Wolf Puppy Progress

The blog has been quiet and for good reason, but also good news. As a personal announcement, in case you haven’t heard by me or seen it in my Facebook page, I’ve started the rough draft of the sequel to my novel. Book two is well underway and it is very exciting. There is a lot going on so between writing, working and wolves I have been very busy. So do not fear, the blog will continue with updates though they may not always be right after my returns from Wolf Hollow.

In Wolf Hollow news, the puppies have met their parents! Through the fence (and slowly, through short meetings in the holding pen) but Nina and Weeble already show qualities of being amazing parents. I am so proud of my Weeble boy and my Nina girl, they will love the pups as if they were their own babies.

As a bit of fun this week, I thought instead of a few choice photos I would create a small panel of facial shots from a pup that seems to be the focal point of my camera every weekend.

Above is a “baby panel” of Argus, the assumed-to-be future alpha male someday. As this panel shows (though note I don’t have a photo from every week of life as they were born the end of April, but the photos average about every other week) that wolf pups/wolves in general grow extremely fast!

Enjoy!

Jess

Blue skies and blue Eyes

Another weekend of wolf wonder has passed and I must say it was fantastic. To make it special my brother who just recently returned from being overseas in the army came to visit with my parents so he could see what his little sister was up to while he was away. A special thanks to Joni, who allowed me to come in between the fences with some additional treats and scratch-time so he could see Weeble and especially my girl Nina come over for attention. My family was so happy to have my brother be “honored” and perhaps slightly embarrassed by having him stand up at one point during the presentation to be recognized for returning home from overseas but hey, what is family for right? In all seriousness, a very special thanks to Wolf Hollow, especially Joni, for welcoming my brother and allowing him to come and see what his little sister loves.

Now for some new puppy information! The fifth once “nameless” pup is now Arrow! The name was chosen through the naming contest and the naming contest winner had her photo taken with Arrow. Although he is the runt of the little, I believe he will prove to be a contender with his namesake (also, play on words Arrow for arooo-sound of a wolf howl?).

You can already see the puppies begin to get lanky. They are loosing their baby-face roundness and are bounding around, playing, howling and displaying traits of dominance. Argus is giving Lineaa a run for her money in the size department, however, all of the puppies are sporting gorgeous blue eyes. Argus’ eyes are in the banner, what baby blues he has.

The puppies defiantly have changed a lot since their trip back from Indiana. After this next weekend I am hoping to get some more facial/full body shots to then create some comparison sheets for you to see how much they have grown/changed in such a short amount of time.

For now, enjoy a couple of my favorite photos of Argus from this past Saturday!

~Jess




Argus and his baby blue eyes. The banner I used at the top were from the same series as this photograph, I just took out the color in the photo except his eyes, and of course, he was looking at the camera a little more in the banner photo. I loved the pose of his face in this photo.



Argus howling right at my camera. What an interesting and new angle! Howl away my boy.