It has been almost 6 weeks! My goodness the time flies.
Much has happened and I am hoping to get some of our vacation pics posted this weekend. We learned so much more about our silly husky girl. Including the fact that she gets sick and tired of car rides after about a week of them. On the last day on the drive home she wouldn't even eat her Mickey D's hamburger for lunch. Up until then she seemed to really enjoy being on vacation but I think the last day in the car was just frustrating her. She was sure happy to see home and started wooing as we drove down our street. She spent the next two days just flaked out in her kennel sound asleep.
We found out that she is not thrilled with horses, cautious of moose, and loves water. She also went berserk at the wolf. Yes. I said wolf.
We had just driven in the west gate at Algonquin Park in Ontario for those that don't know of it. It was about 8 in the morning and up ahead we saw a sorta medium to large canine type animal crossing the road at a slow trot. We pulled up across from it just as it got to the shoulder on our side of the road. It stopped and looked at us from over it's shoulder before it melted off into the woods. It was red and gray and rangy. It was bigger than a coyote but not as large as you picture wolves to be. But it had that type of movement to it. That long legged, loose shouldered gait.
Sequoia was just going nuts. The window in the back was down a few inches and she was doing the husky bounce while making an odd barky, whiny, growly noise. Definately talking she was! We stopped at an outfitter store later in the morning and was looking at some post cards and saw one of the guy we had seen just a couple of hours before. So I talked to one of the outfitter guys and told him what we saw. He confirmed that it was one of the Algonquin wolves and that it was a loner male that had been kicked out of the pack. They have been aware that it is hanging around down closer to the road rather than up in the interior. He said we were lucky that he had work there for 6 years before he got to see a wolf.
But can you believe it...we were so amazed and blown away that we were too stupid to grab the digital camera right there on the dashboard and snap a pic.
We still can't get over it...just seconds in either direction and we would have missed it. I will catch you all up more in further threads on our vacation and on how our happy husky is doing.
Denyce
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Looking forward to seeing the others you took though.
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