Wolf pictures

Sorry guys. I'm getting carried away here. I have been at my computer for over 5 hours scanning away! I cam across these wolf pics and thought you might enjoy them. We visited a wolf preserve in Cocolalla, ID while we were honeymooning in Coeur d'Alene. They were very sweet but wild. It was awesome!

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My husband and the wolf. She was really shy..yeah right!

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What a sweetie!

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The shy one of the two. Isn't he beautiful?

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My favorite one... it's a dog! it's a polar bear! No, it's a WOLF!



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Angel...with extra special kisses from Lexi, Sasha and Maddie.
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[Daisy's Mom]

What beautiful wolves! I love wolves; they are so majestic. Thanks for sharing your pictures!

[tatsxxx11]

Simply stunning!! A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to meet several magnificent wolves at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. There is a group that runs a wolf refuge on hundreds of acres in Colorado, and they travel the country with three of their "pack" to introduce to and educate the public about wolves and why we should all support the need to protect these incredible creatures. I learned recently that the DNA profile (genotype) of the "wild" wolf and the domesticated dog STILL reamins identical and indistinguishable; from Daschund to Great Dane! Amazing! Thank you for sharing your beautiful experience!

[crow_noir]

OMG!!!! Thank You so much for posting these! i love wolves so much. these pictures are wonderful! i loves wolves more than ANY species on earth.

[Sudilar]

Wolves are beautiful!! Such magnificent animals!!

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[mkgwolf]

Wolves are very beautiful but they are still misunderstood. I'd like to visit a wolf preserve and actually meet some. That Black wolf is huge!

[mkgwolf]

http://www.wolfpark.org/images/LOP/Tristan.jpg
www.wolfpark.org (http://www.wolfpark.org)

I found this website about this wildlife refuge in Indiana. They have 19 wolves and they live in different packs. If you go to 'meet the wolves' they even have a picture of each one and sort of a biography. I really want to go there now.

[crow_noir]

oooooooh! lovely picture!

i see you found one of my favorite sites. he he.

[wolflady]

mkgwolf, I was so surprised to see a pic of Tristan on the website!! http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/biggrin.gif Yes, wolfpark is an awsome place. That is where I did my volunteer work while I was in college! It was one of the most rewarding things I've done, especially since wolves are my fave wild animal:-) Of course I got to do the grunt work (cleaning wolf enclosures....I tell you what...it's amazing the things you find in there...ewwwweeee! But I won't go into the gruesome details right now...ha ha ha), but it's not all bad, especially since we were able to go into the enclosures with the wolves! Monty Sloan (the wolf park photographer) takes such great photos of the wolves! He has a website where you can buy his photography if you're interested.
If you have any questions about wolf park or any of the residents, don't hesitate to shoot me an email! http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/biggrin.gif

doggiemom, that's so neat that you stopped at the preserve on your honeymoon! How neat is that? I hadn't heard of this one. Is it very small? I just know of the WERC in Idaho.

[Rottie]

Great pictures! Very interesting. http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/smile.gif

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[Rottie]

Great pictures! Very interesting. http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/smile.gif

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[wolflady]

mkgwolf, thought you might like this pic of Chetan and Apollo jawsparring. Wolves do this as sort of a "contest"...who can open their mouth wider perhaps??? LOL http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/biggrin.gif
These two wolves were youngsters when I was volunteering there(I was there the year they were born!). Chetan is still a part of the main pack, but Apollo has moved to a small pack called the "pillow pack", which is separate from the main pack.
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Oh my gosh... your additional wolf pics are incredible! The preserve we went to was very small. They would only bring in 2 or 3 wolves at a time. It is just a small family owned store...well, here is a write-up about them.... sorry it's long.

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The Wolf People Who Run With the Pack
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Bill and Nancy Taylor were wolf people long before they became the Wolf People. But blending their love of wolves with their backgrounds in business came naturally.

Like many others, the Taylors came to Sandpoint looking for a better quality of life. They brought with them their beautiful, shy pet wolves Cochise and Cherish.

At first, Bill sold real estate and was a musician. Nancy worked in insurance. But about two years ago, an itch to start a business led them to start "jamming" on business ideas. They liked the idea of marketing T-shirts and the perfect design was as close as their back yard. With Cochise and Cherish as models, they hired artists to make renditions for their first T-Shirt design.

