lakota – Aug 22, 2005 12:00 AM

Lakota sure does seem to enjoy digging in the dirt. At first we thought it was a method for escaping the heat, but after watching her, she seems to be motivated by the height advantage the residual pile gives her. She can climb on the den boxes, and pounce down on her littermates from her higher vantage point. In this week's photo, she's made a leap of the pile and starts to run around the enclosure encouraging her littermates to chase her.