aidan – Sep 7, 2012 12:00 AM

Every day we do wolf care, staff write notes in the logs to inform other staff of any issues or concerns as well as give overall status information on the individual wolves. I thought I would share some of these comments in this week's logs. On September 4th, Staff came in to do the morning pup feeding routine. They open the medical pen to allow the pack to come in and out and eventually try to separate out the pups. Here's their comments from the logs. <br>"After 15 minutes or so, Denali and Aidan were growling at each other and then Boltz, and sometimes Luna, would go after Aidan because Aidan was anxious. Boltz did a ride up several times on Aidan and Boltz wouldn't back down. Aidan got more nervous so we made them all leave the medical pen until we were ready with the morning meds and feeding." <br> As the curator, when I read this, it reinforced the concerns I have with Aidan's anxiety towards strangers and holding and the potential for Denali (and the pups), to take advantage of this and affect the rank order. We have two Behind the Scenes scheduled in September, but after that, we are going to limit activity in the yard with unfamiliar people. Aidan is such a great pack leader, we don't want to create a situation that affects his status do to human interaction. We will also be very mindful of this during the fall Working for Wolves program.