Normally, my favorite season is Fall in Northeast Mississippi.  This year we were plagued with rain just like so many other areas in the South.  The Wolves don’t like it and either do I.  We had rain for most of September and October so you can see we’ve had our fill.  It makes all the work we planned get put on hold.  One of the projects was putting 5” rock along the perimeter of the fence to prevent erosion and hopefully keep things dryer for the Wolves.  Unfortunately, we didn’t get to start this project until this week.  Since we have to haul an entire truckload in by wheelbarrow, this may take awhile.

Luckily, it did stop raining for Halloween and we did have our celebration for the Wolves.  As we do every year, each Wolf got their own pumpkin stuffed with all kinds of goodies, cheese, sausage, pigs ears, pig rolls, canine decorated cookies and checkups from Musher Maggie.  The Wolves love this celebration and were anticipating it since I brought the pumpkins to the Preserve about 1 ½ weeks prior.  They just whimpered when they saw me unloading them from the truck.  I love that!  They remembered.  I put together a Wolf video so you could see them enjoying their Halloween treats.  We would like to thank our Symbolic Adoptive Parents and all our Customers.  We use the proceeds from Gift Shop Sales just for this kind of enrichment activity for the Wolves.  You will notice in the video that Waya has figured the whole getting treats out of pumpkins thing.  He knows how to roll them out.  Ohoyo, Nita and Woha liked to get the scent of those piggy ears all over by rolling on them.  Niko loved the canine cookies and was the first to grab the big Ghost.  Chito was more worried about burying her treats and savoring them later.  Poor Wa-ta-chee wasn’t able to enjoy the celebration because there were visitors here.  I may have to rethink having people here so he could participate.  He just can’t relax and enjoy unless he believes his pack is safe.  The rest of the Wolves let him do the worrying.  I guess that comes with the territory when you are Pack Leader.  I did bring him some treats I had set aside after everyone left and yes, he enjoyed them and I was happy.

All Wolves are doing well.  They are getting their beautiful thick winter coats on.  They love the cool evenings and mornings and when it’s not raining howl the night away.  Everyone has been so affectionate with me as hormones are gearing up for the winter breeding season.


I’ve added some pictures to the Wolf picture gallery that I took during the month.  Enjoy.
Wolf pictures, Fall 2009      Wolf pictures, Ohoyo      Wolf pictures, Waya

Wolf pictures, Niko Akni    Wolf pictures, Woha        Wolf pictures, Chito

Wolf pictures, Nita