aidan – Aug 3, 2009 12:00 AM

Written by program participants Jim LeBlanc and Andi Nelson: During the weekend program, Pups at One Year, participants logged behavioral observations of the pack for an extended period of time. Aidan was out of view in the den, perhaps to avoid the persistent dominating behavior from Maya. When released from holding, after enclosure enrichment was done, Aidan was noted to be watchful of Maya’s location. However, this seems to contradict with this week’s video where the two were quite playful… almost as if Maya is “testing him to see if he would be an appropriate replacement for Shadow when he is eventually retired. In anticipation of the future retirement, the program participants also finalized the preparations of the retired pen.