Living with Wolves

[RandyBell]

Well so far so good he has just been sniffing butt and making sure the cats don't get rough with him!
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[RandyBell]

Shadow was always happy to meet new people and as such, she went to different functions with us. One of these was a yealy Hog Roast at a Harley group my cousin was part of, everyone loved her and she made a point of seeing everyone, it didn't hurt that she has getting handouts! She became an unofficial mascot and she loved the attention.
When Luckie passed we couldn't get Shadow to snap out of it, she wouldn't eat, didn't want to go outside and laid around grieving.

After 2 weeks we decided to attempt getting a second so she would have a companion. We lucked out and the people we had gotten Shadow from, had a litter that were for sale!
So we loaded Shadow up in the truck and made the trip to see the pups, Tracey wanted another female but we wanted one that would be good with Shadow.
They had a beautiful little reddish marked female that came from on of Shadows sister and a Great Plains wolf that tracey fell in love with, but she wouldn't give us or Shadow the time of day. We spent 4 hours there trying to covince her but she would just scramble away. The only one that wanted to play with Shadow and us was a little boy with brown and black markings from the same litter, so that was the choice we made and we took the two of them home, of course he had to baptise the truck!

 

[woodlandfarms]

Randy. Do you fix them? Not passing judgement but wondering how the handling characteristics change.

 

[RandyBell]

Randy. Do you fix them? Not passing judgement but wondering how the handling characteristics change.

Yes we did have them fixed, generally it calms an animal down. Just found with Shadow that the bigger animals need to go into heat before you do the females! It caused some problems with her urethra tube.

 

[RandyBell]

Shadow kept a tight reign on Weasel, he weaseled right in on everything so it just fit!

Sometimes I thought she was kinda hard on the boy, but I guess she knew what she was doing! He deserved most of it.

 

[cqaigy2]

Yes we did have them fixed, generally it calms an animal down. Just found with Shadow that the bigger animals need to go into heat before you do the females! It caused some problems with her urethra tube.

Same with dogs, not surprisingly. My Dad used to tell clients to let the ******* have at least one heat cycle. I think he said the hormones from going into heat helped prevent urinary problems.

 

[RandyBell]

cqaigy2
I agree it must be something in the hormones but it does tend to cause urinary problems!

 

[woodlandfarms]

One if my previous flames was a vet. She told me evidence was on the side of spaying before the first heat. As a kid we were taught to wait, but either vets have more concerns about overpopulation or as they claim the benefits are much better pre-heat.

 

[DABSGT]

Shadow kept a tight reign on Weasel, he weaseled right in on everything so it just fit!
Sometimes I thought she was kinda hard on the boy, but I guess she knew what she was doing! He deserved most of it.

Weasel is a good looking pup! Best of luck will be looking for lots of updates and pictures.

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[RandyBell]

One if my previous flames was a vet. She told me evidence was on the side of spaying before the first heat. As a kid we were taught to wait, but either vets have more concerns about overpopulation or as they claim the benefits are much better pre-heat.

I don't doubt it just Shadow was one of the ones that had problems with it, I hadn't seen it with the others!