Wolf pictures

[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!!!


------------------
__________________________________
Angel...with extra special kisses from Lexi, Sasha and Maddie.
__________________________________
*To err is human. To forgive is divine.*
__________________________________

[wolflady]

Thanks everyone! I just love that pic of Socrates too! I have so many wolf park pics, that I have a new one as my desktop wallpaper every week! 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!!
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 Enjoy!

[karlicat]

Haha, Altair looks so silly and cute! 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

[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.

[ownerof3dogs]

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

------------------