT GOING that's it,
you can't make me go!
you can't trick me to go
so take that!...and that...and some more of that!
Well, Uhm yes...some days I just don't feel like going there, and well she may win, I rebook for another day she may be feeling a bit more cooperative.
Now keep in mind if it were an emergency, she'd have no choice. But I let her be *her*, and respect how she feels too. I brought her into MY world, it is up to me to allow her as much of her own world still in her life still as is possible, and allowing her to be herSELF, not what I want her to be, not what I want to try and make her to be, she is she, just as I am me. Allowing a wolf to simply be who/what they are enables them the freedom, as much as freedom can be possible in a captive situation anyways, and aids in them being healthy psychologically.
(Northern Lights Legend)
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Uhm mistake number 1, bringing her home to Lou
Mistake number 2 bringing her home to Lou whom though he loves the wolves, he would prefer to never see ANY *wild* animals in captivity PERIOD for any reason other than rehab for back into the wild. He did not even have so much as a pet dog growing up although he did raise an orphaned baby raccoon. But still NOT an animal *owning* type of person, (does not believe in OWNING wild animals) and that any captive wild animal that cannot be released should be used to eduate the public, avid nature fan of everything wild,... IN THE WILD.
Mistake number 3 allowing him to hold her leading to "awwww I like her, I want to keep her"..thus a number of years later she's alas still here..uhm, but let me check to make sure...
YUP, still here, no wolves have eaten her.
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I'll have to tape it and maybe post it on here and you can let me know what that is.
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(Pookie though dwarfed by legend still in this pic even though legend is still a pup here himself is top dog legend stands just to the side not daring to take the stuffed hamburger pookie has in her possession) You cannot take a wolf puppy and TEACH them how to howl, they start howling automatically by a couple weeks of age. They will even start howling if for example a beeping sound goes off, or a fire truck sound from a t.v occurs.
You cannot take a wolf puppy and teach them how to hunt to survive in the wild, and then release them. There is NO way on earth any human being on this planet is capable of teaching wolves how to hunt elk, moose, deer etc. This can only be taught by other *wild* born and raised adults. Prey drive is inherent, a wolf puppy will automatically start to stalk all on it's own things that move, they will give chase and try to capture moving insects, and as they grow older mice, birds and the like. They need to be taught how to work as a pack unit to bring down larger game ESSENTIAL for survival, especially in harsher climates. A typical Gray wolf cannot subsist on eating lemmings, and birds alone.
You cannot take a wolf puppy and teach them even the basics of being a wolf as this is inherent already to their nature.
You cannot take a wolf puppy and make them believe you are one of them, they figure out quite quickly you are NOT, this does not mean if you insist on trying to be one of them, they may not apply some harsh wolf rules to your physical person, this is setting yourself up though to become potentially seriously injured, if not fatally so.
The goal at all times is to ensure you do not set up this captive wild animal to fail, if you think you can take a wolf puppy and just because you have bossed around your dogs for years, and they have done what you told them to do because you said so, you expect a wolf pup will follow along accordingly to such a plan, think again.
You think you can throw them into a dog pen and expect them to be content and happy, and not become a pacing, stressed out potentially aggressive wild animal think again. Wolves grow up and as different as a 2 year old human toddler is, from a 6 year old child, the toddler is content to allow adults to tell them what they can do, and how to do it withot too much resistance, but by 5, 6 you truly start to see a LOT more independance, and that child will now push their limits, not to mention their parents away so they can tie their own dang shoe laces!.
If you expect to throw them into a crate and expect them to like travelling around in your car like your dog think again.
If you expect them to be trained like your dog, because you have trained dogs all your life and are GOOD at it, think again.
People who bring wild animals into their world as PETS will set such an animal up to fail, in the end it will be only the wild animal to suffer the most, with potentially that ignorant human learning a dangerous lesson.
At least pookie has some advantage being a canine, she has some better grip on such. Regardless of her size, as she has proven to me time and time again, it is more attitude.
Her motto
I think I can...
I think I can...
I KNOW I AM.
Well from this lil human gal, I pretty much think the same way.
So some people may say, "Okay so he respected her , and got along with her when he was a pup himself what about now as a fully grown adult wolf?"
Take a look at the following pic taken this week of Pookie and Legend, I brought him into a separation pen and brought her down for a special visit together, apart from the other wolves. If legend had HIS way yes I can honestly say he would enjoy living with her still, but he is still a wolf, and she is very much a little dog. So of course it could not realistically work full time. I take much enjoyment whenever I allow such meetings however.
