shadow – Nov 1, 2006 12:00 AM

This week’s logs are written by “Workin’ for Wolves program participants Cathy Jents and Lee Williams. Although Shadow has been experiencing potential dominance plays from Grizzer, he still appears the ever-watchful guardian and maintains leadership. Shadow and Maya have been seen at play and rest consistently. At one point, Maya even wrestled a bone away from Grizzer to present to Shadow. Their actions toward one another still display a very strong bond. An interesting behavior noticed this weekend was Shadow starting short, lone howls. It appears the purpose of this howling is a bit guarding, but unknown as to why the rest of the pack doesn’t join in. A demonstration of this occurs in Maya’s video clip this week. In Shadow’s clip, you see him stand guard in front of Grizzer and Maya maintaining an alert behavior. He did demonstrate a few bark howls towards the weekend group, but he also instigated group play with the pack and several rallying howls.