Yesterday we went to an Earth Day celebration at Red Rocks Amphitheater. The Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center brought one of their wolves and we were able to stroke his fur and look into his eyes. They were a piercing sky blue....hypnotic....much like that of the mountain lion...making you think that being devoured by him maybe wouldn't be such a bad death.
"Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life." Henry Beston
"What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself." Mollie Beattie
"In wildness is the preservation of the world." Henry David Thoreau
We are fostering a service-dog-in-training for a few weeks. This is me with our old Sadie-Dog on the left and Jonas on the right. Jonas was paired with a client and went home with her last December, but recently was returned as the client was unable to care for a dog. All dogs, even service dogs, require work, needing exercise, baths, walks, & consistent training. Jonas was devastated to be returned to the service dog kennels and be away from his loving client. He was one homesick puppy, thus he will stay in our home for a while. As Edith Wharton said, "my little dog--a heartbeat at my feet."
"The timber wolves will be our friends
We'll stay up late and howl,
At the moon, till nighttime ends,
Before going on the prowl"
Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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