denali – May 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Red Paw is 31 days old today, and we have noticed a considerable growth in his paws. His photo today gives you a glimpse of this growth. Other noteable behaviors is their increased comfort with the Exhibit Pack, and now with Lakota, who is free to roam the pack holding area and comes to the edge of the fence when the pups are in the wolf yard. The pups have a secondary fence that keeps their paws and nose protected from direct contact, but Red Paw gets extremely excited with a full tail wag and whining toward any adult wolf. He was so excited to see Shadow and Maya that he started biting and pulling on the fence to get in. These are good indications of pack cohesiveness. The pups have been displaying much more grooming behavior today, and after Curator, Lori Schmidt picked up two roadkill, both Attila and Red Paw grabbed the edge of her shirt (it had deer blood on it), and tugged at it and did a full headshake. Attila growled defensively when Lori tried to get her shirt back. The video problem relates to the Codec used in the compression. A new software is on the way, some people are able to download the video. If you cannot, you may try to upgrade Microsoft Media Player. We will resume video and audio recordings when the new software arrives.