This photo is from our Dec 7th. Trip to see the wolf dogs. We have had mostly reasonable temperatures and little snow for Dec. I also have more shots of the wolf dogs who will be receiving a memorable Christmas treat through a Calgary restaurant's generosity.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/meat-scraps-donated-from-high-end-calgary-restaurant-to-canada-s-only-wolfdog-sanctuary-1.5229598

“Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.” 

from The Outermost House - Henry Beston

Yamnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary

Today we visited Yamnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary. We just took the general tour and dropped off some food and treats we purchased for our dogs. Nina has had some health problems so we removed chicken from her diet as a precaution. It was lovely and warm and the wofdogs are beautiful. It is interesting to see the variation between certain animals. They also have a new gift shop which is quite nice. Recently they rescued some additional wolfdogs and are currently conducting a campaign  for funds to build additional enclosures. 

It was certainly nice to be outside safely.

For more on the campaign see:

From Alone to Home: Wolfdog Rescue Campaign

https://yamnuskawolfdogsanctuary.com

                                “Of tender joy wilt thou remember me,”

Tintern Abbey 

William Wordsworth

Atomic Sleep

 

“a series of luminous tracks that betray invisible electrons startled from atomic sleep,”

D. G. Jones

https://thewalrus.ca/startled-from-atomic-sleep/

Yamnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary - Our Yamnuska Pack

Nova and Nickki

Yesterday we visited the Yamnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary outside of Calgary. Part of our tour involved spending 40 minutes with the Yamnuska Pack. These were beautiful, shy and gentle animals. The discussion with our guide was quite informative, but I am not going to paraphrase it and risk getting something wrong. Go see them for yourself or read the information on the website and make a donation.

https://yamnuskawolfdogsanctuary.com/wolfdogs/

Zeus

Nikki

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."

From The Outermost House: A year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

by Henry Beston