denali – Apr 20, 2009 12:00 AM

This past week was a challenge for Denali management. As discussed, he is more testing than Aidan. Aidan will do more aggressive biting out of anxiety, but Denali does grab more as a common greeting. He also appears to be insatiable in appetite. With the change of seasons, it’s not uncommon to have some hormonal and metabolism changes. We’re not sure why, but last week Denali was ravenously hungry despite a Saturday night feeding of a 120 lb deer. So, on Monday, we fed a 35 lb beaver, and Aidan and Denali spent 2 hours eating that (we fed it frozen to keep them occupied). On Tuesday, Denali continued to be obsessed and agitated when we gave meds, and possessive over anything in wolf care hands. We took out another deer torso and fed it frozen again (see Denali and Maya’s video), by Wednesday, we finally saw a calmer satisfied pup. We hope this is short-term, our food budget can’t sustain a yearling that wants to eat 200 lbs of meat a week, nor is that good for his health.