aidan – May 27, 2008 12:00 AM

The socialization process seems to be working well, although Attila is a bit shy about noises. When the voice mail was checked today, and there was a strange voice on the machine, Attila became very anxious, until, Curator Lori Schmidt began speaking. Attila does some serious headshakes of the toy football and is very predatory with the stuffed pheasant toy. He tried to pluck the fur, and drag the pheasant to the corner. We believe this is the first observed plucking behavior demonstrated, another predatory instinct that relates to carcass feeding. Attila was food begging from Assistant Curator, Donna Prichard, and has taken to the gruel formula and bowl lapping much better than Red Paw. The public programs in the auditorium are going well, the pups slept during all of the programs today with very little whining, compared to just a few days ago. Red Paw has his right ear nearly fully erect, and Attila has his left ear nearly fully erect. In the next few days, they should be both fully erect. Pup prints were taken today, and in comparison to the pup prints taken at 22 days old, they are clearly double the size. There appears to be a problem with the new video software compression format, we have ordered another software package and hope to resume video postings soon.