Luna – Meeting her Needs

Staff continue to do body work on Luna whenever she feels good enough for hands on work.  She will back right over to staff when she wants the work or do an inhibited bite of the hand when she doesn’t.  If you are interested in learning more about our techniques for Luna, we will be featuring a webinar from the  practitioner who originally did the consolation last summer.  Here’s the link for the webinar – Sunday June 25^th at 10 am Central.   If you are in Ely, she will also be doing private consultations with dog owners on Sunday afternoon and Monday. 

The biggest news for Luna is our desire to get her weight back down to ~95 pounds.  We spent the winter trying to work on the relationship with Grizzer and Luna and discovered that Luna took a few too many cache’s from Grizzer.  Grizzer is now at the age (and teeth wear) that requires smaller, more frequent meals and less bigger amounts to cache.  Luna is on the diet associated with a younger, pack life.  She gets to gorge on Saturday night, stimulating her stomach receptors to hold a larger volume of meat, then gets a smaller mid-week meal on Wednesdays.  We want her to lose weight, but we are managing it slowly.   So, here are Luna’s weights in the past, we want to turn back the clock to 2015, a weight of 95 – 98 pounds would be ideal for her physical condition. 

Date	Age	Weight in Pounds
6/4/13	Yearling	79.4
8/14/13	1.5 years	82.1
6/13/14	~2 years	91.7
5/1/15	~3 years	97.0
6/10/16	~4 years	98.7
4/10/17*	~ 5 years 1 month	111
6/2/17*	~5 years 3 months	108

*shared enclosure with Grizzer since 11/201 *changed feeding protocols for Grizzer reducing excess caches in the enclosure