nyssa – Oct 12, 2004 12:00 AM

We had an interesting response from Nyssa that we didn't expect. Last week, we put the heated winter waterer in the enclosure. Due to the fact that it needs to be in a concrete box to prevent the wolves from getting at the wiring, the waterer had to be wheeled in on a two wheel cart. Nyssa freaked at the movement of the cart and began hiding in the pack of the woods. She wouldn't even go into holding with the rest of the pack. (Grizzer playbowed to it and attempted to bite the tires). It took Nyssa almost a week to get over this experience, she was reluctant to approach any staff after the incident. It's just a reminder that wolves have instincts selected for the wild, and the activities of a human world are best to be avoided. Nyssa is back to normal today, but staff need to be conscientous of all activities in the pen to avoid negative conditioning.