denali – May 16, 2008 12:00 AM

Red Paw is 19 days old today and is really starting to show more coordination and more active interactions, rather than the passive receiver of Attila’s dominance. After eating, he is actively biting hands, clothes, logs, anything that will help relieve the pain of teething. One new behavior observed was food begging behavior, prior to a bottle feeding Red Paw was licking the sides of Attila’s face. Physically, his snout is elongating and his ears are showing more signs of being pointed and held upright, but the ears don’t stay up for long. We do see more evidence of their hearing improving. Unfortunately, it’s in the form of fear behavior. Red Paw was startled by the gate and ran and hid in the corner. We have a lot of socialization work to do with this pup. Although, later in the morning, when the staff brought Lakota into the garage after foot surgery (details of this will be posted in Lakota’s log on Monday), Red Paw sat alert at the gate sniffing the air. Curator, Lori Schmidt let Red Paw out and he followed her into the garage, sniffed some more, then took a tour of the lab. He found the pup toy box, played with the football, went under the desk, explored the cabinets, and then went back into the pup pen.