Living with Wolves

[RandyBell]

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

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Thanks He is full grown now but still maturing at 6 years, we are just still having bad days since Shadow passed. They are getting farther apart though.

 

[Raspy]

Randy,

Thanks for letting me know you are writing and posting this beautiful story!

Looking forward to learning more.

 

[RandyBell]

Raspy always wrote about Sandy giving wolf kisses, Shadow was always willing to give kisses, just be prepared you could be in for a face washing! She was our lover, she would lay down and hug neck, stretch out on the couch with you and hover around you if you were sick.
I was never afraid to leave the grandbabies with her, she protected them as if they were her own! When we moved to where we are now, Shadow would watch over the neighbors houses and let you know if someone came around. Her favorite spot was out on top of the hill where she could watch over the whole street. She would not let Weasel in on any territory dispute, that was her domain and she was Her Royal Highness! The only time she ever went after another dog, the guy down the street had a Chow mix that he used to walk up the street and let it piss and **** in our yard, and that burnt Shadow up! We had even asked him to stop or let it go on the other side of the road, but no it continued! The dog would growl and bark at Shadow when she was out, which I guess was just taunting her, and it made a mistake one day and broke its collar when he was walking it and it come into Shadows yard after her! She met him at the top of the hill grabbed him by the throat and slammed it on its back and just held it there, Tracey yelled at her, she let go and walked back to the house like I told ya I'd kick your ***!
The dog had no wounds and it had started it so she finished it, it never growled at her again. The guy got rid of it after it yanked him off his feet and drug him in the ditch and broke his arm! The funny part was Weasel was in the back yard with me and as fast as he is it was over before he could get there!

 

[cqaigy2]

Yikes, broke his arm!

 

[dave1949]

Yikes, broke his arm!

If you get caught off balance or looking the other way when a big dog on a leash decides to go, you will get taken down. :laughing:

 

[RandyBell]

Yes the man is fairly skinny and the dog was never trained to walk on a leash it would pull him where it wanted to go! He now has a smaller dog that it looks like he can handle, at least he walks it down the other end of the street.

 

[RandyBell]

Stubborn, Shadow got to the point of just looking at me if I tried to get her to go outside or just about anything, she would look at me and stick her nose in the air. She would listen to Tracey and most times I would have to have her tell her to go out to the potty! We had a red fox get brave and sneak up into the yard and Shadow being the alpha female to charge of the problem, needless to say there is one less fox running around to get her chickens! She made such a point of it that She really had Weasel down in the dumps for a while, she would not pay any attention to him and at breakfast and dinner she would walk or take his bowl from him and eat what she wanted first before he was allowed any! She could carry a bowl full of food and jump up on the couch and never drop a morsel, she tried to teach him but he does it backwards and trails it behind him! I think it was about two weeks she gave him the cold shoulder which I never quite understood that one but it had to be something in the Hierarchy of the pack. It has been 2 months now and he still wakes up crying for her!

 

[Bob77064]

Randy, they are beautiful, we are dog lovers and have three dogs. As others have mentioned with most dogs the master must be the pack leader.

 

[hawkeye08]

Our "Shadow" is 11 years old (I think we have had her 10 years now) and has been around kids the whole time we have had her. The first owner could not keep her because she howls at sirens and he had moved to the city and she howled all night with the sirens. She has to be tied up so she doesn't wander too far (about 5 mile radius is her comfort zone). She is very protective and a pretty good watchdog. Her previous owner said she was 3/4 quarter arctic wolf.



6 foot fence does not slow her down..

 

[RandyBell]

hawkeye08 she looks a lot like my Shadow's brother Lobo. Lobo howls a lot too but being in the country it really doesn't matter and he always liked to jump, but Shadow must of figured she was to ladylike to jump over much, she would go to the gate and wait for someone to let her out.
Please watch her for any lumps that is what got ours a lump started in her abdomen and 3 months it grew to the size of a basketball!

She is a pretty girl!