malik – Jun 29, 2012 12:00 AM

It's interesting that the topic of Aidan and Denali's logs is the fact that Denali takes advantage of Aidan when Aidan's anxious. The exact same behavior happened in retirement on Wednesday. I was trying to get some fly ointment on the tips of Shadow's ears and I momentarily restrained him. This resulted in a whine of protest from Shadow and within seconds, Malik was doing a ride-up behavior with a high tail. He continues to test Shadow today (3 days later), and Shadow is holding his ground. This is why we have resorted to only using spray for these two wolves. Every other wolf here allows us to put on fly ointment, but we start with using Vaseline on their ears when they're very young. Shadow and Malik didn't have that conditioning, and tend to avoid even approaching when they see the container.