(Legend rolling over submissively to pookie, the next blog will be called (Special Friendship) You will surely enjoy the photos that will in that blog of legend and pookie together.)
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Monday, March 3, 2008
Movie: Maiden and the wolves
Namaste' all it's been a while I am coming off a three week stint with influenza ;0) with a wildlife rehab test coming up in a weeks time, while still having to *live* beyond the sick ha ha, blogging was not on the list of high importance. I have a new personal post I will be adding, as soon as I resize the photos to accompany that story, but first wanted to get this movie out there (The Maiden And The Wolves) to you all! I definitely want to see this movie! even though yes, it's a foreign language. I am sure it will eventually come out with subtitles. The imagry is spectacular, you will thoroughly enjoy going through the youtube makings of this movie and other fascinating clips/trailers etc I am including in this blog post. Big shout out to Mike, he's such an amazing wolf news guy. Personally I was too caught up in the scenes to care that I couldn't understand a word they were saying. Well ok, I admit I could understand a few of the words, ;0)
On another note in regards to the movie Surviving with Wolves, I posted about in another blog, the author has admitted the story was mostly made up, read here http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSL2914170420080229?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true
You can watch this movie online however by downloading this torrent http://www.box.net/shared/jugq7dew48 I'll let you know if it comes out on dvd with subtitles.
Now onto the blog!
At the end of World War 1, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the man she is supposed to marry, a visionary but unscrupulous industrialist and a simple man who has withdrawn to the mountains to live among wolves, away from the madness of humans. Angèle exploits this rivalry to attain her real goal: saving the wolves.
( pics at) http://www.filmsdistribution.com/film.php?id=297
Trailer: http://www.lajeunefilleetlesloups-lefilm.com/
Must watch: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3zaqp_la-jeune-fille-et-les-loups_shortfilms
Making of "La jeune fille et les loup" (youtube video)
must see clip !
http://www.toutlecine.com/film/videos/0037/00378246/00011587-extrait-1-la-jeune-fille-et-les-loups.html
More-in-depth synopsis:
Producer-turned-helmer Gilles Legrand (“Malabar Princess”) returns to the French Alps for his sophomore feature, “The Maiden and the Wolves,” a ripping Gallic yarn that should match or exceed the robust figures of its predecessor in Francophone countries after Feb. 13 opening. Bewitching, lushly produced pic casts French pinup Laetitia Casta as a feisty Edwardian-era femme whose fate becomes entangled with that of the last wild wolf pack on Mont Blanc.
“Wolves” could roam further afield, especially to France’s neighboring countries, but any farther and it will probably need to be tamed with dubbing to reach kiddie markets.
Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon (Patrick Chesnais). A surviving black cub comes down from the mountains looking for his family, and is saved from discovery and certain death by Leon’s young daughter Angele, who releases him back into the wild.
The Great War comes and goes, making local foundry owners the Garcins rich. Family patriarch Albert Garcin (Michel Galabru), who happens to be Angele’s godfather, has given a free lifetime’s lease of a shack in the hills to a gypsy woman (played in flashbacks by Elisa Tovati in which she’s seen, literally, having dances with wolves on stage). Her son Guiseppe (Stefano Accorsi), who appears to be slightly mentally handicapped, guards the wolves he’s befriended up there, especially the black pack leader he calls Carbone.
Now grown, Angele wants to become a veterinarian specializing in wild animals, despite the fact that everyone scoffs at the idea of a woman vet. In search of experience, she hooks up with circus owner Zhormov (Miglen Mirtchev), who’s keen to capture a wolf from the mountains above her hometown.
Unfortunately, Zhormov’s plane crashes in the snow and he must leave an injured Angele behind while seeking help. Recognizing her smell from his days as a pup, Carbone rescues her with his pack, and she falls into the care of Guiseppe.
Script (credited to helmer Legrand, Philippe Vuaillat and Jean Cosmos) satisfyingly knits all the story strands together by the end. Although largely family-friendly, pic does contain a scene where Angele bares a breast for art’s sake, and adult themes are lightly touched on via mentions of illegitimate children and the suggestion that Guiseppe might ravage Angela at any moment.
Kids of all ages, however, will adore the animal scenes here, which feature some of the finest lupine thesping ever committed to celluloid. (Moments in versions of “White Fang” or "The Call
Legrand’s helming rattles along at a breathless clip, and the whole thing looks like a treat, thanks to a rock-solid tech package. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117936182.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=2562
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