denali – May 23, 2008 12:00 AM

Red Paw is 26 days old today. The pups had a busy day on Thursday with a media event at 4 pm and an open house at 5 pm. The media event was outside in the grassy area adjacent to the building. The pup program for the open house only required 15 minutes in the building, but Red Paw was a bit nervous after about 10 minutes. Staff calmed him down a bit and he was confident enough to dominate Attila between the legs of a wolf care staff person. After the programs, the pups were tired. The audio you hear for both pups reflects this desire for sleep, Red Paw lets out a sigh in his audio and Attila is snoring at the end of the day. The pups are starting to explore more, and have had several jaunts outside of the enclosure into the office portion of the lab. A pillow was stored on top of the den box; Red paw was struggling to get on top of his enclosure and stepped on nannies hard to get up on it and on the pillow. The pups did additional programs on Friday, there was no whining from pups, and they went after birch bark with hair stuffed inside. They favored deer hair over wolf hair, pulling both out of birch bark. Starting this weekend, the pups logs will only include an image and growth data only. Video and audio will be processed during the week only.