shadow – Jul 20, 2009 12:00 AM

The video for most of the wolves is focused on an incident with Shadow that was result of some intense dominance between Aidan and Maya, then between Grizzer and Malik. Shadow started a howl after wolf care, Maya became excited and dominated Aidan, and then Grizzer chased Malik. Shadow put an end to all the chaos by dominating Grizzer with some severity and hackles, and then Maya came over and did appeasement behavior towards Shadow. The only problem that we saw was that while Grizzer was being put back in his place, Denali took advantage of Grizzer and Shadow didn’t dominate Denali. Although, later Denali was observed in a very submissive posture. Some days, Shadow has had enough with this pack. We weighed the wolves this week and Shadow is down to 88.6 lbs from an April weight of 84.66. This is certainly a concern to lose 4 lbs in 3 months, but it could be age related or the stress of being dominant with this pack.