aidan – Jan 28, 2011 12:00 AM

Aidan's confidence continues as you will notice from his photo this week. There's no sign of testing, just posturing when Grizzer is occupied with Denali. Fortunately for Grizzer he has back up. Maya is keen to Aidan's tail postures and is quick to respond. This will likely decrease as we move into February. It's nice to see Aidan feeling so good, but what we don't want is Grizzer to lose focus on Denali showing any weakness. So far, Grizzer is gaining skills as a dominant male, but he is new to the position and he is not a very active male, meaning he doesn't force submission by hard muzzle bites like Shadow did when he was in charge. Passive leadership is easy for wolves to see as opportunistic.