shadow – Nov 25, 2011 12:00 AM

It is so nice to have Shadow feeling good and not being intimidated by Malik's obsessive food guarding of caches. It's always hard to watch the wolves who have been dominant their whole life, being put in a situation of intimidation. This is why we are so protective of human visitors to Shadow, they intimidate him more than Malik. When Shadow feels good, he does a lot of whirl behaviors (where he jumps up and whirls around facing the opposite direction), he invites chase, does playbows and gets very excited. He also greets the wolf care staff with the same enthusiasm, often jumping on the den and submitting, something he rarely did as a dominant pack leader.