@YouInMyEye Can confirm. Downstairs, in my personal shrine, I have a clump of fur that used to belong to a wolf named Coulombe.

Coulombe was a bully, took all the food, bit puppies, and forced everyone to do things his way - even hoarding food until it was bad and nobody got to eat it.

One day his daughters and sons and nieces and nephews and brothers and sisters overcame their love and fear and killed him, and then one of the proper wolves became the patriarch instead.

The end.

@AskTheDevil @YouInMyEye

Any chance that was a wolf dog?

@LnzyHou @YouInMyEye No, he was a wolf.

@AskTheDevil @YouInMyEye

Interesting.

Never saw the behavior you describe in wolves. I worked in a federally licensed wolf sanctuary with 50+ rescued wolves over the years. Even wolves who had been badly abused by man.

This is Shaman who was 7’ on his hind legs.

@LnzyHou @YouInMyEye To be fair, it is very unusual behavior, and it is why I took note enough of it to retain a piece of him as a lesson.

And that looks very much like the Shaman I knew, from W.O.L.F. sanctuary in Colorado!

I miss him.

Even if he did like to pull my hair.

@AskTheDevil @YouInMyEye

Exactly W.O.L.F in Rist Canyon north of LaPorte CO where I lived.

Remember the alpha male of the sanctuary?

This is Spirit.

@LnzyHou @YouInMyEye Yes!

Did you know Isabeau? Or Nanook-of-the-tushy-pinching? : )

@AskTheDevil @YouInMyEye

She was rescued just before I left. All black.

Nanook bit my ass so many times I quit counting. He was the boss of the house pack. Shaman was in that pack too. It was amazing to sleep over with Pat & Frank with the house pack.

@LnzyHou @YouInMyEye We've almost certainly met, you realize.

: )

I am lucky in that I've been among wolves enough to know the hiney-pinching trick. When the house pack first greeted me, I could see Nanook grinning naughtily, and slowly slipping out of my field of vision, and I knew he was gonna try it! He still tried every time, but as soon as he realized the jig was up, it was "Ha ha! Ya got me! Now let's do the love part!"

@AskTheDevil @LnzyHou @YouInMyEye

I didn't realize there was a secret CoSo Colorado Canine (Lupine) Cabal!

I am (very mildly) jealous. I've only been to Colorado once, quite briefly, and did not get to see any wolves while I was there. Saw quite a few marmots though.

@DavidSalo @AskTheDevil @YouInMyEye

Lived Colorado for 30+ yrs before moving to the Caribbean. My heart is in the Rockies.

@LnzyHou @DavidSalo @YouInMyEye I've lived all over, and I keep coming back here. There's other places I've liked living enough to go back, but I always come back here again and again.

@AskTheDevil @DavidSalo @YouInMyEye

You’re still in CO?

My oldest son lives in Parker.

Weather too severe for me there. I’m in Asheville NC

@LnzyHou @DavidSalo @YouInMyEye Yes! I live in Centennial, not too far from there.
: )

@AskTheDevil @DavidSalo @YouInMyEye

I worked at Swedish Medical Center for 6 yrs