And so was born Wolf People, retailers of fine wolf merchandise. The Taylors have since developed more gifts and garments with wolf motifs, and a year ago they put them into a mail-order catalog. Their second catalog will be published for the '95 holiday season.

They've also opened a retail store in Cocollala, where they bring two of their wolves to the store every day. They've found a rich vein of interest in their wolf-oriented merchandise.

"The wolf has been popular for a long time. It's not just a fad," Nancy says. The Taylors' own interest in the animals shows that. They've owned wolves and wolf-hybrids for eight years. Today, their pack has grown to nine of them.

Owning Wolf People helps the Taylors promote responsible ownership of wolves. They've installed a hotline to provide facts and tips on care, and are developing a video. Nancy was the subject of an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation for a 1991 special entitled "Dogs." More recently, their female wolf-hybrid Lona Akee was an "actress" for the film Cry of the White Wolf, due out soon.

Nancy also established the Inland Empire Wolf Association, of which she currently serves as the president. The group has grown to 40 members.

"We try to prevent backyard breeding situations," Nancy says. "Because of the lack of understanding of wolves they're one-owner dogs they often get passed on and then get abused and the situation gets worse and worse."

[wolflady]

Doggiemom, that's really interesting. Thanks for posting that http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/biggrin.gif

[wolflady]

Ok, I just had to post this pic of Socrates that Monty Sloan took in 1993, it's a classic at Wolf Park and....it cracks me up! http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/biggrin.gif He's about 7 months old in this picture...
Now, that's not something you see everyday! LOL
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[Daisy's Mom]

Hehe oh that's a great picture!

[crow_noir]

OMG!!!!! wolflady, you are so lucky to have worked there.

These are great pictures!

OMG! Wolflady you make me want to go work for one of our preserves out here. I made that last pic of yours my desktop picture! I LOVED IT!!!


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[wolflady]

Thanks everyone! I just love that pic of Socrates too! http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/smile.gif I have so many wolf park pics, that I have a new one as my desktop wallpaper every week! http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/smile.gif LOL I've got some good ones, I'll be sure to post here.

Yes, doing volunteer work there was one of the best things I ever did. I learned so much about wolves and their behavior also. I'm with you doggiemom, I would just love to go and work for a preserve. I would really like to go back and work full time at Wolf Park in the future or one of the other facilities such as WERC in Idaho or the IWC in Minnesota. It's a really great thing for these facilites to educate people about wolves, while learning about their behaviors also. One of my most exciting memories of Wolf Park was when I got to hold a wolf pup. So cute!!! Every spring, if our alphas have a litter of pups, we have to go in and pull the pups very early so they can be socialized to humans. Karin, a lady that flys from Germany every year to be "wolf mom" (how cool of a job is that??!!!), stays with the pups day and night feeding and caring for them until they're old enough to be re-introduced to the pack. The first year I volunteered there, she let us(the volunteers) come into her little room where she was caring for the pups and we each got to hold one. Such adorable little wriggly bodies!! http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/smile.gif
Well, I won't go on and on about my experience there, but I thought I would include a pic for today. It's what I call the "goofy" pic of the alpha pair. Chinook and Altair were the alpha wolves when I was there, but both have since passed on. Chinook is the guy on the left and Altair is the gal on the right http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/smile.gif Enjoy!

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[karlicat]

Haha, Altair looks so silly and cute! http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/smile.gif I love all the other pics too, keep 'em coming

[mkgwolf]

Hey i like all the pictures. Socrates looks like my dog kodi, hes always chewing on sticks and he likes to chew down shrubs and saplings. I would like to work or volunteer at Wolf Park and i wouldn't mind anout the dirty work as long as l got to see the wolves. I got my high school community service hours at the local Humane society. Are the wolves that are jaw sparring playing or trying to be dominent?

[Daisy's Mom]

What a cute couple http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/smile.gif

[wolflady]

mkgwolf, jawsparring is a ritualized aggressive behavior. Since social dominance and adherance to rank in the pack is the basis for how wolf society is structured, many times wolves within a pack will exhibit such behaviors. They can be anything from postures and vocalizations to physical contact. A lot of times a dominant wolf will muzzle bite a lower ranking wolf, and if the lower ranking wolf is not submissive, this can sometimes lead to jaw sparring. http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/rolleyes.gif

[ownerof3dogs]

I love all these pictures of the wolves.Especially the one where the wolf is eating the tree. Thanks for sharing them

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