lucas – Jun 7, 2001 12:00 AM

Attempted to give Lucas vitamins, but ended up with vitamins to all wolves, but Lucas. (so much for the earlier log comments about vitamins being easy to deliver). Curator, Lori Schmidt, put Lucas in the holding pen alone and attempted to feed the vitamins to Lucas in a meatball. Lucas ate the meat and left the vitamins. After the third meatball, Lucas finally ate his vitamins. June in Ely is the beginning of the bug season. To keep the wolves comfortable in the exhibit and willing to stay in front of the viewing windows, staff provide pine and cedar wood chips near the observation windows. The wood chips (especially cedar oil) seems to act as a natural bug repellent. The wolves are also treated with daily fly ointment on their ear tips to deter biting flies.