Boltz- In a Confident Posture

Over the past few months, we have been working with Boltz to increase his confidence.  To do this, we were drawing Boltz and Denali into the medical pen and Assistant Curator, Donna Prichard has been spending time with them allowing Boltz to maximize greetings with limited competition.  This photo seems to indicate that this method has definitely worked, but maybe a bit too much.  It’s always our practice to avoid intervening in the rank dominance and allow the wolves to determine the order, but Boltz’s lack of confidence is related to human socialization issues and we do try to help when the human dynamic is the cause.  We will continue to monitor the activities and adapt our handling procedures to each individual wolves needs.