grizzer – Jun 20, 2004 12:00 AM

Grizz is 46 days old today. Grizz tends to get a little anxious during the morning (11:00 am) pup programs, but seems to do better during the afternoon programs. Today, during the 1:00 pm program Maya helped distract him by playing tug of war with a beaver tail. When Grizz and his littermates were taken to the outside puppy pen he ran straight for the den Malik and Shadow had made. He then immediately started to dig in the den. Interactions between the pups and the arctics (Malik and Shadow) remain very positive. Malik and Shadow greet the pups with whimper-whines, wagging tails and facial licking through the fence which are all nurturing behaviors found in wolves. Grizz also did well during the 3:00 pm pup 101 program. During the program Grizz stole Maya's beaver foot and he then proceded to play keep away while Maya chased him around the pen in a losing effort to retrieve her beaver foot.